Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Well thank you Madam Speaker for the opportunity to take a call on this bill the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Bill. What a car crash of a process at the start of this bill when the Government couldn't find the bill notes and then found the wrong ones. This just shows the shambles that this Government is in as they come to the end of their days of this Labour Government. We can't wait—we can't wait—in terms of getting rid of this Government and New Zealanders can't wait either. The National Party we support the bill but we do not support a component of the bill in relation to point-to-point cameras. The members on the other side might be waving their hands around like some sort of interpretive dance at the moment. I'm struggling to interpret the dance but I think that's sort of the exit dance isn't it? The exit dance before they leave in four weeks' time as New Zealanders will go to the polls and kick them out.But the point I'd make in regards to point-to-point cameras is very similar to what my colleague Paul Goldsmith made in that this is being rushed through as part of something which I think there is general support for from New Zealanders around tackling fleeing drivers. In fact under this Government we have seen a range of different policies around how we tackle fleeing drivers—one where the police stopped pursuing; now they are pursuing again. Here they are providing some more tools around how to tackle that problem and of course we've got the ram-raid issue as well.But what they've snuck in here and which New Zealanders would not have paid as close attention to—due to the fact that what's on the tin is quite different to what's actually in the bill—is that this Government is also giving new powers to road-controlling authorities to put in place point-to-point speed camera operations across New Zealand. Now the issue with this is that this Government has also been reducing speed limits blanketly across our country—blanket speed limit reductions right across New Zealand slowing New Zealanders down everywhere they go. If you go to some suburbs in Auckland it is now a blanket 30 kilometres per hour on some roads which are actually quite busy and should be operating at much higher speed limits. But this Government knows best and they are pushing and enforcing on local authorities blanket 30-kilometre-per-hour speed limits on every single suburban street across New Zealand. When you tie that in with what they're now proposing here which is point-to-point speed camera provisions this will give the opportunity for road-controlling authorities to be able to effectively potentially mean that someone could drive from one side of Auckland to the other and lose their licence because they may have been going 35 kilometres per hour down a road. That is what—Terisa Ngobi: Read the bill.SIMEON BROWN: —this bill provides for. I've read the bill and that's exactly what it says. It allows for point-to-point speed camera operations to be put across road-controlling authorities.Now that is something which the National Party doesn't agree with because ultimately this Government has ignored the real issues when it comes to road safety. When it comes to drug-driving well the Government passed the law after we said it's time to deal with this issue back in 2017. They finally passed the bill at the beginning of last year and it's unenforceable. It can't even be implemented. Now drugs and alcohol are the number one cause of deaths and serious injuries on our roads—the number one cause of death and serious injuries. But instead of dealing with that issue we're here in the House saying No no; we're going to fine people going an average of 31 kilometres per hour down a suburban street." I think that's appalling but that just shows where this Government is at. They just want to tell people that they need to drive slower rather than dealing with the real issues around road safety on our roads. So I challenge the Government and say where is the legislation to actually ensure that our police can test people on the side of the roads for drugs? Where's the legislation? Where's the fix? I know the Minister has received advice on how to fix it. I've drafted a bill on how to fix it. The Victorian Government the NSW Government the Australian states America UK—they've all got tools on how to do this. Where's the legislation? But this is all this Government can bring in their dying days trying to enforce and put fines on people driving 31 kilometres per hour down the road. Shame on this Government. Again it says in here: signposting speed cameras. So when they are going to have these new 31kilometre-per-hour speed cameras—because that's what it will be; people who dare drive 31 kilometres down a street which used to be 50 they're now going to have to signpost that speed cameras are in place. Well this Government said in 2019 "We will make sure that every single fixed speed camera in New Zealand is signposted." Well I asked the Minister of Police earlier this year how many fixed speed cameras have been signposted. Well the answer came back with Michael Wood's big red zero—zero. I mean the Minister could have sent the picture. Zero fixed speed cameras have been signposted since 2019 when this Government made a commitment to ensure that every fixed camera—so I don't believe this will happen at all.So the National Party does believe that we need to have tougher penalties when it comes to fleeing drivers and more tools for police but this Draconian approach to now enforce point-to-point cameras to find people who dare drive a speed limit of 31 kilometres per hour down a suburban street is absolute absurdity. It's Draconianism it's "Government knows best" and the National Party opposes it."