Allan Kiritapu; Rurawhe AdrianKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): I want to acknowledge and thank this House for having this debate this afternoon. Sometimes in this House we don't actually often debate the points and we get up here and we read out key lines but today because of the contribution just made by Nathan Guy the member prior I want to set out some facts that I think were omitted from the previous speaker's contribution in this House. One of the things—and why I feel so impassioned to do so—is that on an issue that is so fundamentally significant not only for our nation but for our global world as can be seen by the thousands and thousands and millions of people that are mobilising around the world right now on climate change issues we can't afford to be so cynical or to be playing political point-scoring games when it comes to a bill as significant as this.So I want to turn to the member who just made some interesting remarks and I say has been behind—not just that member but the party in Opposition at the moment has been behind some of the most divisive rhetoric that this country has seen over fundamental issues like the future protections of our nation. Now I want to start with the methane target that the member just alluded to. There was widespread support amongst the primary industries for the split targets and there was widespread support for the initial target of the reduction of 10 percent by 2030. Now the member just mentioned the second target: the 2050 target.Look there has been a lot of discussion about that but what the member failed to do and what the member's party has failed to do and what those naysayers have failed to do in the propagation of misinformation about these targets is to say that there is a Climate Change Commission that this bill entrenches and establishes. By 2024 that Climate Change Commission will assess this target and determine whether or not it is appropriate. This isn't a bygone forgone It's all done and dusted the paint is dry and it's over Rover." This is a target for now. But that side of the House has constantly been putting out misinformation that there can be no further amendments and it's all over.The entire purpose of the Climate Change Commission is to ensure that the targets are right. All we're doing today is setting a target. Those things will be looked at in due course and that was something that I respected about the prior spokesperson when it came to working with Government members on this side of the House—actually engaged at a pragmatic level understood the nuances tried to play down the misinformation that was being spread throughout the nation. We all agree I think on both sides of the House that we have to get the infrastructure and the regulatory environment right. But I say that that kind of divisive rhetoric and that misinformed rhetoric is a deceitful act for our constituents and we owe our people a lot more than that.I also want to turn to the second point that the member spoke to and that has come up a number of times on that side of the House. It's around the economics of this bill—the economic implications of this piece of legislation. Well it was interesting to note that there were five key principles that the Opposition wanted to talk about. First of all we've got to be based on clear science—clear science—and I couldn't agree more. But when it came to the economy oh it was sufficient to say—and he relied on those remarks in this House—that there could be economic impacts of a loss of GDP. There might be impacts per household ranging from $3k to $7.5k. The principled basis for opposition that that side is applying across their own core principles is completely out of sync with its own side so it's frustrating on this side of the House to hear that as a consumer.I want to acknowledge the work though that our Minister for Climate Change the Hon James Shaw has done not just with a broad range of constituents—you know we've got our young climate change activists; we've got a broad range of people—but also with the primary sector. This week—actually on 24 October—we saw the groups DairyNZ Beef + Lamb Federated Farmers Horticulture New Zealand Irrigation New Zealand the Meat Industry Association Apiculture New Zealand the Dairy Companies Association New Zealand and the Deer Industry New Zealand all come out in support of the work that this Minister has done to ensure that the agricultural emissions that are done are done right.So I want to acknowledge your work. It has not been an easy ride and it's being fundamentally undermined by the perilous rhetoric that is being put out by the Opposition and supported by a few naysayers. So I want to congratulate you Minister for continuing to be at the forefront of ensuring that this legislation is right.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Nicola Willis—five minutes."