Martin Tracey: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMartin Tracey: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10351. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Chairman. I rise to speak predominantly around new section 79AC in clause 4 of the Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill. I will just pick up on a couple of points that have been made by other speakers predominantly the Minister in the chair the Minister of Transport.The Hon Gerry Brownlee said that this measure was a case of being upfront—upfront—with the taxpayers of New Zealand. All I can say is that for the people of the Rodney Local Board there is nothing upfront about this at all. I would also just point out to Mr Twyford that there is no better way to annoy 54000 voters than to continue to call what is actually an important route into their area a “Holiday Highway”. That road is not going to be paid for by this petrol tax. This petrol tax—3.45c to be exact—is not a 3c increase in the first year and then the next year and the next year. When you put GST on top of it it is 3.45c and that adds up to 10.35c at the end of 2015. All our communities can hope for is that the supermarkets keep owning something to do with the petrol stations because we will need to use our petrol vouchers that we get when we go to New World to be able to afford to get to New World the next time.The interesting thing about the road of national significance which is the extension of the Northern Gateway is this and as much as I admire Ms Genter—and I would like to ask the 52 percent of the voters in New Zealand to have a look at the first comment the condescending chauvinistic comment that Mr Sabin made with regard to Ms Genter’s speech at the second reading—and with all due respect to Ms Genter’s qualifications and her abilities in this area she does not seem to understand that the extension of the Northern Gateway is the only way that the people of the Rodney Local Board area will ever see public transport. It is the only way that there will be any electrified cars going into the Rodney Local Board area. The Wellsford Library has just had electric charge points put in there.But for Mr Brownlee to suggest that this is upfront when you are talking to the people of the Rodney Local Board area is erroneous. This 3c rise for the next 3 years is actually just increasing—[Interruption]The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order! I am sorry to interrupt the member. These exchanges across the cross benches make it very difficult to be able to hear the speaker so please cut them down.TRACEY MARTIN: Kia ora Mr Chair. So this 3c rise every year for the next 3 years is actually just the fourth way that the people of Rodney are going to have to payfor any road they get to get them any public transport. It is the fourth way that the people of Rodney are going to be able to transport their young people out to tertiary institutions. It is the fourth way that the people of Rodney are going to be able to actually live and work in the same place. There seems to be some misunderstanding here. The Rodney Local Board area is in Auckland. So when parties continue to talk about investing in Auckland infrastructure do not forget that Rodney was dragged into it. This is part of that infrastructure improvement. There are 20000 more houses going to be placed inside the Warkworth rural-urban boundary in the next 30 years and those people need to access employment access tertiary education and get themselves out of there. But this 3c will not go anywhere near it. These people already pay an extra $20 a week to get on to what is the Pūhoi to Ōrewa Northern Gateway.Let us get real—let us get real—I say to the Minister in the chair. The largest argument about not having an on and off-ramp at Pūhoi was the fact that it broke the tolling. So there will be another toll on the Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway. My community will pay not only through their normal taxes not only through the current taxes on petrol not only through the toll that they currently pay—David Bennett: Not your community; you’re one of those member-less MPs.TRACEY MARTIN: —at an extra $20 a week to get to work Mr Bennett they will now pay an extra 10.35c by 2015. So this is my community. We will vote against—David Bennett: No it’s not.TRACEY MARTIN: Yes it is Mr Bennett. And you have three members of Parliament—The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): Order!TRACEY MARTIN: I beg your pardon. There are three members of Parliament sitting in this House who represent these people who are going to vote for them to have this fourth increase in respect of the way that they can get on to their State roads. Their roads are not sealed. Their sealing has been pulled from other areas and there is no way that this 3c will do anything—there is no obligation here. The Government has made no commitment to actually increasing the sealing subsidy towards Auckland so that some of our rural roads can be sealed. Mr Sabin might like to go and talk to his Cabinet about that.This 3c will do nothing. It will merely go into a general pool. It will do nothing.