SpeechPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Kia ora Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to be speaking on the third reading of this bill the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill. On the weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Tranzit Coachlines Group who have a depot in Rongotai and I was there with Daran Ponter the chair of the regional council for Wellington. There we had Paul and Keven Snelgrove take us through their electric fleet of buses and really what was more exciting was the repurposing of diesel buses into electric buses.Look these two chaps have been in the business of running buses since day dot. They talked about their time setting up the business through their family history in the Wairarapa and they themselves coming across to the new age of electric vehicles. I know when they first came in they won the tender for supplying the bus fleet for our Wellington region. They said Look we want to test electric—the whole electrification of the fleet in Island Bay."—for those who have been there one of the best suburbs in New Zealand I have to say. In Island Bay they've developed something that they themselves put together and I raise this because what I've seen there is two chaps that came from an industry that you could only have diesel in in terms of bus transport but have made that transition for themselves and for their consumers and customers.It was good to hear their views and after being in here for just a short time I thought some people really do need to get out into their communities and listen to what's happening out there and talk to the people who have been in the industry and who are doing their own—I guess we use terms like "transition". So they are positive about it they are reflecting the change and they are working globally with providers all round Asia who have really come to New Zealand and put together a bespoke technology. They've got some buses from bus companies in China. But really they've invented their own because they believe that we can do it here. It's innovative it's unique it's different it supplies jobs to Kiwis and it utilises what's here. We have an interesting terrain in Wellington City and so developing a bus fleet and electrifying it at certain points are all important. But I raise this because they are also doing their bit. And so I've kept them in the loop with the work that's being done here because we know this is important; we know it's a contribution. So I'm cautious when I hear there's some ideology or some politics behind this because I've seen electric vehicles with different party logos on in our own basement and I know that people are there I know people are politicising this but really there is no need to. It does contribute ultimately to that urgent task of decarbonising the transport system. This is our contribution to the fleet.I'm not going to say too much more because there is a positive uptake—look it's already happening and we will see this happen more more and more. It will be Kiwis who respond. Sometimes people have been sheepish about admitting that they own such a vehicle. I would say "Be proud!" There's no need to be; it's going to happen. There will be chargers put in place thanks to funding from central and local government. It's going to become the norm. This is quite normal. I'm simply going to commend this bill to the House."