Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): I wasn't going to take call on this bill but being lectured by Julie Anne Genter about the evils of American hedge funds investing in transport in New Zealand actually requires someone to stand up for Americans even if she doesn't want to.I've looked at this bill and it's really clear this is all about ideology. So we've got councils being told that they're not capable of running water services and now they're going to run bus services. We've got councils now being told that when they want to take over a bus service or run their own bus service they won't have to have any competition they won't have to cost it out they won't have to see what is the best deal for people.So I would say to these people on the other side of the House who are ramming this bill through under urgency—I mean it's almost midnight; we're going to have another midnight session tomorrow night because they want to shove everything through before this election because they don't think that they're going to be around to do anything after it. When I look at them and say Have they ever actually contracted anyone to paint a house for them or build a house?" Or do they just go to whoever it is that they know and say "Just paint it and I'll pay whatever it is"? Don't they get a quote? Don't they even get an estimate? Or do they just say "Well it's other people's money. It's ratepayers' money. It's all free. Nobody has to pay for it. It's all free. We'll just do that shall we?"Well actually it's nice to think that you know some councils might want to set up their own company to run a bus transport company—they're stopping them doing it now. But what they're saying in this bill—shoving through in urgency a bill that's all about removing competition removing innovation. And he's talked to the submissions from say Uber who I'm sure most of us have used for their transport services: on time we want it no fuss and using technology to bring about a much more friendly service for people. Why are they against it? Because they say it's going to stifle innovation. And are they right? Yes they are right because they are actually leaders in innovation transport.We know that in New Zealand there are cars that are the un-driven—or the driverless cars are being trialled at the moment by some of the car manufacturers. We know that there are driverless buses and trains being trialled elsewhere around the world. These are things that are actually coming to us and local councils are now going to be in charge of putting these in place.You actually need the people who know about transport to be in charge of transport. You want the people who know about bus services running them getting schedules on time who turn up no matter what—I don't know these people called "bus companies" who actually know about running buses who know about what's needed to maintain buses what's needed to have the right staff in place.Again this is just another effect of a Government that has been so anti-immigrant so anti - bus drivers coming to this country so xenophobic on everything possible and only now have suddenly rushed around and got some bus drivers. This is a Government that actually doesn't want competition—the labour force either—and that's part of what they're doing here.So tell me where's their public transport when we have in Auckland as we know Fullers who are running the ferry services having had to say they can't get enough staff so they're having to close down some services. Is anyone here seriously going to tell me that Auckland Council or Auckland Transport's going to suddenly find or magic up all these ferry staff? Are they actually—where are they going to come from? The fact is it's simply not possible.It is really important that we have competition. It's like we don't have one set price for food or one set price for anything because if we do as has happened in other centrally planned economies we end up with not enough of what's needed or lots of things that nobody wants and nothing of what people get.There's a reason Government should keep out of this stuff and that's because they're incompetent. It's a Government that's the least competent Government I've ever seen. We've had six years of central planning and no delivery. This is just another example of a useless Government bill that yet again we're going to have to overturn after the election."