Williams ArenaARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): Wasn't that a perfect metaphor for the National Party's approach to crime? They like the toughening up of consequences that this Government is implementing but they don't like the tools to actually do it. To actually deliver on the toughening up of consequences for fleeing drivers we need a system which records and issues infringements for speeding but they don't like that on that side of the House they don't actually like doing it. They don't actually understand that part of the bill's place in this enforcement of the law; they just want something in the statute book which says We're tough we don't like these people who are fleeing drivers"—that's all they wanted and we had two speeches from that side of the House which told us and told New Zealanders that more clearly than ever. Madam Speaker you can see that I'm riled up about this because the Justice Committee did an incredible amount of work on this bill to improve it and make sure that those powers that police have asked for—which the Government is introducing—are being implemented in a way which is fair which is appropriate and which actually delivers these consequences well. And I thank my colleague from the ACT Party Nicole McKee; I look forward to her contribution because she engaged with this bill very deeply as well—not so much from the National Party as we have heard from their speeches today. They are right that there are two points in this bill: the first is that it clarifies that powers the police have to enforce harsher consequences for fleeing drivers. It deals with those things like when vehicles are unregistered: what we do about that situation and when the registered vehicle owner is not the driver or claims to not be the driver. This is a problem because in those cases essentially we might have a situation where that is ungovernable: where somebody claims that they were not the driver we don't actually have any way of enforcing a penalty there to do with their property.Many other jurisdictions have taken different responses to this—say in Australia where you have a nominated driver register where the police can get in touch with someone who is the nominated driver of a vehicle; we don't have that in New Zealand. There is no record of who actually is the owner of a vehicle. There's only a register of drivers of vehicles and that's not the same thing. So in this bill we've gotten around that in a situation which I think actually the law captures what the Government is trying to do here without creating a massive new bureaucracy of sorts and I'm proud of that work that the Justice Committee did to ensure that that was going to work.The second point that my colleagues on the other side of the House are so upset about is this point-to-point camera regime and again the committee really got stuck into the details to make sure this was a system that was going to work; I have faith that it is because speed as a factor in these serious accidents—we heard in the committee room—was a major factor. Often it won't be recorded as the main factor but in many of the situations speed is a massive factor which point-to-point cameras can help to identify very clearly. We need to use this new technology and we need to update our rules so that police can use it and so there is an infringement system which responds to that new technology. We need to make sure it has safeguards in place yes. This bill allows for those checks and balances and that's why I'm proud to support it."