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Speaker 1: Great concert debate as well Eden Park. Next step. What

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Speaker 1: have we got? Well, the Rama Minister's written to the

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Speaker 1: council wants feedback on twenty medium sized concerts. That's on

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Speaker 1: top of the twelve they're already allowed to have, so,

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Speaker 1: in other words, thirty two concerts a year under the

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Speaker 1: new RMA rules. The Minister's got the final say. The

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Speaker 1: Minister is, of course Chris Bishop, who's with us. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. So in writing to the council, how could

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Speaker 1: you possibly object to more business?

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Speaker 2: Well, the law requires that I statutorily consult them, and

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Speaker 2: that's what we're doing along with the local community. They've

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Speaker 2: got twenty working days to respond and then hopefully we'll

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Speaker 2: be able to move on these Eden Park restrictions we reckon.

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Speaker 2: It's costing the Auckland economy probably four hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: over the next ten years if we don't remove these

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Speaker 2: restrictions hundreds of jobs. So it's definitely something worth doing.

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Speaker 1: So can we just say that if you're going to mine,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. You're going to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: do it anyway.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't say that, but I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: going to listen in good faith to all of the feedback,

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Speaker 2: as I'm required to do by the law. But it's

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Speaker 2: pretty clear. I think that anyone who looks at it

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Speaker 2: reasonably will locks at it that says, well, it's just

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Speaker 2: ridiculous that you can't have more than twelve it's per year,

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Speaker 2: you know, and by more than six different artists. So

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Speaker 2: we're proposing twenty large concerts, So ten large concerts per

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Speaker 2: year and twenty medium sized concerts. No restrictions on a

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Speaker 2: Sunday for example, much greater expansion of the time limits,

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Speaker 2: more variety shows and cultural shows at eden Park, you know,

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Speaker 2: more trade shows, things like that. All of these things

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Speaker 2: will be good for Auckland ultimately good for the economy.

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Speaker 1: What's the timeframe on this, Oh, well, have done.

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Speaker 2: By Christmas, So council's got twenty working days to respond

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Speaker 2: and then there's a bit of a cabinet process to

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Speaker 2: go through after that, but that's a matter of weeks.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have it done hopefully by Christmas. So by

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Eden Park could be hosting up to

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Speaker 1: thirty two concerts per year.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it will take effect almost immediately and it will

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Speaker 2: basically I will change the district plan through regulatory power

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Speaker 2: that I now have, and we gave the Parliament gave

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Speaker 2: me those powers in August this year, so we've moved

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Speaker 2: really quickly on this is.

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Speaker 1: The demand there? I mean, will there be thirty two

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Speaker 1: e its?

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Speaker 2: Well, wait and see. I mean, obviously Louise Upson's working

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Speaker 2: on this major events package and I'm told that there's

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Speaker 2: quite a degree of interest around the world in that.

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Speaker 2: But you know, the point is, if you've got the

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Speaker 2: zoning sorted and you've got the rules sorted, if the

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Speaker 2: demand is there, you can have it at the moment.

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Speaker 2: If the demands there, you can't, which is a ridiculous

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Speaker 2: state of affairs. So let's wait and see. I think

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Speaker 2: numbers will go up and down a bit over the

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Speaker 2: over the next few years, obviously, you know, depending on

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Speaker 2: you know, who's touring and demand and the economics and

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Speaker 2: all that stuff, all the things that are outside our control.

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Speaker 2: But the thing that is within our control, or it's

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Speaker 2: now within our control or soon to be, is you know,

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Speaker 2: the number of concerts you can have, the times you

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Speaker 2: can have them, all of those sort of rules around that.

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Speaker 1: We can control that. And we're going to good to talk.

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Speaker 1: Do you appreciate it. Chris Bishop, the RNA Minister. The

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