McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to say a few words on the Public Finance (Fines Collection Costs—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill. Saying it took longer than what it actually does. It's a trivial little bill that is a waste of our time.But before I start may I extend my birthday wishes to Mike Butterick. It's an interesting fact that because we're in urgency the day doesn't actually end does it? So some people have birthdays some people have birth weeks or birth months but I reckon Mike's birthday is going to take about 5½ days maybe six so I think we've got plenty of time—to congratulate him on his birthday best of week. Also while I'm at it Mr Brewer—if I was him I'm not entirely sure I'd be mentioning polls at the moment. I don't think that that's necessarily a good way to make a contribution but nevertheless I digress.This bill raises two things for me and only two things. I think as has been said it's the second bill up in urgency. It's like a jewel in the crown isn't it? You know the No. 2 banner comes up and what have we got? The Public Finance (Fines Collection Costs—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill which is essentially just a parking ticket tax—that is all it is.I mean we remember don't we? It's not that long ago that both Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon were talking a really big talk about what turned out to be a pretty disappointing tax policy. Then they talked up this really big talk and actually they both staked their jobs on it and their reputations on what turned out to be pretty facile tax cuts. And here we are the second bill up under urgency—which is going to take many many days and it could have been introduced on Monday morning rather than Friday—talking about parking ticket tax.Now as has been said this bill was a bit shoddy and it doesn't really have much of a rationale behind it. The cost recovery impact statement (CRIS) as has been pointed out said that it took into account private sector fees. That's all right—private sector fees. You might look at some sort of comparison of what the private sector's doing but it's completely irrelevant. This is about cost recovery and so even the CRIS couldn't quite get to grips with what this bill is about. Then it talked about cost pressures but it doesn't actually provide any information or any evidence whatsoever that the current 10 percent charge is failing to recover those costs.But the thing that really gets me is that it's really bad regulation. At a time when we've heard huge amounts of hubris where we've got David Seymour spending up a storm setting up his Ministry for Regulation his citadel of all things good regulation we've got this shoddy little bill coming through which is clearly just bad regulation. As colleagues have previously said this is all about choices. There was a choice to put this up second on the order. There was a choice to show and use this House's time to do things that actually mattered just like there was a choice and the ability to not make so many broken promises as we've heard over the last couple of days. So in all seriousness let's just think about that for a minute. For pensioners that are sitting at home thinking to themselves they were going to get some relief which is such an oxymoron they're getting $4.50 a week and that's per couple. Then you've got minimum wage earners who are earning 50c more an hour. These are the choices that were made. This is the bill we're debating instead of things that are more serious. If you want to debate things that are serious why are we here talking about parking ticket taxes?But the one that really kicks it for me is the fact that patients were led to believe over a period of time that 13 new cancer treatments were going to be available to them. These are real people with real lives with real diseases with real hopes who were led to believe that this was going to happen and yesterday during this Budget process that was ripped out from underneath them and that is deplorable. But never mind here we are again talking about parking ticket taxes something that is completely irrelevant. It is a waste of our time. We're going to be here for hours looking over something that is the Government's choice and I think it's a complete waste of time. We do not commend it to the House. I look forward to hearing many many more contributions from that side of the House about how they can justify not just this but all of their actions over the last couple of days.