Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Kia ora Mr Speaker. That was a little bit of a surprise to stand up and take the National Party call. DEPUTY SPEAKER: No it's a Labour call. RACHEL BOYACK: I want to congratulate Mr Brown on putting a bill forward that was pulled out but it appears that maybe not many of his colleagues are keen to stand up and support him on this bill. So I'm looking forward to hearing from some more National Party MPs tonight on why this bill is just so necessary.Look as my colleague Terisa Ngobi pointed out this bill is a bill that is a solution looking for a problem. I do accept—Simeon Brown: But there is a problem—there is a problem.RACHEL BOYACK: —that in Auckland there are challenges Mr Brown. Interestingly he may like to know that I lived in Auckland for eight years and didn't own a car and managed to actually navigate my way around Auckland as a student and a worker using buses trains and a lot of walking. It wasn't actually until I moved back into the heartland of the provinces that I started using a vehicle. So I would suggest that this is a bill that is designed around a challenge in Auckland that I acknowledge is a genuine challenge but actually across the rest of the country it's a bill that's probably not needed. I might just talk a little bit about why in my electorate of Nelson I don't think this bill is actually needed. In the last few years we've had our share of natural disasters. We've had fires we've had cyclones we've had rain events. We've had significant incidents actually where people have had trees come down over their vehicles. Some of our journalists people like Tracy Neal when she was working for Radio New Zealand have actually been put in very very dangerous situations. But this is not an issue that has then come up saying Oh and we had a problem in our community that vehicles who were going to deal with power and gas outages couldn't get through." It's not something that's been raised in a media story. It's not something that's been raised with me—Chris Bishop: That's right.RACHEL BOYACK: —because Mr Bishop it hasn't been an issue that we've had to deal with actually. The issue has been one that appears in Auckland and I would like to suggest that actually rather than coming up and using the House's time on unnecessary legislation there's some alternatives that we could look at and I'll get to that soon. We've talked a bit tonight about unintended consequences and one of the unintended consequences that hasn't been raised but that I would be concerned about is we already have issues globally about people not actually pulling over for emergency vehicles. It's actually one of my biggest bugbears. When I'm driving through the city and I see a police car or an ambulance come through and I see people not pull over it really irritates me that people are not actually following the rules to ensure that people can be looked after safely. Chris Bishop: Do you drive down Rocks Road?RACHEL BOYACK: Ha ha! We can talk about Rocks Road another time Mr Bishop but you guys never funded it. In nine years you didn't did you? No no no. Chris Bishop: That's true but how are you going?RACHEL BOYACK: Oh look Mr Bishop I'm feeling pretty confident about Rocks Road but back on to this bill—back on to this bill. One of the challenges as the Green Party member Teanau Tuiono who has now left has talked about is if we add more complexity to the system—more coloured lights more vehicles that people need to pull over for—it creates confusion and I think it would have an unintended consequence of making the system far more complex for drivers and making them actually less likely to pull over for those vehicles. I think there are two important solutions here specifically for Auckland. One is that I think the members opposite need to embrace new forms of transport such as improving our bus system improving our train system improving walking and cycling options—actually dealing with the congestion because if you put more cars on the road you get more congestion. So actually committing to reducing congestion talking to your fellow Auckland MPs talking to Waka Kotahi talking to Auckland Transport talking to other MPs to actually come up with an Auckland solution—that is actually what needs to happen here rather than wasting the House's time with unnecessary legislation. Thank you Mr Speaker."