SpeechHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well I'll just have to follow up that speech. Jamie Strange is a good sportsman and he's co-captain of the parliamentary football team—Nicola Grigg: Is there one?Hon DAVID BENNETT: Yes and we are supporting women's football in the World Cup and a big shout-out to our women's footballers who are one of the best teams in the world and are going to do brilliantly. Jamie actually plays for the red team in Hamilton called Melville and I'm a supporter of the blue team in Hamilton called Wanderers and they're on either side of the river. But in I guess the nature of sport we've actually come together and we're working very well together to get some artificial turf in the city so it's working well. It's good to see sport can bring two different political parties and adversaries together for the betterment of our communities and that's what it's all about.In this place here we talk a lot about social welfare how we help people Government investment and those kind of things—mental health and all those issues—but we never really talk about sport one of the most practical things that people engage in. If we're talking about youth and getting them on to the right path sport's a crucial part of that. It takes up time after school it enables young men and women to pursue some energetic pursuits it's good for physical fitness it's good for mental health and it's good in so many ways and yet we don't actually fund it in this Parliament.Jamie's right and it's his first time that he's spoken on a bill in this area and yet sport actually would achieve a lot more social goals than what we spend a lot of money on in this country to be honest and we just think it's something up to the community to do. How many community groups struggle day by day trying to raise money trying to have the people that run the facilities to actually get sport off the ground? You compare it with countries like Australia which do put a lot of Government money into sport and they get the results at a national level but also those underlying results in their community as well.So bills like this are important—that we actually support the network of sport—but it's only a really small part of what we could do. If we actually had a programme that enabled some Government money to go into some artificial turf in Hamilton it wouldn't be a bad idea. It would probably do more to keep some of the young kids out of the gangs than anything else you could do at the moment in that city. It actually would probably be one of the best things you could do at dealing with that. It'd keep kids in school it'd keep kids associated with their friends and people of different communities coming together and playing on the same field. We've lost that in our country a lot. We've lost that ability to come together—town and country—in sport and to be able to acknowledge our differences but also come together in that.Our sport's also getting divided I think along the lines of capability and communities. Some communities in Hamilton are great at rugby league—Ngāruawāhia for example—and yet we don't have actually that ability for other communities to come together and play that same sport and understand each other and yet some other communities are really focused on rowing and rugby and those kids could be great rugby league players. People like Sport Waikato have done a great job at just making sure kids play something and enjoy something and learn the fundamentals of it. I think it's one of those things that gives a balance to our youth in sport and this bill is a starting point but it really just highlights how deficient we are as a Parliament in actually supporting this part of our community. The people that go out there the grassroots people that run those organisations get nothing from this place. The kids that are going to benefit from it get nothing from this place. We all enjoyed sport because we're all successful people that have had a balanced life. Many kids don't have that chance and this is their opportunity to get a chance to have a bit of a start. I think that Jamie should be speaking two or three times on sport before the end of his—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Jamie Strange.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —political career and we should have some bills in there supporting infrastructure in our sports in our communities and it would probably do a lot better than some of the other social spending that this place passed—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): The member's time—he was going so well so well.