Kemp Takutai TarshTAKUTAI TARSH KEMP (Te Pāti Māori—Tāmaki Makaurau): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Te Pāti Māori do not support the Government's transport agenda. Let's start firstly by saying that this is not about the cost of living. We've already heard from this Government about their anti-beneficiary anti - wage earner policies where they want to sanction beneficiaries and cut the yearly increase for minimum wage. So let's not have a cost of living discussion with this policy.Our policy is for free public transport that is accessible and efficient. This could be implemented immediately with tamariki students and community services card holders and be made free for everyone within five years. Our policy is to ensure that urban planning and infrastructure allows for safe cycling and walking paths and that cheap and accessible public and active transport is also prioritised in regional and rural Aotearoa and not just in our major cities. That is the whakaaro behind our position today.This Government campaigned to build 15 new roads and has pledged $500 million to fix potholes. The one pothole they cannot fix however is the $24 billion pothole in their Budget. It's the road users that are going to have to be paying for their reckless policies.On top of road-user charges they are putting up regos by $50. That money will go towards funding 50000 roadside drug-tests which they will be making back by increasing fines. They are cutting cycleway and walkway projects creating more congestion on the roads and then increasing congestion charges at peak-hour traffic. How many people here have sat in peak-hour traffic in Tāmaki-makau-rau? It's a nightmare.This Government is taking the option away from people to use reliable public transport forcing them to sit in traffic and then pay for it because they cannot plan more than three years ahead. By disincentivising electric vehicles while at the same time cutting public transport this Government is fuelling climate change.We're in urgency so just a message from some of our community members across Tāmaki-makau-rau who want to be able to share their thinking. The first message I got today was Takutai Aucklanders don't feel confident in this Government."Shanan Halbert: They're confused.TAKUTAI TARSH KEMP: They are confused exactly—they are confused. But they don't feel confident with this Government. Here's the thing: this Government wants to cancel projects. However these projects are already under way. They've still got to go ahead. We've still got to find the money for them. They can't just stop. One of the projects that was mentioned was: what's going to happen to the safety for our school kids that are needing the flashing lights the traffic lights to keep those tamariki safe when they're going to school? That's one of those projects. The community are asking: what happens? Does that mean it doesn't go ahead now and then our kids are unsafe on the roads when they go to school where they should be at their safest? Have you seen the roads down Mahia Road in Manurewa? My gosh they are dangerous. Our kids need safe roads to cross when they're going to school. Even outside Manurewa Marae it's a main road along there. Reducing the speed of traffic along that main road of Finlayson doesn't help; it needs the flashing lights to get people safe across the roads.This bill also creates another debate: it's not just about transport; who's going to be responsible for the drainage after the flooding? Who's going to be responsible for the cesspits caused in Parnell? It's all interrelated: infrastructure and transport. This is what Aucklanders are asking. So I'm here to say that Te Pāti Māori on behalf of our whānau in Tāmaki-makau-rau do not support this bill."