Tana DarleenDARLEEN TANA (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker and I thank the Whare for this chance to take this call. I stand in opposition to the repeal of the Clean Car Discount scheme and I stand on the basic tenets of—well firstly actually New Zealanders want to engage in their personal responsibility to significantly reduce their carbon emissions and frankly if it ain't broke then don't fix it.Having a look at the submissions that came in on the original legislation one thing stood out for me. It was recognition amongst the submissions that countries and car manufacturers around the world are all doing their thing and we need to protect ourselves from being a dumping ground from receiving the dirtiest cars or the dirtiest vehicles. I am a business person too. I like things to be efficient. I like a good business case all right? When I had a look at this what I saw was that—in terms of efficiency and performance—when we have the combination of the Clean Car Discount and the Clean Car Standard and applied them at the level of the supply into the country because we gave the market the very clear dual signalling we saw the vehicle importers encouraged to bring a greater choice of electric vehicles into the New Zealand market. We saw them coming in faster just as the Hon Julie Anne Genter referred to earlier. So for me that's a win for the people in exercising their personal responsibility and with two megatonnes of carbon dioxide saving it's a win for the planet as well.When I come to the matter of costs I've heard the kōrero from that side of the House that a loss or a fiscal hole of $300 million is there and this is the reason why they are pulling the plug. The clean car rebates and fee scheme was designed to be reviewed and adjusted regularly so that the fees could generate enough revenue to cover such costs. What I've also observed is that there was actually an implementation delay in the period between when rebates were granted and when the fees were applied. That's an implementation issue. The scheme is not broke. It just requires that that side of the House read the user manual and use it as per design. Fiscal neutrality was designed over a 10-year period and here we are not even 18 months before they are withdrawing early.I just want to also offer a perspective. In France they introduced rebate 20 years ago. It was costing around €2000-3000 and that's evolved to €30000 between 2008 and 2025 so over a 20-year period. The largest fee here in New Zealand is $6900 on the most polluting vehicles in New Zealand which let us be clear only the rich fullas can really understand at a retail of around $50-60000. Frankly if the Government is truly concerned about the workers in this country then maybe just maybe you might want to consider actually implementing higher corporate taxes or introducing a capital gains tax. Now I hear that the Government is wanting to put everything back into the emissions trading scheme. But come on. Members on that side of the House: truly we know this will not do anything or send any signals to the market. What it will do though is impose further costs on to the oil suppliers who will pass that on to the average people. We've heard about blunt mechanisms a lot in the last couple of days but jeez this takes the cake. We are in a climate crisis. Two megatonnes of carbon dioxide is nothing to smirk at. We need fuel economy standards and pricing incentives at the supply end to move us forward. Tēnā tātou.