McClay ToddHon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): My ears are hurting from the length of the speeches from the Government members—oh my gosh! If ever there was a need for fewer words it wasn't on this piece of legislation and the reason for that is that if members opposite were allowed to take more time to talk about this important issue what we would hear from them is that it's all someone else's fault and this legislation is going to fix the problem. Actually it's really really not. If we cast our minds back to when the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on one of the few times she was in New Zealand said that—Hon Carmel Sepuloni: Oh that's really ridiculous Todd.Hon TODD McCLAY: Well that intervention from the Minister was longer than any speech we've had previously on this bill. I mean if we're holding the good stuff back for interventions then surely what we can do is have a little bit more from them about how they're going to help the problem for New Zealanders. I'd love to come back to the bill—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I would too. Hon TODD McCLAY: —just as I'd love members opposite to speak more about the bill Madam Speaker. But on one of the few occasions that the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was in New Zealand she said We have a huge problem with what the fuel companies are doing in New Zealand. We have a huge problem and we need to create an inquiry and we're instructing the Commerce Commission to do that." it was a week before or a week afterwards that Jacinda Ardern had also put the price of petrol up by imposing more tax upon New Zealanders. So it's a great great shame that this piece of legislation doesn't talk about the amount of tax the Government collects and whether they're using it for what it is meant to be used for which is—I don't know—building a road of their own or announcing a road of their own that helps the economy go faster and increases productivity. What we're hearing about is that this interventionist Government has decided that it knows best when it comes to setting fuel prices and what is happening is that at the same time it does nothing about its part of why fuel is so expensive. The last speaker in the debate from ACT Simon Court who was talking about how much ACT is going to have to suck up all of the problems—sorry I stuttered—the problems from this legislation. But actually what he said was that the cost of importing fuel at the port is $1.13 or $2.50 to $3 a litre—gee Jacinda Ardern remains "Fleecer-in-Chief". She's getting more than anybody else when it comes to this and it's not going to roads. All it's doing is sucking money out of the pockets of New Zealanders who next year won't have anywhere near enough money to pay their rent or to pay record high interest rates on their mortgages. This is not a good piece of legislation. It's more intervention from a Government to put a sticking plaster on a problem so that they can say to New Zealanders "We have solved the problem." It won't solve it. They are a larger part of the problem than anything else here and I say to every New Zealander who is worried about how they're going to fill up their car that at the moment more of the cost of the petrol in your tank is going to Jacinda Ardern and her Government than it is to the fuel companies. We do need more competition. We do need to hold these companies to account but this Government is saying "We're going to do an inquiry when the Prime Minister is back." and then a year and a half or two—in fact it's a different term of Parliament; two years later: "Here's a small piece of legislation. We'll set a bit of the price."—they'll do nothing at all. It's not good legislation just as this is not a good Government."