Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. We're having a lot of fun over this side of the Chamber tonight. Look I'm delighted—absolutely delighted—to stand and speak in the Estimates debate on climate change Vote Conservation and the environment. It's an absolute pleasure to be on this side of the House. It's a hard-working Government. We have been doing a lot of work and I'm really really really proud to be under the leadership of our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who is not only incredibly hard-working; she's a tremendous leader for our country but also for the world in this space. Look we stand on the brink of a catastrophic environmental disaster and I for one am tremendously pleased that we on this side of the House are tackling the long-term issues facing New Zealand. We're tackling them. The environment suffered at the hands of that last Government. We know it. Everyone knows it—in fact we've been spending hours and hours under the zero carbon bill hearing that—and we're playing catch up right? We're playing catch up. There are lots of areas that need to be fixed and let's face it it's going to take more than one term to do this. But we're here and we're going to be doing it. So we sit on the right side of history with our plan to transition to a clean green carbon-neutral New Zealand. The mess that they have left us with is—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): It would be nice if the member could actually speak about the Estimates and—ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Sure. CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): —the select committee work. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Absolutely. I was just coming on to that. CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Good. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: So we're overhauling the resource management system which has been underperforming and our Opposition members had left it for a very long time. Kiwis tell us that they want to be able to swim in our lakes and in our rivers and we've put $229 million into that. We're not talking about wadeable rivers here; we're talking about swimmable rivers. We want to be able to put our heads under the water people and just remember that—everyone wants to be able to do that. We're helping the farmers and the growers to improve their waterways and the land use and in fact the Kaipara Harbour which my colleague spoke about is the first cab off the rank for that. Our goal as this Government is to improve the wellbeing and the living standards of all New Zealanders through productive sustainable inclusive growth within the environment and within environmental limits. So we're currently progressing the zero carbon bill and absolutely Madam Chair you will know that this is a big issue for the entire country. In fact we've had thousands and thousands of submissions on this matter—absolutely thousands of submissions—and—Chris Bishop: I'd vote for you. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: You'd vote for me? That's wonderful—I have a vote. In fact we've reached a historic consensus to bring farmers into the emissions trading scheme (ETS)—a historic consensus to bring farmers into the ETS—by 2025. It's one of those amazing things. The Opposition will tell us that we have not done that but actually we have. Finally the science is clear: we have to change our emissions footprint. New Zealand has a 46 percent emissions profile from agriculture—46 percent—and so we're working within those limits. We ended new offshore oil and gas permits; we've got more choice with electric cars; we're investing in R & D—millions of dollars in R & D—to realise our renewable futures; and of course we've all heard about the massive spend in conservation including for the safety of our workers in that sector. I'm absolutely delighted. I had this huge list of things that we are doing and I've run out of time but I'm absolutely delighted to stand on this side of the Chamber in Government on behalf of the environment. Thank you.