Hipkins Chris: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHipkins Chris: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10360. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka): I am very appreciative of my first call in fact of what I suspect will be many on the Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill. I suspect I have got a few other names for that—Hon Trevor Mallard: Part 2.CHRIS HIPKINS: —which we are going to talk about in a moment. I am aware that we are talking about Part 2 Mr Mallard—just hold your horses; we will get to that. We are talking about Part 2 at the moment the refund provision that exists within this legislation otherwise known as once again National looking after its mates—looking after the people who can get the refund—while other people such as the regular hard-working New Zealanders who pay the extra fuel tax who were promised that life would get better under National and that they would pay less tax under National do not have the access probably to the provisions in this particular part. They are going to end up paying the extra tax and they are going to feel disappointed and let down.Before the 2008 general election Maurice Williamson the National Party’s then transport spokesperson went around the country telling New Zealanders that if the National Party did a good job it would not need to put up fuel taxes. The levies would not need to go up. Maurice Williamson was busy saying that to New Zealanders before the 2008 general election. How many times has this levy gone up since National came into Government? That means that Gerry Brownlee has been a spectacular failure as a Minister of Transport just like Steven Joyce was before him.It just shows whom the National Party is interested in looking after. It is not interested in looking after the ordinary hard-working New Zealanders who are going to have what is it $45 extra a year—Iain Lees-Galloway: Yes after year 1.CHRIS HIPKINS: —in year 1 on their motoring bill—Hon Trevor Mallard: $90 in year 2.CHRIS HIPKINS: —$90 extra in year 2—Hon Trevor Mallard: $135.CHRIS HIPKINS: —and $135 extra in year 3.Hon Trevor Mallard: Plus compounding.CHRIS HIPKINS: That is right; it is compounding. These costs will continue to go up for ordinary everyday families who are already struggling to meet rising costs under this National Government because despite promising New Zealanders that the tax burden on them was going to decrease in fact ordinary everyday working New Zealanders are saying that the tax burden on them has gone up under National—increased GST increased fuel tax increased student loan repayments if they have got a student loan and many other increases that they are facing. So many other costs and expenses have gone up for ordinary everyday Kiwis under this National Government. They will not benefit from the refunds that are available in this particular part of the bill which we are debating before Parliament—Part 2 of the debate the consequential amendments that we are talking about.This is yet again another bill that is going through all stages of Parliament under urgency. I suspect given our previous experience of the earlier bills that we have been debating under this urgency motion that there will be some future amendment to it when National realises it has completely stuffed it up. There is probably a drafting error or some other mistake in it because there has been a mistake in just about every other bill that the House has been debating under this urgency motion. I think New Zealanders are going to want to know why they are paying this extra fuel tax and why they are not getting the ability to access refunds under Part 2 of this.I am looking at what this extra money is going to be funding—the roads of significance to National. That is what these levies are going to be going towards. I know for example regarding the Kapiti Expressway that there is huge debate about exactly whether or not that is good value for money. Many people do not think it is and in fact a huge group of residents on the Kapiti coast think that it is going to split the community in half by driving a massive four-lane highway between Coastlands the main shopping area of Paraparaumu and the beach and the shopping area. It is basically going to drive a massive four-lane highway between those parts of the community on what was always designed to be a local road. It has been on the books for many many years and the community expectation in Kapiti was always that that road the Kapiti Expressway was going to be a two-lane local road. And yes there would be upgradesto State Highway 1 but they were not expecting that the Government would go and co-opt what was going to be a local road and whack a massive four-lane highway right through the heart of that community which is what this Government is proposing to do.Of course the road will not be designed to benefit local motorists because there will be very few on-ramps and off-ramps off it; it is designed basically to move traffic through that area without having to stop and without the trucks having to slow down. It is not designed in any way with the local residents of the Kapiti coast in mind and that is the sort of project that all New Zealand motorists are now going to be paying more for. I think that there are some real questions the Government has got to answer. But of course we are not hearing anything from the Government.All those National backbenchers over there have absolutely nothing to say on that. When they were in Opposition the National backbench had a lot to say about transport—