CHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai, tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I won't do as good of a job of speaking on this piece of legislation as our Associate Minister of Transport, Julie Anne Genter, would, but filling her massive boots this evening, I'd like to state upfront—just because the Hon Scott Simpson asked us to be upfront about our position—the Greens do support this legislation. This legislation, the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Bill—as I think was quite well articulated by the Hon Scott Simpson, the problem; but I don't know if he'd necessarily agree on the solution—speaks to the failing, or the failings, rather, of our currently very centralised model of governance and of resourcing of projects. Primarily what we've seen—the problem that I'm speaking to is over the past several decades, and the past decade in particular—is an expansion of the mandate of local government, the amount of things that they are blamed for and expected to do, but no requisite expansion of the resources available to them, which means that frequently there is a reliance—or an overreliance, arguably, as was put forward by the Hon Scott Simpson—on rates. I would argue that there is somewhat consensus on the kaupapa on the Government benches. I've been pushing the Minister of Local Government, the Hon Nanaia Mahuta, on continuing to expand and change those models of revenue available to our local governments. 