Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): Yesterday was a landmark day for New Zealand because we released a plan that delivers the greatest opportunity that we have had in decades. Not only will we finally tackle climate change but we have the opportunity to build our resilience as an economy and to truly transform ourselves into a productive sustainable economy with well-paid jobs. Yesterday was also the day the rubber hit the road where parties were asked to show their true colours in relation to where they stand on climate change. We heard from the National Party's spokesperson on climate change that it was the National Party that signed up to our nationally determined contribution in Paris in 2015. Yes they did but there was zero plan for how we would meet the targets that were signed up to. Instead there was a plan to buy emissions trading credits on an international market.But our Government and I are pleased that we did that largely with the support of all the parties in this House. When we got into Government we set about putting a plan in place that started with setting up an independent Climate Commission that would use the science to tell us what we needed to do in terms of reducing our emissions. From there we had carbon budgets that were produced. Again I really appreciate the cross-party support that we have received on those and we did have just about all of the parties in this House say These Budgets are well thought out. The science stands behind them. These are things that we need to do to meet our obligations—Hon Gerry Brownlee: What more meetings?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: —in terms of reducing our emissions." So I thank the National Party Gerry Brownlee for your support on signing up to those budgets.But if you sign up to the budgets you've got to have a plan for how to reduce the emissions. What we produced yesterday is a plan to reduce by 2025 the first of the emissions reduction budgets—11.5 megatons to be taken out of our economy. This is in the plan. So if the Opposition is going to tell us "It's just plans; it's just plans to have plans." that simply is not true. The Opposition spokesperson told us that it is right and proper for us to debate; I couldn't agree more. I want us to debate what the National Party's alternative budgets or plans look like. What are they going to do to remove 11.5 megatons of carbon from our economy over the next four years? They need to put the detail on the table and tell us what they would do differently. It is simply lazy rhetoric to call it corporate welfare. It is a party not standing by what it has signed up to when it will not accept the difficult things that we have to do as a country to truly meet our carbon budgets.We do need to spend carefully and wisely and we do need to look at the outcomes. So let's look at some of the initiatives that were not only announced in our emissions reduction plans but were funded through the Climate Emergency Response Fund yesterday. If we look at the Decarbonising Industry Fund just for example Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry then we can have a look at what that fund has already been doing in its first iteration: $68 million of Crown investment that has leveraged $117 million of expenditure from the private sector and is set to remove enough carbon that is the equivalent to 134000 cars by the time that has rolled out. I want to know the details of what National are going to put in place instead of doing that because they have said that that is wrong. So let's have a debate—it is right and proper—but that involves the Opposition coming up with an alternative and us having a real debate not just lazy political rhetoric."