Hon Deputy Speaker, if you remember last week when this Carbon Tax Bill was being debated the National Freedom Party did not support this. Therefore, I'm hoping that today hon Tobias is here and she is going to give some clarity on these issues - so, it will give us a clearer picture whether we should be supporting it or not. Now, what was our argument? The purpose of the Carbon Tax Bill in our understanding as the NFP is to reduce emissions which will benefit our people on the basis that they can live and the air will be a better quality and that their health will improve. Now, on the one hand we are talking about putting a carbon tax, you are leaving a tax, and on the other hand you are saying that you are going to be giving an allowance.
Our understanding thus far is that if you are putting a tax and you are giving an allowance it is going to be of no consequence in whatsoever. There is no motivation for industry to reduce those emissions, and that is what we are concerned about. We would have had no problem if you didn't give an allowance at all because the intention is to penalise those who have a high level of emissions we