Moroney Sue: Land Transport and Road User Charges Legislation Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: Land Transport and Road User Charges Legislation Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 27 August 2013. Volume:693;Page:13048. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): Yes it is. Well what a shambles. What an absolute shambles. Quite frankly with friends like those who needs enemies? The poor old farmers have been paying through the nose because of that Government’s ineptitude—that Government’s complete ineptitude. Not once not twice but three times it has got this wrong. It is just a simple thing. It is just a simple matter of deciding what road-user charge applies to tractors for goodness’ sake. It ain’t rocket science Mr Bridges. It ain’t rocket science Mr Bridges. It is quite simple but everything that Minister touches seems to turn to—well I cannot say that word even at 5 to 12 on a Wednesday night. But we all know what it is that everything turns to when Simon Bridges gets his hands on it and here we go again.Hon Member: Turns to dust.SUE MORONEY: It turns to dust. That is what I will say—it turns to dust. This is in a long line of road-user charges petrol taxes and those types of things being completely misused by this Government.It was not that long ago in urgency—and I object by the way to urgency being used to fix up that Minister’s messes again. We seem to be in urgency quite a lot fixing up Simon Bridges’ messes but here we go again. Not long ago we were in urgency and we were passing a petrol tax through—passing an increased petrol tax through. It is 3c every year for the next 3 years. That is the increase in petrol tax and that was done under urgency as well. Why was that done? It was done so that that Government can pretend that it has got to a surplus in the Budget next year. Every time New Zealanders pull up at the service station and fill up the car or the tractor or whatever it might be that they are filling up they need to remember every single New Zealander needs to remember that they are paying through the petrol pump through the nose for that Government’s promised surplus.I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There was a ruling by the Speaker at question time yesterday that the next person to hold up a scorecard in this House would be ejected from the House and I request that you uphold that ruling.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): No I am not going to do that. I did not see it because I was focusing my attention on the speaker at the time so I did not pick that up. [Interruption] The presiding officer at the time makes those deliberations and I am certainly not asking someone to leave the House at 2 minutes to 12.SUE MORONEY: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I can understand why you were fixated on the speaker because what I was saying is so important to New Zealanders. They are paying through the nose every time they fill up their cars for that Government’s promises and that Government’s failure to achieve surplus through economic growth. I know that David Bennett thinks it is funny. He thinks it is so funny that this Government has sucked in the New Zealand public and that the Government has the New Zealand public paying for its surplus because it has failed to get economic growth. The Government is not going to reach surplus next year because of economic growth but it will reach surplus next year because it has hiked up petrol taxes for every New Zealander every time they pull into the service station.Chris Auchinvole: You’ve got 1 minute. Come on cheer up.SUE MORONEY: Yes Mr Auchinvole. All of your constituents are paying for your failure to actually get economic growth going on the West Coast. All of David Bennett’s constituents are paying for his Government’s failure to lift economic growth in the Waikato. I could name every single member’s area because that in fact is the truth of the matter. New Zealanders do not want to be paying for this Government’s failure but they have through the petrol pump. Farmers have paid for the failure of Simon Bridges to get this right not once not twice but three times despite this side of the House giving the Government all the support that we could possibly give it pointing this out to it time and time again and my colleague Maryan Street doing absolutely the right thing. The Government is failing at its job.