Nash Stuart: Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNash Stuart: Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 01 July 2015. Volume:706;Page:5015. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STUART NASH (Labour—Napier): We are talking about the title and commencement clauses. I think that the commencement date will come as a great relief to a whole lot of people who put submissions into this from 2008 onwards: “This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.” The thing about that that concerns megreatly—not about the clause itself—is that this has been on the Order Paper since 2008 and I am not too sure when we are actually going to get to the third reading. Hopefully it will be in this term of Parliament because some people have been waiting as we have heard for 112 years for this to happen. The Port Chalmers Bowling Club has been waiting since 1977 for this to happen. There are developments that have come and gone waiting for this to happen.So let us hope that the date that this comes into force is in fact 2015 and not 2016 because if it is 2017 it will be a Labour Minister who will be giving the third reading speech. It could be anyone. All we know is that if it is 2017 then there will have been the Minister Richard Worth there will have been Maurice Williamson and there will have been Louise Upston. In fact this was introduced by David Parker so already we are on our fourth Minister for Land Information. We could conceivably—quite conceivably due to the snail’s pace of the passage of this bill—be up to our fifth and potentially even sixth Minister because if it is 2017 when it gets its third reading speech then it could well be Minister Chris Finlayson who is giving the speech—Kris Faafoi: Hey hey hey!STUART NASH: Ha ha.Kelvin Davis: Kris Faafoi.STUART NASH: —Kris Faafoi giving the speech. If it is early 2017 it will be Chris Finlayson; if it is after the election in 2017 it will be Kris Faafoi—the honourable Kris Faafoi—giving the speech. Who knows where this could end up? It could be 2020 and it could be the honourable—I do not know—Peeni Henare giving the speech. It could be anyone—or Kelvin Davis. It will be a long time. The other thing—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): It is sounding a bit repetitive. I ask the member to find something a little bit new to say.STUART NASH: New to say? OK. Well the interesting thing is that the title of this legislation in clause 1 is actually the “Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 2008”. Maybe we could actually call it the “Reserves and Other Lands Disposals Act 2009 2010 2011 2012”—who knows where it will end because there is so much that could be in this.Again as one of the other National speakerssaid—and I cannot remember who it was—this could be called the “Richard Worth Memorial Bill” because this is I think the last speech he gave before he decided to go—Paul Foster-Bell: He’s not dead.STUART NASH: No his parliamentary career is well and truly dead Mr Foster-Bell. Beware of Richard Worth—he provides a good example of what not to do. Even though he was an extremely good lawyer it was a little bit of a waste of talent for him to enter Parliament. He started out as the MP for Epsom and ended up as a list MP who had to go and pursue other opportunities.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): Come on.STUART NASH: But mind you he did end up getting a PhD in this Parliament so it was not all wasted.Paul Foster-Bell: Doctor of Laws. LLD—Doctor of Laws.STUART NASH: Well no he got a PhD. Richard Worth got a PhD.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): Well let us not debate Mr Worth’s legal career. Let us have a crack at this: clauses 1 and 2 of this bill. The whole 2008 thing was funny for only the first 15 times so crack on.STUART NASH: Well what else can we call this bill? We could call this the “Port Chalmers Bowling Club (Thank God Our Lease Has Finally Been Ratified) Bill”. Its members have been waiting since 1977 to have that done. If there are any members of the original Port Chalmers Bowling Club still around they will be raising a glass of sherry when this bill passes through the House.Paul Foster-Bell: Which that party put the tax up on.STUART NASH: Well you never know. No we are not going to increase tax on sherry Mr Foster-Bell but you never know. It could be the “Nelson Marlborough District Health Board Land Act” because it has been waiting for the three parcels of land that were endowed to it that were gifted to it that were put in reserve to come upagain. But I think the most important thing is that we could call this the “Auckland Art Gallery Finally Being Ratified Bill” because the Auckland Art Gallery before the development went ahead was supposed to get ratified any work it did in Albert Park. It was supposed to come through. It has not. The Auckland Art Gallery has been built the ribbon has been cut and a number of exhibitions have gone through. I think it would be horrified if this bill does not go through the House only to find that—oh my goodness me—it has to cut off half the gallery.Or it could be the “Let’s Transfer Resource Management Responses From the Governor-General to the Minister of Conservation Bill.”—