Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you very much Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to take my first call on the land transport management title and commencement part of this piece of legislation. I just want to continue our discussion around the title of this piece of legislation. I've just put an amendment on the Table which I think is a very good one and I think it's one which the committee should take some time to consider. The proposal is that this Act should be called the Land Transport Management (Let's Tax This) Amendment Act 2018" because to be frank this legislation and this regional fuel tax which will eventually be a fuel tax across all of Auckland—as we know it's not going to be regional; it'll be for the whole country—will have an impact on literally everything which people buy. I think of the people in my electorate in Pakuranga who are working hard and they drive their children to school they go to work and every time they fill up their car they have to pay the regional fuel tax. They go to the shops and the goods which arrive at the supermarket come on a truck and that has to include the cost of the regional fuel tax. They go to a cafe and at the cafe they get a coffee and there are some sandwiches or whatever they get and the goods and services—wherever they go this regional fuel tax will have an impact and have a cost on everything. As they will go along the road as they go there they will pay the regional fuel tax.So the name of this legislation should reflect the impact in my view that it is going to have on literally everything that people purchase and the way that people get around and the journeys that people take. Also I think it reflects quite nicely on how the Labour Government or the coalition Government should I say with the three parties—their view of how taxation should just be made up and tax everything and I think that's a good slogan of how this Government's approach to taxation has taken place of just literally taxing everything.I remember a promise that there would be no new taxes and here we are in the first year of this Government with a tax which—yes they said there'd be a tax for Aucklanders—The CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Order! Repetition.SIMEON BROWN: They said there'd be a tax for Aucklanders but it's a tax for the whole country. So that's a suggestion and I look forward to the will of the committee on that. I think there are a number of other names which this could be called—the "Broken Promise Act" because it is a broken promise and that goes back to the point I would just make so I won't reflect too much further on that because I already have made that point.The "Travel to Hamilton to Get Your Fuel Tax Act" because for the first three years while Aucklanders will have—I know the member for the Waikato is here and he loves Hamilton and a lot of people in this House have good memories of that place. Some of them live here some of them visit but we know how great a place Hamilton is. But if you're going to go there to get your tax well that's what this legislation's going to be doing for the next three years. So maybe that's one way—but I guess you'd need to change the commencement if you were going to put that title in because after 2021 we know that other regional councils are able to put in place these taxes. So maybe if that was the title that this committee was to agree to maybe there should be some way to have the name of the Act changed over time. So the first three years it can be referred to as the "Go to Hamilton to Get Your Tax" but once Hamilton's got its tax obviously you won't be going to Hamilton because everyone will be paying across the country for their legislation.There's been a number of other names about fill up Phil down and I think those are also good to be thought about. I think the other thing which is—I mean in those names is really the reflection that this tax is letting Auckland Council off the hook. It's letting Auckland Council off the hook and I'm not sure if there's some way we can allow this legislation to reflect the fact that Phil Goff said that he would reduce savings by 3 to 4 percent which is enough for this tax to not be necessary. If he'd kept to his promise to reduce costs and to find savings in Auckland Council we know that this legislation would not have been required.So I think this committee needs reflect upon that reflect upon the fact that the Auckland Council which this legislation will initially apply to—the mayor promised and now we're letting him off the hook by letting this legislation go through so that he can tax his constituents and tax my constituents to pay for a range of projects. Thank you."