SpeechJAMIE STRANGE (Labour—Hamilton East): Thank you Madam Speaker. I appreciate the opportunity to take a call on the Prime Minister's statement my first call in 2022.Last Friday I visited a local pharmacy in Hamilton to receive my COVID booster shot. There were a number of people waiting in the foyer. I waited for a period of time and then I went through. I met with a gentleman named Ahmad and Ahmad administered the booster shot and I said to him How many booster shots have you administered Ahmad?" And he told me he's personally administered over 10000 boosters. He said he's actually done so many that he gets blisters on his fingers and actually at night time he's even dreaming about administering booster shots. The reason I mention Ahmad's name is because I believe that his name should be mentioned in the Hansard because he and many other health professionals have done an absolutely amazing wonderful tireless job in terms of supporting our COVID response.While I start with COVID the real topic I want to talk about from the Prime Minister's speech is the topic of climate change. Because while as a country we are working through the COVID challenges—and actually as a globe—we're working through the COVID challenges the number one issue still facing our planet is climate change. If we don't work together as countries around the world as people as one people across this wonderful Earth that we have and if we don't find solutions to climate change the reality is there is no positive future for our planet and for our people. I'm very pleased to hear from the Prime Minister in her statement the continued climate change commitment. The previous Government and I acknowledge them for it signed us up to the Paris accord and that was the right thing to do. That means we have targets to meet. At the moment there are challenges particularly in agriculture and transport and I'm just going to touch on transport because transport affects all of us as New Zealanders very personally.I've been very excited to see—Barbara Kuriger: So does agriculture if we eat.JAMIE STRANGE: —that we have got New Zealanders coming on board in terms of some of the transport changes. The member opposite mentions agriculture. Agriculture is important and I'd like to acknowledge all of the farmers—I have two uncles who own farms and they're doing absolutely fantastic work in that space as our farmers continue to deliver high quality products as we sell food to the world. But just moving back to transport I'd like to first touch on the clean car subsidy that the Government has given. There has been tremendous uptake on this. In fact I've got the statistics here that there were more electric vehicles registered in New Zealand in six months last year than were registered in a full year in 2017 2018 2019 and 2020. So double what we've seen in previous years effectively. It's really exciting to see New Zealanders get on board with these incentives in terms of these electric vehicles. I remember seeing a picture recently of the wharf in Auckland and it was full of Teslas—and other electric vehicles I'm not here to endorse Tesla in particular—but it was full of a range of electric vehicles and it was fantastic to see that.I'd like to acknowledge the work that Waka Kotahi is doing in the transport space—for example supporting things like passenger rail between Hamilton and Auckland the Te Huia passenger rail service which I actually rode on recently.Hon David Bennett: That's gone well. Come on Jamie you've got to be faster.JAMIE STRANGE: And I acknowledge the Hon David Bennett on the other side of the House there who attended the sod turning for that a couple of years ago so I appreciate his enthusiasm for that project. If I could just mention to the House and those who are listening at home that if you haven't tried Te Huia yet I encourage you to do so. An absolutely fantastic way to travel—you can be productive while you're travelling you can arrive at your destination fresh and look as a country we are behind the eight ball on rail compared to other countries. But as a Government we've invested significantly in rail and we will continue to do so.Just another example of what Waka Kotahi are investing in is our public transport fleet and we see many examples of this around the country but I'll just mention one example which is Flex on-demand small buses. We've seen them start to roll out across cities in New Zealand where you can use an app to basically book a small bus which has around 12 seats. For around $2 you can get to your destination—very accessible and exciting. It's fantastic to see these rolled out. I'd like to acknowledge councillor Angela Strange for her work on this—who's been doing an absolute fantastic job there—and others who have been working incredibly hard on this. So there are many examples within the transport industry of the good work this Government is doing. Thank you."