Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. It's a pleasure to be able to take a call on the Land Transport Management (Regional Fuel Tax) Amendment Bill. The speaker who's just sat down Duncan Webb is another example of someone in Christchurch trying to tell Aucklanders what's best for them and this is what this Government is doing: telling Auckland what they want. They have come to the House this afternoon and we've all heard all the rhetoric. We've heard the rhetoric about how this is an investment in Auckland a down payment by Aucklanders. They've said Help is on the way." Well this is a tax and this Government is taxing taxing and taxing.I heard the member for Mt Roskill say this is the moment he has been most proud of in this Parliament. The moment he's been most proud of is to tax people in his electorate and across Auckland. Well this tax as we know is regressive in its nature and it is going to hurt the people who will get the least benefit from it. Those lower family income households are the stakeholders who are most likely to hurt the most from this tax. They're the ones with the less fuel-efficient cars they're the ones who have to travel further in their cars and they're the ones who vote for that crowd over on the other side of the House and now are going to get punished by them on one hand. They talk about what they're giving them but they give with one hand and take with the other and they have no plan.I would just like to quote the words of Sir John Walker who was speaking around the governing body when he voted against—he represents the communities of Manurewa and Papakura. He said we give people a wage increase and we then take it away with another hand. Well that's what the people on the other side of this House are doing: giving with one hand and taking with another with a fuel tax and I find that to be reprehensible.The real reason for this tax is to enable the funding of some tram up through the Prime Minister's electorate a tram which has a benefit-cost ratio of something which is uneconomical and which is displacing the funding from projects which we had funded on this side of the House—funding for projects like the East-West Link and Mill Road funding for projects like the Eastern Busway—Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative. And now they're going to fund them with a fuel tax. Well those projects were funded under the regional land transport plan. They were funded under the Auckland Transport Alignment Project last year which we the National Government put in place and now they're replacing that money with a regional fuel tax going back to the community and saying "Well we'll give you your projects back but you have to pay again so that we can build a tram up through the Prime Minister's electorate all the way to the airport." Well that tram will take 60 minutes to get from the airport all the way to the city centre and it will be easier to get an Uber—Andrew Bayly: What? How long?SIMEON BROWN: Sixty minutes. It'd be easier to get an Uber—easier to get an Uber Mr Bailey. Just get an Uber into town. And we've got something called the Waterview Tunnel which we are proud to have delivered when we were in Government and which has unlocked Auckland's transport.The point I'd like to finish on is the lack of consultation. I'd like to finish on the point that this Government has truncated the submission process. Right from the start they haven't wanted to listen. I heard the Minister Julie Anne Genter—she was saying that we wanted to give local communities the ability to have their say on the projects which they wanted to invest in. Well they have not listened every single step along the way. The first thing they did was truncate the select committee process. They gave submitters who were going to be impacted by this tax less time to be able to make submissions. Well that was truncating the process and cutting out the people who are going to be impacted more.Secondly the people who have submitted through the Auckland Council process and through the submission process have said no no and no. They said no when they asked the people across Auckland—51 percent. And of the people in my electorate in Howick the electorate of Pakuranga and the Howick Local Board area 62 percent did not support it—62 percent of the people in my part of Auckland did not support this.I have just been up and I've just found a sign which was used by the Rt Hon Winston Peters a little while ago. He said "NO" then and they should say no now. Thank you very much."