Woodhouse Michael; O'Connor GregHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well the Minister for Sport and Recreation's speech has knocked several minutes off mine and I don't need to prolong the debate except to say that I endorse all of the acknowledgments and the thanks that he has given and a great deal of the reflections that he's made.One of the things that I have strongly supported is his efforts and his Government's efforts to improve participation and success of women and girls in sport and it's been an appropriate thing to do but goodness me he's been a bit lucky. He was very lucky that Caroline Drouin missed the penalty at the end of the World Cup semi-final last year and he was very lucky that Hannah Wilkinson didn't miss and set up the circumstances for what has been a spectacular showcase of women's sport in Australasia. We are now 72 minutes away from kick-off in the in the women's football Ashes—Hon Grant Robertson: This has not escaped me!Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: —don't worry I won't be going for 72 minutes Minister—and we will see that showcase again. It's just been a brilliant example of how when a product as good as that is is brought to the attention of the public the public will support it. I think there's a salient lesson for all of us in that. I mean for sports nuts—you know I'll watch dog long jumping. I don't care what competitive endeavour it is; I'll do that.Hon Grant Robertson: I'll just see whether that's in the code!Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: It used to be a thing apparently in the 1990s. But we do need to bring particularly elite women's sport obviously to the forefront and I think those two tournaments have gone a long way to doing that.But there's no candy coating the reality that for too many of our athletes and our participants in sport there have been times when events have fallen well below the standard that we would expect and this integrity framework will do a number of things not the least of which will prevent—and I appreciate the Minister's comments about that. Now he talked about the education piece particularly in the context of Drug Free Sport New Zealand but there's no doubt that the fear of getting caught and the serious consequences of getting caught with illegal substances has had a significant moderating behaviour—maybe not for Tour de France but you know everything else; I should say that under privilege but for everything else I reckon there's a certain deterrent element there. So education yes but deterrent is important and I think that I would like to see that with the integrity codes for non-drug issues because if I reflect on some of the anecdotes that have been provided to me and to Mark Mitchell when he was the spokesperson there did seem to be a downplaying or a denial or a contextualising of unacceptable behaviour.Also we've seen incidents where individuals who were perpetrators—for want of a better term—popped back up again in what is a very narrow ecosystem in New Zealand sports organisations. I think it's really important that as we implement our integrity codes and work hard to prevent there also has to be a significant consequence for those who breach those codes. Now for sport that might be a life ban—you know it doesn't actually need to be monetary or punitive in the traditional sense. People in this country love their sport and if they knew that their errant behaviour that fell below the crimes level that the Minister was talking about may lead them to not being able to participate in the future either as athletes or as coaches or volunteers then I hope that would have a moderating behaviour.But I agree with the Minister—I said it in my second reading speech—prevention; education; coaching effectively of what are appropriate standards; and then processes for dealing with disputes and breaches as we aspire to will I think see a much much higher level of integrity in our games. As Mr Robertson said there is a lot of work to do. This isn't the beginning of the end; it's the end of the beginning to quote a famous politician and I wish him all the best for the seven or eight weeks he has left in that role before there may be a change but whoever—whoever—is in Government after 14 October and whoever is the Minister after then the Government can be assured that this is a framework and a bill that has I think widespread support and will continue to be implemented whatever happens in October.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Given the member's comments on the Tour de France perhaps it's fortunate he's not attending the Rugby World Cup with the parliamentary team this year!