Court Simon; Brown SimeonSIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you Madam Chair. Minister just with reference to your previous answers that the cost to administer would be about $2.15 million has any consideration been given during the development of this proposal—because I understand it's happened very quickly—to what more fundamental reforms of the road-user charging (RUC) system could be undertaken to simplify it because it's clearly become far more administratively complex to manage over the years since it was first introduced in the 1990s. So is there any work being undertaken or any lessons that have been learnt any insights gathered from this rapid development of a policy which will help inform the agency as to potentially how to reform the RUC system going forward?SIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Madam Chair and I just want to continue with one last line of questioning around the road-user charges (RUC) assessments. The Minister of Transport has mentioned a common-sense approach being taken. How will the New Zealand Transport Agency be actually determining which people who purchase RUC licences—will they have a number of triggers inbuilt into the systems to actually check that they are being reasonable in their purchases? I guess my question is: of that $2.1 million I think that was referred to by the Minister as to the cost what percentage of that cost is actually going to be undertaken in terms of this assessment process with people with clipboards making determinations of whether someone is purchasing too much too little or enough? What is reasonable" because I think we would all want to say—yes—we don't want people necessarily going in abusing a reduction but also we also want to ensure that we're not overburdening people with regulation and people with clipboards.On that point I guess the question which we started with—which the Minister hasn't answered—is around: is the Government intending to extend this? Because if they are intending to extend this by another three months well then the issue of actually going in there and determining whether someone is purchasing a reasonable number of kilometres or not is actually less important because the Government may wish to extend this temporary reduction for some time. So actually what is unreasonable under a three-month period may not be unreasonable under a six-month period and therefore a lot of bureaucratic time gets spent only then to have to potentially do it again. So I think some clarity from the Government could actually not only be helpful to consumers but also be helpful in terms of just reducing some of that bureaucratic stuff which is going to take place and potentially even save some money for the taxpayer. I look forward to the Minister's answers.Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister of Transport): In answer to Mr Court's question: no the broader future of the road-user charges (RUC) system is not being considered as part of this work. But the Ministry of Transport does have a broader policy programme in place around the broader future of the transport revenue system including RUC.In answer to Mr Brown's question about what the triggers will be for Waka Kotahi to conduct assessments: that will effectively be managed by them operationally and won't be set by this legislation. In terms of the cost of the assessment within the $2.15 million: I don't have precise information about that but I understand it's probably a minority of that and I have answered the question already about whether the Government intends to extend the three months. The legislation as is put down is for three months. The Government has not at this point considered extending it further."