Ross Jami-Lee; Allan Kiritapu; Rurawhe AdrianJAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany): I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I raise this point of order because earlier in the night you ruled out an amendment in Denise Lee's name. It inserts a new clause 12. I ask that you hear this point of order because there will be other amendments that seek to insert new clause 12 amendments as well. My understanding in discussions with staff in the building is that one of the reasons why this amendment was ruled out is because it incorporates an amendment to another piece of legislation—in this case the Education Act—and just for ease of understanding in this case the amendment in Denise Lee's name would have made some changes to section 139D which would have provided a requirement for the ministry to take an action in response to the regional fuel tax legislation. In this case it's around school transport.There are other amendments that are going to be coming along which will make amendments to other Acts as well that we're wanting to put forward. I don't believe it would be right on a wholesale basis—and I anticipate this may be a consideration you're giving. I don't believe it would be accurate to on a wholesale basis say any amendments that seek to insert a new clause 12 that incorporate another piece of legislation that is not already in the bill—I don't believe that would be the right decision because I submit to you that Part 2 already does include amendments to other pieces of legislation that are not required to make the regional fuel tax scheme workable.For example Part 2 includes some amendments to the Local Government Act around reporting. If the argument was that it must be an amendment in Part 2 that is required to make Part 1 work—if that was the argument—then I think that could be a basis for ruling out amendments. But in fact we already have in Part 2 a particular proposed change to a piece of legislation that is not required to implement the regional fuel tax scheme because reporting is not required for implementing the scheme.So I submit to you that it is in order for members of Parliament to put forward amendments which seek to amend other pieces of legislation if it can be related to the regional fuel tax scheme as the proposed amendments in the Minister's name already seek to do. Because we have the ability to consider issues related to a regional fuel tax scheme such as the Local Government Act amendments we should have the ability to put forward other amendments and other Supplementary Order Papers which seek to amend other Acts of Parliament because those are legitimate debating points about consequential issues that may arise that can be linked back to the regional fuel tax scheme. I don't believe Part 2 as it's currently drafted in the bill solely contains issues that must be addressed to make a regional fuel tax scheme workable.There are other issues that are superfluous but are related to the regional fuel tax scheme. We should also have the ability to put forward amendments that while superfluous to making a regional fuel tax scheme workable are still worthwhile of debate and I submit to you that when you give consideration to making rulings on future amendments that we put forward or may have already put forward you give consideration to the fact that the bill already contains matters very very similar to what Denise Lee proposed and was ruled out and what other members may be proposing as well.KIRITAPU ALLAN (Assistant Whip—Labour): The member opposite is effectively trying to try to draw out a debate on a very tightly—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): No no—e noho. E noho. No I don't need any of that kind help thank you. I want to thank the member for bringing this issue to my attention the way that he sees it. The reason why I ruled that particular amendment out was based on the fact that I believe that it should've been part of Part 1 not of Part 2 and as a rebate it should not be part of Part 2. However I'm going to take some further advice and come back to the committee. It may be a situation where I just allow the committee to be the master of its own destiny and make that decision for itself through a vote but I'll take further advice on that.