O'Rourke DenisDENIS O'ROURKE (NZ First): I want to start with climate change because it probably is the area where we should be spending most of our debate this evening. I note that the Budget provision of $713 million includes an appropriation of $681 million for the allocation of New Zealand Units under the emissions trading scheme (ETS) and a further $13 million for policy advice and $19 million for administering the ETS. However over the last few years what we have got is an expenditure that has now exceeded $1.4 billion on these matters. That is a lot of money and you have to ask yourself whether in fact we are getting value for that investment. I do not think we are because if we do a lot more a lot sooner to avoid the need to buy units or to allocate units at all then that would be good for the New Zealand economy and also good for our progress towards our Paris commitments.So we think that progress has been far too slow and far too little. In fact the Minister for Climate Change Issues has said that she wants to make a start. Well for goodness' sake it is way too late to be making a start. We should be well along the road to reducing the need for the allocation of those ETS units because we should have made a lot more progress in real policy measures concerning climate change. But we have not seen any real action by this Government in that respect.New Zealand First on the other hand has a whole raft of policies on climate change that relate to the optimisation of New Zealand's opportunities for renewable energy so that we do not have to wait until 2025 to reach our 90 percent target. We want to ensure that in particular we make very solid progress in reducing the effects of agricultural emissions which are by far New Zealand's greatest challenge.There is a great deal that can be done. One of the first things that need to be done is huge investment in New Zealand forestry both plantation forestry and the replanting and regeneration of natural forestry. We want to make transport an early target to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and to optimise the use of electric vehicles. We want to do things like a fringe benefit tax holiday for plug-in vehicles. We want to see a continuation of the exemption for electric vehicles from road-user charges beyond 2020. We want to see attention paid to adjusting depreciation rates to encourage the use of electric vehicles and so on. We also want to see the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report recommendations concerning the actions that need to be taken in New Zealand to deal with sea-level rise. We want to see those implemented as well. So there is a great deal that can be done and when you look at the Government's record it is pretty pathetic.In terms of freshwater management again New Zealand First has a whole range of what we think are very important measures we would like to see taken. We think that the $100 million allocation to the Freshwater Improvement Fund is—no pun intended—just drop in the bucket and there needs to be a much more serious attempt at improving freshwater quality. We want to see in terms of the export of fresh water a royalty charged on a regional basis and for 25 percent of that to remain in the region concerned. In terms of waste minimisation again we have a very comprehensive policy on that.The one that I particularly want to mention—because I have only a few seconds left—is the need to regulate commercial and industrial waste including demolition and construction waste. Far too much of that goes to landfills. That is by far the biggest volume that can be tackled. That needs regulation. It is the one and only way that that can be reduced. There needs to be compulsory sorting of those waste streams before any of it goes to landfill or indeed even to a clean fill. That would be a very big hit.Those are the sorts of policies that New Zealand First wants to see. We do not see any of that in this Budget.