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Speaker 1: So it looks like eden Park could be hosting more

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Speaker 1: events in the future. The government's launching a review into

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Speaker 1: eden Park's consenting rules to see if they're fit for purpose.

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Speaker 1: This follows the announcement yesterday of the seventy million dollar

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Speaker 1: boost to your major artists and sporting events to the country.

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Speaker 1: Louise Upston is the Minister for Tourists.

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Speaker 2: Halouise Afternoon, Heather, Now, why launch.

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Speaker 1: An investigation instead of just changing the rules.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a process that's available to us now

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Speaker 2: because of the recently passed Resource Management Act. So mister

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Speaker 2: Chris Bishop will lead an investigation to look at the

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Speaker 2: rules around events at eden Park see if they are

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Speaker 2: negatively impacting on economic growth. And that's where it gives

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Speaker 2: us the opportunity to basically investigate the options. They'll be

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Speaker 2: working with the Council. There'll be consultation with the community

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Speaker 2: and then Cabinet will make a decision in the new

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Speaker 2: year as changes are required.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon is the best outcome here? Would

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Speaker 1: it be that eden Park is basically able to host

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Speaker 1: any con it's any sporting events whenever it wants.

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Speaker 2: No. Look, the intention here is just to make sure

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Speaker 2: that there is more flexibility for Eden Park. We do

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Speaker 2: know that some of the rules that exist at the

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Speaker 2: moment just create real barriers for us being able to

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Speaker 2: attract events. So the government is investing seventy million dollars

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Speaker 2: into events and tourism and we don't want to have

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Speaker 2: additional barriers in the way for New Zealand's largest event stadium.

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Speaker 1: I mean so at the moment the rules are twelve

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Speaker 1: shows per year, twenty five nighttime sporting events per year,

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Speaker 1: only allowed to go until nine thirty except for cricket

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Speaker 1: which can go until ten, and then conferences can't have

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Speaker 1: any more than two thousand people. Why don't just take

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Speaker 1: away all those rules and say to Edenpark, you guys

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Speaker 1: can do whatever you want, make as much money and

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Speaker 1: have as much fun as you can.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's important that we do this investigation.

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Speaker 2: There are a range of things that need to be

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Speaker 2: taken into account, but the end result here is that

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Speaker 2: we want more flexibility for Eden Park. So when going

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Speaker 2: out to attract bids internationally to then be able to

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Speaker 2: host them at Eden Park, which will be fantastic for

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Speaker 2: Auckland and New Zealand, we don't want them to fall

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Speaker 2: at the last hurdle because the international coverage needs to

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Speaker 2: mean the the game starts at nine point thirty and

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Speaker 2: seven thirty at night. That's a real issue for an

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Speaker 2: event that eden Park are considering at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Which one.

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Speaker 2: Well that that would be something for eden Park to

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Speaker 2: talk about.

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Speaker 1: No one will know.

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Speaker 2: Tell us, well, if you think about some of the

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Speaker 2: codes and one of the games that we lost last

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Speaker 2: weekend something to do with league.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, if you say, if you say they're boys, Louise,

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Speaker 1: no one will love it.

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Speaker 2: They're real problems. They're real problems, and.

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Speaker 1: What we want to do totally agreeless and thank you

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: I just want to give them. We want to give

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Speaker 2: them flexibility. So the whether they are attracting our fantastic

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Speaker 2: sports event, whether they are hosting an event in an

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Speaker 2: exhibition that is quite unlike anything we've had in New

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Speaker 2: Zealand before, whether it's an add on to a convention

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Speaker 2: that we're hosting at the nzt ICC for three thousand

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Speaker 2: people and they want to do a dinner off site,

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Speaker 2: an eden Park makes sense. Listen. We want to be

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Speaker 2: able to just get on and do the stuff. We

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Speaker 2: know we'll have a big big difference to our economy.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Louise, thanks very much, appreciate it, Louis ups

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Speaker 1: and Tourism Minister.

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