Hide Rodney: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
Hide Rodney: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
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RODNEY HIDE (ACT NZ) 
: 
 When Opposition members go through this bill they have one overwhelming question in their minds and it is this one: “How come Harry Duynhoven is not the Minister of Transport?” That is a question that everyone over here has asked. At least Harry Duynhoven understands how motorcars work knows how to lift the bonnet and look inside a car and would not be messing around with a bill like this. Harry Duynhoven knows how the motor vehicle industry works. 
Dianne Yates 
: What do you know? 
RODNEY HIDE 
: Somebody asked me what I know. I will go through the bill and point a few things out. We are very interested on this side of the Chamber to see that Mr David Cunliffe chaired the select committee. [ 
Interruption 
] We try to give David Cunliffe a trial; his nickname over on the Labour Party side is “fast track”. I am not sure whether that relates to the meteoric rise of his career or his ability to get legislation through. Only David Cunliffe would see the need to define some of the things that are defined in there. 
I ask members to consider whether they know what a trailer is. Does David Cunliffe know what a trailer is? We were driving along in our car or truck and the question to David Cunliffe and the Minister of Transport—who is not Harry Duynhoven—was: “What is a trailer?” They came up with this: “trailer—(a) means a vehicle without motive power that is drawn or propelled or is capable of being drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle from which it is readily detachable.” That is a long way of saying it. Every human being knows what a trailer is but David Cunliffe felt the need to put it in this bill. But then he goes further: “trailer—(b) includes a sidecar for a motor cycle.” How in the world can this Government think that a sidecar is a trailer and that by passing a Motor Vehicle Sales Bill under urgency we will somehow make a sidecar a trailer? 
I see Parekura Horomia having a yawn because it is past his bedtime but next time he is coming down to Wellington in a sidecar I ask him to contemplate that under this bill he is passing under urgency he is actually in a trailer not a sidecar and ask himself why that would be. Only David Cunliffe who is nicknamed “fast track” would see the need to define a motor vehicle in this bill. I am trying to find this bit because I know Government members have an interest in it. A motor vehicle is defined and then it goes like this— 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: It could be a tractor. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: It could not be a tractor but the Governor-General could come along and declare a tractor to be a motor vehicle and then it would be. The Governor-General could declare a giraffe to be a motor vehicle and under this bill it would be a motor vehicle. Why on earth is David Cunliffe giving the Governor-General—late one night after a Labour Party booze-up—the power to decide what a motor vehicle is? I have not heard David Cunliffe or the Minister in the chair take a call to explain why we are having this sort of thing. 
Let us get to ACT’s objection. I know David Cunliffe is suffering from a lack of attention and he will just have to work harder and do the job more. When we look at Labour there is one solution to every problem is there not? Paul Adams of United Future has bought into it and the solution always is—more taxes. 
Hon Dover Samuels 
: Get your hand out of your pocket! 
RODNEY HIDE 
: Dover Samuels says I should get my hand out of my pocket. He should get his snout out of the trough. That would be a good start instead of going around eating at Te Puni Kokiri—eating and drinking away in an election year. I am quite happy to take my hand out of my pocket if he takes his snout out of the trough.