Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Madam Speaker and I would reiterate some of the comments of the previous speaker Paul Eagle when he mentions that this has taken quite a long time. Yes it was 1998 when New Zealand first signed up to this. I've learnt a bit actually in the House tonight even listening to some of the other speakers and particularly when Minister Shaw talked about how around the world this is 98 percent done and now we're actually doing the bits to finish it off. So National does support this bill. It's a positive step towards a shipping sector that is cleaner and healthier.What I would like to comment on largely around this is the process. So this time we've got the bill the bill's going to select committee we've got a four-month process here and we have a national interest analysis that's very well-thought-out. I'm sure people that are more knowledgeable than me have had lots of input into this and we will have lots more comments about this national interest analysis. I just want to make the point that while four months is a shorter time than normal in relation to the oil and gas legislation that was four weeks when the Government actually wouldn't even come to Taranaki and bring a select committee day out there. So when we look at climate change and we're doing this bill in the name of climate change I cannot believe that we did four weeks—four weeks—of submission did it really quickly and now the result is a massive nine-year high of Indonesian coal which I'm sure was unforeseen by Minister Parker and his colleagues because the lack of investment in gas has taken the gas out of the system. And I can only hope—and reiterate; I've said before tonight—that some of the rain that's just devastated South Canterbury has actually made its way to the hydro dams. I'm banking on the fact tonight that after listening to Shanan Halbert's speech the Speaker is being quite lenient and that there is a bit of leeway given that it's the first reading and there's lots of things to discuss. I also picked up before that Minister Shaw talked about shipping and aviation being outside the Paris Agreement. So this is a global agreement where we've got those two things shipping and aviation who are working together to get a global answer. And I sit here and I look at Minister Parker and I think Why can't we do that with methane actually from dairy cows?" because if you want to look at the efficiency of a globe as a whole I think there should be more effort put into trying to get some sort of agreement because we know that the climate efficiency of this country is the best in the world. So if we're looking at global agreements I just want to throw that on the table because I think there's probably going to be a better way than where we're tracking at the moment. And we said that with the gas ban permit so we've just got to be careful what road we go down.We recognise in National that New Zealand needs to play its part. We need to play our part and we're all happy to play our part and we want to get to 2050 just like the Government does right? But most of the time in Parliament we don't argue about the end goal; we just argue about how to get there. And that is the problem. Because we can often see faster ways and better ways and unfortunately we get frustrated when we see various forms of energy are running out while there is no just transition and there is no plan for a new future—and we're excited about the new energies too but we want to see them in quantity. Shanan Halbert also talked about biofuel tonight. So the infrastructure in Firstgas can carry biofuel it can carry hydrogen it can do all these things—and I know I'm sidetracking here but it can do all these things. The problem is we don't have those things yet. So why don't we have a much more sensible conversation about that while we're going through this process because we know that emissions from transport and industrial heat are two of our biggest problems and this bill is a step in the right direction and I'm really glad that this Government has allowed four months for us to have the discussion so we can do this much better than we have done some other things. Thank you."