Peachey Allan: Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
Peachey Allan: Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
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ALLAN PEACHEY (National—Tamaki) 
: 
 I had thought after the debate last night— 
Hon Shane Jones 
: The last day and Mr Peachey has the chance to speak! 
ALLAN PEACHEY 
: The bully boy of the lower sixth Shane Jones cannot help himself. He is the Gilbert and Sullivan clown who wanders around this Chamber seeking high office. He will be wandering for a long long time. 
I wanted to take a call on Part 2 to make a couple of what I believe to be very very significant points. The Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors Bill is a short bill. I am troubled about the lack of discussion at the Government Administration Committee about Supplementary Order Paper 246 in the name of the Hon Judith Tizard. 
This is a relatively short bill and its real substance lies in Part 2. It seems to me that if this legislation is going to address the issues that were causing concern about the old Authors’ Fund then the nature of the advisory group and the way in which the chief executive of the Government department that is given responsibility for it interrelate—the way that the chief executive works with and consults the individual members of the group and the interests they represent—will be critical. Getting that right will be the key to whether this legislation which has been so long in the making and has now been so rushed in the last 2 days of the sitting of this Parliament will work. I seek assurances from the Minister on that issue in the absence of any other member taking to the floor to support the bill. 
To the authors who are following this debate closely this bill is very important. They have a very strong interest in it. They will note the role of members on this side of the Chamber in advancing their interests. What we need is an assurance from the Minister that the relationships involved in the administrative structure that has been set up around a chief executive of a Government ministry and an advisory board—and bearing in mind the role the chief executive has in the establishment of that advisory board—will be got right. We do not want to let down the authors of New Zealand any longer. So there is a very very high level of responsibility on this House to be sure that it has got this legislation right. 
Members on this side of the Chamber have some worries about that as we were landed with a Supplementary Order Paper that a select committee has not had the chance to do its work on. We all acknowledge here the important role that select committees play in getting legislation like this right. When a select committee does not have a reasonable opportunity to do that it is therefore valid for members on this side of the Chamber first to raise that reservation and secondly to seek from the Minister a clear explanation and assurance that the structure that has been set up will deliver the intention of the bill. 
The question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 246 in the name of the Hon Judith Tizard to Part 2 be agreed to. 
Amendments agreed to. 
Part 2 as amended agreed to.