Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Now more than ever we need leadership on these issues. We need leadership because we're going to have to change a lot of things to combat climate change. We've waited too long. A previous speaker from the National Party said Kiwis were hurting—yeah they're hurting because successive Governments decades of successive Governments have failed to invest and prepare for climate change and invest in a transport system that is less reliant on fossil fuels.We can absolutely do that but we can't do it if we keep doing what we've always done in the past. We can't do it if we keep letting the ultra-wealthy get wealthier if we allow a few big corporates like 20 big corporates in New Zealand make excess profits—no we're not going to be able to solve these problems and we certainly can't do it if the political debate is all about where we are right now.The reality is there were other options to help low income and middle income New Zealanders deal with higher prices and higher cost of living and that could have been done through a direct cash payment. It would have benefited those households more than this road-user charge cut and the subsidy for fuel excise.We're going to have to raise money to build infrastructure. You know I've heard from the National Party that they're just going to keep borrowing to pay for things. They oppose every single proposal that would actually reduce climate pollution make the economy more fair or raise revenue in a fair way—they oppose. So not a single constructive solution. There's a fantasy about building four-lane roads everywhere in the country. They didn't even manage to deliver 200 kilometres of that over 10 years. So there's just no way they're going to be able to deliver it all around the country and certainly not unless they look really hard at raising revenue to pay for it. So it's an absolute fantasy on the on the right side of the House.Unfortunately our Labour Government isn't building the infrastructure that we need. There actually is not a huge investment going on in regional rail right now. There is not a huge investment in public transport services. Most of the Transport Budget is still being spent on outrageously priced urban motorways that make congestion worse and give New Zealanders no opportunity to get around without having to rely on a car and rely on fossil fuels.We need climate leadership. The Green Party will continue to provide that. Luckily we will have an opportunity later this year to change the Government to one that's actually going to take on the real issues of inequality and of climate change and of ecological catastrophe. We have the means we have the ability to work together to solve our collective challenges but we need to be able to tell the truth and not give in to these short-term policies that seem popular to keep you in power a little bit longer when all you're doing is continuing the status quo—Madam Speaker I know not you personally. But yeah we need real change because this policy this legislation we're debating it's—three to five times more money is going to go to the wealthiest New Zealand households from this than to the lowest-income New Zealanders. That's the problem with this policy.There are options to help low-income New Zealanders who need to drive. You do it through cash payments not through direct subsidies to fossil fuels that benefit the highest-income people more than the lowest income people.