CHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Madam Speaker, thank you very much, and I thank the Minister for his contribution to the debate. I had the privilege of serving on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee that considered this bill, and we did do a thorough job over recent months in considering this bill. This bill is actually quite an important one in the way it makes changes to the funding and planning framework for rail, and it can't be divorced from the Government's wider changes around rail in New Zealand: the development of a New Zealand Rail Plan, and huge increases from Crown coffers to rail via both direct Crown contributions but also the much-criticised—but much-loved by the other side—Provincial Growth Fund.