Utikere Tangi; Pugh MaureenTANGI UTIKERE (Labour—Palmerston North): Kia orana Madam Speaker. Look it's always a pleasure to rise and speak after Minister Brown because there's so much content that he delivers that can just be—Hon Dr Megan Woods: The third-form pantomime" he's otherwise known as.TANGI UTIKERE: Well thank you Dr Woods. I mean there's a lot in there that we need to digest. And do you know what? It's good that the time of the House unfortunately is going to have plenty of hours and minutes to do exactly that because we are considering this piece of legislation under urgency when we don't need to be here. It's interesting: when we look at the context of this bill—and I'll put the Minister for Transport out of his misery: we will not be supporting this piece of legislation this evening and over the coming days we will tell you exactly why that is the case.This bill actually was part of Budget day urgency in the motion. So this was a bill that was caught up alongside no scrutiny at the time and still that is what this Government seeks to propose for this bill. It was alongside the waste minimisation levy it was alongside the increase in the money that they're going to take off councils in terms of a percentage of your fines it's around taxation and now this bill effectively is introducing a new tax. It is a car tax. It is a car tax that is going to be applied on vehicles that individuals will be responsible for and we'll have a lot to say about this.But in reality this bill is seeking to give Simeon Brown as the Minister of Transport simply more power. That's becoming a common theme that we will explore on this side of the House. It's a common theme. I mean Minister Brown is part of the panel of three—Hon Willie Jackson: Fast track.TANGI UTIKERE: —or the group of three around fast track—that's right Mr Jackson—Hon Members: Back to the bill!TANGI UTIKERE: —and that's really important. Members opposite might say you know "Well speak to the bill." Well this is about the bill. This is about giving power to the Minister of Transport to basically bypass opportunities that exist currently in primary legislation to set targets that will exist under regulation.What that actually sends a signal around is that this is clearly a Government that is not prepared to heed the commitments under an accord that we should be taking responsibly and seriously around reducing our carbon emissions and not providing any support or substance around that. In primary legislation which this bill seeks to amend the targets are listed there for the next three years. What this bill effectively will do is run a ruler through those specified targets and hand over to Simeon Brown the opportunity by pen and paper to set those targets whatever they might be about.Now we're going to have a wee bit of time to talk about the level of consultation that has actually taken place up to this point in time. Because actually in terms of this piece of legislation members on this side of the House have been inundated with members of the community; with other industry participants who are concerned about the fact that this piece of legislation is going through the House under urgency.I'm looking forward to hearing from the Minister as this bill progresses—exactly who did he consult with? Who did he consult with in terms of forming his views around that? Let's form a view around whether or not those people and organisations that the Minister consulted with are actually representative of the industry and of the community.Now if the Minister has actually been consulting with groups and industry participants and players that are representative of this community well then actually we might reconsider our position on some aspects. So this is an invitation to Minister Brown—and I'm sure we'll get to this—I invite you Minister to share exactly the wide breadth of consultation that you have indicated that you have taken. So we with interest look forward to that.This paints a picture though in terms of the context within which this bill is introduced. It's all—oh they're all silent now; I think they've been given the message perhaps that maybe they shouldn't be interjecting. But I do look forward to the contribution from members opposite as this bill progresses. But this is a bill that is within the context of a bigger picture. There has been no replacement for the clean car rebate or discount; there is no incentivisation in the uptake of low-emission vehicles under this Government; and all the data indicates that actually and we will be talking about that I'm sure. There is no Budget funding in the environment space that's listed in Budget 2024.This is a pure dereliction of duty by this Government and members on this side of the House will be holding the Government to account step by step clause by clause as we start to unravel some of the concerning features of this legislation. We do not commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): The question is that the motion be agreed to."