SpeechSUE MORONEY (Labour): I too look forward to having a change to a Government that will actually do something innovative in this space and will actually commit to improving the uptake of electric vehicles in New Zealand so that we can honour the commitments that our Government has given—which this side of the House fully intends to honour properly—about reducing pollution reducing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon emissions.Sadly this bill is not the thing that will actually address those very important issues. It is the most woefully inadequate piece of window dressing I have seen for quite some time and that is saying something because that Government is fond of bringing window dressing pieces of legislation before this House all of the time. We know that the Minister of Transport specialises in photo opportunities with electric vehicles and this is really the legislative version of a photo opportunity with an electric vehicle. It purports to do something and then it does not actually do it.We know that this Government has a woefully inadequate target of having 64000 electric vehicles in the New Zealand fleet by 2021. It calls it ambitious. Well what Treasury said about it was that actually if the Government did nothing there would likely be more than 64000 electric vehicles in this country by 2021 anyway. That is how uninspiring its target is. It is only 2 percent of the vehicle fleet by 2021. How aspirational is that? Not very. So it is no surprise really that this Government comes up with this type of measure.I want to talk about the bus-lane initiative because it is daft idea actually. I am certain that the way the Government has drafted this bill no territorial local authority will in fact make a decision to go down this path. No local authority with any sense will go down this path because if it is a local authority like Auckland say and it has got congestion issues already—that is why it has bus lanes—why would it clog them up with other vehicles that are not about public transport and are not about sharing vehicles? Why would Auckland do that? The answer is that almost certainly Auckland is not going to do that. So where is this initiative going to be used? Which is the local authority that does not have a congestion problem but has bus lanes or T3 or T2 lanes and actually wants to spend ratepayers' money trying to find out whether the vehicles in those lanes are electric vehicles or not? That is what this bill actually asks them to do. It says that if the local authorities want to take advantage of this poorly thought-out piece of policy they are going to have to pay for the enforcement of it. No local authority is going to do that.So the one thing the one bad idea that this Government has come up with in order to try to make it look like it is interested in electric vehicles is actually not going to be put in place anywhere. That is the reason why Labour is prepared to support this legislation because while it does not do anything I think Tracey Martin is right: it does not do any harm. It could have done harm with that particular proposal but I know and I think everyone in this House knows that no local authority is actually going to implement it because it has been drafted so poorly.It is very clear that this Government has no intention of making that innovative move to electric vehicles. How do we know this? We know this because between April and December 2016—so the Government makes this grand announcement in April about its new policy to increase electric vehicles. By December 2016 out of 2039 vehicles purchased by that Government's own procurement panel how many of them were electric vehicles?Hon Ruth Dyson: How many?SUE MORONEY: Just eight. Just eight out of 2039—and there is the proof of the pudding that that Government has no intention of actually doing the right thing to meet our climate change commitments and actually increase electric vehicles therefore managing down our reliance on fossil fuels. This Government has just produced a piece of legislation that is the equivalent of a photo opportunity with an electric vehicle.