B010 Amendment Opening Speech

Mr (Deputy) Speaker,

It is a great honour to once again bring before this house a piece of legislation, in fact my first bill, in the area of transportation. The amendment I bring to the floor for debate today is largely to fix a small number of oversights and omissions in the Local Transport Act 2014 passed by this house in its first Parliament.

I would like to take the opportunity to welcome the right honourable member /u/peter199 to the chamber once again, as he takes his position as the member for Scotland. I am sure he will continue to look out for his constituents as he has done before. I would personally like to again, thank the honourable gentleman for his support in drafting this bill and the input he has given on a number of occasions in particular when we discovered the need for this such amendment. He has been of great help in refining the particular wording of this bill and sharing his extensive knowledge of transport legislation. I hope that we shall continue to work together to improve transportation in our fine nation without the need for much partisanship. I believe that all members of this house will agree when I say the Britain and it's people deserves nothing less than the best in world class infrastructure and public transportation and I hope by passing this amendment we should be making steps in the right direction in achieving this goal.