Hide Rodney: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
Hide Rodney: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
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RODNEY HIDE (ACT NZ) 
: We are here debating a very large part—[ 
Interruption 
] It is all right for Mr Harry Duynhoven—he had nothing to say until I got up to speak. Then he sits on the cross benches trying to pretend that he is in the ACT party helping me with my speech. 
Hon Harry Duynhoven 
: No I have no desire to join your party. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: He says he has no desire to be in the same caucus with Parekura Horomia and I can understand that. 
Part 2 is huge. It is the meat the sandwiches the sausage— 
Hon Ken Shirley 
: And the mustard. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: —and the mustard of this bill. I have a question for the Minister in the chair. Why are we having this bill? 
John Key 
: And the sizzle. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: There is no sizzle; it is Judith Tizard. I can promise members that there is no sizzle about this bill. Again why are we having this bill? It is because Industry New Zealand has proved an utter failure. This Government said it had to get rid of Neil McKay because of the mad bad decisions he was making handing out taxpayers’ cash. But the Government was not allowed a golden handshake. It was not allowed to get caught up with the Employment Relations Act like every other business in New Zealand. So it had to hatch a plan to get rid of Neil McKay the bright boy of Industry New Zealand and regional development according to Jim Anderton. 
Rod Donald 
: Long gone—on 27 March. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: So it had to hatch a plan to see him got rid of. It cannot fire anyone in New Zealand any longer. 
Hon Ken Shirley 
: Restructure! 
RODNEY HIDE 
: So it has to restructure a person out of a job. Harry Duynhoven knows and he agrees. He says Rodney Hide is hitting the nail on the head one more time even as— 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Pass to the bill please. 
RODNEY HIDE 
: I know exactly what I am speaking to. I am speaking to clause 28 “Appointment of chief executive”. It used to have two and now it has one. 
 Mr McKay—as the Green leader Rod Donald said—is long gone. There were just too many embarrassments out of Industry New Zealand—the expense the costs the consultants the funding of EDS and the funding of the crooks who ripped off the Minister— 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Order! 
RODNEY HIDE 
: Absolutely. That is allowed—and the funding of the crooks who ripped off Matauri X Incorporation. I can say that in this Chamber. The Minister Dover Samuels said it outside the Chamber. Matauri X Incorporation was ripped off over an investment scheme involving millions of dollars of poor people’s money. How was it sold? “Oh look the Government has given us the OK because Industry New Zealand is funding us to the tune of $100000. Industry New Zealand would do its homework right so it must be a good deal!” Oh they have gone silent on the Labour benches. Industry New Zealand and Neil McKay were in bed with the people who ripped off Matauri X Incorporation for millions of dollars. 
Have we heard Jim Anderton apologise? Have we heard Neil McKay apologise? Poor old Dover Samuels and the beneficiaries of Matauri X Incorporation are down the toilet for millions of dollars yet Industry New Zealand and all its experts said it was good enough for them to put in $100000 of taxpayers’ money. They did not even tell the Associate Minister the Hon Dover Samuels who is now having to fight in court to save what remnant of resource asset and land Matauri X Incorporation has. Industry New Zealand proved so useless. It did not even take the trouble to look up its own Minister’s asset register and know that it was funding through the Hon Dover Samuels’ portfolio the Hon Dover Samuels’ incorporation. That is a disgrace.