Lee Melissa; Woods MeganMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Chair. I'd like to ask the Minister a question in relation to an answer that she gave earlier to a question from my colleague. She mentioned that New Zealand had record low coal importation in relation to the climate change commitments that we were actually talking about earlier. I wonder whether the Minister could actually reflect on that answer and please tell me whether the record low coal importation in the last quarter of last year that she quoted was because New Zealand has in fact had record high rain and water which literally means that our hydro lakes are full and we didn't have to actually import extra coal—and that in relation to the record high coal importation of previous years for example I think in 2020 there were more than a million tonnes of coal that were imported and in 2021 it was close to 2 million tonnes of coal that were imported.What that extraction in foreign countries relates to in terms of climate change pollution and emissions and the fact that they have to be shipped to New Zealand to power our plant in Huntly—you know considering the fact that the Labour Party's backbone is the union—is it in Blackpool?Stuart Smith: Blackball.MELISSA LEE: Blackball. That was actually started by the mining towns and the unions who represented those miners—whether she considers that perhaps having a reserve that is mined in New Zealand will be better in terms of carbon emissions versus what we actually import from overseas.Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): I will take a very quick call here to point out that the issues being raised are completely out of scope. This is about the regime and very specific changes that we are making around the New Zealand Crown minerals regime and the way in which that is administered in New Zealand. The member Melissa Lee is asking about importation. That is out of scope of this bill.But what I will point out to that member—I probably did answer a question and point out that it was beyond what we doing in this bill but I pointed out the fact that a 32-year loan and the burning of coal in New Zealand was something that I celebrate. What we do also know is that the year before that it was because of the failure of our gas to provide electricity to New Zealand. It wasn't so much just the hydro levels; it was also the fact that there were outages in our gas infrastructure as well which to me points to the need of why we do need to look at how security of supply looks like in the 21st century in New Zealand.This bill—bringing it back to the bill Mr Chairman—is actually about setting up the regime for the 21st century. And I'd also like to point that member to the fact that we have a union movement given she's so concerned about it in New Zealand that is utterly concerned with what a just transition for its workforce looks like. It is a union movement that is engaged in the jobs of the future and making sure that we are putting in the effort to do that. It's why we saw our mining union attend the launch of the announcement around New Zealand Steel moving from coal to electrification. They celebrate that move because they know that jobs in the future need to be protected and if we stand by and wait for cliffs that will not happen and we are not a Government that are prepared to do that.