Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Madam Chair. This is an excellent new part that has been in the name of Brett Hudson. Speaking as the former Minister of Energy and Resources and in fact the Minister who with the support of my colleagues started the fuel price study of petrol and diesel prices last year and that came back from a Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment study along with support from economists and other experts in the area. It came back with a finding that because some of the fuel companies in fact from memory Mobil—actually not from memory; I know it very well—and also the Gull people did not provide all the information they were supposed to and promised to do so but BP did and Z Energy did.What that was very clear about was that there was a great deal of concern that people—ordinary New Zealanders who go and buy their petrol and their diesel—were right to be concerned. We were right to be concerned and I acknowledge the Minister the Hon Stuart Nash who was the then Opposition spokesperson for the area who first raised the issue with me and was supportive of the work that we did.Since then we've got a new Minister in the situation of energy and resources and that's the Hon Dr Megan Woods. Megan Woods has humped and talked about it and carried on but she's actually done nothing to bring about the changes that we in Government approved through Cabinet in about August last year just before the three-month period came in for an election.So this is a very genuine attempt by Brett Hudson to help out that Minister to actually get this issue dealt with—in a way that her amendments to the Commerce Act clearly are not moving anywhere—and this is a very sensible way to deal with it. The Minister who is in the chair Phil Twyford has previously stated that this is an issue that needs to be dealt with so he actually had the chance to deal with it and he didn't. His inability to deal with that has been picked up and assisted by Brett Hudson to try and get him out of this hole that the Government has got itself into.So it's now been what eight months of this particular Government. They talked a lot about the different energy prices around the country the fuel prices. We know fully well that there is this thing called the Gull effect in the prices of petrol and diesel. We've heard of some very very strange behaviours from some in the market. I recall that BP had some interesting comments about how they were putting up the prices in Ōtaki so that it was less obvious that places like Levin—where apparently there is a Gull station there—were being discounted because of the competition from Gull.This is actually a very serious issue and when we know that this regional fuel tax which was only going to be for Auckland and which now is going to be able to be done for the whole of the country—that this is actually a way of dealing with a situation where New Zealanders who pay for their own petrol and diesel are right to say that there's something very strange going on when they can go to one big-named petrol station in one town and in the next town it's an entirely different price and that price is very much based on whether or not there seems to be either a Gull station there or a Waitomo Group station or one of the other smaller independents.So this is this Minister's opportunity to get off his high horse to listen to the Opposition and to get up and speak in favour of this amendment and this side of the House might actually increase its view of him. All we've heard so far from him has been sanctimony and actually put-downs of people who have generally tried to help his bill so that's his condescension writ large.