Prosser Richard: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeProsser Richard: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10348. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RICHARD PROSSER (NZ First): I am pleased to rise to take a call in the Committee stage of this Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill which as my most erstwhile colleague from the Greens Julie Anne Genter referred to is the bill that will raise petrol taxes. I am ecstatic actually to be here on a Saturday. I am over the moon—overjoyed at having to be here on a Saturday because this Government has no other way of ramming through all the unnecessary and unwarranted legislation that it needs to in order to enact this latest diabolically awful Budget. This Government is so disorganised and it is such a poor manager of the business of the House just as it is of the economy in general that we are here on a Saturday. We were here until midnight last night and we are here today under urgency cleaning up the National Government’s mess. And for what? So that the Government can put petrol up again so it can bleed the motorists yet again. The poor downtrodden long-suffering motorist is to be the Government’s economic whipping boy yet again. The Government has stuffed up its sums and yet again it is coming to bleed the motorist to make up for its failings.What are we going to get for it? What is the south going to get? What are the provinces going to get? Will we get roads? Will we get new roads? Will we get better roads? Will the parts of the country that actually generate the wealth get to see any of it? Will we see new roads better roads between our farms and our freezing works and between our freezing works and our ports? Or will we be sidelined yet again while the National Government builds roads so that its mates in Auckland can get to their baches more easily on the long weekends?I ask where the Government’s priorities are. Where is the new spending for rural New Zealand? Will we have the South Island loop road completed finally? How many in the Government actually know about the South Island loop road and the plans for it? Will we see a dual carriageway between Christchurch and Dunedin? Will we see an end to one-lane bridges on the West Coast? Or do we not matter? Does the south not matter to this Government ? Do the provinces the regions—do we not matter? The provinces generate the wealth and we would like to see some return from it. The provinces the regions and the scenery in the regions are what attract tourists to this country. We bring tourists to this country in their millions and we make them drive on Third World goat tracks with one-lane bridges.The truth is that this tax is an excuse to cover up the loss of revenue that this Government is going to experience from selling off State assets because this is the flip side to the mixed-ownership model. We talk about 49 percent ownership and 51 percent ownership—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order!RICHARD PROSSER: —thank you Mr Chairperson—but what we do not talk about is the revenue that the Government is going to lose by flicking off half of these wealth-generating assets. This tax is an excuse just an excuse to cover up that loss. It is a bad tax part of a bad Budget from a bad Government. Thank you.