Mr. Charles Stanley-Smith:

I will come in to speak to two areas, the first of which is public transport. The whole area of Rural Link services is beginning to work.

Locally to us, the services operate a route that starts in one village, goes to the next and on to the next but anyone living off the route can dial in and ask to be picked up and the bus will pick that person up. It has that door-to-door capability. That said, it will not pick someone up every day of the week but once a week or whatever it is. That service is being developed but it is suffering from a lack of funding right around the country. It is great for people to have an option to say they want to go into town next Tuesday and ask to be picked up.

As for other areas, this is a personal thing but can we get money for electric bicycles? They, rather than electric cars, are the answer. I bought one earlier in the year and had the best fun I have had in many a year. I was going past a local training ground which is up a hill and there were a couple of young lads on their bicycles with their training gear and everything with them, and I flew past them. I live 10 km from the nearest town and I regularly bicycle that on my electric bike whereas I was never able to do it on an ordinary bicycle.