Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Madam Speaker. Listening to the chair of the Transport and Infrastructure Committee one would have thought that this was something that they had not been warned of previously. He said that they have been listening to the industry. Well the industry was telling them that this piece of legislation was poorly timed hopelessly inadequately prepared for and would not be suitable for purpose. The industry was telling them at the time that this legislation that the principal Act was passed in a rushed hurried way without the detail clear and we warned them as well on this side of the House. And here we are now in urgency having to come back to this House without the scrutiny and benefit of a select committee process to correct and make good this clean car stuff-up of the Government's.Make no mistake this is a retreat of Napoleonic proportions—literally Napoleonic proportions. Only someone with the grand planning of a Napoleon could have made such a massive tactical mistake. And I think that what will happen here—Simon O'Connor: It's like Russia all over again.Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: Well it is. My colleague Simon O'Connor says It is like Russia all over again." Massive retreat having made the grand statements the grand visionary proclamations and then thinking "Oops we got it wrong. We got it wrong."Hon Member: Is this a Waterloo moment?Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: It's a Waterloo moment. It's a Waterloo moment for Napoleon. And as I say it's a retreat of Napoleonic proportions.So the original legislation was rushed. It was incomplete. It was against the advice of the sector and the industry. It included motorcycles when it was never intended to include motorcycles. And now for the Government to have to pass this amending piece of legislation under urgency without the scrutiny of a select committee process without further input from the sector or from people who are affected is an admission that they got it so horribly horribly wrong.So notwithstanding all that we're going to support it because it's the practical prudent thing to do now that they are if only belatedly recognising the practical hurdles that the industry and the sector are going to have to overcome let alone the unpreparedness of the New Zealand Transport Agency. They've got an army a Napoleonic army - sized communications team—Simon O'Connor: La Grande Armée!Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: La Grande Armée of communications people—but they haven't got it seems the people who can actually do the detail work in advising the Minister of Transport on the pitfalls of the piece of legislation originally and if they did advise the Minister then the Minister clearly took no notice and pushed on regardless.So we are going to support this piece of legislation. But in doing so I want to ask some of the same questions that my colleague Simeon Brown has asked. Where is the equity in providing free money in a reverse Robin Hood scheme that provides wealthy people who do have choices about the kind of vehicle they drive with free money while at the same time taking from hard-working New Zealanders who have little choice and often little capacity to pay? Where is the equity for that? And colleagues on this side of the House were asking the question where is the Labour Party of Mickey Savage? Where is the Labour Party of the workers? Where is the Labour Party of common ordinary hard-working New Zealanders? Well these days increasingly those people those hard-working ordinary New Zealanders they're voting National. They're voting National because they know that it's National and the centre-right political side of this Parliament that has their back. It's not the "Labour" Party any more they want to imbue their friends their small number of friends in Grey Lynn and Ponsonby and the leafy suburbs of Wellington with expensive Teslas. This piece of legislation could actually probably be renamed and recalled as the "Let's Make Elon Even Richer" piece of legislation because that's effectively what it does.So on that thoughtful note I'll conclude my comments on the initial first reading debate of this bill but we'll come back and have another go at it during the second reading and the committee stages under urgency."