Mitchell Clayton: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Clayton: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — In Committee[Sitting date: 24 September 2015. Volume:709;Page:7093. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): I have just done everyone a great service back home—that was definitely a waffle. It is great to be standing up here and speaking to clauses 1 to 3 in the final stages of this debate in the Chamber this evening.To be honest New Zealand First is a party that stands very strongly on its principles with regards to both this piece of legislation and all pieces of legislation that are being debated in the House. Although we were very very close to supporting this it came down to what we considered to be something that was fair and reasonable on our Supplementary Order Papers surrounding an amendment to do with the commission-based payments within this bill.I think this bill—because it is about the naming of this bill in this stage—would probably be more aptly named the “Gambling (Financial Responsibility and Transparency) Amendment Bill”. That of course is similar to the Accident Compensation (Financial Responsibility and Transparency) Amendment Bill which of course is a bit of an oxymoron because there is not a lot of transparency in that ACC bill. However with good grace and being in the spirit of a positive Thursday afternoon I think there is a lot of transparency in this bill. It certainly tidies up a lot of the loose ends because prior to it going to the select committee New Zealand First had a number of issues with this Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3).I have to say that the name is a little bit boring because we have just put to bed the Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2). In the proceedings as the debate was going on in the Chamber earlier on I have to say that there were more comments made by the Greens and Labour about harm minimisation which of course does not feature in the Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3). Therefore I think that the name of this bill is somewhat confusing and somewhat ambiguous and that it could be better named. Even calling it the “Doing More For the Community Amendment Bill for Gambling” may actually be a more appropriate name.This bill does three things that I think should be commended and you are going to be saying: “Well if you’re going to commend parts of the bill why don’t you support it?” but unlike our Opposition parties on this side of the benches if something is not right if it is not fit for purpose and if it does not do what it is intended to do then I am sorry we cannot bend ourselves over and take one for the team and go along with this nonsense of the Government. We have to oppose it.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!CLAYTON MITCHELL: Mr Chair—thank you. I have to say that increasing transparency is absolutely fundamental in everything that this Government does or any Government that has been operating in the past and moving on to Governments of the future. I think that that is one of the key things there.Reducing the conflicts of interest is another area that has got some operators—those rogue operators and they are by far a minority group—into some sort of trouble with regard to their conflicts of interest around granting applications to some of those charitable organisations the venue payment operators and of course those people in management positions who are managing those sites whether it be the machine operators themselves and so forth.Again I go back to commend the Government Administration Committee. I think the Hon Ruth Dyson has done a swell job with her team along with Adrian Rurawhe and we have got Mark Mitchell back in the House—congratulations; good effort over there with the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup—Sarah Dowie and Brett Hudson. I have to say that they have done—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Rurawhe—it is Rurawhe.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Rurawhe—I am sorry. I do apologise. I am not the cunning linguist that I thought I was—[Interruption] Yes it is a bit of a—