Tirikatene Rino: Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 10 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15414. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): I would like to make just a brief contribution in this debate on the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill. Just carrying on from my colleagues the Hon Nanaia Mahuta and Grant Robertson we have spoken at length about the travesty of the loss of iconic names like Te Waka Toi and Creative New Zealand and the fact that those names will be off limits. By extension this piece of legislation will create a single arts council the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and it cannot be called Creative New Zealand. This is the body that funds the arts for Aotearoa. Surely the Government can think of a nicer name than “Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa”.I would like to make a prediction. I actually think that there will be a new name that will be given to the Arts Council. I guess the same will apply to the Māori committee. The four representatives on that board who are there for Māori—they may not necessarily be Māori—will form a committee. I think it is a pretty sure bet that that committee will want to have its own name as opposed to just being a committee set up under clause 11 of the bill. So what we will see is a further rebranding exercise. There will be arebranded Arts Council and they will give it a flash name I hope something that is fitting of our arts community of Aotearoa. I am very sure that the four members of the Māori committee will also want to have a beautiful Māori name—Grant Robertson: Like Te Waka Toi?RINO TIRIKATENE: Exactly—it could be Te Waka Toi.It just shows you how redundant the provisions are. We know in practical terms that they will not be able to use these names but of course they will be creating their own trading name so that they can carry out their important mahi for the arts community. So I would just like to draw that point because I think it shows you how absurd this legislation is and how wasteful it is that we cannot use iconic names like Te Waka Toi. It is prevented. No person and no organisation can have any association with that name. As Mr Robertson said that already causes contravention around quite a large number of arts bodies right across Aotearoa who not only use that name but also use the other term “arts council”.I would also like to briefly go to the schedule. I actually think that this piece of legislation is very misleading. I alluded to this in my earlier contribution. It is misleading in the fact that the resulting Act will be called the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 2010. Here we are at the end of 2013 going into 2014. We are going to be passing a piece of legislation from 2010 and it refers to that in the title clause. This piece of legislation was introduced back in the last Parliament.So what we are seeing here is that it is misleading. If you are going to go back 3 years why not 10 years? Why not 20 years? Why not 30 years? You could make up a piece of legislation and put any commencement date on it. I think that the commencement date really needs to be addressed because it is misleading to say that it started back on 1 October 2011 and that it is a 2010 Act. I mean I understand that that issue was considered by the Government Administration Committee but it really makes a mockery of the whole legislative process if we can put through legislation and then just say that it gives effect back in time to 2010—it is from 2010—and the bodies and the persons that were in those positions were no longer in those positions back on 1 October 2011.I think that it should be addressed. If the date is amended it just needs to be amended to what it is. We need to start the commencement date at an appropriate time which is when the legislation has passed. Of course we hope that it does not really get to that point because we are opposing this bill and—