Kuriger Barbara; Woods MeganBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Chair. When we were last speaking on this committee stage the Minister said in the House That something became very clear to"—this is a quote—"Something that became very clear to me as a relatively new Minister of Energy and Resources was something needed to be done about it—that we could not have a regime where there were some industry participants that were having to put drones into the air to fly over the pipeline to try and figure out what was going on because we had a voluntary regime that simply was not delivering the disclosure that was required. So that is why this legislation is before the House and why it is necessary." So in light of that comment that the Minister made I'd like to ask her: when did the voluntary disclosure regime come into force and does she know of any breaches of that voluntary disclosure regime since it came into force?I'll carry on if the Minister's not ready to answer yet. There's a couple of other questions that I'd like to ask the Minister. When she answered another question of mine last time what proof does she have that the political decision has had no effect on the gas fields she said "I think it was April of 2018 our decision." and she talked about the gap between April of 2018 and the spring of 2018 in terms of gas production and said in fact talked about there not being enough time for their decision to have had any impact. The question that I asked her did not actually talk about April of 2018 and the spring of 2018 it talked about—I asked her the question it was a broad question and obviously starts in April of 2018 when the political decision was made but I didn't put an end date on that so today could well be the end date Minister.Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): I'll take a very quick call. I'll deal first of all with the question that pertains to the bill that we have in front of us in terms of when the voluntary code came into play and that was March 2020. The whole point is that it is a voluntary code. And in terms of compliance I think that everybody in New Zealand wants to make sure that we have a well-functioning energy system and we have the ability to have the information that is required to do that. I do note to the member that the Gas Industry Company (GIC) itself is in support of these changes. In terms of the question that is a little broader than the bill that we have in front of us—and I have already addressed that through the committee stages of this legislation—I would point out to the member that it was a decision taken in 2018. No exploration permits that would have been issued in 2018 would yet be in production. In fact the time line around anything that would be in production is at least seven years. So no it has nothing to do with the current tightness that we are seeing around the current failure of the infrastructure associated with Pohokura.BARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Next question given that the Minister indicated when we were previously on the bill that she will not support ACT's Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) to protect commercial sensitivity how will she guarantee that commercial sensitivity will be protected?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): Happy to take an answer from the National Party spokesperson on the ACT Party SOP. This will be a matter for the—the bill already enables what we had there: the bill enabling the GIC to protect commercially sensitive information. I will be looking to the GIC to determine the benefits and costs around that. I think this is something well within their purview to manage."