Ka āta titiro te kaiwhiriwhiri ki ngā kōwhiringa hei whakatata mai he papa tākaro ā-motu

Friday, 29 March 2024

• E whā ngā tono mō te papa tākaro ā-motu i Tāmaki Makaurau.

• E marohi ana e toru kia noho te papa tākaro hou ki te taha o te moana ki te pokapū taone, ā, ko te tuawhā e marohi ana kia whakahou noa i Eden Park.

• Kua whakatūria e te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau he rōpū whakarite hei tirotiro i ngā kōwhiringa.

Kua whakamāoritia tēnei pūrongo e tētahi hinengaro rorohiko, ā, kua hihiratia e te kaiwhakamāori a Puna, ko Joel Maxwell, nāna te pūrongo i whakapai hoki i mua i te whakaputa hei pūrongo reorua. Nā Straker me Microsoft te hinengaro rorohiko i whakawhanake.

This story, originally in English only, was translated into reo Māori by an AI tool then checked and edited by Stuff kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell before publication as a bilingual news story. The AI tool was developed by Straker and Microsoft.

Ka hiki te kohu pea kia whai nohonga mō te papa tākaro a-motu a te whiore o te marama o Aperira.

The future of where a national stadium might be built in Auckland should become clearer at the end of April.

Read this story in English here.

Kei te ārahi te kaikaunihera a Shane Henderson i tētahi rōpū whakarite kia āta whiriwhiri i ngā kōwhiringa e whā mō tētahi papa tākaro. E toru ki te taha o te moana ki te pokapū tāone, kotahi he whakahounga noa ki Eden Park.

Auckland councillor Shane Henderson is leading a working group that’s examining four proposals for a stadium. Three are waterfront sites and one is a significant upgrade of Eden Park.

E tae mai ana he kaiwhiriwhiri hei kanohi hōmiromiro kia tirohia ngā hua o ngā tono e whā, mēnā hoki e oti ai ngā hiahia o Tāmaki me te whenua katoa.

An assessor has been brought in to examine the four bids, to see how they match up and whether they’d fulfil the needs of Auckland and the country.

'Kua tono te rōpū nei kia atawhai mai he kaiwhiriwhiri motuhake, na te tahua koromatua i utua, ' hei tā Henderson.

“As a working group, we’ve called in the help of an independent assessor and the mayor’s budget has helped out with that,” Henderson said.

“E whana ana ia i ngā taea hei hihira i ngā tono katoa, ā, nō nakua tonu nei i hui mātou kia matapaki ai i ngā paearu. Nā reira akuanei ka āta titiro mātou ko te kaiwhiriwhiri i ngā paearu kia tautoko i te hanga a tētahi pūrongo hei tuku ki te rōpū kāwanatanga.

“They are currently kicking the tyres on all the bids and we had a meeting recently where we had a chat about criteria. So we’ll assess those criteria with the assessor's help soon and hopefully going towards a paper that I’ll draft for the governing body.

'Ko te hiahia ka tutukia tēnā a te mutunga o te Aperira. Heoi kei te tika tonu, engari kāore e kore he pōturi te haere e ai ki te hiahia o ētahi atu. Engari me tū kanohi hōmiromiro mātou.'

“We’re looking at late April for that. So it’s ticking along, but not going as quickly as some might hope. But we’ve got to be thorough.”

Ko ngā tono e toru: ko Te Tōangaroa i Quay Park hei noho ngā kaimātakitaki e 50,000; he papa tākaro pokopokorua i Bledisloe Wharf hei noho te 70,000, me tētahi papa tākaro hei noho te 55,000 i Wynyard Point. Mā te whakahou ki Eden Park ka hanga rātou he tuanui.

The three proposals are the Te Tōangaroa bid in Quay Park including a 50,000 stadium, a 70-000 capacity sunken stadium at Bledisloe Wharf and a 55,000-seat facility at Wynyard Point. A revamped Eden Park would include building a roof.

Kei te inetia ngā kōwhiringa e whā ki tētahi rārangi paerewa i whakatūria e te rōpū whakarite.

All four options are being measured against a list of standards established by the working group.

'E āta hāngai ana ngā paearu ki te pānui tonoa, ā, kua homaitia e ngā kaitono katoa he mōhiohio ki a mātou, e pā ana i te takiwā o te papa tākaro, te whakahaere o te papa tākaro me ngā whakaritenga ahumoni,' hei tā Henderson.

“The criteria are closely aligned to the expression of interest process and all of the bidders have given us a wealth of information, on where you’d put the stadium, how you’d run the stadium and the finances of it are a really key component to that,” Henderson said.

'Tērā pea koinei tētahi o ngā paearu matua - mēnā ka taea e koe tēnei mā te iti, kāore rānei he āwhina mai i ngā pūkoro o ngā kaiutu reiti, ā, ka whai take whai hua ā-pūtea.

“Probably one of the main criteria is if you can do this with little or no help from the rate payers’ pockets and make it a financially viable proposition.

'Tērā anō ētahi ahuatanga pēnei i te mahitahi ki ngā mana whenua, ngā huānga taiao me te huringa āhuarangi. He wāhanga ēnei o te panga e whai tonu ana mātou.'

“There are also things like working with mana whenua, the environmental elements and climate change. These are pieces of the puzzle we’re working out.”

