Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. I'm only going to take a short call on this third reading. As we've already traversed it does make sense to close the loophole which means that some people who are extracting natural gas who have found ways to extend fields that originally had licences or permits in the early 1980s will pay the same royalties as anyone else. It seems fair.The Green Party has long said that our royalties on oil and gas are too low by international standards. At the same time it's fair to charge an appropriate royalty because ultimately it is a collective natural resource that everyone in New Zealand deserves to benefit from. That's why it makes sense for the Government to charge higher royalties which can then go to pay for infrastructure and public services that will help us transition away from fossil fuels.The climate science is that we have to rapidly phase-out the use of fossil fuels if we want to have a habitable climate. You would think that people in this House would realise that we have a climate crisis because we're getting hit by extreme weather events at a much faster rate—exactly as the Green Party said 20 and 30 years ago when we were talking about how we needed to act on climate change and to transition away from fossil fuel use.It's hard not to feel compelled to stand up and just say that I think most New Zealanders know that it doesn't make us rich to sell our non-renewable natural resources at a very low rate to overseas interests. When they talk about foreign direct investment somehow making us richer I don't think it's the case that there's a lot of people who are going to come here and build infrastructure for free; they're going to expect a return on that.The reality is that we can live good lives and work together to address climate change. We do that by addressing inequality. We don't do that by selling off our natural assets and helping small private interests make huge profits off trashing the planet off taking our non-renewable resources. We do it by investing wisely in sustainable infrastructure sustainable energy.And I do have to mention that earlier the Hon Judith Collins was talking about Indonesian coal. I think her talking points from Mike Hosking and the right wing are a little out of date because it is not the case that there is huge amounts of coal being used to generate electricity right now. But if as the Green Party campaigned on in the early 2000s the Government had actually invested in a plan to transition off Huntly as Jeanette Fitzsimons called for when that member was Minister of Energy and Resources and did nothing of the sort to prepare us for climate change we wouldn't be in the situation where in a dry year we had to rely on burning coal.New Zealanders know this. They're starting to realise climate change is a real issue and they will very quickly realise that that side of the House has nothing to offer no vision no imagination no belief in our ability to tackle our environmental challenges and to address inequality in this country. They just want to bring back $5 charges for drugs at the drug store. So good luck to you—good luck to you. I commend this bill to the House.