Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Look I'm very pleased to take another call. Firstly can I just say it is very difficult to get a lecture around fiscal holes when we hear from people like Chris Hipkins—and I will relate it to transport—that their definition of a fiscal hole is paying for the rest of the Canterbury schools rebuild or accounting for growth. We know that just like in education in the area of transport this is a very manipulative Government in terms of the figures.I want to give the Minister a little bit of a history lesson. If we actually look at the overall figures in terms of the last National Government and transport it puts this issue into perspective. We are talking about a tax for Aucklanders of $150 million. Under National we put through the Auckland governance reform because people like myself in central Auckland couldn't even get a bus route across the city and that was opposed by the Labour Government at the time. In the time that we were in Government the kinds of infrastructure projects that were progressed in the area of transport included $1 billion in terms of the electrification of rail $340 million in terms of Victoria Park Tunnel and billions of dollars into the central rail link. So to get a lecture in this committee about transport investment given the fact that we were retrofitting Auckland for generations in areas like Waterview the Victoria Park Tunnel the central rail link and the electrification of rail is a little bit rich. Anyone who is across the numbers in terms of Auckland transport knows the scale of the projects that we invested and knows that this pales in comparison.The second point I want to make is actually the same point that a number of members across this committee have continually made: do we accept that there is a gap in terms of Auckland transport funding? But what is the best way to bridge that gap? Well figures that we've got in our minority view indicate that if the Auckland Council bothered to run a fine ruler over their expenditure at the moment with a 4 percent saving—which is minimal in the scheme of what every other community provider and private sector organisation is able to do—then they would be able to find that $150 million. So not only do we oppose it on the grounds that this pales in comparison in the scale of investment that central government and local government provide in transport but also the Auckland Council has not done the work to be able to provide what is a small level of saving to be able to deliver these transport projects.The next reason why we oppose it is that it does hurt some of our most disadvantaged Aucklanders but also it's coming to a town near you—2021 in this bill. They could—because the legislation will be enacted—bring it in earlier. But what it means—and Sam Warburton I understand presented at the Finance and Expenditure Committee around its impact in terms of solo parents and Māori—is it will have an impact on disadvantaged New Zealanders because of the cost of living in terms of food and in terms of fuel.So we know that this is a bad bill. We on this side of the House don't support it for multiple reasons because the Auckland Council hasn't done their work. We have a very good track record in the billions in terms of transport. But also let's be clear: the Prime Minister went into this election with a very firm commitment to no new taxes. We now know that like many other things in this Government whatever they go out and say the spin is twice as bad. So when they talked about no new taxes what they actually meant was there will be additional taxes but no new ones that you haven't thought of. What we know is that between the fuel tax the tourism tax and cutting our tax cuts that we'd already put in place—as the leader has already highlighted today—there are huge additional costs of living as a result of this Labour Government.If members opposite think that they are going to get away with that because as I walk through airports as I go through communities in Auckland and as I now got through communities across New Zealand the cost of living already within a six-month period of this Labour Government—I want to make a prediction. If they are out in 2020 they should remember this legislation because it is ultimately the bread and butter things that affect people. Fuel in Auckland is having a terrible effect already with some of the increases like in communities—[Time expired]