Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Mr Speaker and it's another thankful Thursday in the House. This afternoon it's the Racing Reform Bill and it's great to be able to speak on those bills where the House is in agreement. There's always a little bit of argy-bargy but that's just part of the theatre and carry-on when really everyone's in agreement.It's my opportunity to say thanks also. I do want to thank the Deputy Prime Minister the Rt Hon Winston Peters for this work. It is a piece of work as I said in the second reading that's come through a member's bill. There's been an amendment bill which was withdrawn and the work carried through from that has come through here—and the hard-working Transport and Infrastructure Committee which of course I'm a member of. Transport and racing go hand in hand as you know and this has travelled from whoa to go in record time. Look that's how all these things should be if you ask me.But I do want to reflect for a minute. Yesterday evening I was at the Kāpura Wellington Sportsperson of the Year Awards. I was there amongst not only the elite of Wellington sport but the grassroots community folk too. That's the great thing about these awards ceremonies—it is that you have the full gambit of the sport and recreation community. So people like Ardie Savea the sports personality of the year to the good old Kilbirnie Tennis Club in the Rongotai electorate who came out with club of the year. So these things are good but what it did do was it gave me an opportunity to have a conversation with those in the sports sector. This bill was certainly talked about in terms of—I mentioned last time that there was no racing club in the electorate but certainly—Andrew Bayly: Come to Pukekohe!PAUL EAGLE: We'll come to Pukekohe in a minute but I did manage to talk to a good soul about the Chatham Island Jockey Club and I did mention that too at the second reading as well. Lo and behold the June edition of The Chatham Islander came across my desk and I was able to read the Chatham Island Jockey Club racing reports. Good on top jockey Poppy Hunter. I'm sure Poppy's got some thoughts about this but what I can say and what I did say last time is that these changes are very welcome. The point there is that those in the hall at the TSB Arena yesterday certainly talked about the future of all sport. Because we know that our rugby clubs football clubs tennis clubs racing clubs and codes etc. all across New Zealand are going to go through transformation in the next 10 years in the way that sport is structured. The way that people recreate is certainly going to change and this bill reflects that. I'm really glad and I know the sector will be too. I managed to catch up with the good folk from Sport New Zealand. They were supportive. There was some noise around their comments but they did come through and note their support for this. There were 42 submissions and they were generally supportive as well. I know that this can't come fast enough and there's a lot to be said about talking about something but then doing it. So I think you will see much more change in the sporting sector. Codes that have been our backbone in our communities will all be looking at their facilities the services they offer the way that they offer them the people involved and of course the funding. I don't want to repeat what others have said hence a different tack in my small speech here to really reflect the reality of sport and recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand. So I think that tonight there'll be some realisation from some that change may be painful—and we've heard about places like Avondale for example. There'll be many more of those conversations around this country and I'm really excited that we've got to this in good time. I commend this to the House.