Roche Denise: New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoche Denise: New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee[Sitting date: 06 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14457. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DENISE ROCHE (Green): It is my pleasure to speak for the second time this evening on this Part 2 of the New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill. This is where we get into the guts of the deal—the regulatory concessions. I think it is worthwhile to have a look at those regulatory concessions once again because essentially this deal is a memorial to greed and to deprivation. The regulatory concessions include as we have heard 230 extra pokie machines and 12 automated tables with 20 seats at each. So that is 470 pokies effectively plus 40 gambling tables. It also includes a 27-year extension to the existing licence and it calls for a couple of concessions I guess around the technology for paying for gambling and that includes ticket-in ticket-out.I have no idea why the Government agreed to this. Also it ensures that 17 percent of those machines can accept money denominations of $20 notes and higher. This is money for jam for money-launderers. They love this stuff. They absolutely love it. It came through in the advice that was offered to the Commerce Committee that if you want to prevent crime if you want to reduce crime then do not do this because this is how the P cooks launder their money. They are going to be having a field day with this. But at least the police—who will be working harder than ever because of the increase of problem gambling from the increased number of gambling machines and gambling opportunities—will know where to find the P cooks. They will be in the casino the casino that will be paid for by the cost that we will all bear as taxpayers through problem gambling and through crime.If this Government were serious about a deal for a convention centre and if it were serious in negotiating with a good corporate citizen then that good corporate citizen would not negotiate and the Government would not allow an increase in crime as a way of paying for a convention centre that is supposedly—Mike Sabin: Social harm from gambling but none whatsoever from cannabis.DENISE ROCHE: —to benefit the economy for all New Zealanders. It is not going to do that Mr Sabin. Skycity is laughing all the way to the bank and we as a Parliament we as MPs look like fools because we are the ones who will have to agree to this ridiculous deal with no handbrakes on it whatsoever to reduce harm from gambling.The ticket-in ticket-out technology is one of the best ways to increase money-laundering. It is also one of the best ways to increase problem gambling. One of the Supplementary Order Papers that my co-leader Metiria Turei has put up is around reducing harm from gambling. If we were serious about wanting to reduce gambling harm then we would take on board the restrictions that we are attempting to place on Skycity and the way it deals with problem gamblers in order to reduce the amount of harm that we have in our communities. If we do that it may well impact on Skycity’s profits but that should not be part of the deal. Supplementary Order Paper 385 suggests that there will be mandatory pre-commitment cards for everyone and Metiria Turei has already described them as the seatbelt. The other measure is real-time player tracking. In the concessions that were negotiated Skycity says that it will provide some measure of host responsibility which will include predictive modelling. Predictive modelling is not player tracking. Player tracking works only if you actually intervene in what is going on. The player tracking that Skycity already has is called the loyalty cards. That player tracking that predictive modelling ensures that Skycity will contact people who have developed a gambling problem who have spent all they have got and attempt to lure them back to the casino so they can spend more so that Skycity can make more money. This is the corporate citizen that—