McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I've just got a lolly in my mouth so I'm just going to try and finish that up seamlessly so no one notices and everything will be good. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): I don't know if there's a Speaker's ruling on that.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: Ha ha! Well I mean this is the third time I've got the opportunity to speak on the Public Finance (Fines Collection Costs—Hon Rachel Brooking: In just one evening.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: —Budget Measures) Amendment Bill in just one evening as my colleague Rachel Brooking points out. That's because obviously we're in urgency and it always makes the bills feel a bit funny when there's not that break in between to just let things settle to think about things to think about the information—sometimes new information sometimes explanations from the Minister; all those things that might help create a better picture.But we're not afforded the opportunity to do that tonight because we are here in urgency. In fact this is the second bill that the Government has chosen to put up as part of the suite of bills that it will be taking through the urgency process which we can see now is obviously clearly going to take several days. It's the second bill that they've chosen to put up as part of the suite of bills that need to be passed in urgency as part of the Budget 2024. And what a wee ripper it is isn't it? The crown jewel in the Government's suite of policies that they're introducing.I can understand that it's been a little bit vocal from the other side of the House tonight as the Government backbenches have got quite animated about this bill. Sometimes opposite things happen and the less substantive something is the more you sort of overcompensate so there has been an awful lot—awful lot—of overcompensation tonight.But this bill specifically is a means by which to collect money to make the Budget add up. We know that for two different reasons. We know that because—Carl Bates: At least you're acknowledging it adds up.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: —it says Budget"—I said to try and add it up—Carl Bates: No you didn't; you said "so that it adds up".Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: Make a contribution—make a contribution. He's animated. Oh Mr Bates Mr Bates Mr Bates—it's like you're just gagging to be in Hansard.We know that that's what it's for because it occurs on two occasions—firstly in the title it literally says "Budget Measures" and when you look at the cost recovery impact statement as has been mentioned several times tonight to support the Government's priority of finding $1.5 billion. And yet on the other hand here we are rushing through a process of urgency. We've heard things tonight about the commencement date—1 July—kind of thrust upon councils with almost certainly not the requisite amount of time needed to lead in to make sure that this is seamless.We've talked tonight about the difference between good public policy and bad public policy and the fact that the Minister claimed that this was an example of good public policy despite the fact that (a) there's almost no evidence that this needs to be done in the first place—i.e. other costs not being met at the moment—and that (b) we keep hearing the same argument about some sort of inflationary effect with a proportion a percentage of an amount of course which adjusts.So I think finally as has been mentioned on several occasions we do need to consider this bill and we're allowed to because it says so in the title that it's about Budget measures. So we are allowed to and it's incumbent upon us to consider it within the context of the Budget. As I said the title affords us the opportunity to do that.And when I think about the context of the Budget this is another means by which the Government has desperately been trying to find money to account for reckless tax cuts and they've found money in various places. This is certainly not a headline Act. This is a small amount of money in comparison—certainly a small amount of money in comparison to the $3.3 billion worth of money that was hauled out of climate funding and certainly a small amount of money compared to the 13 new cancer drugs that were promised as part of this Budget and were not delivered on. The Government were really really specific about that and I think it does bear mentioning. The Government were really really specific when they removed the exemption for the $5 prescription charge that they were doing that to fund these drugs and they haven't done that which I think is deplorable. It's upsetting. And yet as several people have said tonight we could be debating those things we could be talking about those things but no we're not doing any of that; we are literally talking about parking ticket tax. I do not commend this bill to the House."