Hon JAMES SHAW (Minister for Climate Change): It's always a pleasure to follow my good friend and colleague Fletcher Tabuteau on matters of finance and the Budget. I wanted to start in this final appropriations debate for this year's Budget by responding to some of the criticisms that we've received on the other side of the House. I heard the phrase "responsible spending" being used a lot to suggest that actually a lot of our spending is not responsible and that you can only rely on National to do responsible spending.