Jones Dail: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
Jones Dail: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: On reading through the interpretation clause I presume it is still correct to say that there is an Industry New Zealand meaning the Crown entity established under section 7 of the Industry New Zealand Act along with the new Crown entity that is also to be established under clause 7 in Part 2. However clause 3(2) states: “New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is the Crown entity responsible for facilitating (in co-operation with industry central and local government and relevant community groups) the development and implementation of strategies programmes and activities for trade industry and regional development as directed by the Government.” 
I want to focus particularly on my area of interest and to ask the Minister what is happening with the land at Whenuapai which is currently the Royal New Zealand Air Force base in Auckland. Someone in the department has set up an officials committee to look into the future development of the area— 
Hon Jim Anderton 
: That’s nothing to do with this bill. 
DAIL JONES 
: Why should it not be? This bill relates to development and we want to see development. The Minister is telling us that he does not want to see development and that development has nothing to do with this bill when surely that is what this bill is all about. Either it is about New Zealand trade and enterprise and development or it is not. I have read out the purpose clause to the Minister and I will read it out to him again to remind him what it is he is doing because it relates to “the development and implementation of strategies programmes and activities for trade industry and regional development as directed by the Government” and that is to be done “in co-operation with industry central and local government and relevant community groups”. 
 There could be no better example of such a regional development or a development proposal than the use of the 300 hectares of land that is currently RNZAF Base Auckland. I would ask the Minister if this has not occurred to him and to the minority Labour Government supported by United Future to start— 
Darren Hughes 
: And 54 percent of New Zealand. 
DAIL JONES 
: How many? Fifty-four percent of New Zealand—and going down as Lance Adams-Schneider would have said in the good old trade and industry days. It should occur to them now. The Minister is telling the people of Waitakere City North Shore City and Rodney District that he is not interested in the way that this type of department and Government strategy could work in that area. I would say that on the North Shore there are 200000 people in west Auckland—in Waitakere City—we have about 200000 people and around the immediate area of Rodney District we may have another 40000 to 50000. So I can tell him we have approximately 400000 to 450000 people in that area who are interested in the future development of Whenuapai. 
This Minister was able to interfere at Hobsonville and set up a failed boat-building enterprise. I give him credit for trying to do something because that is what this is all about. New Zealand First says that we want to assist. We want to try to get things done and to actually develop real things not just bring in hundreds of thousands of immigrants and try to live off their money but really develop something for New Zealand itself. I thought that was what this bill was all about—New Zealand trade and enterprise. If we are going to match say the development that has taken place in Albany—which was a result of the National Government coming in in 1975 and not allowing the land to be used for State houses and of its being developed so well over the succeeding 18 years or so with the assistance of members of Parliament and Takapuna City Council and then North Shore City Council—I would see a similar type of development being considered in the Whenuapai area. 
An officials committee was set up and we had a Government official stand up at a meeting at Whenuapai and tell us that the committee was considering the matter. One assumed he was the man from the ministry and one assumed he was the man from Jim Anderton’s ministry but it seems that Jim Anderton does not want to know anything about that. I think the various people in Waitakere City North Shore City and the Rodney District deserve a response from Jim Anderton the Minister because if he is not telling us that it was an utter waste of time to have that officials committee and that nothing will be done under his ministry we need to know that. Otherwise what is the point of people taking any notice of this minority Labour Government? All that Jim Anderton wants to do it would seem is to flood the area with State houses for people who have only just arrived in New Zealand. He does not seem to be at all interested in what New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses—and immigrants’ businesses—may want to develop in Waitakere City where development is so necessary.