Pugh MaureenMAUREEN PUGH (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I too stand in support of the Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill today in its first reading.Now I hadn't had anything to do with regulatory systems bills before so the first thing I did was go away and find out a little bit about them. I did find that regulatory systems bills are a way of ensuring that the regulatory systems that we have in the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment remain efficient and effective but also keep up with the modern world and do not become outdated and of course that would reduce the chances of system failure within the organisation. Regulatory systems bills deal with complex amendments as long as they don't involve significant law changes. That is in contrast to the statutes amendment bills that we often deal to which are usually just minor tweaks within bills and don't have any significant policy changes related to them. But the best of all of these regulatory systems bills is that they do have as one of their objectives to create efficiencies and that in turn relieves the burden of cost when we are dealing with some of these agencies and trying to do business with them. As my colleague Tim van de Molen mentioned before the National Party supports anything that does eliminate some of that regulatory burden. And as a consequence the National Party is supporting this bill.Now the regulatory system as we know it here in New Zealand does encompass three main modes of transport: there is land transport maritime transport and aviation and we have authorities that administer all three modes of those transport models. But it was clear in the departmental disclosure statement that some of the powers within the Land Transport Act and the Maritime Transport Act and the Civil Aviation Act needed to be modernised and this bill sets about to do exactly that. One of the discrepancies that was found was around the Transport Agency the NZTA board. While with the aviation and the maritime boards the responsibilities and powers resided with the individual board members with NZTA that resided with the board as an entity and this bill will set about to make an alteration to that so that there is consistency among those three entities.Now the regulatory function is a very important role for NZTA because it is a huge ticket item here in this country and it really is a matter of concern that over the past two years we have seen very little investment in the roading network in this country so I am very relieved to see some of that starting to roll out just as we head into a campaign. But the scope of course includes the safety and the operations and revenue of NZTA. But one of the things that I did note in the reading material was that in order for some of the entities that do business with the NZTA it means that for the likes of say issuing certificates of fitness or warrants of fitness or even driver's licences we could actually see the bar being lifted for those entities which would in turn mean that their costs are going to increase. So it would be a sad day if we saw that the regulatory functions are going to be streamlined to save cost but on the other hand we're going to see increased cost and some of the compliance that will in turn be passed on to the users of those activities.We've got a raft of other Acts that are impacted in secondary legislation by this bill—what are we calling it?—the Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill. We hope that it will have a smooth passage through the select committee and I commend it to the House.