Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): It is a pleasure to rise in support of my colleague Jami-Lee Ross' bill the Land Transport (Vehicle User Safety) Amendment Bill. Before I actually get on with the substance of the bill—in support of it—I just want to comment on Mr O'Rourke's contribution. I do know that Mr O'Rourke is an owner of classic cars and I know that he loves driving them. I sort of wonder what his reaction would be to members of the public who are in fact windscreen washers who actually put unsavoury products in those bottles to wash his car when he is driving down the street. Obviously he is not a small man and maybe he did actually comment that some women might get intimidated. I do know of men who have actually been intimidated by these window washers and the unsavoury language that was thrown about and when they did not pay the money that they were apparently meant to pay for the window washing the window washers in fact threw things at them.I mean I personally am not a small woman—I am not a scaredy-cat type of person—but I have rocked up to the intersection where these kids are. I feel really uncomfortable winding down the window to say no because they are often spitting throwing things and yelling abuse at people who will not pay and refuse to have the windows washed.I think that in the major cities usually where we have a repeated problem of this illegal activity it is sometimes actually dangerous. I think it was Mr Seymour who talked about the abuse at Greenlane corner as well. It is happening not just at Greenlane or in Auckland; I know it is happening up and down the country. At the moment councils across New Zealand are not able to deal with this issue because they feel that the by-laws they have are toothless to actually stop these people from doing what they are doing. As Mr Seymour said often when they come to do the window washing it is not just the window-washing activity that they partake in; often there are actually other illegal activities that happen when they are gathered. Across the country as I said police and councils are backing this reform in this area. They are backing the great work of Mr Ross. They are backing the rights of citizens and locals to all feel safe in their communities.I remember that a long time ago in Auckland at Spaghetti Junction there used to be a man who twirled his squeegee. He was really talented at it. I think he was one of the most popular and famous window washers—right—but he was not abusive and he did not get in the way of traffic when a hive of activity was happening during peak-hour traffic. But now young kids have actually seen the light. They gather at these busy intersections and often when traffic lights change they do not move out of the way. They get in the way of traffic and accidents sometimes do in fact happen. I am sure that some of these children have also been hurt. So they should not be there. They are creating trouble right around New Zealand.Some local newspapers in our community and community message boards such as Neighbourly have actually talked about this issue. There is a problem here that we can actually fix with this member's bill. It is a local issue and it has become part of the country's issue. I believe that this bill goes a long way towards actually helping to solve the problem. I commend the member Jami-Lee Ross for thinking of putting this up as his member's bill and I look forward to perhaps hearing submissions in our select committee process. I commend the bill to the House.