Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): I rise in support of the bill. I think as I said earlier in this House most New Zealanders want to do the right thing when it comes to climate change. They want to look after the environment and they want a Government that is going to show leadership and help create a pathway to renewable electricity to a more sustainable transport fleet and transport options and to warmer dryer homes that use less energy to heat. All of that is entirely possible with good public policy but unfortunately for many decades we didn't have good public policy in New Zealand.So for the benefit of some of the members to my right in this House I thought I'd just explain that the current situation with a shortfall of gas has nothing to do with the ban on new offshore exploration that was announced in 2018. It is amazing that the National Party—I guess they think that the people at home are really dumb that they think that they can sell this line that stopping exploration for new gas after nine years of an open door of exploration for gas would somehow affect the supply in 2021. I know it is very hard for some of these people who haven't worked in the industry and probably only talked to lobbyists to understand what is involved but the chances that you would have found a new significant field offshore and somehow had it up and running and in production in 2021 is laughable especially given that for nine years under the last National Government they were practically paying companies to come here and look for oil and gas. There were the tax breaks they were rolling out the red carpet; not a word around responsible management of decommissioning which they are supporting now that they have proof that it can cost the New Zealand public if you don't have that sort of framework in place. I'm glad that they've come on board this late in the piece but it would have been better if they'd thought about that 10 years ago when they were attracting all of the oil and gas people here to New Zealand and put in place some of those protections before it cost the New Zealand public hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up an oil well. So just a little lesson in how political rhetoric is being used to try and scare people from the National Party who have no ideas about how to respond to climate change which they demonstrated in their nine years when their biggest energy priority was privatising our publicly owned energy companies rather than making a plan to deal with climate change. We wouldn't be in this situation of having to deal with a dry year not enough hydro production not enough renewable electricity and having to use coal if 10 years ago—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order!Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: —people had done something about it.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order!Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: Excuse me Madam Speaker I am responding to the points of debate.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Can I ask the member to come back to the third reading of this bill which by nature is a summary of the contents of the bill. Thank you.Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: Madam Speaker I would happily speak to the bill but I think it is perfectly within the realm of the debate to respond to the points that other members have raised in this very debate.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): OK. The member will resume her seat. The member's speech is expired.