Hamilton RyanRYAN HAMILTON (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise and I want to tautoko the previous speaker Rachel Boyack and also acknowledge Tangi and Arena. We actually thought we might have to push them to get to our point of view and our resolution. In the end when we listened to the submitters we thought Actually we want to go big with this discount. We want to listen to the submitters." But in the end they were on board. So it was just fantastic and I want to thank them.I also want to acknowledge that I love travelling on our great expressways particularly ones that are 110 kilometres per hour. As I've mentioned the Waikato Expressway is just fantastic. The great thing about travelling at that speed is you actually feel safer you can go faster and of course we know it's such a great result for more productivity throughout New Zealand. And actually it's more fun too especially if you're playing just the right music at the right time. So I look forward to more of those roads as we now build in the maintenance repairs and the funding mechanisms that will enable us to do that.Also the Hon Damien O'Connor made some good mentions earlier about road maintenance and I might be paraphrasing but I'm pretty sure that road maintenance hasn't been too great in the last six years. And the great thing about this—Hon Damien O'Connor: It's a hell of a lot better than it was.RYAN HAMILTON: —the great thing—Tom Rutherford: 62000 potholes.RYAN HAMILTON: 62000 potholes I hear. I didn't realise it was that much. Thank you MP for Tauranga—fantastic. Imagine if we'd been collecting road maintenance—no no we have been collecting road maintenance. Imagine if we used road maintenance for road maintenance purposes! Wouldn't that just be amazing? But here is a tangible measure where we can get the funding stream. And here's a great word I want to use—because the left always talks about "equitable" and "equitable outcomes". Well the good thing about this road-user charge (RUC) is it'll be equitable; it'll be agnostic to the type of fuel but it'll be equitable in that it measures the amount of return we get based on weight and distance travelled. How wonderful.And isn't it good that this Government listens? It was interesting that actually National showing leadership way back in 2009 as visionaries for the environment thought "Let's subsidise the use of EV and electronic vehicles. Let's encourage that form of transport." And I'm pleased to report back that 15 years later we've hit success. We set a 2 percent target and we've achieved it—we've achieved it—and now we need to refine the policy because it's achieved what we set out to do. And in collaboration with our partners from ACT and New Zealand First we're now going to make a fit for purpose RUC.Hon Phil Twyford: A policy of low expectations.Hon Member: Oh you'd know! 100000 homes.RYAN HAMILTON: You set them very low. Thank you for that comment. We're going to increase it.Hon Phil Twyford: Congratulations—2 percent.RYAN HAMILTON: Yes the member did set those expectations very low.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Order! If you want to have this conversation please take it outside. I apologise to the member.RYAN HAMILTON: The Hon Julie Anne Genter also mentioned before about incentives. Well this was an incentive and it worked and again I must emphasise it achieved its purpose and we can now create a much more equitable outcome. In fact I don't know if the member for Maungakiekie is here but he said this is actually a win-win: we can save money and the environment. And he's quite keen to go and buy his second electric vehicle.The other good thing is that when we came into Government on the back of the previous Government's 2022 consultation—they went out at 20 percent reduction—we proposed a 30 percent reduction and I'm so pleased that today we're all in agreeance on a 50 percent reduction. And though we've been criticised for moving in urgency and moving in a very truncated select committee process it shows that we're an open-minded nimble pragmatic Government and this is a case in point. So this is really quite incredible.I must remind everyone in the House too that the primary purpose of the road-user charge is not carbon tax; the primary purpose of the Road User Charges Act 2012 is for this charge to be proportionate to the cost that the vehicle generates and that's today why we're talking about weight and distance rather than the use of fuel.Cameron Luxton also talked earlier about administration and obviously the opportunity and I guess the challenge now is the administration of that toll tax. But it was elucidating through the select committee process to see that actually 80 percent of our tolling money goes into administration and that's far too much. But the opportunity is of course also to reduce that to increase the amount that we can toll or generate through different roading mechanisms but also to get more efficient because we're keen to get more efficient so that we can use that money not for bureaucracy and Government bloat but actually for delivering outcomes for our road users.I'm also keen to see the registration stickers. I think it's always really good when you see fresh stickers on the windscreen and they're aligned and fresh and it's always good to have new registration stickers. And so that fee will go proportionately back to the renewal of those registration stickers which I think is really key.I think I'm just about at the conclusion of my delivery here but I thought I'd just emphasise that—Hon Scott Simpson: Start again.RYAN HAMILTON: Start again? Maybe I'll just reemphasise the point that we didn't hear a 20 percent consultation discount on the proposed road-user charge for plug-in hybrids. We went out on consultation with a 30 percent. Yes it was a truncated select committee process but the submitters came we listened and we're now proposing a 50 percent reduction on that plug-in hybrid rate. And so that's very pragmatic. And I'm also very pleased to see that.Madam Speaker you would have heard about the phrase "Bring back Buck". Well Madam Speaker we're going to bring back RUC!Plug-in hybrids will pay their way;no more free rides OK?Funds for maintenance and repairhelping get us out of disrepair.No more potholes and speed bumpsbut more productivity and pineapple lumps.Madam Speaker may I commend this billso that we can get our fillto build and maintain a more productive New Zealand and get us all back on track.CHAIRPERSON (Maureen Pugh): The question is that the motion be agreed to. Motion agreed to.Bill read a second time."