Cameron MarkMARK CAMERON (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to talk on behalf of my fellow colleague Mr Court and share rather a lacklustre performance. I know he'd be better at delivery here and give an illuminating one; not the dreary one that we saw from the member Greg O'Connor over there. This bill speaks to mollycoddling one part of society and impugning another. I can just offer a very quick anecdote if I may when I was at the Fieldays down in Mystery Creek about six or seven months ago—going back a fair way now. Look there was all manner of vehicles there as you could well imagine. And rather unfortunately it was more often than not the last electric vehicle (EV) left standing when many of the utilities which now are going to be impugned with this had long since gone.ACT supports the concept that making polluters pay for their carbon emissions actually will help reduce our emissions across the board but equally so New Zealand's emissions are capped. Any emissions reduction plan by the standards imposed by this bill will not reduce a single ton of carbon and almost invariably it creates an opportunity for emissions leakage into other sectors. We've got a cap here in New Zealand. All it will do is literally shift the onus on to somebody else.The state of this bill as proposed is to achieve a rapid reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from light vehicles imported into New Zealand". Notably manufacturers who submitted on the bill described international supply constraints. I think that's a wide point here. This technology's currently not available in many parts of the automotive sector. It will also mean that there will be no sufficient low-emissions vehicles in the near and potentially foreseeable future. Equally notable with many countries there is also a left-hand drive market—I'm sorry a small amount of countries I beg your pardon. We think of New Zealand we think of Australia we think of the United Kingdom and Japan. The manufacturers are now presented with a significant problem. It's abundantly clear to the ACT Party that this bill is purely ideological and whilst well intentioned—and I think we've got to make that call; this is very well intentioned—it's purely ideological however and it will fail on deliverables both for consumers and the desired environmental outcomes and I think that's the one thing that we really have to converse about and debate here today.Treasury in its own advice released under the Official Information Act asked if time frames and when standards come into force will actually be delayed and they would be significantly because of the international supply constraints around low-emissions vehicles and their availability. A lot of this technology—I think we've got to be honest here—in the rural sector is six seven years away and by virtue when it is available is going to be exorbitantly expensive. Sadly it seems to malign one part of the transport sector and its users with another. It's picking winners and losers. And arguably on this side of the House I think we'd agree with that statement. Tradies and farmers will fall victim by this piece of legislation.These are tools. I mean I can quite happily tell the members on the other side of the House I have a utility and it wouldn't be an EV one and it certainly wouldn't be an EV one I would wager for the next 10 years. There's simply nothing available that the average farmer or tradie could afford. The bill introduces unnecessary regulations that will be difficult and costly to comply with and add further additional costs to everyday Kiwi families. I think that's been well canvassed on this side of the House.Submitters also noted that the lower-income families will inadvertently be targeted by this legislation. There are everyday Kiwis that won't have this technology—and I see the member shaking her head over there. I'd like to present her with the question of what technology she thinks would be readily available for anything under $50000.In summary this bill is merely ideological. We support the premise of it but we can't see how it works and categorically whilst well intentioned it will absolutely fail based on the emissions trading scheme that we currently sit in. ACT totally opposes this bill."