Uffindell Sam; Rurawhe AdrianSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's good to rise and talk on this bill. Just to run a bit about it I mean we've already discussed some of the elements of it but one of the main tenets is that we're moving towards more of a central planning model of control. A couple of key focuses in this bill are around mode shift—contentious—and also reducing emissions—not so contentious there. I think that's something that we all want to achieve.But it also has another goal in there of reducing the instances of single occupancy vehicles which would mean I would be in trouble because quite often I am the sole and single occupant. And as much as I talk to myself there's only me and me only and occasionally my podcast or a child in the back giving me a bit of stick. It will also allow councils to run in-house provisions of public transport services. And one of the key things to note there is that it doesn't necessitate contracts be used which I find reasonably alarming. I know my colleague the very insightful Matthew Doocey down there in the front row alluded to that during his good 10 minutes earlier today. It also allows for different asset ownership arrangements to allow regional councils to directly own public transport assets. We did hear a bit of criticism from the Green Party earlier today about private companies owning some of these assets because they would want to be putting a profit on top of it and I'm not sure I'd necessarily agree that that would be more expensive than a heavy bureaucratic public system which doesn't have contracts and doesn't have competition and without contracts doesn't necessarily have that oversight or operational requirements or performance measures that must be met. So all things to take into account when considering the virtues of public v private or a mixture of the both. Key messages my party wants to get across and I want to get across as the speaker is that we oppose this bill. That's already been made clear by the earlier speakers on our side of the House. We believe New Zealanders are fundamentally better off when public transport services are provided under free fair open transparent tenders and I think most people reasonable people would agree that that is how most manners of contracts should be conducted. You want them to be competitive you want people to lay out on the table what they intend to deliver and then it also enables the person putting forward those contracts or paying for them to be able to hold the provider to account. We also want flexibility. You know we understand that providing greater flexibility is what we want to see and enabling the shift to an in-house delivery model is completely different. It stands to limit competition. We have a lot of talk around you know single occupancy vehicles and I mean yeah cool if you live in Wellington or Auckland there's a bit more of an ability to ride share or Uber or look at other alternatives there. I mean the reality is for a few of us who have stood up and—I mean on my side of the House we've got Hamilton West. We've got someone from Pukekohe. You know regional areas Pukekohe—I mean I live rurally myself.Angie Warren-Clark: What about our ferry then eh?SAM UFFINDELL: What about our ferry? Yeah indeed Angie wouldn't that be good? It's not that realistic to say that people should be able to go outside in single occupancy vehicles when they don't live in inner city Auckland or Wellington. I lived in big cities before returning to New Zealand and I didn't need to own a car. I was on the mass rapid transit or the train or whatever you want to call it in the different places every day and I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was incredibly wonderful to be able to get around that way. The reality is that most places in New Zealand aren't like that and they won't be like that. But there is good news. There is good news for those members on the other side of the House because we want to lower emissions and we have a plan to lower emissions and cars are moving towards being electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or hybrid. I know my friend Tama has a plug-in hybrid. We drove in the mighty Haval H6 down the island and we really didn't use much gasoline. The good thing is that more and more cars by the day are moving to being electric and they will under a National Government be run off of renewable energy more so than over that side of the House. I think one of the other important things to remember is that—I mean it's already been alluded to by Matthew Doocey—the buses that people need to get around and they will be electric buses do run on roads. We need to make sure we're funding them. Fundamentally I oppose this bill—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.