Ngobi TerisaTERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Meitaki maata e te Vaa Tuatua and happy 'Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani Cook Islands Language Week Mr Speaker. And if I can just take a second just to say that the theme for 'Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani is 'Ātuitui'ia au ki te Oneone o tōku 'Ui Tupuna which means connect me to the soil of my ancestors. And to my Kūki brothers and sisters and the mamas I hope I didn't butcher that too much. Happy Cook Islands Language Week to everybody.It's always a privilege and an honour to be here in the House of change but also to have the opportunity to talk on bills and legislation and possible legislation that comes through this House. Being on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee is why I'm speaking on the Land Transport (Vehicles Responding to Electrical Emergency) Amendment Bill tonight.Can I first acknowledge the member Simeon Brown for your member's bill being pulled and for bringing this to the House tonight. My understanding having read the bill and also hearing from the member Simeon and others in the House is that the member proposes that the Minister makes a ruling to have a fitting and use of a make way" beacon essentially for electricity utility vehicles responding to network supply emergencies. I understand that the function of that beacon would be similar to what we have now in our other emergency response vehicles beacons and people on the road would move out of the way essentially when those emergency beacons come through. I know that there currently is no beacon for this purpose.I understand that the member wants to put this through as a bill as a legislative change. However my understanding is the same as the member from the Green Party that Waka Kotahi already have discretion under section 166 of the Land Transport Act to grant exemptions to the rule as deemed appropriate and have reached out to Vector to have a discussion around how they can better assist utility vehicles navigating the heavy peak traffic of Auckland as this is essentially where this is probably the most needed if at all. So for me that tells me that there's another way than going through the legislative route. And when you do that you're looking at this being your first reading taking it to select committee the time and the resource that's involved in that and then on top of that having the time for people to be able to make submissions on that using the resource and the time of our awesome parliamentary staff as well as our own time. If there was no other option if there was no other way absolutely take it through that route but for me there is another option rather than using the resources that we have limited now—being able to save those for things that don't have other options don't have other ways and that need to go through a legislative select committee and reading process.So for me I believe that you have another option here in terms of Waka Kotahi having that discretion under section 166 of the Land Transport Act. My hope would be that we have Vector reach back out to Waka Kotahi have that kōrero have that conversation around how they can work better together to be able to navigate that really thick peak traffic in Auckland. Then that's kind of also saved like I said time resources here in the Chamber with our amazing parliamentary staff the clerks—and actually it probably would be quite a lot faster if they were able to have that kōrero and start to look at other ways rather than relying on tying up really valuable time and resources here in the House.So for that reason I believe and I hope that Vector or Mr Simeon Brown can maybe go back to Vector and encourage them to talk to Waka Kotahi and take them up on their offer of working together. That would be a better way to be able to get through this issue which is important to you Mr Speaker as well as to Mr Simeon Brown. For that reason unfortunately I won't be supporting this bill."