Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): Thank you, Mr Speaker. No new offshore permits for oil and gas exploration have been issued since 2 December 2020, when a climate emergency was declared. Two onshore permits were issued as the outcome of Block Offer 2019. These permits are the result of the agreed policy decision of the three parties that made up the previous Government, in 2018, to stop issuing new exploration permits for offshore acreage and to hold block offers for onshore acreage in Taranaki in 2018, 2019, and 2020.