Penk Chris; Dean JacquiCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. Well it's been interesting actually. The collegial nature of the discussion as Emily Henderson has just referred to has made me reflect that politics itself can sometimes be a team sport. I had thought I would resist the temptation to do that very New Zealand thing and make everything a sporting metaphor—Arena Williams: Do it!CHRIS PENK: Oh OK well maybe—maybe so.Hon Michael Woodhouse: Who is he to deny the audience?CHRIS PENK: I know well that's right. I'd be surprised if there is any audience by the end of the five minutes but we'll see how we go. But actually it does seem like it's been a constructive approach. It seems as though there's been a lot of serious thought in terms of the detail with a starting point that there was broad agreement about the desirability of establishing a commission. I did wonder having not been part of that select committee process why it was that it was the Social Services and Community Committee that it went to. I couldn't think of a more appropriate one—Dr Emily Henderson: Because we're awesome.CHRIS PENK: Because they're awesome I hear. Well I was going to mention another select committee that it might have gone to for example Health and I thought well that kind of might be appropriate too. Sport in New Zealand is also big business at you know the elite end if I can use that phrase so in terms of even within the health sphere you know it's sort of the physical health benefits as well as costs I suppose in terms of injury mental health and so forth. So anyway I didn't reach any other conclusion than that select committee was as good as any other. Some might say It was awesome" and they're entitled to their view of course.But in any case sport is many things to many different people and it's a lot of different things to this nation of ours as well so I think it's right that we all take it very seriously for all those reasons. And if you look at the things that the commission is being set up to do—and it's the establishment of the commission that's at the heart of the bill—then it's clear that there are serious matters that do need to be considered and are worth the time of the House and are worth an independent body being established; an independent Crown entity no less.So if you think about the kinds of issues that are going to need to be handled by this commission they are actually quite complex and we've had a bit of a flavour in the House tonight of what some of those might be. The commission's remit will it seems be quite broad. So the House and indeed the select committee doesn't appear to want to bind its hands too tightly in terms of the kinds of issues it will consider let alone prescribe an outcome. But we've considered tonight even across the House issues of safety and fairness doping in sport competition manipulation bullying sexual misconduct racism and discrimination. And these are specifically set out as areas that the commission will be invited to prevent and address threats to integrity in relation to those. So it will be extremely interesting work actually that the commission will be doing and there has been a bit of guidance in terms of the procedural matters and at the risk of turning even a bill about sports into something of a procedural justice matter—I can't help myself I suppose—but genuinely if you look at the powers that are given to the commission it's to allow the specified organisations to provide information or documents necessary for an investigation it's prescribing reasonable and proportionate sanctions for breaches and establishing a disciplinary panel; so all these mechanisms to say "Well actually if there are issues of fairness and integrity and discrimination all these things that have been discussed then there must be some powers for the commission to investigate these things to actually do something about it that's constructive and meaningful and worth the time of this independent Crown entity." So I think it's obvious from reading the select committee report that the members have turned their mind to that and they've wished to give effect to the intent of the Minister to allow a body to be set up that's going to be able to do some useful things in this space. There are protections from retaliation or victimisation by an organisation if they make a complaint. So that's sort of a whistle-blower regime and the closest I'm going to come to the threatened sporting metaphor is that a whistle-blower of course has a particular role in the sporting context—whether a referee or an umpire—and of course the appeal rights to the sports tribunal as well is reminiscent of a captain's challenge in the world of rugby league which I am very fond of or video umpire or video referee as the case may be. So these are good mechanisms that are set up to allow some integrity in the system to give some serious weight to the role that the commission will play. We think they've got a good remit. We think it's a worthwhile body to establish. We'll wish them well at the point that they're set up but for now at the second reading National continues to commend the bill to the house.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Arena Williams—five minutes."