Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. I love the enthusiasm of new Ministers and I can tell you there's a fair bit of enthusiasm over here looking forward to 2023. But I always like to give new Ministers the benefit of the doubt and some hope that some things will happen. So we know that this bill the Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill was delayed. When I looked at the list of people who were on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee some of them are still in Parliament and some of them are no longer members. But I do want to make note of the good local MP for the Chatham Islands who managed to get the Chatham Islands Council as a regional council for the purposes of the Maritime Transport Act 1994—well done. So look these transport instruments are really a good move. As the Minister said it will enable the Minister to allocate the maintenance of detailed requirements within legislation to a specified individual" and the introduction of this "will enable quick response". We haven't seen too many quick responses when it comes to transport over the last three years so there's no pressure Minister but we're looking forward to some quick responses and seeing some quick reaction out there when it comes to roading.It's good to note on here that modernising the existing exemptions will line up with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and that's always a good thing to make sure that everything's aligned. What I would note and it was noted in here and the Minister mentioned it is that there were nine submissions and one submitter. But I do notice in here that the Bus and Coach Association supports the proposals within the bill but just holds concerns about the "Cumulative effect of multiple instruments on the reliability of primary and secondary legislation"—so just some concern around leaving people once again at the mercy of the inefficient and time-intensive processes such as that often with rules. So just a note to the Minister to try and make some of this stuff—when you're delegating tell them not to make it too cumbersome so that people can keep up with it and do it really quickly. Another concern around resourcing was the "Lack of capacity in under-pressure MOT and NZTA teams". So that was brought up by the submitters.We want to see more progress on building more roads. The Government got distracted on light rail and three years in we don't know how much it will cost when construction will start where it will go and when it will be completed. Labour also cancelled—or postponed—15 roads when they came into Government so they could build light rail and now they've restarted a few but three years has been lost on these projects. New Zealand could be in an infrastructure building boom right when we need one but instead these projects are still in the design phase. So the current Minister's Government has had the effect of slowing everything down. So again no pressure Minister. This is a promise in this piece of legislation to speed things up. Look we have Aucklanders paying a fuel tax for light rail that we don't believe will ever arrive. Again no pressure. The Let's Get Wellington Moving at least the Minister's actually made some comments—I've heard the Minister's actually made some comments on the Let's Get Wellington Moving because it's been another transport failure of this Government. So well done to the Minister on increasing his expectations around getting Wellington moving again.We all know that this Government is struggling to get people out of the city and into the regions where the jobs are and we've heard that from the primary industries ministry this morning. So you know the roads do flow actually out in rural communities. They have a got a few safety aspects that we require the Government to be looking at. The Hon Simon Bridges put $600 million into road safety on rural roads and did an absolute wonderful job but it seems to have come to a standstill and it seems to have stalled. So look if we can't get Auckland and Wellington moving we can certainly encourage people to come out to the regions but please just make sure that the safety of our rural and regional roads is up to scratch. Thank you."