Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Five whole minutes from the Deputy Prime Minister and not a single thing said about the Government's good work! And there's a really good reason for that: because there is no good work going on by the Government. But I'll do Mr Robertson's job for him; I'll talk about the Government's activities. I thought that the hardest task of a Minister in this Government was to do a worse a job in their role than Phil Twyford! Well ladies and gentlemen we have a winner and the winner in the talk big but do nothing" stakes is his successor in the transport portfolio Michael Wood.I want to start with the car tax because now we have hard-working farmers tradies and large families being taxed up to $5175 so that well-off people can pay less for their electric vehicles (EVs). And we now know that for used EVs at least more than half of that tax is going to go to Japanese car exporters. The industry warned the Minister and Treasury warned the Minister and said that that was absolutely likely to happen. Three days after the policy was announced a 2017 Nissan Leaf went up by over $2200. More than two-thirds of the subsidy is going to Japan. This Minister is perfectly happy with a policy that takes money out of the hard-working pockets of New Zealanders and that gives it to overseas exporters. And if the subsidy runs out because people do take up EVs it is going to be paused. But what is going to happen if there is more money taken and all of that tax is not needed? Will that be given back to those hard-working tradies and farmers? Not on your life Mr Speaker.And whether they are electric or hybrid or petrol these vehicles need roads to travel on. But every single transport document that Mr Wood releases shows how much he hates cars and how much he hates roads. The best example of that is the rort that is the New Zealand Upgrade Programme: $7 billion - odd of that was to go into roads—announced I should say by the previous National Government and then promptly cancelled by Mr Twyford but at least he only did it once. The Government comes along in an election year knowing they are under pressure and re-announces all of those roads. Five minutes after the election we have a pause we have a re-baselining and the biggest projects in that are cancelled again. Papakura to Drury South Whangārei to Port Marsden Mill Road Takitimu and North Highway: all gone. And we know that the four-laning of State Highway 21 to Piarere didn't even make the list; one of the most dangerous roads in the country still taking lives. But we know that Ōtaki to Levin got funded and we know that the Melling Interchange got funded—and what do they have in common? Well they're marginally held Labour seats. Well I tell you what that's a back-handed compliment to Mr Bayly and Ms Collins because they don't think they are going to win Papakura or Port Waikato but they are worried about losing Hutt South to Mr Bishop—and so they should be.That is not all of the roading projects that they've canned. Every single council up and down the country is hopping mad with this Government and this Minister for breaking the commitments that they made for regional road maintenance and improvements. I see Mr Mooney over there his Southland district mayors are on a war path with the dozens of bridges that are having weight restrictions or bypasses on them and roads that are having actually quite heavy freight on them with Fonterra trucks and other dairy trucks where the road-user charges are going to Auckland but the money is not going to Southland. And every single council from Northland to Coromandel Auckland Wellington Christchurch Dunedin Balclutha they are all saying that this Minister has taken money away from them and they ask the obvious question: where is it going? Well we know where it is going; it is going on a cycleway across the Waitematā Harbour—$760 million taken out of their pockets and given to the 2000 cyclists on the North Shore that want to have a bridge to go over.That speaks to the priorities that this Government has—and it ain't roads and it ain't cars and it ain't freight trucks. They hate cars. They don't want to fix these roads. They don't want to improve road safety. And that Mr Wood has done what I thought I would never ever see and that is make Phil Twyford look good!"