Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green—Rongotai): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. I have to say that I am so proud of what we achieved with the Clean Car Discount over the last 18 months. This was a policy that I worked on as Associate Minister of Transport in the first coalition Government from 2017 to 2020. What we can say is that it is now the single most effective climate policy implemented by any Government in New Zealand so far. It has made a concrete difference to the amount of carbon emissions but not just that: the amount of money that New Zealanders are spending on fuel to get around the country.We have saved two megatons of carbon already. This is a very technical point but I think I need to—yeah this is a technical point. I'm going to go on with it. I think members opposite are confused about a letter which is absolutely public and you can see it any time and I'd love to talk you through it because the National Party is missing out on the opportunity to get a more productive transport system while reducing emissions and pollution. It is possible to do both. This was a genuine solution that did both.I have to address the misinformation in the Minister's—basically the Minister has a bunch of culture war talking points that have no evidence or basis in reality. The reality is that the Clean Car Discount programme is fair and Kiwis support it. The polling shows only 20 percent of New Zealanders oppose it. A majority of New Zealanders support it—52 percent. A majority of National Party voters support the Clean Car Discount. Why? Because it's fair and we're all in this together. This is a practical solution.Now if the members opposite want a genuine solution to climate change they need to realise that sitting back and doing nothing will not work. We have to work together to make the change and every New Zealander can be part of this solution. The beauty of the Clean Car Discount was that even the people who need to buy the highly polluting vehicles for whatever reason: they're choosing do that they have to do that—they also contribute to getting more zero-emissions and low-emissions vehicles on the road. So while they're driving their big ute they are also helping to ensure that somebody else is able to get into an electric vehicle and overall that reduces our emissions together.The National Party does not care about equity. Do not believe what they say when they say that they care about equity because they are giving tonnes of money to the wealthiest people through tax cuts back to landlords. So they're giving money back to the richest New Zealanders in a way that does nothing to reduce emissions. The point of this policy is reducing emissions and it has. If you care about equity let's see it in your tax proposals. Let's see it in your benefit proposals. If you cared about equity then the National Government would not be proposing tax cuts for landlords and the super-rich.Finally this Government has suppressed the climate analysis. There was a regulatory impact statement prepared on the repeal of this Act that says exactly what the estimated impact will be on our carbon budget and the Government is refusing to release that as we repeal the bill. So the public and those of us in the House have not got the official information that should have been released to us that tells us what the climate impact of repealing this bill will be. The members in the Government are going to have to confront reality at some point. The Prime Minister has said that he's committed to meeting the carbon budget and yet they have zero plan to actually achieve that. We know that relying on the emissions trading scheme (ETS) fuel being in the ETS does nothing to help New Zealanders get into lower-emissions vehicles. What it does do is it means once people are already in high-emitting vehicles they have to pay more to drive around. So that is what the National Government is going to have to be relying on.The beauty of the feebate"—which by the way has been extremely successful in many other countries. France has had one since 2008 and the highest fee now has gone from—it started at €2000 then it was €30000 now it's up to €50000 on the highest-emitting vehicle. The price incentive at the point of purchase of the vehicle is what influences the vehicle importers to offer those low-emission vehicles to the market. It's what saves New Zealanders' businesses and households money when they need to drive around.We will go through this in more detail during this debate and I look forward to the members opposite engaging in evidence."