Kuriger Barbara; Salesa JennyBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki-King Country): Thank you Madam Speaker. What an outrageous piece of legislation this is. How many people make a deal 37 years ago and next thing the Government comes back and starts trying to claw something back off them?You've just got to look around Taranaki. This industry and the dairy industry have built Taranaki and they're not big. As someone said before Oh well it's all right because they're big multinationals." Well they are big multinationals—some of them—but actually they'll just stop coming. Then we'll have nothing because if it wasn't bad enough in 2018 this Government sent a very clear message to this industry that they weren't welcome and now it's sending another message to the industry that they're still not welcome here. It seems all fine with this Government that they can bring in heaps and heaps of unprecedented amounts of Indonesian coal to replace what they have taken away from this industry and I don't know how any Taranaki MP can actually sit in the House and debate for this bill.What I can tell you about this bill is that it's a Government that looks like: "Oh here's a way to get some cash because we want to try and balance future Budgets because of our wasteful spending." Well hopefully there will be no more future Budgets.This bill was done on a whim and I'll tell you why. It's because the regulatory impact statement said "Are there any publicly available inquiry review or evaluation reports that have informed or are relevant to the policy to be given effect by this Bill? No. Does this Bill seek to give effect to New Zealand action in relation to an international treaty? No. Were any regulatory impact statements provided to inform the policy decisions that led to this Bill? No. Has further impact analysis become available for any aspects of the policy to be given effect by this Bill? No." So there is also no analysis on the size of the potential costs or the benefits of this bill or for the potential of any group or persons to suffer a substantial or unavoidable loss of income or of wealth. So to go back to 1986 and start scrounging around through pieces of legislation to see where this Government can get some money on Budget day to actually balance up the books because they've made a terrible job of overspending—and worse still they've actually made a terrible job of overspending and they're just trying to find some cash to make it all work.Now the other thing is that I've heard in this House today comments coming from the other side about a just transition. We don't see any just transition. Is a just transition disabling the gas industry so we can bring shiploads of coal in from Indonesia? That is not a just transition. A just transition would be if all those magical answers that the Government has that are going to replace gas were developed and they were there and then we could transition from gas to the new thing. But what this Government has done is a very unjust transition by going from a much cleaner energy—gas—back to Indonesian coal.Now someone's got to tell the National Party how that's going to benefit climate change because we sat in the House this afternoon and we got all sorts of attacks from the other side about how we're climate change deniers. We're just concerned about why we would be cutting off gas and replacing it with Indonesian coal. That makes no sense at all—no sense at all. So a just transition is not even a thing but to scrape the barrel to balance the Budget—and not only to go back 37 years to an industry that they have disabled but to turn round then and kick this industry after they've disabled it for their own benefit in order to look good and to balance the Budget in the interests of climate change—does not fly with the National Party. We over this side of the House are absolutely outraged that this bill has come up today and we have no intention of supporting it. It hasn't gone to a select committee. I think that's because the Government like to shut their ears on these sorts of things. They don't want submitters to come in. They don't want to actually hear the real facts and processes around this industry. So this afternoon it is with great pleasure that I stand against this bill and I do not intend—and neither does my team—to commend it to the House. Thank you Madam Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a five-minute call."