Moroney SueSUE MORONEY (Labour): Thank you for the opportunity to rise and speak to clause 2 which is about the time when this bill when it becomes an Act commences—when it comes into being. I have two Supplementary Order Papers which I want to acknowledge have been ruled out of order by the Chair. I think actually the very legitimate reason why they have been ruled out of order is an interesting point in itself to debate when we are looking at this part of the bill.The two issues that my Supplementary Order Papers were wanting to address were about getting that actual level playing field that this bill purports to deliver and does not quite do. It does not quite do because of some of the issues that we have raised about safety in the previous parts which have already been debated. I want to place on record how sorry and sad I am that three parties in this Chamber would not support the blind community in their requirement for Braille signage. I think that is really sad.But what this part is about is—two things. First of all we in Labour did not want this bill to pass until Uber had become fully compliant with all tax requirements obliged of it under New Zealand law. Not a big ask. Actually Mr Seymour that is what it is required to do. So I am not sure why this is a problem. But the ruling has been that what we are asking for here is an indeterminate date. In other words this Committee cannot even determine a date on which Uber would become compliant with all its tax requirements obliged of it under New Zealand law. How bizarre! How bizarre is that?What we know what has been reported in New Zealand is that Uber in 2014 declared gross revenues of just over a billion dollars in New Zealand. But in that same year it paid only $9397 in income tax. How can that be fair?Alastair Scott: That's turnover not profit.SUE MORONEY: Now the National Government is coming to the defence of this unfair taxation system. A person on the average wage of $45000 is taxed about $7800. So how can that be fair? A person on the average wage of $45000 pays just under $8000 of tax each year but Uber with its over $1 billion pays just over $9000. The National Government thinks that is all right. It is defending that situation. Well we do not believe it is right and it is not a level playing field. That is not the same situation for the taxi companies that are operating under this same piece of legislation that we are about to pass and that is why we have raised it.We have also raised again something that should just be pretty straightforward. We do not want this Act coming into force until the day after Uber becomes fully compliant with all transport rule requirements regarding logbooks and driving hours as obliged of it under New Zealand law. Again it has been ruled that we cannot actually even vote on that because it is an indeterminate date. We do not know when Uber is going to follow the law. That is basically what this Committee is determining.Well that is a crazy situation. It is an unsafe situation. As we know there was the highly publicised situation that happened not very long ago where an American couple arrived in New Zealand. They thought they were doing the right thing by publicly declaring their Uber driver to be a hero because in a dreadful storm this was the only way that they could get from Auckland Airport to Wellington in one driving feat. Well one problem. That exercise flouted these laws that we are talking about. It actually flouted the laws that are in place to keep everyone on the road safe to stop people from driving when they are fatigued and to stop people in this industry from having pressure put on them to drive in an unsafe situation—in one of the worst storms that we have had in New Zealand this year and that is saying something because we have had some pretty bad ones.So I hope that parties will be able to support—