Luxton CameronCAMERON LUXTON (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I endorse a few of the things—to the surprise of this House potentially—of the previous speaker the Hon Julie Anne Genter. I do agree that our road budget is not being a user pays and is too highly subsidised hence why I was quite glad to be in the Transport and Infrastructure Committee hearing about a discount that reflects real use and costs contributing to the national road transport fund based on what the actual damage of a car vehicle truck type of vehicle type of fuel is.Now the thing is we've heard that it was a rushed select committee and it was a decent hearing of the evidence I thought. We heard from over 500 submitters and as the previous speaker has said a few industry organisations as well. I must say I heard a lot of support for paying our way. Many people who submitted said that they feel that it is time; that this has been a well-signalled transition; that we are going to have two months which is long enough for people to get their head around it; and that 2 percent has been well matched. Out of the 50 cars on the road 49 also feel like it is time to have the last one in 50 pay their way.The 50 percent discount people should know is based on the road-user charge (RUC) of $76 per 1000 kilometres. Now a 30 percent discount was seen by some submitters as not fair but that is because in my understanding of the evidence they were measuring that against the fuel excise duty paid by petrol vehicles. Now we could have a discussion but I don't think we will right today about whether everybody is paying their fair share for the road and if there is a concern about polluters paying their way perhaps the Green member who spoke before would like to address that everybody using the road pays their way. I think freight transport has been paying a fair share. The damage that they cause means that they are paying a higher rate for their RUC unlike under-3.5 tonne vehicles which pay between $1 and $3 out of their road-user contribution towards roads damage.Hon Damien O'Connor: Rubbish.CAMERON LUXTON: Well I hear rubbish" from the member Damien O'Connor but I must say that wasn't the information despite his misgivings of the officials that the select committee heard.Now I also think Damien O'Connor you did have a good point in your speech before: the admin fee needs to be looked at. There are many ways in which we could do this and going forward I hope that the Government makes steps towards having a broad-based and fair coverage for every road user through a RUC scheme. Because the way it is being measured currently off the fuel excise duty although it was good for its time is well past its use by date and it needs to be reviewed. As a resident of the great city of Tauranga—Tom Rutherford: Great place.CAMERON LUXTON: It is a great place Tom Rutherford. We have two of the three toll roads in New Zealand.Tom Rutherford: Toll-ranga!CAMERON LUXTON: Tauranga—yeah. I understand that many people around the country haven't had the experience of using a toll road in their driving life. Well I can confirm as a resident who uses one or two regularly that it is a seamless experience on a beautiful road especially the Eastern Link and when it comes to paying for our use of that road we get an automatic bill. If you sign up as most residents do to the tolling portal on the internet you get an invoice at the end of the month and it's paid very seamlessly. I realise that a large part of the cost that comes about through the tolling scheme is through recouping from people who have missed their payment but I think the bulk of New Zealand as the bulk of the people of Tauranga are currently registered will understand how easy it is to actually pay a user-pays fee.I commend this bill to the House despite the need for having more money from the users of a service paying for it. I think that it is about time that every user of the road pays their fair way. I thank you Mr Speaker."