Court SimonSIMON COURT (ACT): I would like to invite that member Julie Anne Genter to nominate what kind of dinosaur she thinks I am. Some days I come to work I fancy myself as a pterodactyl soaring high above the forests of ancient New Zealand. But today I feel like a T. rex smashing and stomping—Hon Julie Anne Genter: Dinosaurs are real and right there.SIMON COURT: —stupid policy passed by the previous Government—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Ms Genter—Ms Genter. Just—hold on stop the clock. Return to your seat stand withdraw and apologise.Hon Julie Anne Genter: I withdraw and apologise Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): No. Sit down—Hon Julie Anne Genter: I'm leaving.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Then stand up. Now withdraw.Hon Julie Anne Genter: I withdraw and apologise Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Thank you. Please do not yell as you're leaving the Chamber.SIMON COURT: Thank you Mr Speaker. Well that's what happens when you mess with the T. rex or the Speaker.Now to those New Zealanders listening to Parliament or watching on Parliament TV today we are proud in the ACT Party as part of the coalition Government that the National-ACT coalition agreement commitment to repeal the ute tax will happen before Christmas. It is on the 100-day plan; we're going to get it done. We're just a few weeks into Parliament and we're already making a significant difference in New Zealanders' lives.Now what we've heard from the Opposition—that previous group of political parties that passed the ute tax bill—is that this bill will lead to some kind of climate catastrophe that our emissions will go through the roof and that only with this policy would New Zealand's transport emissions be reduced. Well it ignores one basic fact. The previous speaker Julie Anne Genter could not explain why this policy was necessary; she gave an overly complicated description of why it was necessary and how it would work. There's a much simpler solution: the emissions trading scheme. Every single vehicle that fills up with petrol or diesel in New Zealand pays for their emissions under the emissions trading scheme—somewhere between $9 or $10 maybe $12 for a 50-litre tank of petrol or diesel. That is an incentive to reduce fuel and move to a more efficient vehicle. Now that is the most simple solution available to New Zealand consumers and businesses.This policy the clean vehicle discount or ute tax was completely unnecessary. It ignored the trade-offs that were obvious to the ACT Party when we were in Opposition proposing that this bill wasn't necessary. The trade-offs? A $300 million deficit now between the revenue collected under the scheme and what was paid out to people to subsidise them to buy electric vehicles. That $300 million deficit is a terrible trade-off. We have all kinds of infrastructure in New Zealand desperate for investment and yet the previous Government chose instead to invest taxpayer money into supplying electric vehicles to New Zealand's wealthiest people as the former speaker Julie Anne Genter pointed out.We're pleased that this bill will repeal the ute tax and we look forward to stopping the transfer of wealth from consumers and taxpayers to others who don't need it and restoring sensible practical public policy.