Locke Keith: Eden Park Trust Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Locke Keith: Eden Park Trust Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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KEITH LOCKE (Green) 
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 The Green Party is supporting the Eden Park Trust Amendment Bill. We support the proper development of Eden Park as a good stadium not only for the people of Auckland but also for the people of New Zealand. I was in Taipei at the beginning of last year and one of the billboards advertising some products had “Eden Park” on it and it referred to New Zealand. I thought it gave an idea of the impact of rugby around the world our expertise at the sport and the way in which some of our grounds are highly respected around the world. 
In some ways it is good that commercial naming rights have never been given to Eden Park unlike some other stadiums. It is an authentic and traditional name and it is very well known. The ground is in the middle of the very green electorate of Mt Albert and we have all sorts of Green members scurrying around that electorate at the present time knocking on doors. 
When we heard these plans for the Rugby World Cup at Eden Park we thought the transport provision was quite good. There is a lot of work to go in getting proper public transport in Auckland but there is a whole scheme to get punters to the park for the Rugby World Cup by bringing in the trains from the west south and east and after the game they will go back the other way. So it is quite an efficient way of bringing people in by train and there are bus parking areas in the new development which I hope will be pretty full. So hopefully most people who go to the matches will go by public transport. 
The Greens support the revamping of the trustee system. I think that is relevant given the money the Government has put into the development of the park for the Rugby World Cup. 
I bring to the attention of the House the Attorney-General’s audit of this bill in terms of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. It is somewhat critical but it is not a reason for the Green Party to vote against the bill; I am sure this can be ironed during the select committee’s deliberations. The Attorney-General says that the bill offends against section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act a provision that among other things relates to mental disability. 
The Attorney-General says that people who have permanent assessments under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 are deemed not to be fully in control of their activities including mental activities and that it is fair enough to make that an approximation of their mental capacities to be a trust member and exclude them on those grounds. But in that Act there is a category of temporary orders provisional orders and they can come and go. They could be wrong in their assessment and it would be wrong to remove a person from the trust under a temporary order under that Act. Hopefully that will be tidied up at the select committee. 
It is great to see the Attorney-General acting in a very proactive way. He has done a number of audits of bills in terms of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act which the Green Party I think takes more seriously than other parties in the House. We look forward to more of those orders—well we look forward to them in one respect but we hope that the Government designs its bills so that these critical audits are not required. 
The Green Party supports this bill. There are other problems with Eden Park and the Rugby World Cup. One of them is the Major Events Management Act which was passed in the last Parliament. That Act prevents competitive advertising by people like McDonald’s the sponsors of the Rugby World Cup and the big multinationals. I think that the Assistant Speaker is indicating that my time is up so I had better finish at this point.