Andersen Ginny; Mallard TrevorGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour—Hutt South): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a great opportunity to be able to stand here as the elected member for Hutt South and fight for the Flyer. The Flyer if you're not from the Hutt area or even the Wellington region is the incredibly valuable bus service that used to run from Lower Hutt out to the airport. Unfortunately that service no longer exists. But due to a strong local campaign over 2100 submissions were provided and I must say too both local MPs—the list MP and the constituent MP—have both been working very well together on this one because we recognise across the board no matter what party you're from that this is a good service to have. It's a good service and the people of the Hutt deserve this service because through their rates they pay for it. Through their rates they pay each year for public transport. So I ask you Mr Speaker on behalf of the people of Hutt South how is it fair if you pay your rates each year but only the Wellingtonians get to receive the benefit of an airport bus service. That does not seem fair to those people in the outer regions of the Wellington area. So that is why we need to have it funded.It's also important for accessibility. So many times if you're expected to travel from say Wainuiōmata to the train station to catch the train into Wellington and then get a bus from the Wellington train station to the airport that's four changes—four changes. If you are someone with accessibility issues if you are someone over 65 if you are a mum or a dad with a buggy and a couple of bags that changeover each time is virtually impossible. So what has been made through this taking away of this service is the fact that it is making air travel less accessible to those people who cannot afford an Uber who cannot afford a taxi and so that is why we need it. So let's unpick this a little bit because it's all very well and good to be the local MP and stand up and say that we want to fund a service but when we unpick the reason why the Hutt Valley Airport Flyer is not operating it actually goes right back to the bottom of PTOM or what was introduced back in 2013 by the then National Government which was the Public Transport Operating Model and that model was actually to increase the commerciality and reduce the amount of Government spending in public transport. But in that model that was introduced I think by Steven Joyce back in the day it actually had some unintended consequences and one of those unintended consequences was to drive down wages. From my point of view part of the crisis that we saw in public transport—particularly around bus drivers and their wages and conditions in the whole Wellington region over the last few years—is a direct result of that PTOM because what happens is it's a race to the bottom. It's a race to the bottom for contractors who then cherry-pick the most economically viable routes and guess what? The Flyer route from the Hutt Valley to the airport was not perceived as being as economically viable and so that is the one where people are failing to get a public service. That is where we need to be looking at a better model for the future. So it's heartening to see that Minister Wood as the Minister of Transport now has earlier this month indicated that he would look at changing that PTOM and it's under review as obviously—SPEAKER: Order! Order! I'm going to terminate the member's speech because she has recently gone well away from the local.