Sage EugenieHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Thank you. I find myself at short notice taking a call on the Electricity Industry Amendment Bill and regret that I wasn't on the select committee that was considering the bill.I think it's been interesting the National Party contributions because of course it was Max Bradford's changes to the whole sector in the 1990s which created quite significant problems. Then of course it was its partial privatisation of State-owned enterprises like Meridian that also led to Meridian now making super-profits. So in terms of National I'd also encourage them to actually read the climate plan because like the previous speaker the emissions reduction plan and the initiatives that are outlined there are all about taking us to 100 percent renewable energy. Some of the key initiatives in the emissions reduction plan are to improve business and household energy efficiency to ensure that our electricity system is ready to meet future needs to ensure that we are investing much more in renewables; it's been that failure under the previous National Government to have a strategy like that which is why we still depend on coal for part of the baseload generation for Huntly.So this bill is part of ensuring that we have more power for consumers that the Minister if she doesn't think the industry is operating satisfactorily can intervene on the side of consumers and ensure that there is fairness there that things are more affordable. It's also about ensuring that we do make those moves to invest in renewables because one of the current failures is the lack of a strategy in the past for that. We've had the big players dominating investing to meet their commercial imperatives rather than to benefit Aotearoa nationally in terms of ensuring that we've got adequate electricity generation to take us through some of those dry years and to ensure that we're investing more in renewables. There are so many opportunities to do that. It is soul-destroying to see the plethora of new homes which are springing up in areas like Selwyn around Rolleston and how few of them have solar panels on their roofs despite the abundant sunshine in Aotearoa with things like this Government's proposed changes to the building code to make it easier for people to put in place solar panels—and it's that whole strategy which is where we need to go. So this bill is a part of that puzzle.It's all about rebalancing away from the big corporates to allow the Minister to actually act on behalf of consumers and smaller players. It's to ensure too that we get much more distributed generation. The number of times that small communities such as the Blueskin Bay community have sought to have small wind generation and been frustrated—not only by the Resource Management Act but also by how that power gets fed into the grid.So this bill is about the sort of changes we need to implement the emissions reduction plan. It's about being on the side of consumers and households ensuring we don't have energy poverty that electricity is more affordable and it is really about moving to that zero emissions target that the climate plan with its chapter on energy does really reinforce with all of the initiatives that are set out there. I would commend some of the speakers in the National Party to actually read it. Kia ora.