Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): This Minister of Transport is the worst Minister of Transport New Zealand has ever seen and that was just an absolutely appalling speech. He still can't even answer the question: why are we here debating this legislation today? It's because he stuffed things up. He stuffed up the implementation of the Clean Car Standard. He stuffed up the legislation when it came to the House back at the beginning of this year and now we are here fixing up the mess he created because he didn't listen to the submissions and he didn't listen to the advice. So we're here again passing legislation to fix up his stuff-ups.The river of insults that comes from his mouth to people who dare to disagree with him is absolutely disgusting—insults from someone who's ruined businesses up and down this country with his immigration policies. It's absolutely appalling from the Minister of Transport.The National Party will support the Government in cleaning up its mess. But we also make the very clear point that there is more mess that needs to be cleaned up in regards to this standard. The standard is something we do support but we don't support where the standard currently sits. If you read Newsroom Toyota have just announced that they will not be supplying new utes to the police. That is something that people might say is a good thing over on the greenie side of the House—less utes coming in—but this is emblematic of a Government that put in policies that have unintended consequences or intended consequences which are now going to make it harder not only for our famers and our tradies but also for our police who won't get the vehicles they need. That's why whilst we support a standard we don't support where the emissions standards currently sit because it is going to punish those people who currently don't have a choice for the vehicles they need. I quote from this article in Newsroom where the Inspector Brian Yanko says If we were to suffer God forbid another Christchurch or Kaikoura-type earthquake … we will have to be able to respond. We don't want our fleet incapacitated within 24 hours and staff being grounded—we need to still be able to respond even in those circumstances." So what this Government is doing with where they have set the standard is they are putting the ability for our police in New Zealand to be able to respond to significant events which happen in our country from time to time—they may not have the ability to respond because they will not necessarily have the vehicles that they need to be able to get to those places. That is something which is incredibly concerning for New Zealanders and that is what is going to happen if the standard stays where it is.So it's good news that the Government is slightly delaying the implementation of the standard. It's good news that they are removing motorcycle importers who were never meant to be in it. It's the Clean Car Standard—it's not the clean motorbike standard. But oops they put the motorbikes in there intentionally or unintentionally and now they're removing them—again finally. But this is a stuff-up and we're telling the Government that this is only going to cause havoc because some sectors of our country don't have the alternative vehicles. The standard where it is set at the moment is going to make it impossible for them to get the vehicles they need and that as we see from that example with the New Zealand Police is going to be incredibly concerning. It will need to be fixed and we will fix it."