Hei tā te koromatua a Wayne Brown i tērā tau e kimi ana rātou i ngā tono e hiahiatia ana he iti, kāore rānei he pūtea nā ngā kaiutu reiti, ā, i kī a Henderson kua whakaaetia e ngā kaitono katoa.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown said last year they were looking for proposals that required little or no ratepayer funding and Henderson said that has been accepted by all interested bidders.

'I tino mōhio rātou ki ngā tūmanako,' tāna kī.

“They knew very well the expectations,” he said.

'I tētahi tirohanga whānui, kia tutuki i tērā, e matea ana ka whiwhi ai i te pūtea penapena tūmataiti, me te pūtea penapena kāwanatanga rānei.

“In a broad level, what you’d need to do to make that work is get private investment, and/or Government investment.

'Ko te pikitia whānui tēnā nā te mea he uaua. He maha ngā papa tākaro o te ao kei ngā wāhi e nui ake ai te moni a ngā kāwanatanga i tō Tāmaki pūkoro.

“That’s the broad picture because it is hard. A lot of stadiums around the world are in places where state governments have a heck of a lot more money than Auckland does.

'Nā reira me whakaute mātou i ngā hiahia o te kaiutu reiti, me tapahi mātou i o mātou kākahu kia mau tika, ā, he uaua rawa.'

“So we’ve got to respect the views of the ratepayer, that we’ve got to be cutting our cloth and it’s bloody hard.”

Ko te take o te rōpū whakarite ko te tīpako i tētahi kōwhiringa marohia. I muri iho i tēnā, me whiwhi te moni ki te hanga, ā, e kī ana a Henderson kāore rātou i te mōhio mehemea e hiahia ana te Kāwanatanga ki te hāpai ki taua putea

The purpose of the working group is to select a preferred option. After that, money needs to be secured to build it and Henderson says they don’t know if the Government is willing to contribute towards it.

“E kore he tohu mō tēna,” hei tāna.

“We’ve got no indication of that,” he said.

'Kāore anō te Kāwanatanga kia kōrero mō ōna whakaaro ki tēnei. Ki tōku whakaaro kei te moata tonu mātou ki te haere i taua ara.

“The Government hasn’t said anything either way on this kind of stuff. I think we’re still a bit early to go through that path.

'Ko te wāhanga tuatahi, tino hira hoki o tēnei tukanga, ko te kī mai a ngā kaiutu reiti ki a mātou, mā ā mātou mahi, ko tēnei te kōwhiringa e manakohia ana.

“The first and most important bit of the process is Auckland ratepayers through us, saying this is the preferred option.

'Mēnā ka hanga koe i tētahi papa tākaro ā-motu i Tāmaki, koinei tā mātou [ngā kaiutu reiti] e hiahia ana kia mahia e koe. Kātahi ka rapua te moni, engari ko te pātai tuatahi kei hea koe e hoatu ai te papa tākaro?'

“If you’re going to do a national stadium in Auckland, this is what we want you to do. Then going to find the money is the next step, but the first step is where are you going to put it?”

E hia nei ngā tau kua tautohetohetia te kaupapa nei mō ngā papa tākaro o Tāmaki. I whiriwhiria ngā kōwhiringa mō tētahi papa tākaro pokapū taone, te whakahou rānei i te North Harbour Stadium i mua i te Whakataetae Whutuporo o te Ao 2011. I te mutunga, i pau $256 miriona kia whakahou i Eden Park.

Debates over what to do with Auckland stadiums have been raging for years. Options for a downtown stadium, or upgrading North Harbour Stadium were explored before the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In the end, $256 million was spent upgrading Eden Park.

Ahakoa tēnei, kua haere tonu ngā kōrerorero mēnā ka whakatūria he papa tākaro ki te taha moana, ā, me te pātai hoki ka aha tātou mō ngā whare e toe ana, engari kāore anō kua whaiwhakaaro.

Despite this, conversations have continued over whether there should be a waterfront stadium and what to do with the remaining facilities, without any real conclusions.

E tūmanako ana a Henderson mā tēnei rōpū mahi, ka kitea he mahere mō te araroa ki mua.

Henderson hopes that through this working group, a long-term solution can finally be found.

'Ko te take tēnei i tono ai ahau hei kaihautu o te rōpū,' tāna kī.

“This is why I volunteered to be the chair of the group,” he said.

'He taiwhiwhita hākinakina ahau, ā, kei te tino hōhā ahau i ngā tau maha o te kore e puta. Ka whakapuakina noa e mātou ngā hiahia, kāore he mea e puta mai,' hei tāna.

“I’m a sports fanatic and I’m really frustrated with the many years of nothing happening. We’d announce things, then nothing would happen out of it,” he said.

'I ia rua marama, te āhua nei he mea hou i roto i te pepa, he aha i kore ai tātou e whakatakoto i tētahi papa tākaro ki konei, ki reira rānei?

“Every couple of months there seems to be something new in the paper about why don’t we put a stadium here or there?

'Nā reira i hiahiatia ai e mātou he tikanga hei whakatau i ēnei ariā. E hari ana ahau ki te whaiwāhi ki tēnei mahi, ā, e kawatau ana ahau ka whiwhi mātou i ētahi hua tūturu.

“So we needed a mechanism to address these ideas. I’m happy to be a part of it and I’m really confident that we will get something out of it.

'I tēnei wā, kei te ngana ahau kia noho hakahaka rawa ngā tumanako, engari e taea noa te mea, kei te tino pai tā mātou haere, nā reira he tīmatanga pai tēnā.'

“At this stage, I’m trying to keep expectations as low as possible, but all I can say is we’re progressing really well, so that’s a good start.”