Robertson Grant: Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
Robertson Grant: Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
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GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central) 
: 
 Thank you very much Mr Chairperson. Once again it is great to have your enthusiastic support for giving me the call. I will pick up where my colleague Carol Beaumont left off on some potential alternative titles for the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill. Obviously that title is one option because the bill amends the Motor Vehicle Sales Act so that would be traditional. 
Moana Mackey 
: It’s not very original. 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: It is not terribly creative and I think it is important that in this Committee we try to make sure that our laws are contemporary that they stay in touch with what is happening in the world and that they are relevant. 
One title that I considered was the “Motor Vehicle Sales (ACT Party Shuffling the Deckchairs on the  
Titanic 
) Bill”. That is one way of looking at it. Mr Boscawen has found himself in the chair and— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: How many knives could they melt down from a car to put into Heather Roy’s back? 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: Mr Mallard has a suggestion which is interesting coming from him as he has just re-entered the Chamber after having been out of it for some time. Mr Mallard might want to reflect further on that. The ACT Party has obviously reshuffled the deck and Mr Boscawen has found himself in the chair. He is obviously concerned about consumers—it is in the name of the party—so he is concerned about those who buy and sell motor vehicles. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: ACT—consumers and taxpayers? 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: Yes that is right. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Surely you can do something— 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: No we will come back to that soon. But the “Motor Vehicle Sales (ACT Party Shuffling the Deckchairs on the  
Titanic 
) Bill” is one alternative title that we have thought of. 
I actually think Ms Beaumont was on to a particularly good point around alternative titles given that we are yet again here in urgency to debate the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill which has been taken through most of its stages under urgency. Perhaps the “Motor Vehicle Sales (Go Stop Go Stop Go) Amendment Bill” might have been a more appropriate title because it is hard to understand why a bill that was brought in by the previous Labour Government and was wending its way through its processes—and that National occasionally believes is an urgent bill—occasionally merits the title of urgency and then stops for a long period of time. 
Jacinda Ardern 
: Lada-Ferrari. 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: Yes perhaps it is going from being a Ferrari of a bill to a Lada of a bill; we are not getting much in between that from this Government. 
The Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill is the title that the Government has come up with. It is probably a fair enough title. Mr Boscawen has been strangely silent during the Committee stage of this debate; he made an early contribution although signs of life have been rare since then. But I hope that we will hear from him again in the further stages. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Heather Roy would have spoken on it. 
GRANT ROBERTSON 
: Heather Roy has had a lot of references made to her in this Committee stage. She took the consumer affairs role seriously and I am sure she would have taken several calls in fact and answered Mr Hipkins’ very useful questions that were raised earlier in the Committee stage about the consumer information notices. I think on balance the Labour Party can support this title. We perhaps would have preferred something that was more creative. We could have injected other words into the title like “lamington” for instance—that is one potential word that could have found its way into the title—but I think on balance we will be able to support the title being the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill. However we would obviously welcome a contribution from the Minister in the chair to this particular part of the debate. 
Clause 1 agreed to. 
The question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 161 in the name of the Hon John Boscawen to clause 2 be agreed to. 
Amendment agreed to. 
Clause 2 as amended agreed to. 
Clause 3 agreed to. 
Bill reported with amendment. 
Report adopted.