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Louise Upston: Tourism Minister on the Government looking into changing the rules so more concerts can be hosted · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: So it looks like eden Park could be hosting more
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  Speaker 2: events in the future. The government's launching a review into
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  Speaker 2: eden Park's consenting rules to see if they're fit for purpose.
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  Speaker 2: This follows the announcement yesterday of the seventy million dollar
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  Speaker 2: boost to your major artists and sporting events to the country.
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  Speaker 2: Louise Upson is the Minister for Tourists.
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  Speaker 3: Halouise Afternoon, Heather, Now, why launch.
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  Speaker 2: An investigation instead of just changing the rules.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is a process that's available to us now
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  Speaker 3: because of the recently passed Resource Management Act. So mister
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  Speaker 3: Chris Bishop will lead an investigation to look at the
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  Speaker 3: rules around events at eden Park see if they are
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  Speaker 3: negatively impacting on economic growth. And that's where it gives
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  Speaker 3: us the opportunity to basically investigate the options. They'll be
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  Speaker 3: working with the Council, There'll be consultation with the community
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  Speaker 3: and then Cabinet will make decision in the new year
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  Speaker 3: as changes are required.
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  Speaker 2: What do you reckon is the best outcome here? Would
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  Speaker 2: it be that eden Park is basically able to host
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  Speaker 2: any concerts, any sporting events whenever it wants.
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  Speaker 3: No. Look, the intention here is just to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that there is more flexibility for Eden Park. We do
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  Speaker 3: know that some of the rules that exist at the
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  Speaker 3: moment just create real barriers for us being able to
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  Speaker 3: attract events. So the government is investing seventy million dollars
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  Speaker 3: into events and tourism and we don't want to have
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  Speaker 3: additional barriers in the way for New Zealand's largest event stadium.
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  Speaker 2: I mean so at the moment the rules are twelve
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  Speaker 2: shows per year, twenty five nighttime sporting events per year,
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  Speaker 2: only allowed to go until nine thirty, except for cricket
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  Speaker 2: which can go until ten, and then conferences can't have
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  Speaker 2: any more than two thousand people. Why don't just take
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  Speaker 2: away all those rules and say to Edenpark, you guys
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  Speaker 2: can do whatever you want, make as much money and
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  Speaker 2: have as much fun as you can.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's important that we do this investigation.
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  Speaker 3: There are a range of things that need to be
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  Speaker 3: taken into account, but the end result here is that
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  Speaker 3: we want more flexibility for Eden Park, so when they're
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  Speaker 3: going out to attract bids internationally to then be able
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  Speaker 3: to host them at eden Park, which will be fantastic
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  Speaker 3: for Auckland and New Zealand. We don't want them to
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  Speaker 3: fall at the last hurdle because the international coverage needs
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  Speaker 3: to mean the the game starts at nine point thirty
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  Speaker 3: and seven thirty at night. That's a real issue for
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  Speaker 3: an event that Eden Park are considering at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Which one.
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  Speaker 3: Well that that would be something for eden Park to
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  Speaker 3: talk about.
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  Speaker 2: No one will know.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us well, if you think about some of the
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  Speaker 3: codes and one of the games that we lost last
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  Speaker 3: weekend something to do with league.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, hello, if you say if you say
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  Speaker 2: the boys Louise, no one will love it.
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  Speaker 3: They're real problems. Problems and what we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree. Listen, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to give them. We want to give
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  Speaker 3: them flexibility. So the whether they are attracting a fantastic
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  Speaker 3: sports event, whether they are hosting an event and an
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  Speaker 3: exhibition that is quite unlike anything we've had in New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand before, whether it's an add on to a convention
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  Speaker 3: that we're hosting at the ends at ICC for three
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  Speaker 3: thousand people and they want to do a dinner off
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  Speaker 3: site and Eden Park makes sense listen. We want to
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  Speaker 3: be able to just get on and do the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We know we'll have a big, big difference to our economy.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Louise, thanks very much, appreciate it, Louis upson,
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  Speaker 2: Tourism Minister.
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