SpeechTONI SEVERIN (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. On behalf of the ACT Party I'd like to speak on the Secondary Legislation Confirmation Bill. This secondary legislation is a law that is made by others than Parliament. It's made under a power that Parliament has formally delegated in particular to the Acts. So every year our lovely different ministries and our lovely clerks and Parliamentary Counsel Office brings us a huge list of different bills that have changes in them. And as my honoured member across the road said there were 27 instruments that we had to confirm and they go over about 14 different Acts. Most of the people that are watching this would find it very difficult to understand what these all are but when you deep dive you really find what a lot of this is actually doing is actually going to be taking money out of people's pockets the likes of the ute tax—the ute tax that they say is not a ute tax but is a ute tax. They say it is a levy and we're still waiting to find out all the details so it's one of the matters that we are still waiting to hear back from around that. And the thing is that we are in a cost of living crisis and whatever you put on businesses where does that cost go to? It goes to the consumer and they are the ones that are feeling it in their pockets. It's the red tape that you put on businesses and where do they put those charges when they have to work extra time to make sure they are meeting these secondary rules that have been put on them? And where again does that end up? It ends up in the pocket of the consumers. Now the other thing that we found when we were going through this bill is the tax on trucks. They're raising the distance travelled on trucks. Yes we don't mind paying user charges if it is fixing our roads. We have got too many potholes around this country.SPEAKER: Order! I'm very sorry to interrupt the member. Can I just tell members it's really difficult to hear. The member has a right to be heard so if we can lower the volume that'd be great.TONI SEVERIN: Thank you Mr Speaker. Now we like road-user charges to fix the potholes. But then again when you look at this this is heavy-duty trucks. What is carried on these heavy-duty trucks? Our goods; our goods to the market our goods around New Zealand. Again the freight costs will be added to different businesses and then those businesses will be passing that—yet again—to who? Consumers—the everyday consumer whose cost of living crisis is occurring to them. Now as we said we don't mind you fixing our roads we just don't need the bridges coming out of those taxes especially for the cycle bridges. Give us good roads because we do need them to get around New Zealand.Now we had to ask questions of the Minister for Food Safety the Minister for Biosecurity the Minister of Customs the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Agriculture. Yes I appreciate you for responding to our letters because I am myself on the Regulations Review Committee and it is great to have explanations for us to understand this secondary legislation that is being forced on to New Zealanders. Now there is over as we said 27 different instruments for confirmation. This bill as we are saying has to be passed so these instruments can be confirmed and of course they've only got a small time frame to be able to confirm it so this is why today they are going to be rushing this one through so that we can confirm it for them. But again most of all I'm going to go back and thank the lovely clerks of our select committee and the Parliamentary Counsel Office because they have to draft this bill and they also have to help us through all these different 27 confirmable instruments that we have to go through and explain whether or not they have any concerns or not. And this is a big thing to make sure we are dotting the i's and crossing the t's to make sure things don't get through that shouldn't get through. So even though this seems like a little bill it's very important that we do cross those i's and dot the t's. But most of all we oppose this bill because in the end this is going to affect the consumer and this is going to cost people more in the long run: whoever owns a ute whoever has to have goods taken by truck over our roads that aren't fit for purpose. And overall the consumers are the ones that are going to hurt because of the cost of living crisis. Thank you Mr Speaker.