Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you very much Madam Chair. Apologies to the former speaker Andrew Falloon who I'm sure was—his best points are still coming. So thank you very much Madam Chair.I would like to refer to some submitters' comments as they relate to of course Part 1 and I would start by just talking a bit about this particular submitter Sam Warburton from the New Zealand Initiative. Just a quick background—10 seconds on his background—to prove the point of what I'll call the depth of what he referred to in the Finance and Expenditure Committee. He's been an economist for 14 years employed in the Ministry of Transport's funding and infrastructure team. He's helped and advised on three Government policy statements (GPS) coming through: 2015 the draft of 2018 when National was in Government and of course the draft GPS for this Government. The submission of this particular submitter was his own views but he is employed with the New Zealand Initiative.He has referred to six particular points that we find in Part 1 of the bill that deserve some very close scrutiny and to which we here on this side of the House strongly object. The first is the overplaying in the regulatory impact statement which this issue is now of course in Part 1 of the bill of price spreading—so if you look at the overplay of evidence for price spreading that was in that impact statement and how it under-commits to activities that would mitigate that price spreading. If we look at the issue of price spreading we are just quite simply unable to get past the fact that back in the 1990s according to the ministry price spreading occurred when a fuel tax was previously introduced back in the 1990s and in 2009 it was the reason that was put forward for repealing the fuel tax legislation back then. So if we don't think that these issues will occur again I think we should look a little bit at history. We know that taxpayers around the country will be affected by this particular issue and there's evidence of it already happening in the South Island—that's been widely reported.The second point that the submitter raised and now finds itself in and related to this particular bill is the exaggeration of black markets forming. That's something that we have paid particular close attention to. It's part of the rationale for the bill. We strongly object to that particular ludicrous exaggeration.The other is underplaying the impact of fuel tax on low-income residents. This particular point was highlighted by Deborah Russell earlier when she referred to Councillor Josephine Bartley representing the Ōtāhuhu ward in Auckland Council which happens to be my particular previous ward. She now succeeds me. That particular area is probably roughly 10 percent of the ward yet she chooses to highlight that and omits Councillor Efeso Collins' comments in regard to the impact on people. So here's a couple of quotes from Councillor Efeso Collins if she chooses to quote Councillor Josephine Bartley. One is: These taxes hit the poorest the most." The other is: "Families are already below zero. This will be food off tables." So you can't get any more—can you—clearer than that but no one on the other side of the Chamber seems to want to quote Councillor Fa'anana Efeso Collins.Andrew Falloon: He's a Labour councillor.DENISE LEE: Yes that's right. Thank you my colleague on this side. He is a Labour Party councillor.The other point that I want to raise and it's related to Mr Sam Warburton's submission is the way that the impact statement is in his opinion—but we agree—incomprehensible in key parts in the way that the analysis is set out and it wrongly assesses the merits of some options.The last point is it fails to recommend other options which Parliament could have legislated for. Was this the only option on the table? No. Was the fuel tax in Auckland Council an interim? No."