Hayes John: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
Hayes John: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
[Volume:668;Page:14890] 
JOHN HAYES (National—Wairarapa) 
: 
 Chris Hipkins the previous speaker strung together a lot of highfalutin words which gave the illusion that he was smart enough to understand the game but I reflect and suggest that he was stupid enough to think that what he was saying was important. 
Chris Hipkins 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I am generally pretty comfortable with robust debate but I am not sure whether it is in order in this House—in fact I am absolutely certain it is not—for a member to call another member stupid. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Is the member taking exception to that— 
Chris Hipkins 
: I am indeed. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: —under Standing Order 116 “Personal reflections”? 
Chris Hipkins 
: That is correct. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: I ask the member to withdraw that comment. 
JOHN HAYES 
: Thank you Mr Chairperson. I certainly did not intend to— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: No I have ruled. 
JOHN HAYES 
: I withdraw and apologise and I certainly did not intend— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: No no. 
JOHN HAYES 
: I withdraw and apologise. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: That is it. 
JOHN HAYES 
: Part 3 of the Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill provides for this country to organise and have the greatest contest that it has ever experienced in the whole period of New Zealand’s existence. Part 3 is quite critically important in allowing 48 rugby matches to take place in 13 locations in this country. We are trying to use Part 3 and the other clauses of this bill to create a “Stadium New Zealand”—a vision to help to move this country forward. The vision set out and prescribed in Part 3 will enable us to portray ourselves as a great country on the world stage. 
Part 3 will help us to manage the 85000 visitors to this country who hopefully will leave a lot of money behind to support all sorts of small businesses: homestays taxi drivers bus drivers and other people. On top of that we will have a huge global television audience. That is what this bill is about. This bill in Part 3 is about creating New Zealand’s greatest event ever. Instead of celebrating this we are dealing with words like “truncated”. They are strung-together words that sound important but I can assure members that they are not. They are big words. The outcome of what we have seen in the House earlier this afternoon was having members just trying to be like Helen Kelly and hobbits. Part 3 is about trying to set up the underpinning of the greatest event that will occur in New Zealand in our lifetime. The Opposition is trying to pull this apart with negative comments about Part 3. 
This legislation will move this country forward. It will set up a Rugby World Cup Authority to help to do that. The authority established by this legislation will enable the granting of all sorts of applications for activities related to licensing and the prescribing of the use of land areas for other events where the Rugby World Cup will be involved. Clause 31(6) prescribes that— 
Sue Moroney 
: “Prescribes” is a big word. 
JOHN HAYES 
: I draw the member’s attention to the bill. If she had taken the trouble to read it she would find that the word “prescribes” is in the bill. For example clause 31(6) states: “The Authority may prescribe any other conditions that it considers appropriate including—(a) conditions that apply to any of the activities facilities or class of activity or facility to which the declaration relates;”. That is great jargon. What we need to keep very firmly focused on here is that this legislation will allow the greatest event to take place in New Zealand that this country has ever seen. I think it is critically important that this legislation allows our country to show itself off on the world stage in a way that leaves it full of credit and praise that adds significantly to the economy and that portrays New Zealand as the very highly organised host of a world-class brilliant event. Thank you.