Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): The Government says they care—that they're caring and they're kind. The Prime Minister talks about being caring and kind and I agree with the sentiment. It's all very well talking about caring for people but it's another thing doing something about it.Unfortunately this Government does not care about the drivers on our roads—most of us here in this room. Despite Minister Genter talking about having a zero road-death target they are going to oppose this bill. They don't care that there are 79 deaths of drivers who had drugs in them as opposed to 70 who had alcohol. They don't care about what the Automobile Association says about the effects of drug driving. They don't care about what the police have said despite some of them having said they have spoken to them—I would dispute that. Go and talk to the cops. They do not have the tools to adequately address the drug-driving problem.They don't care about the victims of drug-drivers and they certainly are not caring about those people who will die as a result of drug-drivers by the time that lot organises some comprehensive—how many times was comprehensive" discussed or initiated today?—review of drugs whether it be supply—some of the members mentioned the supply—or distribution. Look this is very simple. This is a very very simple bill. This is about keeping people safe on our roads. This is about deterring drugged drivers from getting into their cars because they know that they can get away with it.I'll tell you what. I'll address the three arguments that Minister Twyford had and that have been brought up recently. The first is the technology—that there's not the technology to deal with the situation. Nonsense. Canada the UK and Australia all have saliva testing. The technology's around. It's been around for years. It's a multimillion-dollar industry. The technology is available. They're choosing not to read up on that issue. Section 21 of the human rights legislation around arbitrarily holding people up for three minutes—for three miserable minutes—to save lives—that's just too much! And I'll get to another point in a minute. And of course the third reason Minister Twyford and others have said is the cost: 48 bucks a test. And I would argue that it's actually about half of that.But here's the alternative. The alternative is the status quo because that's essentially what the Government is saying: the status quo is good enough; it's OK. But here we have the status quo. We have drug-recognition experts amongst our police. We don't have enough of them; there just aren't enough. Why? It is because it's expensive to train these guys. What do these guys do when they have a suspected drugged driver—the guy's clean of alcohol but he's blazed? What is the cop able to do?He gets a drug-recognition expert—got to find him somewhere. He calls him down the road—there's a couple of minutes. This cop has to do a 20-minute examination—20 minutes compared to three or four for a saliva test. Then the cop has to take him down to the police station—assuming he failed the physical test. That's about touching your eyes and your ears and saying your name backwards and having some sense of what the time is around you. Failing that the driver has to go down and get a blood sample. You've got to wake up a nurse or a doctor who's on call to conduct the test. And these guys are saying three minutes is too long to hold a person aside and that it's somehow a breach of their rights. And yet the cops are still able to pull a driver aside not for three or four minutes but for 20 minutes and more to get the tests done. And the blood results aren't going to be instant either. So the cost of that procedure is a lot more than $25—a lot more than $48 which is the number that Minister Twyford bandied around.It is disappointing that the Government has voted against this simple piece of legislation that's available in a number of countries and that would save lives if it was initiated. All these guys needed to do was chuck it in the select committee to enable that bill to be improved—to increase the number of drugs or reduce the number of drugs or increase that technology. On behalf of all the drivers in this country it is very disappointing from a Government who say they care."