Hide Rodney: Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill — In Committee 
Hide Rodney: Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill — In Committee 
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RODNEY HIDE (Leader—ACT) 
: 
 Madam Chair— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: It works. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: It works. I will remember that. You are so lovely to me. [ 
Interruption 
] Doug Woolerton over there knows the Vela cheques went missing; some of them went missing. I say to Doug Woolerton that they did not get all of them. I want to address clause 5— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: I am delighted to hear it. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: —which covers the purpose of the Act. It sets out the purpose and it is missing a couple of purposes in my humble view. 
One purpose that is missing is Helen Clark’s purpose. She knows that she is not going to be Prime Minister after this election and she is wondering where one goes after being the Prime Minister of New Zealand. We know where Winston Peters is going after having been the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But Helen Clark does not want to be wearing a pinstriped suit with wide stripes and a number on it; she wants to be a big wheel on the world stage. So the purpose of this bill—clause 5— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: Yes but the member should not trifle. The debate is on the real purpose of the bill. The member should not imagine a purpose. I could have a debate and make up a whole lot of purposes that are missing from the bill. We are talking about the purpose that is here in the bill. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: This is the real purpose of the bill. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: I think you are trifling but you may continue. I am listening very carefully. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: Thank you Madam Chair. I have always listened to you because you are so good to me. Is it working? Clause 5(1) needs to have inserted in it— 
Hon Mark Gosche 
: The biggest bludger in the place! A complete bludger! 
RODNEY HIDE 
: He could take a few happy pills with you Madam Chair—“nice” pills. 
Hon Mark Gosche 
: You should have come to work and read the bill instead of bludging out there for 2 years off the taxpayer doing nothing! Wasn’t this member on the select committee? 
RODNEY HIDE 
: I have the feeling that Mark Gosche is not happy. I think he must be— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: Excuse me. Both of you sit down. Well one of you is up but I ask Mark Gosche to sit down. Can I have some order from both of you on both sides and can I have some concentration on the bill. We have had some excellent debates on this bill. Please do not make up imaginary clauses to this part. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: I would like to add to clause 5(1) a supplementary subclause (c) and I will speak to that. Clause 5(1)(c) would explain that the purpose of this bill is to allow Helen Clark to look good on the world stage and say that she can become a big wheel in the UN because when she was the Prime Minister she led the world in producing the most comprehensive economically destructive emissions trading scheme ever. That is what my amendment would say in clause 5(1)(c). 
Helen Clark now does not care about New Zealand; she cares about what is going to happen to her after the election. She certainly does not care about the economic damage this legislation will do to New Zealand; I covered that in my earlier speech. She does not care about the damage that is done to her Government and to this country’s reputation by clutching Winston Peters and his Tiberius corporation and the money from the Spencer Trust to her bosom. Clause 5(1)(c) in my amendment would explain that. Helen Clark is kissing goodbye to New Zealand and saying: “Look at me.” Helen Clark knows that she is toast at the election and I think it is appalling that we are rushing through this legislation with 785 amendments in the dying days of a teetering Labour-led Government with a Minister of Foreign Affairs with no portfolios—all baubles and no work. The real purpose that we are putting through this bill is for Helen Clark to say to the rest of the world and to her lefty mates: “Look what I did. To hell with New Zealand!”. 
I think this is a disgrace.