Moroney Sue: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: General Debate[Sitting date: 22 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5207. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): Well New Zealand should be very nervous after hearing that speech from Alastair Scott because that was a National Party member exposing that the party just thinks that the market fixes everything that National members can sit there and do nothing and be the do-nothing Government that they have been and they plan to continue to be and she’ll just magically be right. Well New Zealanders are looking for leadership and they are looking for a plan. That speech exposed that the Government has neither leadership nor a plan for fixing the growth in the economy that we need to get going so New Zealand is going to have to look to this side of the House for that.But I want to speak about something that you will not hear the Government members speak about any time soon but should be speaking about and that is the ACC motor vehicle levies. That should be a good-news story for the Government. It should have been one where they said: “Hey isn’t it great! Everyone’s got a cut in their levies.” But it has been a slow-motion car wreck instead and that is why you will not hear them talking about it.The truth is that their shambolic model has meant that the owners of a million vehicles are paying on average $40 more a year than what they would have if the Minister had left the system alone and not meddled with it. But boy has she ever meddled with it and she has meddled with it in a way where it is in complete and utter chaos. Already within the first week of it being implemented 22 different makes and models of cars have had to be reclassified and have their levies dropped as a result and that is just in the first week alone.In order to get that change the Minister—this is Nikki Kaye—had made such a mess of bringing the regulation in that she had to take it back through Cabinet and get the Governor-General to agree to every single one of those 22 models being changed. And she is going to have to do that time and time again because now already that has increased to 24 models and I confidently predict that it is going to climb from there.I keep getting emails from people telling me of the battles that they are having with ACC over their vehicles that they know are safer than what the levy system that Nikki Kaye has put in place would suggest. I know that she is getting those emails again. There are hundreds of people who are laying complaints with ACC over this shambles. Why are they doing that? Because it is confusing it is flawed and it is unfair.It is unfair in this way. It actually penalises people who cannot afford the latest safest model of car and it makes them pay more. It transfers the benefit $41 million in total from that group of people to a saving of $40 million in total for the people who can afford the latest greatest model of car. That is simply what is happening. It is a shift in funding. It does not do one thing to improve safety on our roads—that is the debacle of it—but it is a cost-shifting measure from one group of New Zealanders to another. So who are those groups of New Zealanders? It is actually taking money out of the pockets of our elderly people of our youngest people of our people who live in regional New Zealand and placing that in the pockets of people who can afford the latest greatest cars.Is the National Party back up to its old tricks again? No one is fooled by it. Certainly the writer of The Dog and Lemon Guide Clive Matthew-Wilson is not fooled by it. He is an expert in these matters and he has called for the whole system to be scrapped. He has called for the whole system to be scrapped. He cannot work out whether it is a dog or a lemon or it is both but he knows it needs to be scrapped.We have also had Fair Go do two exposés two separate investigations on this alone. Fair Go is a TV programme that looks out for consumers and on two occasions already it has done exposés on how rotten this system is. Fair Go has even worked out the system. They said “Good on the Government for changing the mess that it has made so far.” but they also said “Here’s the other models that they haven’t even got to yet: the Hyundai Getz the Kia Sportage the Mazda Demio the Nissan Dualis the Daihatsu Terios and the Subaru Tribeca.” and I can add on 10 or 20 more model names to those ones.So good luck to the Minister. She is going to spend a lot of time going back and talking to her Cabinet Ministers on a frequent basis bringing forward model after model after model that she is going to have to get them to change and she is going to have to get the Governor-General to change and then she is going to have to account for the loss in revenue in ACC levies as a result of her botch-up.