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DARIEN FENTON (Labour) 
: 
 Thank you very much—[ 
Interruption 
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The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Rick Barker) 
: Who speaks is solely at the discretion of the Chair. Comments like that are reflections on the Chair. 
Hon David Parker 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. The Leader of the House directly challenged your ruling and I ask you to call on him to withdraw and apologise. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Rick Barker) 
: I did not take personal offence at that but the point is well made. Points of order are heard and once they are dealt with that is the end of it. 
DARIEN FENTON 
: I am very pleased to have the opportunity to speak on Part 2. In doing so I would like to address clause 9 and talk to some proposed amendments. Some of my colleagues have talked about the name of Auckland and so has Mr Henare over there. He talked about the name of Auckland City but he forgot to mention that the people of Auckland have not been asked whether they want their city to be called Auckland City. National has made a really presumptuous assumption that the people of Rodney Franklin Waitakere—where I live—and the North Shore want to be covered by a local body called the Auckland Council. It is just arrogant but is that not what we have seen in this debate all the way through? All the people of Auckland are affected by this so all Aucklanders deserve to be asked about the new name. 
Many many discussions have been had throughout Auckland there has been lots and lots of criticism and it is really up to the House now to consider some of the suggestions that Auckland people have made about what the name should be. There are a variety of reasons why the House should consider other names. There is the issue of historical names—we are talking in this bill about 80 to 100 years of history—so we should be looking at those. There are significant place names—places that are really really important to the tangata whenua—and these are also names that we need to pronounce accurately. So I will support an amendment to clause 9. 
Part 2 is the guts of the Local Government (Auckland Reorganisation) Bill because it sounds the death knell for all existing councils and communities across Auckland. In this part we are talking about people—the 1.4 million people of Auckland the people of Manukau and those in Otara; I am sure these will be foreign places to members on the other side of the Chamber. There are also the people of Mangere Papatoetoe and Manurewa and as we heard from our colleague Su’a William Sio they are mourning the loss of their say and they are mourning the loss of their city as are the people of Waitakere City—our proud eco-city—Ranui Swanson Henderson Glen Eden and Te Atatu. I say to Mr Henare that he should be talking to the people he lives near. Those people are often in need of council support and they are very proud of the reserves and the wonderful west coast beaches. All of that will be handed over. That is what this clause does and that is what this bill does. 
There are also the people of Auckland City including those from Mt Albert Kingsland Avondale and Morningside where we have a wonderful National candidate who makes blunder after offensive blunder and demonstrates how utterly unsuitable she is to represent any electorate. Let us talk about the people of Otahuhu Onehunga Panmure and Glen Innes. The member for Maungakiekie is sitting over there—he has not said very much. The Citizens and Ratepayers members on the Auckland City Council do not give a toss about those people and that is what we will see under this one Auckland Council. In the last 2 weeks Auckland City Council has cut the citizens advice bureaux funding and a free community event in Onehunga that is attended by thousands has been ditched. We know how hard it has been for the community board members of Maungakiekie to fight for Otahuhu and we know how little support they get from a council that is dominated by wealthy people. They do not have any care for poorer communities. 
The people the citizens the ratepayers the young the old the families and the communities all lose their identity through Part 2 and the establishment of the Auckland Council. The people of the little town of Papakura as we know are up in arms; 1000 people attended a meeting because they know they are going to miss out through this proposal. There are also the people of North Shore and those of some of the poorer areas like Northcote Beachhaven and Glenfield right up into Albany and even across to Helensville—and we know what the people of Helensville are saying about this. They are saying: “Give us back our voice.” But this part takes away their voice from them for ever.