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RODNEY HIDE (ACT) 
: 
 Here is a Government that has no respect whatsoever for private property because that is what a restaurant is. That is what the Cuba Bar is. It is private property. No one has to go into it. If a person sets foot into a cigar bar that person is likely to know that cigars will be smoked there. No one is holding a gun to that person’s head and telling him or her to go and smoke a cigar. What will happen under this Helen Clark Government is that a person will go into the cigar bar have a wee brandy buy a beautiful Cuban cigar and then walk out on to Parnell Road in the cold to smoke it. That is what Helen Clark wants. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: The “Heleban” are in charge. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: It is the “Heleban” for smokers. I do not understand it. How come under this legislation one can still smoke in Parnell Road? Members should imagine it. People will be going along on the footpath. It used to be that all the smokers were in the cigar bar. Now people will not be able to get past because they are all out there puffing away. Where is the freedom in that? They will have to stand out in the cold smoking away and according to the “Heleban” it will be suddenly be dangerous to be on Parnell Road. What is wrong with people choosing to go into the Cuba Bar or into the Returned Services Association for a puff? It is because the “Heleban” does not like it. 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: The Greens want us to walk. We’re going to walk down pathways. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: The Greens do not mind if someone lights up a joint. They are happy about that because they say it is safe but people are not allowed to sit in the cigar bar and have a cigar. 
Here is another thing. Where is the logic according to the “Heleban” in allowing people to still smoke in their own houses? People visit us in our own houses. As I understand the “Heleban” we can sit at home and light up not just once but several times. We can sit at home having dinner and smoking. 
Marc Alexander 
: What about State houses? 
RODNEY HIDE 
: No one would not be able to smoke in a State house. I am sure the “Heleban” would apply to State houses because they belong to the Government. It will have all the people in State houses smoking outside. God forbid if this Government lasts another year— 
Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. 
Brent Catchpole 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. Before the dinner break you indicated that that would be the last call. I would like to point out that I have not had a call on this part at all and I have been calling for the last 2 days on it. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Clem Simich) 
: Thank you for that. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: Before the dinner break we were discussing the mad effects of the “Heleban” and how we understand it will now apply to State houses. I am looking at new section 10 in clause 6B which will apply to ships. People will not be allowed to smoke on a ship that is sailing in coastal waters unless it is a foreign ship. So people on a foreign ship can sail around New Zealand puffing away on pipes to their hearts’ content as long as it is not a New Zealand ship. Why is the law not applied in the same way to everyone including foreigners in New Zealand? I know why it is not. Foreigners would think that that was the maddest thing they had ever heard of. Someone sitting in the captain’s mess puffing on a pipe would have to put the pipe out when the boat crossed into New Zealand waters because the “Heleban” police might chopper in in a night-time raid and discover foreigners on a boat puffing on pipes. So foreigners have had to be excluded. 
Everyone here except for Craig McNair is old enough to remember the radio pirate ship  
Hauraki 
. We can all remember it. Well I have a cunning plan to make money. We are going to have in Auckland the pirate ship “ 
Cuba Bar 
”. That is what we will do and we will put that ship along and pile it up with all the people who would like to smoke a cigar with their friends in comfort. They will be able to smoke their pipes on the pirate ship “ 
Cuba Bar 
”. I invite people to come on board. We will steam out 13 miles give the proverbial fingers to the “Heleban” lie out there and smoke to our hearts’ content.