Henare Tau: Road User Charges Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
Henare Tau: Road User Charges Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 If there is any doubt in people’s minds about why Labour lost the last election Sue Moroney’s speech will answer it. We heard from that previous speaker that she does not know anything at all about the Road User Charges Amendment Bill. She never once talked about what is in the bill. 
Dr Ashraf Choudhary 
: Well you tell us. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I will tell the member who has just arrived from his afternoon sleep. 
David Garrett 
: Who’s that fella? What’s his name? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I do not know; he has not been here very long. The bill is about electric cars electric motor vehicles being exempt from the road-user charges until 2013. 
Dr Ashraf Choudhary 
: What about the hybrids? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: What about hybrids? That member is a hybrid; we are not here to discuss his whakapapa. I want to concentrate on the previous speaker Sue Moroney. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: You don’t. Surely you don’t. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Well I do not want to but I have to. 
The initial work on the bill was done by Labour. OK we will get that sorted out. Labour was here in Government for 9 years but it got nowhere. In 9 years Labour did all that work but in 8 months the National Government has been able to take the bill not only from its first reading but to the select committee and back into the House for its second reading Committee stage and now third reading. It has taken only 8 months. Just imagine what we can do if we are here for 9 years. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: 9 long years. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Nine long years. 
Sue Moroney talked about roads but said we have to concentrate on rail. She said that the Minister had not done anything about roads and that the National Government has not done anything about roads. We now have seven roads of significance roads that will lead to the economic development of various areas. Sue Moroney also talked about her massive blog that she has been blogging about. She told us that she has had a huge response. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: Three people. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Some of my colleagues on this side of the House have been a bit disingenuous and said that only three people had commented on her blog. But I have to tell members that it is 10—only 10. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: 71. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: 71. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Tell the truth. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Tell the truth. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I just looked at it; it was 71. Tell the truth. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten people. 
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: We do not have to have a commentary from each side. The point has been made. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ten people blogged seven times and they changed their names. One of them was called Flower. Oh I am having fun. Seven people commented 10 times they changed their names and one of them is called Flower. What do we expect from a person with the name of Flower? 
This bill is all about the future. It is all about making a statement about electricity and about the new technology we can look forward to. But members opposite want us to go backwards and put freight on trains that do not even exist. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: Back to the future. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Those members should tell that to the people of the north and the far north; we do not have any rails let alone trains. So what that member is talking about is a load of old hogwash. It is about going back to the future for the Labour Party. But National is concerned with the future and with enhancing new technology.