Faafoi Kris: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10352. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): No surprise there—no surprise there. One of the justifications that the Minister in the chair the Minister of Transport gave for this 3c per litre increase over the next 3 years is that he announced it early. He announced it a week before Christmas last year. Gerry Brownlee acting as Santa Claus gave the people of New Zealand a 9c increase on their petrol tax over the next 3 years.Those people who are going to be paying around $45 more per year for their petrol are hard-working—John Hayes: Wow!KRIS FAAFOI: Wow—he does not think it is much. There he goes John Hayes across the Chamber. The MP for Wairarapa does not think that is much. Well he might not think it is much but Mr Hayes when you add that on to—Hon Trevor Mallard: They do in Dannevirke.KRIS FAAFOI: They do in Dannevirke—they do. The people of Wairarapa do—Mr Hayes is not one of them; $45 is nothing to Mr Hayes. But if you add on the $40 more for prescription charges that each Kiwi has to pay and if you add on the increase in GST that the Government brought in Mr Hayes it is a lot of money. So here you go—John Hayes is probably the most out of touch member of Parliament in this House. He thinks that putting up the petrol taxes by $45 a year is just a little bit of cash. It might bea little bit of cash to him but to a lot of Kiwis out there who have been watching this Budget very closely it is a lot of money. I am quite happy for Mr John Hayes to put on the record here in this Parliament that $45 more a year to pay for their petrol is not a lot of money. Mr Hayes you are so so out of touch.Getting back to the clause in Part 1 of the Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill—The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): That would be a good idea.KRIS FAAFOI: —that I was referring to I want to look directly at new section 79AC(3) which does set out the yearly 3c increase per litre in petrol excise over the next 3 years. As a number of speakers have said this is all part of an illusion that the Government is trying to create that its books are well in order but the reality is completely the opposite. I think one of the Kiwi traits—a good Kiwi trait—is that when you are trying to spend money or buy something you make sure that you have got the money to pay for it. One of the promises that this Government made around the roads of national significance is that it could afford to pay for it. But by bringing in this petrol tax 3c more per litre for each year over 3 years as it says in Part 1 it is clear to see that this Government did not have a plan to pay for it—it did not have a plan to pay for it at all. So it has been forced to come to this House and bring in a petrol tax of 3c more per litre as it says in Part 1 to help pay for it. But again as many other speakers have said this is all part of the illusion.I just want to put that in the context of the Kapiti Expressway because the Government thinks that the roads of national significance are a good investment for Kiwis. If $45 for each Kiwi motorist is not a lot for Mr Hayes let us see just what kind of return on investment Kiwis are going to get. In terms of the Kapiti Expressway a leaked report by the Beca Group showed that the half a billion dollars spent on the Kapiti Expressway was going to have a benefit-cost ratio of 0.2—0.2. So for every $1 spent the economic benefit to New Zealand is 20c—20c. That is not a lot of money to Mr Hayes. That is a drop in the bucket to Mr Hayes. But that shows just how stupid some of these roads of national significance are. If the National Government thinks that spending $1 on a motorway and getting 20c back for it is a good investment well I hope that quite a few people at home are watching this debate because that is a complete dog of an investment.Going back to that 3c increase per litre and back to the Kapiti Expressway how much money are we talking about? Well we are talking about $515 million. I think that even Mr Hayes would agree that that is quite a lot of money. The return over a 30-year period is just $118 million. In an economic sense that does not make sense.