Potaka TamaTAMA POTAKA (National—Hamilton West): Kia ora Mr Speaker and thank you for the opportunity to speak to this third reading of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Bill. It was interesting to hear about that vision of the Labour Party and it's useful to know that that vision will be a rear vision in Kowhai Park and the Dublin Street McDonald's by the previous member who just spoke Steph Lewis as National returns to Government in a couple of months' time.Now safety is the focus of this bill and I wanted to mention a couple that actually died driving in Dunedin in the last couple of days. It was noted in the New Zealand Herald that the children survived but this couple didn't—very sad story.This bill is one that we are happy to support although there are a couple of pot-holes in this bill that I wanted to comment on.Barbara Kuriger: Only two?TAMA POTAKA: Three. The public need safety on the roads and this situation we have with fleeing drivers—double the number of fleeing drivers recorded between 2021 and 2022 compared to the previous year—is something that the bill seeks to address and seeks to attend to. Fleeing drivers have been a problem not only in Whanganui where the previous member mentioned but also in places like Hamilton—Hamilton West down Ulster Street—and other places in that great city of ours.So enabling more enforcement tools for fleeing drivers we absolutely support. Seizing and impounding various waka if they fail to stop—that's something that we're happy to support as well but the enforcement tools around point-to-point cameras that's something that we don't support. We don't support that part of the legislation primarily because you know less than 10 percent of the crashes that cause fatal injuries are caused by speed. What we think the Government should be focused on and this legislation should have addressed along the way is more effort around drink driving drug driving—kombucha driving is OK—wearing seatbelts and other tools and mechanisms that the police can use to ensure that people are driving safely. So that's the big focus for the National Party.Now we will help restore and encourage greater safety on the roads by doing things at an infrastructure end by building that great highway between Kahikatea Drive and the Waikato Expressway by widening roads by fixing pot-holes and by doing other things and we think that more effort should have been put into that space into that area rather than the narrow focus that's enabled by this bill.In our thinking there's broader infrastructure issues that can enable public safety on the roads in a better manner. This bill focuses on two or three things that are caught up in the promises of the current Government to the electorate but reducing the fleeing of cars is something that we're absolutely supportive of.There are some broader issues around crime that intersect with this legislation such as the absolute focus of the current Government on reducing the prison population. The Government says Well all is well in that space." but we actually think that the fleeing drivers and some of the public safety concerns intersect with the criminal justice system.So what we're saying today is yes we support this bill it's heading in the right direction we know it's at the third reading; no we don't support everything but we're happy to see it through to the next stage. Kia ora tātou."