SIMON COURT (ACT): In response to a question from the ACT Party just a few weeks ago about the risk of energy shortages, the Minister said that she's considering a range of projects through the New Zealand Battery Project. That's a project that doesn't even exist yet. It doesn't have a business case and the most optimistic outlook for construction starting is 2024. But that probably doesn't factor in getting consents to build a dam in a UNESCO-level wetland. There's no way it would be operating before the end of this decade. Yet, in reply to the question from the ACT Party, the Minister said that is one of the options that they're considering to mitigate the risk of energy shortages in a dry year like we're having now. We've heard the Minister say that fortunately the dams in the South Island are full, yet Lake Taupō, the source of hydroelectricity in the North Island, where most of the users are and where the blackouts occurred, is still at a fraction of its normal levels. So the Minister's claim that the South Island hydro lakes are somehow full and that we should all be happy about that is, frankly, disingenuous. 