Roche Denise: Accident Compensation (Financial Responsibility and Transparency) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoche Denise: Accident Compensation (Financial Responsibility and Transparency) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 17 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6813. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DENISE ROCHE (Green): I rise to take a short call for the Greens on the Accident Compensation (Financial Responsibility and Transparency) Amendment Bill. The details of the bill have been discussed in depth by previous speakers and particularly by my colleague Kevin Hague so I will keep my comments fairly general and quite short I hope. We support this bill. It is not as far-reaching or certainly as reformative as we would like it to be but the objectives around improving the framework for determining how ACC’s levied accounts are funded and making it clearer and more transparent are obviously something that we do support. We support the idea of more stable levies and we also support the idea that the residual levy is not over-collected or under-collected.Although we acknowledge that it is a technical bill we do sort of think that it could have gone a bit further. The Greens actually support a pay-as-you-go system of funding accident compensation and what we are concerned about is that the current system that the Government has set up and has been tinkering with essentially takes it towards an insurance company model. ACC is more than that. There are of course the social good aspects to it and when it was set up in 1974 after the Woodhouse report the social good aspects were certainly a key part of this world record - breaking system that we introduced here.One of the aspects of the social good part of the ACC is around injury prevention and using the levies to fund that. It is kind of tricky for ACC I guess to concentrate on funding accident prevention when at the moment we have a Government that is deliberately introducing legislation that cuts across that and creates more accidents in lots of ways. I am referring to the relaxing of alcohol control laws and Mr Seymour may want to comment on that. We know that when alcohol is freely available and when attitudes around alcohol are relaxed there is a huge increase in accidents and assaults and a huge number of claims are made. Another example of how this Government has introduced legislation that cuts across the injury prevention area is the recent introduction of its health and safety reform legislation which has the potential to undermine our workplace health and safety by basically undermining a culture of safety by essentially weakening what we had previously in our health and safety laws. When you consider that a couple of years ago—last time I looked—we had something like 200000 work-related injuries it is really essential that ACC should be funding injury prevention programmes.So the Greens support risk-based levies to encourage injury prevention where that is appropriate. We believe that ACC should be funded through a mix of levies on employers employees motor vehicle users and the like but we certainly believe that it must be people-centred and that the financial bottom line is not the most important aspect of this. Certainly we need to cover the basics but actually we need a system that puts people at its heart and where their rehabilitation and their care are taken into account as primary purposes. Thank you.