Salesa JennyHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. I congratulate the new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins for the energy and teamwork that he is bringing to the role and acknowledge the former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for being such a strong people-focused leader.We're only just nearing the second month in 2023 and a lot has happened. With the MetService forecasting significant rain in Tai Rāwhiti and the Hawke's Bay ranges later this week and the Wairarapa with more than 700 people displaced across the North Island by Cyclone Gabrielle and thousands of others whose homes and lives have been impacted by the Auckland storm and the cyclone people will be anxious about the consequences of that rain. People shouldn't be anxious about rain on the roof. We need rain for our drinking water for good health and for life. But that anxiety is the result of living with a broken climate and the job of Governments is to help people to feel safe and feel secure to have homes that are warm and dry and to have enough for a good life where they can think about the future with optimism where they can thrive.So with these more intense weather events becoming so much more frequent the future is now uncertain. How we respond to this new normal is really important. Across Tai Rāwhiti and Hawke's Bay there have been so many inspiring stories that the media have brought us of people connecting with each other: strangers reaching out offering kai household goods and diggers to move silt and offering hugs and connecting. Recovery takes an awfully long time but it's also an opportunity. In the recovery the Government must continue to connect with communities and to build on the ideas that communities have for how we live in a climate-broken world.In Christchurch after the earthquakes there was a huge number of community forums hui and meetings in that immediate response phase and at the start of the recovery. The community shared ideas about how we could have a very different city. The very centralised response through the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority meant that a lot of those ideas weren't taken up and there was less ambition. It was more of a philosophy of building back with concrete cranes consultants and capital—the sort of thing that Rob Campbell was quite critical of in a Newsroom article this week.When we build back it needs to build back with nature to recognise the patterns in the landscape. To ensure that we avoid those steep erosion prone hills in Tai Rāwhiti we avoid plantation forestry. We re-wild them with the species that originally grew there to stabilise the soils and to stabilise the lives livelihood land and communities downstream. That really needs building back with nature ensuring that we adapt to these weather events—these climate events. In our cities we make them more permeable so that we can absorb more rain rather than having it inundating stormwater systems and flooding people's homes.We need to ensure that we invest much more in public transport so that we have got people out of their vehicles and taking a serious effort across society to reduce climate pollution and to protect the climate as well as adapting to these more extreme weather events. We need more cycleways and we need more protected walkways so that people have other ways of connecting with each other than private vehicles and with the light rail project we should definitely remove that underground section which is so capital intensive—which Julie Anne Genter has talked about extensively.The infrastructure rebuild needs to be based on recognising that life on our planet is based on helping nature and anticipating what nature needs restoring ecological functions and having our cities and towns be pleasanter places to live. Because we can have big buffers around our estuaries we can allow our rivers room to move as the Netherlands has done taking people and development out of high-risk areas in floodplains and allowing those rivers room to move. There are so many opportunities to use the wisdom and the energy of people to have a future which both slashes our emissions and adapts to these extreme weather events. The Government needs to harness that energy connect with people and listen to some of the ideas and solutions that the Green Party is proposing. Kia ora.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a split call. I call Camilla Belich—five minutes.