Mallard Trevor: Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: 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:10383. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South): I think the thing that I can say for that last speech from Chris Auchinvole is that it was more consistent and coherent than David Bennett’s speech before and did not attempt to move an amendment in the way that Mr Bennett’s did. It is not exactly high praise but the fact that the member did better than David Bennett is noted by all other members in the House.Being a Wellington member is sometimes a disadvantage. When international visitors are coming into town we are the ones especially Ministers who are called to go to the airport and do various things. But being a Wellington member and having a very good chance of getting home to Wainuiōmata after the dinner break in time to see Piri Weepu playing for the Blues—a 7.35 start—is something that is good. At least I will be doing it with the excise rates and the duty on motor spirits being at the level they are now.Hon Tau Henare: It’s all about Trevor.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: There goes Tau Henare again. He appears to be able to speak or stand but not both at the same time. He appears to be able to speak and stand but he cannot take up his role as a member of Parliament and get on his hind legs and make a speech. He makes a lot of racket.I do want to get back to the Customs and Excise (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill and I want to make a comment to the Greens. I want to make a comment to the Greens and say to them that if there had been a decent transport package coming out of this then the Labour Party would have contemplated supporting it. But if there was a decent transport package coming out of this the National Party would not have got its surplus. That is the point. If there had been spending measures on public transport or on cycleways or on railways or on coastal shipping coming from this bill then the National Government would have failed to achieve the surplus that it has been trumpeting. So the Greens in supporting this—[Interruption]—are part of a rort. I agree with the National member opposite. They are part of a rort whereby they are pretending that there is a surplus when in fact we know there is not a surplus at all.Members opposite appear to be under instructions from people. They are under instructions from some of their funders in order to put this—Mr SPEAKER: Order! No. The member cannot—Hon Annette King: Point of order—Mr SPEAKER: No I am on my feet. Thank you. The member cannot allude to members being under instructions to do something suggesting that they are receiving money for that. If the member would just tidy up his speech I would be grateful for it.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I was not suggesting that they are receiving money; they are puppets on strings without the money.Dr Cam Calder: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I would like to draw to the attention of Mr Mallard that he raised a point of ordersome years ago when I referred toGeppetto being behind the Labour Party—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is not a helpful point of order.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I think the point of order at the time going back referred to the increasing size of the nose of the Prime Minister if the member was getting that right. That is something that is now often reflected in the angle of the collar of the Minister of Finance. Every time the Minister of Finance tells a whopper his collar pops out from underneath his jacket. It is something that we have been noticing from this side of the House over a period of time and to say that this money is for roading is a whopper. It is a whopper. It is not going to be spent on roading. If it was going to be spent on roading that would be budgeted for in the estimates. It is not budgeted for in the estimates. If it was budgeted for in the estimates what would be happening is that the surplus which the Prime Minister claims is a real one woulddisappear. So what is happening? The Government is collecting money that it knows it cannot spend if there is to be a surplus.I think the third reading is a time when we reflect back on the debate and we reflect back on the contributions or lack of contributions on the part of the members of the National Party. There are a number of questions—a number of questions—that were asked but not answered. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member is a very robust debater but he should not have to put up with that level of interjection.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: Thank you for your protection—not that I am commenting on your ruling of course. I would not comment on your ruling.I want to refer in particular to the unanswered question relating to the very last clause clause 7(2) which revokes new regulation 6A. Regulation 6A comes in. It is revoked in 2015 as part of the bill. The question I ask is whether—Iain Lees-Galloway: Mike do you want fries with that?Hon TREVOR MALLARD: Mike Sabin I am told has got a very prized police officers’ card which gets him discounts at KFC. Apparently—Hon Annette King: What?Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I think it is an outrage that any police officer but especially a retired police officer should attempt to get—Mike Sabin: Say it outside of the House Trevor.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I do not believe what Tau Henare says about the member. I do not believe what Tau Henare says about the member but if what Tau Henare says is true it would be an absolute outrage for any member of Parliament to impersonate a police officer in order to get a discount in a KFC. We see the effects of it on the member but I believe the member. I think he probably does pay full price but—