Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker and can I just acknowledge the previous speaker Meka Whaitiri and some of her comments. Regarding the officials who reported to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee of which I was the chair they stated that there wasn't that evidence. We asked them why not in terms of the data. They came back to us and said there is limited evidence about the scale of drug and alcohol use by people in the maritime sector reflecting in part that historically in the absence of a testing regime such data was not collected. So we need to understand that the context of the lack of data is because there wasn't a collecting regime.We support this bill. However I'd like to say that I am disappointed that the Supplementary Order Paper 6 has come through that removes mandatory drug and alcohol testing. We need to understand where this recommendation for mandatory drug and alcohol testing came from and that is essentially based on the tragedy that happened at Carterton where 11 people lost their lives in a ballooning accident. It was investigated by the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) and they concluded that the balloon pilot made an error of judgment when contact with the power lines became imminent and he tried to out-climb the power lines rather than using the rapid descent system to drop the balloon quickly to the ground below. Toxicology analysis of the pilot after the accident tested positive for THC suggesting that he may have been under the influence of cannabis at the time. So they recommended to the Government that maximum alcohol levels for aviation maritime and rail be put in place that post-incident drug and alcohol be put in place and the introduction of legislation to require aviation maritime and rail operators to implement drug and alcohol detection and deterrent programmes including random testing. That was the recommendation of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission.So in 2012 following that accident the Ministry of Transport commissioned the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research to estimate the size of the problem in New Zealand based on international evidence because we lacked it here. Their research looked at the impact of alcohol and drug use in aviation maritime and rail sectors in other countries. The overseas data on fatalities linked to impairment from alcohol or drugs shows that approximately 12 percent of all fatalities in the aviation maritime and rail sectors were due to impairment. Applied to New Zealand's fatality data for the last 10 years this equated to 61 preventable deaths over that time. For the same period of time TAIC investigations found that drug and alcohol impairment may have been a contributing factor in eight accidents involving 41 fatalities.This is the issue: that we do not have the data that members on the opposite side of the House have stated—Hon Shane Jones: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. During the course of earlier debates we had Deputy Speaker Tolley direct people back to the relevance of the certain stage of the parliamentary debate. Can I direct your attention to Speakers' rulings 121/4-6 and can you give some guidance Madam Assistant Speaker as to how that recitation of international drug stats is in any way relevant.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I thank the member for your intervention and I would encourage the member currently on the debate to stay close to the provisions of the third reading which is really a summation of the bill thus far.JONATHAN YOUNG: Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker and I'm about to conclude. I would just like to say that the third reading has always been a broad-ranging debate encapsulating many aspects that have been debated and we have heard today from a number of speakers reference to this mandatory drug and alcohol testing. So I'm bringing some context as the chair of the committee that did this work to this Parliament and to the people of New Zealand. Thank you very much Madam Assistant Speaker.