SIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you, Mr Speaker. So we've heard a proposal from the member as to why we need vehicles responding to electrical emergencies to have special powers—the same powers that are afforded to others responding to emergencies. It's because the traffic delays the response times. It's because customers need power restored quickly, particularly to businesses and families and those who are medically dependent on electricity. It's true: electrical outages have real impacts. The Eaton annual blackout tracker, an Australian company that tracks the performance of electrical networks—their data shows that in the 2017-18 year across New Zealand and Australia, there were 327 blackouts affecting 1.7 million people. And in 2018-19, the most recent year they have data, there were 167 outages affecting 1.1 million people. That is a large number of events. 