Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): Mr Speaker mahalo. It is a pleasure to rise in this general debate and take a call. I do want to start with a question in that if there was ever a week for Christopher Luxon to come to this House and not grill the Prime Minister on attendance I would have thought this would have been it. When you have been caught misleading the country over where you have been when you have been posting on social media pretending to be in one place and you're actually in another it belies belief in leadership that Mr Luxon would come to this House and front up and take that as a sign of what a leader should ask another leadership.There's several kind of rules that I think that we should all as politicians accept and one is actually not to bend the truth about where you are—is probably one of them. What we have to do is we all accept that politicians should take a break from this place. I think nobody is disputing that. Every politician should take the time to spend time with their friends and with their family. But I think New Zealanders expect politicians to be upfront and they expect them to be straight up with them about where they are. It speaks to integrity. So in the What was he thinking?" file straight off calling New Zealand businesses "soft" on his travels you need to think: what actually was Christopher Luxon thinking by pretending to be in Te Puke last week? One can only assume that there had to be a method; there had to be a reason behind someone doing this. Could it be because he was looking for the international headlines that he couldn't get on his travels? Well he succeeded if we take that as the measure. Let's have a look at the Sydney Morning Herald headline: "'A Wonderful Time': New Zealand politician on a Hawaiian holiday tells Kiwis he's hard at work." Check; you've achieved that. Or what he couldn't achieve arriving in London arriving in the UK amidst a Tory leadership meltdown—couldn't get a headline in The Times. Well he cracked one this week: "Christopher Luxon: 'Hard at work' politician was on holiday in Hawaii". So that's the kind of headlines that are being generated. I guess it's that and calling Kiwi businesses "soft" that will get Mr Luxon the headlines where he is looking for them. We saw my colleague the Hon Grant Robertson in two speeches prior waving around that great tome by Andrea Vance—a very compelling read probably good beach reading in Hawaii I would imagine too. But I think Mr Luxon should probably treat it as a historical document and realise the Shipley plotters were known as the "Te Kooti bypass". It wasn't Te Puke Mr Luxon. So if you're looking to firm up your leadership and shut down the plotting coups it's the wrong place in the North Island. So probably—SPEAKER: No the member's risking misleading the House. Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: OK. Ha ha! Mr Speaker you would know! But I do want to turn to some serious things. Hon Member: Do you really mean that?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The Speaker is our elder statesman of our House and holds the chronicles of what has happened. But I do want to tend to some serious material where we do expect our leaders to show leadership and that is on the matter of climate change. I would like to inform Mr Luxon that taking climate action isn't pretending to travel fewer air miles to be pretending not to go on a longer plane journey than you are and pretending to be in Te Puke. It is about showing leadership. It is about integrity. It is about having a plan for how New Zealand is going to meet its global commitments. I am still waiting to hear about that from the National Party. I am still waiting to know what the plan is. They've said they've signed up to the carbon budget. They've said they're going to resume oil and gas exploration. They've said they won't help businesses decarbonise. I guess that's because they think that helping businesses decarbonise would be because businesses are soft. On this side of the House we know that we have to be a Government that supports our industries and our businesses to ensure that we are taking real and meaningful action on climate change and making sure we are getting results—or outcomes as Mr Luxon likes to call them."