Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. It is a pleasure to rise on this side and support my colleagues and our party to support this bill to a select committee. Having actually listened to the speech by my colleague to my left Jonathan Young who is actually very knowledgable in this area I have to sort of admit that my contribution will be slightly less about the industry because it is an industry that I don't know very well. But as a consumer and as a person who actually drives in Auckland as a person who actually tries to find cheap petrol when I drive often it is actually the boards that I see on petrol stations. Some of those boards are an indication. It is actually the way that a lot of consumers decide which petrol station they might go to. Some of them use apps—BP for example. If you use the BP stations they have a discount service. If you fuel $40 I think it's like 4c or 5c off and if you continue to use it you can actually build up to huge amounts of discount. I think at one stage I went up to something like 60c per litre discount to fill up petrol. There's also an app called Gaspy which also provides consumers plenty of opportunity for people to look at what gas stations are providing certain prices on any given day. I think that actually provides options for consumers to decide which petrol stations they might in fact go to at any given time. Talking about competition and the availability of information out there I think it is actually quite rich for the Government to come up with a bill trying to prove that there is actually a need for improving competition. As Jonathan Young said in the last five years there have been independent gas stations that have opened up—actually a total of 76 I think he said. These are not big companies like BP or Shell or Z; these are actually independent ones like Allied Petroleum. Allied opened 16 new South Island gas stations and 13 in the North Island Nelson Petroleum Distributors actually opened 21 in the South Island Gull opened 12 on the North Island and Waitomo opened 14 new ones. Talking about Waitomo I have to say that some people really really love the fact that they actually provide competition and they actually only use independent gas stations not the big ones. Having said that I have to say that competition is something we actually need. As competition intensifies pricing will react accordingly. I think we actually support competition. But I think the biggest thing that this Government could potentially do to reduce the cost for consumers—the mums and dads of New Zealand who actually look at prices and how expensive petrol is for that everyday use. Whether they take their children to sports on Saturdays or take the children to school or go grocery shopping petrol is one of the high prices that people actually pay. If they actually wanted to reduce the costs for mums and dads of New Zealand the first thing they should possibly do is axe the tax—axe the tax. I thought the tax in the Auckland regional fuel tax was perhaps to support the light rail that they just decided to can.Hon Member: The what?MELISSA LEE: The light rail that they've decided to can. The whole idea about taxing Aucklanders more for fuel was to deliver the apparent light rail that was going to go from Dominion Road all the way to the airport which is never going to happen because this Government realised that they haven't done the work they can't deliver on their promises. Phil Twyford like KiwiBuild cannot deliver light rail. So what they should really do is axe the tax because the whole thing was about delivering for Aucklanders in terms of light rail.Earlier the Minister the Hon Kris Faafoi talked about the terminal gate price. The terminal gate pricing regime requires wholesale suppliers to post the price at which they will sell fuel to wholesale customers at storage terminals on a spot-price basis. The terminal gate price is quoted for fuel only and includes no added services such as delivery. The sector is actually widely supportive of the introduction of terminal gate pricing.But talking about the sector I just want to raise this whole issue about the process this bill is taking. I guess we should be grateful that this bill—unlike the previous bill that was spoken about that people debated in this House the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill (No 2) which never got a select committee process—will actually get a three-week select committee process. I suppose we should be grateful for that. I wish the select committee chair and the members of that committee best of luck. This bill comes to us as a result of the Commerce Commission taking eight months to review the industry providing a 400-page report that covered a whole wide range of issues which literally—I don't know what it is about this Government—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): I'm really sorry to interrupt the member. The House is only sitting till 10 p.m. tonight unfortunately.Debate interrupted.Sitting suspended from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. (Wednesday)