Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in support of the Land Transport Amendment Bill and I would like to quibble with the previous speaker David Clendon who said that the alcohol-interlock aspect of this bill will not make a difference. Well the member lives in Kerikeri. The member is familiar with rural New Zealand—in fact he talked about rural New Zealand in his speech. The change that is being made in this bill coming back from the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee—and that is what second readings are about—means that this bill will apply the alcohol-interlock policy to people even if they live more than 30 kilometres from a major centre. I support that because drunk-driving has taken so many lives and we should be using technology evenly across New Zealand to restrain all of those who reoffend.Going from the rural areas to the urban this bill would also ensure something that is long overdue. In representing the Epsom electorate at the centre of Auckland our largest city I know that we are in a transition from being an archipelago of provincial towns to a country of large cities. That is right Paul Foster-Bell there is still some—Paul Foster-Bell: Archipelago.DAVID SEYMOUR: Archipelago—thank you. That is right; I am very sorry—archipelago. The fact of the matter is that as we become larger we need some of those big-city laws and regulations.We need to ensure that the transport companies and the police are able to enforce fare evasion on our public transport networks. We need to ensure that it is a criminal offence that can be punished when people use our public transport networks without paying not just because it takes revenue to run a public transport network not just because everybody should pay their fair share but because fare evaders tend to be people who are up to no good. We have seen this in the Epsom electorate where people commit crimes and evade the detection of the authorities by saying: We are going to use the free train." That is what the local police will tell you they call it—the "free train". So it is critical that this bill makes it illegal and gives the authorities the power to police people who would evade fares on our transport networks in our growing metropolitan cities.Far more interesting and exciting in this bill in my view is the change to the regulations for shared transport. Oh my God are we not so far behind the times in this Parliament when it comes to the idea of people sharing rides for money. You see the Cancer Society of New Zealand in Auckland has 500 volunteers who ferry patients backwards and forwards between their homes and their treatment without charging anything. That is wonderful but we have the opportunity to become world leaders in people who share rides in their vehicles with other New Zealand citizens and are given remuneration in the form of cash for performing that duty.We are starting to see this with Uber with Chariot and with Zoomy up and down this country but the select committee that heard this bill did not understand any of it. Had the members understood what this bill was about—Sue Moroney: Ha ha! What rubbish—what rubbish.DAVID SEYMOUR: There is Sue Moroney. She was one of the worst offenders. She had no idea. She was ridiculed from Northland to Southland for her lack of understanding of basic modern technology.Sue Moroney: Did you not hear my speech?DAVID SEYMOUR: Bye-bye in September Sue. What we need to do is ask ourselves what the role of Government is in ride-sharing regulation. The Government knows what your criminal record is—not yours Mr Assistant Speaker—and it knows what a person's driving history is. Those are the only two questions the Government should ask when it authorises somebody to share a ride for money. If we were to make that the only test then becoming an Uber driver or a Chariot driver or a Zoomy driver would become something that almost every New Zealander would be doing. We could lead the world in technology. We could increase the vehicle occupancy rates in our cars but this bill does none of that and it is a terrible shame."