Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to talk alongside this copious amount of male charm beside me. Thank you very much for choosing a female option here tonight Madam Chair. I will of course be speaking to in Part 1 clause 3(2) which is the mechanism for adding—they quite liked that didn't they? Still getting a bit of feedback.I would like to refer to some of the statements in the impact summary by the Ministry of Transport which of course we traversed last year in June when it was given to us alongside the impact statement for the regional fuel tax for Auckland. Now I realise that we're on this particular excise duty tonight but back then it was very clearly stated that for this particular—and it was signalling what we're doing here tonight that the objectives of this mechanism would be that additional cost should be reasonable for users and that's a direct quote from the impact statement: additional cost should be reasonable for users." So if we keep that in mind I've got some questions for the Minister questions which definitely for me raise red flags—red being the optimum colour there.It's around the section of the impact statement where it was referring to constraints on the scope for decision making. It reads there that "The existence of the [regional fuel tax] in Auckland"—and I'm going to get to tonight's topic don't worry—"constrains the ability of the Government to increase [the petrol excise duty] and [the road user charge] rates as further rate increases across the country will place an additional burden on businesses and individuals [and in this case] in the Auckland region." So there we are. There it is from the Ministry of Transport and that's the impact statement which relates to tonight's bill. So how does the Minister reconcile this—that's my question—when clearly the constraint for the decision making which has led to tonight's bill is there in black and white for all to see?Furthermore—and it's referring to the Government policy statement in 2018 but it applies to tonight—"Cabinet agreed that the Minister of Transport would report back to the Cabinet Economic Development Committee on increases to [the petrol excise duty] of between 3-4 cents per litre per year for the next three years"—and of course that's again what we're doing tonight—and "This constrains the magnitude of increases that can be realistically considered." So there it is again: the very fact that they are having to review it and look at this charge should be a constraint for increases. How has the Minister taken that into account?Another question for the Minister would be that when looking at alternative funding mechanisms back in the impact statement scaling back expenditure was one of them. Did the Minister take that into consideration when coming up with this particular bill?Now my last comment around that impact statement would be one more statement where it was said that the provision of greater transport choices would benefit low-income households. Now you might take that at face value but I've got a question for the Minister: where are the greater transport choices that were mentioned and heralded? Where is the light rail option? Where is the East-West Link option? Where is the City Rail Link on time and on budget? Where are the greater transport options Mr Minister? We'd like to know. Because I've talked about the impact on income of businesses and residents there's also very much a repetitive strand and that's with regards to the impact on low-income households.I would like to finish—and I will be taking a further call if I don't get to finish—with this particular quote that I want to read. They were submitters the Auckland Action Against Poverty group. So I want to read just two short quotes from them. One is "Auckland Action Against Poverty … calling on the Labour led Government to find alternatives to its proposed petrol tax in order to fund its transport projects."—this is a quote that I'm reading. Madam Chair can I take a further call please? [Time expired]"