Brooking Rachel; Kuriger BarbaraHon RACHEL BROOKING (Labour—Dunedin): Thank you Madam Speaker. Like my colleague Dr Duncan Webb I have to say the only good thing I have heard from the Government benches about this Budget is the engagement of Tom Rutherford—congratulations for that. But nothing else. So why is that? What does this Budget do? Well it cuts anything and everything to do with the environment. Who—who is it good for this Budget? I've said in this House before that the Budget is good for mustelids. But it turns out that not only is it good for mustelids but it's good for ungulates as well. And ungulates are a huge problem in our conservations lands. But also it turns out the Budget's good for pine trees. Pine trees are no good when they are wildling pines and they need to be controlled and of course that's been cut. Pine trees are no good when there's been good Jobs for Nature programmes to control them and those are being cut.Of course we now see that the entire focus of the emissions reduction plan out for consultation seems to be all about planting more pine trees and potentially on conservation estate. That is deplorable.So why have we got this Budget that is only good for mustelids and pine trees and does nothing for the environment in any positive sense? It appears to me that there is no one in this Government advocating for the environment. We have a Minister whose title is Minister for the Environment who says that the balance has swung too far in favour of the environment with environmental regulation. There is a huge effort from this Government to do everything it can to swing away from environmental protections and of course we see that with the fast-track. We heard that in the Prime Minister's answers to questions today which were frankly outrageous when he said that the Greens should support the fast-track bill because it will do more for renewable energy. That is not what that bill says. The bill says we will facilitate development that three Ministers want to have for pet projects—pet projects that will benefit our mates. It's a disgraceful piece of legislation. He then said to Te Pāti Māori Oh you should be supporting the fast-track bill because it's going to be good for Māori." There is no Treaty clause in that piece of legislation; there is nothing for any group of Māori that is not a settled iwi. It is a disgrace.Then of course we have all of the resource management regulations being changed at the moment so that we can enable things like coal mining in wetlands. There's been a blanket marine farm extension car standards have decreased. There is absolutely no plan for 30 percent protected marine areas by 2030.The Budget explicitly stops advocacy for the environment and we see that with the Environmental Legal Assistance Fund—that's cut gone. We see the Community Environment Fund funding community hubs and the like—gone. When we asked the Minister for the Environment about this in the Estimates hearings she said "Oh well community funds can pay for that themselves." And when asked about that legal assistance fund I put to her that it was being cut in a cynical move so that people would not be able to go to the courts with this terrible fast-track legislation once it becomes law. And she said "No no the only reason we're cutting that legal assistance funding that has gone to do very important case law in New Zealand for protecting the environment is that sometimes it's against councils." Well of course councils are the regulator and so things will always involve them in a court case. That is no reason to stop that advocacy.Then we hear that no advice has been sought on any of these cuts about the effects on the environment. We asked specifically about that and we just get reckons. It's been totally mind-blowing. In addition—and I have a very short time left—not only is it just the Minister for the Environment who has no qualms about doing worse for the environment for allowing pollution; we've had the Climate Emergency Response Fund—that's gone from this Budget. There's nothing happening to actually reduce carbon emissions; the focus is only on offsetting with pine trees and again that is a disgrace.We have a Minister for Conservation who says we should be looking at doing costings of extinctions. I hold up my little dodo keyring here to remind people about the terribleness of extinctions and the idea that you would think that we can cost—we can put a price on—native flora and fauna in New Zealand is appalling. This Budget is a disgrace.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The next call is a split call with the Green Party. I call Lawrence Xu-Nan."