Sosene Lemauga Lydia; Kuriger BarbaraLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour—Māngere): Thank you Madam Chair. I really appreciate being selected to take a call and make a contribution. I want to speak to my amendment which is under clause 7 and it says to delete the words 1 to 3" and replace with "1 to 2".I want to highlight to the Minister that I am the member for Māngere where the international airport is and where the domestic airport is and I'm sure many of the colleagues across the Chamber—particularly on this side—come from Auckland and know the area well. Minister I'm not sure if you know of the projects that are happening locally. So there has been a strong focus in terms of road safety and the Hon Damien O'Connor spoke about why it is important to have intervention.The repeal of the regional fuel tax heavily impacts on the continual delivery that the people in Māngere have seen. There has been a strong focus on pedestrian safety on cycleways delivery on serving the people of Māngere which has actually served people of Greater Auckland and South Auckland because Māngere does not want to be an island where there's congestion and continual roadblocks and continual cone city.I wanted to highlight the project Minister in terms of the trends and what we have found with this project—local transport project called Te Ara Mua - Future Streets—and the success of that specific project has benefited because the funding has remained not just from central government but also from Auckland Council and the local community. That specific transport project has made the streets around Māngere centre around our main precinct safer by increasing the visibility and especially for our walking and our cycling community. So in Māngere—I'm just going to highlight very quickly in my time that a number of main streets in Māngere were like highways. They were not safe; not safe for families not safe for our kaumātua who have to walk aided and also too we have a disability community. This specific project has allowed the streets to be redesigned and we have local roads that have reduced traffic for up to 30 percent—and that has been measured Minister.So Minister I just want to ask some quick questions with regards to my amendment because it's important that airport access is in the suite of options—and I know the Minister has highlighted and thank you Minister: you have highlighted what is going to be kept in terms of local road improvements. I want to really emphasise and put on record that suburbs around the Auckland International Airport if there is not that continual funding are going to continue to be gridlocked and you can sit on a on a busy street in Māngere trying to get into the airport.So Minister I wanted to highlight to you that we actually have the statistical data that has benefited from the funding of the regional fuel tax because Auckland Council has seen that the investment the local transport investment has not only benefited the local community but everybody using the airport in and out and even on the Pauanui interchange. I want to highlight also for the Minister that when you have a community who has not been served well in terms of transport infrastructure and to have that behaviour changed because you've got better public access on public transport people are more confident in walking local streets; it's a healthier option. The repeal of this regional fuel tax does not benefit lower socio-economic communities like Māngere and others in South Auckland. What we do know is that when communities like ours benefit then the whole of Auckland benefits as well.So Minister my question is: will you in terms of the local road improvements continue to engage; continue to consult the communities through your officials? Because we have benefited—we are a community that you can see the benefits are not just for old people not just for community but especially our young people who are in a modern age and I'd like to put that question to you. Thank you.CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): I'm going to take a call from Arena Williams because I know that you indicated before that there are some more questions. What I want from here on in—and we are in the urgency and we are making allowances for that. The Minister's made it very clear that he's chosen three projects and that others will not be part of. So I understand the local passion for those projects but really looking for questions now around the technicality of what's actually happening with the repeal of the bill. So I welcome Arena Williams to ask her other questions that she hasn't asked yet."