Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Yesterday the Government introduced the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill which effectively is a tax on middle New Zealand it is a tax break for the wealthy in New Zealand and it is an attack on the most vulnerable New Zealanders. That is the net impact of a bill which gives a discount to somebody that is paying for an electric vehicle (EV). It charges somebody that is buying any other type of vehicle and it really does create a distortion in the New Zealand vehicle market that will lead to only one major consequence and that is the retention by vulnerable ordinary New Zealanders of high-emission vehicles that are unsafe and will actually hurt our environmental prospects as a country.It is bad law that is doomed to failure. It is law that is based on some premise of an understanding of the market that the Government does not have. It is a law that is based on some kind of perception of how people will actually act. It is a law that is not based on any concept of reality of what the supply of electric vehicles is what the opportunity is for New Zealanders to get electric vehicles and how New Zealanders will actually react in practice.New Zealanders live in a country which is very diverse. It is a spread-out population. It is not a country which is solely part of one major city or two major cities; it is a diverse and spread-out country that relies on its transport networks. It relies on people having a vehicle to get around. It relies on people having a vehicle to do their job. A tradie and a farmer can't catch a bus to do their job. They're not going to be able to put their tools on the back of a cycle and cycle down the road to do their job. A farmer is not going to be able to feed their stock on the back of a cycle. We are living in a country in which the reality is that we need vehicles. This legislation will be an artificial constraint on the market it will distort the market and it will lead to perverse outcomes.Most New Zealanders have a very limited income compared with the rest of the world. That is why we have a huge amount of second-hand used imports into this country. Those vehicles now will have a huge cost on them and that will put it out of the reach many Kiwis that would be reinventing their vehicle by getting a newer vehicle every so often. That will force them to hold those older vehicles. There will be more and more repairs done on gas-guzzling vehicles that will not achieve environmental outcomes. Most tradies and farmers have no option for an EV because there are none actually being built and most consumers that want to buy a vehicle under $80000 will actually not find there is an EV because they're going to have to compete with the Australians for those same EVs on the world market. Guess what! In Japan—which is the type of market where our vehicles come from—only 0.6 percent of that market is actually EV vehicles. So there's virtually very constrained and limited supply of EV vehicles anyway.It can only lead to one solution: New Zealanders will look at that Government legislation and determine their only option is to keep the vehicle they're in now or they're going to have to pay a tax to this Government. Either way that's the cost of living going up for New Zealanders. Ordinary New Zealanders—the most vulnerable New Zealanders—won't be able to get the benefit of having an EV with lower costs of running their vehicle. They'll be paying higher petrol taxes under this Government they'll be paying more daily to actually run those older vehicles. The dream that this Government has that we will suddenly all transition to electric vehicles—Hon Member: Run by coal!Hon DAVID BENNETT: —and that will all be perfect and they'll be run by coal coming out of Huntly is the massive dream that they've got; it will not become the reality you will see in this country.The Motor Industry Association have bagged this Government like you've never seen before—under this Government—in their press release and there's an interesting part of that as well. The actual protocol that this Government has determined to evaluate a vehicle is actually a European protocol whereas all vehicles basically coming to New Zealand are from an Australian protocol which doesn't use that protocol—an Australian approach. So their policy is ineffective inefficient it is a tax on New Zealanders and will hurt the most vulnerable New Zealanders.