Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): Thank you Madam Speaker. I want to begin by referring back to Julie Anne Genter the Green Party's spokesperson's speech who mentioned a lot about getting people out of cars and rethinking the way we do our transport system. I thought it was quite ironic really because very shortly we're all about to head off to the airport—those of us who don't live in Wellington—and we'll get a reminder of how well Green Party transport policy works when we're stuck in traffic on the way out to the airport. I think Let's Get Wellington Moving is a great thing that should be done; it's a great National Party policy. Unfortunately it's only necessary because the Green Party mucked the whole thing up and have caused this chaos in Wellington. And it's a shame in a capital city in New Zealand you can't get around—Hon Member: Greg O'Connor agrees. He's nodding.STUART SMITH: Even Greg agrees. He knows very well that's not a good thing don't you?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! The member won't bring the Speaker into the debate.STUART SMITH: Certainly Madam Speaker. There is quite a lot of talk about safety and I think absolutely there should be a focus on safety and I note that Waka Kotahi have spent quite a bit of time—particularly I note in my electorate are now proposing to put a cheese wire" barrier up a two-lane road a divided highway in an area where there'll be grape harvesters certainly going up that road at about 30 kilometres an hour. Nothing will be able to get past them. The unsafe design that they are proposing in the name of safety is unbelievable actually. It would be quite funny if it wasn't so serious and I think they've really got to go back and think about what they're doing and actually put the user at the front of their particular design work rather than going off on some random I think ideological-driven thought—and no pun intended by the way—in their designs. Because it's actually making things much worse and causing frustration that leads to accidents. And I note that lowering the speed limit in the Hundalees on State Highway 1 down to 60 kilometres an hour the local fire chief was asked to comment on that and they said "Wouldn't that lower accidents?" and he said "Well no it'll cause more because all of the accidents are on 45-kilometre-an-hour corners." So they've got to think about the roads that they design in the first place. Off camber corners non-geometric corners that get tighter as people drive around them they cause roll overs. That's what the issues are. We've got to spend the money on those things first. And this is on State highways that we get all our freight going down. We've got other modes of transport of course with rail and so on but unfortunately that's not the option for most of our freight.I think the tow bar debacle and certification that Simon Court from the ACT Party mentioned before that was a big issue just a while ago when all of the tow bars on trailers that were in the Ministry of Transport's view not adequately certified. And that caused a lot of chaos. Now we have to really get that right and that's going right back to the beginning and making sure the people that are doing the welding doing the designing are adequately trained and adequately certified. But a lot of these tow bars had been in service for quite some time. So if they were dangerous they weren't just dangerous on the day they decided to go and review all of this and pull all those trucks and trailers off the road they'd been unsafe for years in some cases. So we owe it in the name of safety to get these things right right from the beginning instead of leaving it way until after the fact when it could've actually caused quite serious issues. Same thing with buses and bus designs as the member mentioned earlier.So we do support this bill. It's good to have the right things in place to deal with these issues but the agency that actually administers this has to—[Interruption] I'm getting signals—actually get on and do the job with the legislative framework that they have. I think it's actually relatively simple stuff; unfortunately it often gets lost in the translation. They need to do their job properly and so I commend the bill to the House."