van de Molen Tim; Tolley AnneTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to rise and take another call on Part 2 of the Land Transport Management (Regional Fuel Tax) Amendment Bill and to address the second of my proposed amendments which fortunately was not ruled out and has not yet been debated in this part. What I am proposing here is to amend clause 7(3) and insert a new subclause 6BB(c) to Amendments to Goods and Services Tax Act 1985".Now as we've already heard from the Hon Judith Collins what we're proposing here actually has been to put GST on top of a fuel tax—therefore a tax on a tax—and we have heard vigorous opposition to that from numerous Government members in the past. It's actually been interesting to note since joining this House how quickly the Government parties have been prepared to go back and change their stance on a number of areas they previously advocated for so passionately so strongly and how they now change their minds in that regard.With regards to this amendment what we're actually seeing here is a proposal to amend the Goods and Services Tax Act and we've already heard that the regional fuel tax is now considered to be a supply of services and therefore taxable and therefore a tax on a tax. Now I'm surprised at the arrogance of this Government—that they have not made any efforts whatsoever to address this or any number of other top quality amendments that we've seen presented from the Opposition benches throughout the debate on this part. I've been here for the duration of the debate on Part 2 across now several days and it amazes me that we are yet to see a single member from the Government benches rise and take a call on this part. It is simply outrageous and a clear sign of arrogance that they have no interest whatsoever in debating the content of this part and in trying to get a better solution for all Aucklanders in this case and subsequently for all New Zealanders once this is expanded to many other areas.Hon Tim Macindoe: But they want to pass it under urgency.TIM VAN DE MOLEN: Indeed as Mr Macindoe points out they are looking to pass this under urgency. Suddenly they've been caught out and have realised that they are perhaps not able to meet their time line of 1 July given that they have obviously poorly managed this process to date and are now trying to proceed through it quickly without any discussion on this. Also we've heard from the Minister in the chair the Hon Phil Twyford—he's taken a call and that's good—but actually we'd like to see him addressing in more detail the many points that have been raised now not just today but in previous discussions last night too across the range of amendments that were proposed.So this amendment in particular—"Amend clause 7(3) insert new 6BB(c) to the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985"—reads "All Goods and Services Tax (GST) levied by the RFT [the regional fuel tax] must be allocated for expenditure in the Region within which it was raised." So look this is something that I feel the Government could well support. They've made numerous comments along these lines with other areas of GST that has been claimed or earned as revenue. For me this is one area that I feel would be well supported of course by the applicant for any particular regional fuel tax because they're advocating for their specific projects and therefore would be desiring to have as much cash as possible to fund those particular projects.We've seen now a massive array of councils around the country looking to put forward proposals in this instance. I'd also just like to quickly refer to my previous amendment which would require anyone making such a submission to provide more detailed advance notice around their intentions on the particular projects they're looking to support to give clarity to their ratepayer. What we're seeing here even in my electorate in the Waikato we've heard both the Waikato District Council and the Waikato Regional Council are now looking to advocate for their own opportunity to have a regional fuel tax to fund projects quite probably projects that were outlined by the previous Government under the roads of national significance which I would strongly encourage this Government to continue to support.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I call Chris Penk. I'm sorry; I call Simeon Brown."