van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Madam Chair. Now look it's a pleasure to take another call on this and actually I'd like to address an amendment that has been put forward now in my name. It comes in under clause 5 in new section 65A and is an additional inclusion after paragraph (e)—so section 65A(f) which would exempt the use of any recreational marine activities. When you consider Auckland—surrounded by water east and west—recreational marine activities are a huge part of everyday New Zealand interaction activity and general pastimes. Certainly as a former scuba-diving instructor I've spent plenty of time out and about on the water enjoying our recreational opportunities around New Zealand.In Auckland there are so many people that take up these opportunities on a daily basis and they would be captured under this as well. Where's the sense in that? What we're seeing is capturing unexpected consequences—again through ill-thought-out legislation from this Government—and it is yet another example where they have an idea don't think it through in detail and capture a range of other users through unintended means. This would simply be inappropriate for what they're looking to address. Recreational marine users—well how does that impact on road usage? It doesn't and what we're hearing is that this is currently included. So I would encourage the Minister in the chair the Hon Phil Twyford to consider supporting this amendment. In fact I'd like to invite the Minister to take a call because we haven't heard from him yet through this entire day's proceedings which quite frankly I think shows a level of disrespect to the people of Auckland who will be impacted by this particular proposed bill.We also haven't heard much from the Government in general when you consider how active they were taking calls on any manner of other pieces of legislation that passed through their committee stage. We had the weapons brokering recently for example where there was call after call from the Government. Yes great—an important area—and yet where are they today on this very important issue that affects so many Aucklanders? There's absolute silence from the Government.We've already heard these strong polls—four polls conducted in May—that actually show there is not support for this. Aucklanders oppose this and the Government can't even get up and take a call on it. It's disappointing to see and I'd encourage the Minister to address the many questions that have been presented from this side of the committee throughout today's debate—and we haven't yet had a single answer on any of those—but in particular this amendment around the recreational marine activities being exempted from this. That's something I think is really important for everyday Kiwis who love getting out and about when they're not at work making the most of their leisure time—to get out on the water to take up those opportunities and to not be stung with additional cost for participating in just that.What we may see actually is that they may look to travel outside the region and bring in fuel. All you have to do is pop over the Bombay Hills into my electorate in the Waikato and you can get fuel 11.5c cheaper. So why wouldn't they be doing that? And actually we may see that with a number of areas. So you look at truck depots for example transporting fuel back into their own yards where they are then able to store that fuel for their own purposes around the region. So I think we'll see that happening not only for recreational marine use but actually in a number of areas where they're able to travel outside secure a tanker-load of fuel for example and bring it back in much cheaper. There's nothing stopping them doing that actually unless of course we see in the Waikato—like we have seen requests from a number of other areas—a new regional fuel tax being imposed there as well. We've already seen that being requested throughout numerous areas in the central North Island—Hon Shane Jones: Democracy—democracy.TIM VAN DE MOLEN: —and this legislation enables that to happen and it's disappointing to see that the alleged first citizen of the regions is not actually standing up to make a better stand to defend those regional areas of the country. All we hear is a lot of talk and not so much action. So I would really encourage the Minister to actually get up to give consideration for a serious issue around the recreational marine exemption under this regional fuel tax.