Henare Tau: Weathertight Homes Resolution Services (Remedies) Amendment Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
Henare Tau: Weathertight Homes Resolution Services (Remedies) Amendment Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 I want to make a couple of brief points. The first one is that the esteemed member of Parliament for wherever Shane Jones mentioned— 
Shane Jones 
: A very good member! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: That is right; he is a cousin of Hone Harawira the intrepid journeyman in Australia. He is a very close relative. 
Pita Paraone 
: “MP for the Northern Territory”! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: He is the “MP for the Northern Territory”. I digress. Shane Jones said we are talking about minor details but if they are just minor details then why were the Standing Orders suspended? The history of the House would not have been put aside if they were just minor details. I concur with my colleagues who have said that the first attempt to fix this problem happened in 2002 when the House promulgated— 
Shane Jones 
: That was in the past; look to the future. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Well let us look to the future after we have looked at the diabolical nonsense we have had from Labour over the last 5 years. It attempted to fix the problem in 2002 then in 2005 and now in 2007. The member says we should look to the future. Well a couple of words come to mind—“déjà vu”. We are doing something that should have been done in 2002 and should have been done in 2005. Now in 2007 we have put aside the history of the House by suspending the Standing Orders just so that we can try to fix the diabolical nonsense of this Government. It could not organise a you-know-what in a brewery. 
Dave Hereora 
: Talk about clause 3. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Why do we need to amend the principal Act? The only reason—[ 
Interruption 
] Mr Hereora is murmuring and muttering away but he will not take a call. There is not a mutter not a murmur from him—as a member of the House is wont to say. The member opposite would not even know what is in clause 3. The Government has suspended the Standing Orders but for what reason? It has done so— 
Paula Bennett 
: To make another stuff-up. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: —to make another stuff-up. Mr Jones wants me to talk about the future. Well what is going to happen in the future is there will be a new Government and it will be the new Government’s responsibility to fix up all of the mess and all of the mistakes made along that little way by that little Labour Government. [ 
Interruption 
] Exactly and we will take on the mantra of Clayton Cosgrove and we will do it once and we will do it right. That is what will happen; that is what the National Government will do in 2008. 
Shane Jones 
: 2080! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: No no not when that member is still here. Not when he is still here at the age of 100-and-whatever. What we will do is figure out things. We will get the experts in—not Clayton Cosgrove not the Minister of Corrections and certainly not Shane Jones—to deal with this issue and to sort it out. If Shane Jones is anywhere near the Minister’s seat we will be going through this again and again fixing up the diabolical mess and the diabolical nonsense that this Government has been on about for the last 7 years. There have been a number of stuff-ups and botch-ups just in this legislation. It behoves us all to make sure that when a bill is put before the House it is done right we do not waste the country’s time and we certainly do not waste taxpayers’ money. What this Government has done is a total waste of taxpayers’ money the hard-earned stuff that Shane Jones would not know about.