Moroney SueSUE MORONEY (Labour): I rise to support the Land Transport (Vehicle User Safety) Amendment Bill in the name of Jami-Lee Ross and I wish to congratulate the member on having his bill drawn from the ballot. It is certainly a great opportunity to talk about road safety. But I do want to give some advice to the member: really if he does want to do something serious about reducing the road toll which has now increased 3 years in a row—and sadly this year is looking like it is going to continue that dreadful trend—then perhaps just dealing with the issue of people who are window washing at intersections is probably not the most pressing thing to do about road safety at the moment. I do not think that there has been any fatality that has been caused in this area or serious injury but none the less it is probably a reasonably useful little measure to address.However if the Government was serious about turning around its dreadful performance on the road toll then it would be looking at more serious issues to address that and it would be doing it rather more urgently. It would not be leaving it up to members' bills to address vehicle safety and road safety; rather the Government would be addressing issues like the driver-licensing fraud which under its watch has been running rampant. If there is a real road safety issue in this country the fact that we cannot rely on our driver-licensing regime to be robust and to ensure that it is free of corruption—I think that is a major issue that the Government should be looking at.I also think that if this Government was serious about addressing road safety it would be looking at proactive ways of reducing the amount of freight going by larger and larger trucks under this Government all the time on our roads. We know that when it comes to road safety about 20 percent of the fatalities every year involve a truck on our roads. Of course the more trucks that we put on our roads and the larger we allow them to become as this Government has—and when we get those juggernauts that are on roads that are not really designed for those very big trucks to be on—of course the next thing that is going to happen is that our road toll is going to go up as it has been doing.I want to put on record the other serious issue that this bill raises that the Government will not address—that is ensuring that people have decent jobs; decent jobs with decent job security. What I know about these window washers—it is largely young men who are involved in this enterprise—is that they are not doing it because it is their wish and their dream and their hope to be a car window washer at an intersection; they do it because they are desperate to make a living. They are desperate to earn a living and it is becoming harder and harder to do that under this Government. These fit young men who are proving that they have the wherewithal and the entrepreneurial drive to get out there and do something are not these people who Bill English says are hopeless. They are not these people who would rather stay in bed. They are not these people who Bill English and his Government are trying to convince the rest of the nation are just losers and drug addled and staying at home. These are young men prepared to get out there and earn a buck and they are prepared to work hard for it. Yes that is probably not the appropriate way to do it but they are running out of options because that lazy Government opposite which has run out of ideas will not provide decent secure jobs for these young men. So Mr Ross the challenge I want to put to you is twofold. First of all do something serious about the road toll and secondly do something real about providing real jobs for New Zealanders so that we do not have to turn into one of those countries where people are on the side of the road at intersections risking life and limb actually themselves in order to make a decent living. That is not the sort of New Zealand that I want to see it is not the New Zealand we used to have and it is not the New Zealand that you will see under a Labour-led Government.