Borrows Chester: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — First Reading 
Borrows Chester: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — First Reading 
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CHESTER BORROWS (National—Whanganui) 
: 
 It is great to see the way that a certain tournament in South Africa with a rather oddly shaped ball is whetting the appetite for sporting tournaments around the world. 
H V Ross Robertson 
: It’s a round ball; it’s a good shape. 
CHESTER BORROWS 
: It is a rather unusually shaped ball that is being kicked around in South Africa. 
We are looking forward to the tournament that will be here next year. I am very pleased to see a number of members of the Parliamentary Rugby Team represented in the Chamber tonight. We are building up for that parallel tournament which will rage between the various Parliaments around the world as we seek not to defend but to win again the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup. People will know that before then of course on 11 September the Parliamentary Rugby Team will take on a mayoral fifteen in Wanganui. All sorts of people are coming out of the woodwork to have a crack at the captain of the other team. I look forward to seeing Steve Chadwick and Amy Adams locking in our scrum. I look forward to the celebration that will follow. 
Only a couple of Saturday nights ago I was at New Plymouth at Yarrow Stadium supporting our Taranaki All Blacks as we did a bit of a dry run in preparation for the Rugby World Cup. We went over the security measures and the alcohol measures the previous speaker my colleague Phil Twyford has just been speaking about. It is true that we need to get a number of our ducks in a row in preparation for this celebratory event. We have done that through the Justice and Electoral Committee for instance. We have processed the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill and we have foreseen the problems that will arise and the security measures we need to have in tow. The Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill will take account of the changes we will have to make to the way we do business in tourism in this country to account for the changing culture that has occurred over the last 23 or 24 years since we last had a Rugby World Cup here. 
I just carry on from what the previous speaker was saying and note that the way we do alcohol in this country has changed significantly. The previous Rugby World Cup came under legislation that was prior to the 1989 Sale of Liquor Act and all the changes and amendments that have occurred since then have sought to account for changes in hours changes in availability changes in access changes to the actual alcohol we are drinking the levels of alcohol we are taking in per drink the way people and the police are responding to that and the way the rest of society has responded. So it is no surprise that we need to put some permissions allowances and tolerances in place to make sure that as the excitement builds and the expectations rise in respect of this tournament it is seen only as a celebration and there are no big regrets afterwards which could well happen if things get out of hand and if restrictions are too tight or too loose and people get hurt in the celebration of this wonderful event. 
So we look forward to seeing this bill progress through the House. We are grateful for the support it has received across the debating chamber and we look forward to the debate within the select committee process. We know we need to move speedily on this; not so speedily as to be negligent but speedily enough to maintain caution and to be circumspect about those things that will impact on this event being a truly memorable one for rugby lovers around the world. And what a privilege it is that it will be hosted in our country. Thank you.