Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Madam Speaker. I heard the last speaker Shanan Halbert mention that he would like to commend Minister Wood for progressing this bill. One of the most frustrating things that happen in Parliament is the length of time that some pieces of legislation take to get passed. And yes while Minister Wood hasn't been in the chair the whole length of time of this piece of legislation it's really quite disturbing to our team how long this has actually taken.It's a good bill. It establishes a new random roadside oral fluid testing regime because actually back in 2014 18 people were killed in crashes where the driver had consumed drugs other than alcohol before driving. By 2018 the number of people killed in crashes where the driver had consumed drugs other than alcohol before driving had risen to 95—a substantial rise. Simeon Brown: What did the Government do?BARBARA KURIGER: We are now in 2022 and instead of the Government progressing this bill—Mr Brown rightly pointing out as the National Party we're actually wanting this bill to progress—what the Government did instead—and reminder we're now in 2022. What this Government did in 2020 was they decided that they were going to push through a referendum at the election. Let's push through a referendum. Let's talk about cannabis. Let's have a conversation about drugs before we've actually solved the problem of drug-driving. If that's driving in reverse I think they should own up to it.Simeon Brown: What were they smoking?BARBARA KURIGER: Oh look I absolutely wonder Mr Brown. To be honest this is a Government who are not making much progress in a lot of things. They seem to rush through really really bad legislation and then they seem to take their time running legislation through the House where actually it's got support. I think it's largely got support. We're certainly supporting it.Simeon Brown: Except for the Greens.BARBARA KURIGER: Yeah well we wonder about that. There might be another abstention before we get to the end of the afternoon who knows. But certainly the National Party's supporting this piece of legislation because it's very important.At this point in time I would like to make mention of a family from south Taranaki who in 2018 lost a number of members and friends and that is the Porteous family. Some of you will remember that there was an extremely bad accident and this was caused under these circumstances by a driver where that family and their friends were taken out and it was a terrible tragedy. It was a real tragedy because there were actually children of the driver in that accident who were also killed. So it was a really really sad time for people not only in that family but right across with all their friends and family. So I think it's really appalling that that was in 2018 and now it's 2022 and going through everything we've been through and the Government's finally decided to bring this out at this point in time and push it forwardWe're really pleased to support it because road safety's really important to us. While we're on the subject of road safety Minister Wood while you're here we don't see much progressing in the realms of road safety. So while we've got this drug-driving and we've still got the problem in some cases of alcohol we now have our rural roads where it's suggested that they're going to be slowed down to 80 kilometres an hour and I just believe it's just a vague excuse for not fixing the roads a terrible excuse for not fixing the roads. I don't know if the Minister's taken time to look at the productivity figure of the businesses and the trucks that use that road to get our goods and services across the country to get our products to market—all the good people that are keeping this country going. Twenty kilometres an hour on that road is a disgraceful effort to keeping the productivity of this country up and running and it's something that the National Party is absolutely appalled about in terms of slowing the road speed down. It's just the last thing we should be doing and it's just an excuse.So really when it comes to transport the Government's done nothing isn't really contemplating on doing anything not even cycle lanes over harbour bridges. It seems to have completely slowed down but we do commend this bill to the House. This is one good thing in a wide portfolio. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call Arena Williams to make a remote contribution—five minutes.