Hudson BrettBRETT HUDSON (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to speak on the Land Transport (Wheel Clamping) Amendment Bill after that great 10 minutes from the Minister—a fine stellar performance. Now this is not—and I'll make an allusion shortly to a previous speaker just in passing—some pot-belly thriller. We're not going to keep you in suspense to the end. We are going to support this bill in this its third reading.But I just want to note in passing having heard that speech from the Minister that I've sat here listening to another member talk a whole list of fiction crime writers in a speech that I couldn't make head or tail of but I do think the House has found its very own Inspector Clouseau.But on to this bill—on to this particular matter. I have a bouquet and brickbat for the Government. The first bouquet to the Minister: unlike his colleagues this Minister decided to do something and then just went ahead and did it. If some of his colleagues were of a similar mind we might have actually passed some legislation in this House that wasn't the work of the previous Government.But that comes on the other side of that coin with the other side of this—the brickbat. See what would normally happen—what would normally happen—in the passage of legislation: first the Government would have an idea—unless it's this Government in which case they'll either outsource the idea to a working group or take the idea from the Opposition. But a Government would have an idea. They would then set officials to do a bit of work to get some facts and some evidence to support some policy that they'd then turn into legislation and bring to the House. Well we had a gut feel from Mr Faafoi. Minister Faafoi said I need to do this. I want to do this. Don't worry about facts and evidence. We're not an evidence-led Government; we're just going to take some action."Well at least they've taken some action.Hon Kris Faafoi: Well vote against it then.BRETT HUDSON: In actual fact—we're going to return to the bouquet Mr Faafoi—we're actually going to support this action. The fact that they didn't bother with the evidence is material but we'll let it fly this time.We have all heard stories in our electorates—all of us—of people that have been treated terribly by people who have the authority to clamp a vehicle—whether it's clamping moments after a car is parked illegally or improperly or charging enormous amounts of money to get that car unclamped. The desire to do something was clearly there across both sides of the House. Regrettably because the Government didn't do it the Transport and Infrastructure Committee had to do the work of actually working through the policy—and I commend them; they did a very very good job.I'm not going to take a long time but I just want to mention one other thing in passing because—looking across at Ms Russell—we are working on another bill in the select committee where although it places enormous burden on other people the ones that are exempt are Government entities. And this is the same case in this bill.So while we are limiting the ability to charge for clamping to $100 in this bill the ones that get away with it are either central enforcement agencies or more likely territorial authorities. So if you're the Government or city hall you can charge what you like but the rest of you are limited to $100.But none the less aside from that let us not forget the fact that there are too many instances of people being treated appallingly in terms of wheel-clamping activities. It is right to take action and notwithstanding any criticism that could be levelled about that policy work it is still a good thing that for New Zealanders and those who can least afford it who tend to be the ones that are caught most often with these practices it is a good thing that we are taking some practical action to change that—and for that I will extend some small credit to the Minister. Congratulations and we will also commend this bill to the House."