Henare Tau: Real Estate Agents Bill — Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Henare Tau: Real Estate Agents Bill — Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 Well I suppose we could call Part 4 “When real estate agents go bad they go feral”. That is the meaning of the current title “Complaints and discipline”. 
It is interesting to look at clauses 71 and 72 which set out provisions to do with unsatisfactory conduct and misconduct. Who decides what is unsatisfactory? There is no list here. There is a wide view of what is unsatisfactory. It could be anything from spitting to whatever. But who decides that? Does the Minister decide that does the tribunal decide that or what? It is not pointed out here. I know that at school it was always the principal who decided what was unsatisfactory or the dean. But I am wondering— 
Charles Chauvel 
: You are wandering all over the place! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I am just wondering how long that member has got left in this House. 
Moana Mackey 
: Oh nice one stick around. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: It should not be very long. Then I turn to an issue that my colleague—[ 
Interruption 
] Oh here we go. One puts a little bit of bait out there and bang they just love to get it— 
Charles Chauvel 
: It beats having to give a speech on the subject. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I cannot help that fact. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: Come back to the bill and could those people not provide the base. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Absolutely I will come back to the bill! Clause 97 talks about some sort of disciplinary tribunal. Well who is going to appoint those people? Oh it is the Minister. So who does the Minister appoint? His mates. 
Hon Member 
: It’s not the National Party. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh no. It is all about appointing mates. Who do members think will get appointed to the tribunal? Well for a start it will be all the members of the Labour Party who lose their seats in the next election because they will not have anything to do for the next 3 6 or 9 years—most probably 9. But never mind. 
Moana Mackey 
: That member did lose his seat. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: There we go: out goes the bait and bang there they go again. Well at least I did work when I was out of Parliament not like some people in this House who relied on—but I will not go there. 
The fact of the matter is that we all know that there are bad eggs out there. We all know that there is the odd rogue element out there but boy I tell members that it is easier to get a gun licence and walk down Queen Street with an AK47 than it is to comply with the sort of stuff we see before us. For years and years we have had a system whereby real estate agents who go bad are turfed out run out by the industry itself. Part 4 like the other parts is nothing more than overkill nothing more than smacking a little nut with a huge sledgehammer. That is all it is. 
The disciplinary tribunal is all about Government members selecting their mates for their jobs. 
Moana Mackey 
: Their mates? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Their mates for their jobs and I tell that member who it will be. Lynne Pillay will be there because she will not win her seat and she is not high enough on the list to get back in. Paula Bennett will win her seat. That is what it is all about—protecting their mates and jobs for their mates. That is all it is. 
Lynne Pillay 
: National Party hopper! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh absolutely and absolutely proud of it and absolutely proud of the fact that I have come from small to big and from being not so good to being brilliant. That is all I have to say on Part 4 at the moment. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: I call Kate Wilkinson and my apologies to you Kate before. Sometimes your voice needs to come through the bulk of the person in front of you. But go on. 
Hon Tau Henare 
: I raise a point of order Madam Chairperson. When we get some asides we have the opportunity to ask for a withdrawal and apology. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Marian Hobbs) 
: I withdraw about your bulk. It was a geographical feature.