7. Question No. 7—TransportCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Associate Minister of TransportQuestion No. 7—Transport7. CHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Associate Minister of Transport: Does she stand by all of her statements policies and actions?Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Associate Minister of Transport): Yes.Chris Bishop: Does she stand by her statement Treasury is wrong. It looks like they're just default sceptical of whatever we propose." and has she considered altering her default instincts to tax and ban things?Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: In answer to the first part yes it is Treasury's role to be sceptical and I think that's important.Chris Bishop: Who made the decisions to alter the recommended programme of investment devised by the Let's Get Wellington Moving governance group and do those decisions explain why the second Terrace tunnel and State Highway 1 undergrounding are not part of the final package?SPEAKER: Order! I am going to ask the member to ask his question without an assertion in it at the beginning.Chris Bishop: Well sorry Mr Speaker what—SPEAKER: Who made the decision to make the changes.Chris Bishop: Are you saying that's an assertion?SPEAKER: Well I have not seen any evidence as part of this question series that that occurred so the member could probably add "if any" in there and he'd get there.Chris Bishop Who made the decisions to alter the recommended programme of investment devised by the Let's Get Wellington Moving governance group if any and do those decisions explain why the second Terrace tunnel and State Highway 1 undergrounding are not part of the final Let's Get Wellington Moving package?Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I just want to ask for your advice on this about the relationship to the primary question. It does seem to be a substantial question that's unrelated to statements that I've made.SPEAKER: Well I think there's a—Chris Bishop: Speaking to the point of order.SPEAKER: No I don't need it—I think there's certainly a suggestion that there's a Government policy or an action of a Government agency involved. The member hasn't—when I gave him a hand with the question—made an assertion that it had actually happened. It was a question about whether it happened or not and if so—I mean it's relatively easy for the Minister I think to deal with.Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: The final Let's Get Wellington Moving Cabinet paper was informed by official advice cross-party and ministerial consultation as is the case with all Cabinet decisions. There's nothing unusual about that. Cabinet made the final decision in order to support the aspirations of Wellingtonians to have a functional public transport which the previous Government failed to deliver.Chris Bishop: Is it correct as the New Zealand Transport Agency said to select committee this morning that they had no involvement in writing the Cabinet paper relating to the final Let's Get Wellington Moving package and if that is correct why was the Transport Agency not involved?Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: It would be highly unusual for the Transport Agency to be involved in writing a Cabinet paper.SPEAKER: Yes and there is also a responsibility question which I should've picked the member up on but keep going—I won't rule it out subsequently retrospectively.Chris Bishop: Well OK—SPEAKER: It's not this Minister's Cabinet paper is it?Chris Bishop: Well the announcement about the Let's Get Wellington Moving package was a joint announcement by both Ministers.SPEAKER: But the member asked specifically about the writing of the Cabinet paper which isn't this member's responsibility.Chris Bishop: Well I'm not sure that's correct but OK. Supplementary—SPEAKER: I beg your pardon? The member asked about the Cabinet paper which my understanding is—because you know we have had the Cabinet paper floating around on a number of occasions; it was a paper in the name of Mr Twyford.Hon Grant Robertson: Shall we just carry on?SPEAKER: We'll keep going shall we?Chris Bishop: Has she written any letters in her capacity as Associate Minister of Transport as well as the Green Party transport spokesperson in relation to the idea of banning petrol and diesel cars from being imported into New Zealand?Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: No."