Hayes John:  
Hayes John:  
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JOHN HAYES (National—Wairarapa) 
: 
 What a lot of nonsense I have heard in the Chamber tonight. I say to Nikki Kaye that members opposite have lost not only Auckland Central but the country. Why have they lost the country? Let me tell the people of New Zealand about the quality of these 9998 amendments from Labour to Part 3. The first amendment states: “amend subclause 11(1) by omitting every word after ‘that’ and before ‘the other’ and adding 101 in its place.” The wisdom of members opposite takes these amendments through in exactly the same manner until we get to 9999. What a load of arrogant drivel! You are wasting the money of this community. 
Hon Steve Chadwick 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I am sure the member did not mean to bring a very good accountant into the debate by saying you are wasting money. Could you remind the member about the Speaker’s ruling? 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Thank you. The member is right. Do not bring the Chair into the debate. 
JOHN HAYES 
: Today in Greytown 61 people lost their jobs at a company called LWR Industries and what are we doing here? Those Labour members have brought all of these amendments that are absolute drivel into the Chamber and they have been doing it all day. I commend the Minister of Local Government for his excellent work. Rodney Hide has done a particularly good job of changing the legislation for the people of Auckland. The only way to drive this country forward is to have greater efficiency than we have now and I really commend the Minister. I also commend the commissioners from the royal commission—people like Dame Margaret Bazley who lives in Carterton in my electorate. 
As we consider Part 3 I want the Committee to think about how we are moving to a formula where there will be 20 councillors in Auckland. In my electorate of Wairarapa there are three councils covering 40000 people: Masterton Carterton and South Wairarapa. They have 29 councillors rather than the 20 serving 1.4 million people in Auckland. We need that reform because the councils are too small. In the past week South Wairarapa District Council put out a long-term council community plan with a projected increase of rates of 20.16 percent for the people who have lost their jobs just today at LWR Industries. That is totally unacceptable. 
The Labour Party and its acolytes people like Ron Mark are out to play games. Ron Mark wants to stand as the next Mayor of Carterton District but that is only subterfuge. He actually wants to use that as a lever to stand for the Labour Party in the next election. This is just game playing by those members. 
I come back to Part 3— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I ask about relevance. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Yes I have just indicated to the member that he should to come to Part 3. 
JOHN HAYES 
: The member who raised that point of order is totally irrelevant but never mind. I am talking about clause 33 of the bill about extraordinary vacancies that are created when people like Ron Mark pretend to stand for Mayor of Carterton District but are actually standing for the Labour Party. 
Auckland needs this amalgamation and we clearly cannot have an amalgamation of such a big group of separate territorial authorities without having the sort of transitional arrangements that are provided for in Part 3 of this bill. These transitional arrangements are not being put through by the Minister; they are being put in place through boundaries being determined by the Local Government Commission which will establish 12 wards no later than 1 March next year. They will also include the names of each ward the local board and its boundaries and the number of elected members of each board. There will also be 20 to 30 community councils. When those members on the other side of the Chamber say that there is no democracy I ask them how there can be no democracy if we have another 20 to 30 councils operating beneath the Auckland Council itself? I think this is very good legislation and I totally commend those who have drafted Part 3 of this bill.