Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It is my pleasure to speak on the Broadcasting (Games of National Significance) Amendment Bill. I would like to acknowledge Clayton Mitchell whose name this bill is under but I think he missed a couple of words from the title. He assumes that the games should be for free" and also "live". The sport and recreation industry has an economic value on it and I found a Lincoln University report that was published in 2015 that basically said it was worth $5 billion. This is the sport and recreation industry: there are all the national sporting organisations; the physical and human infrastructure which is all the stadiums—they are worth another $800 million; and the market value of volunteers is about $1 billion. So in total the sport and recreation sector is worth $5 billion.The value of broadcasting to that industry to produce deliver and screen sport live on Sky is worth $175 million. That is incredibly relevant when we look at the intention of this piece of legislation. Rugby in 2015—I looked at the annual report—its income was $133.7 million. Of that 0.5 percent was received from the Government. It is really interesting to know why the Government invested that $670000 in rugby and it was actually to support tier 2 sports which are the Rugby Sevens teams both the men's and the women's. The contribution of the Government to rugby which is a 123-year-old institution in our country was $670000. So the shortfall if we were to take away the revenue from Sky would actually be $52.8 million. So maybe the person who has proposed the legislation Clayton Mitchell can answer the question of who is going to provide that $52.8 million to the Rugby Union.I have found it quite interesting this whole debate because as I said before the premise is that there is not free-to-air screening of sport in New Zealand and it is not true. Of the sports that are listed there was 96 percent coverage for Prime Television across New Zealand. Rugby World Cup matches—for the last Rugby World Cup the opening match the quarter-final the semi-final and the final were live and it was free. All Cricket World Cup matches—well the semi-final and the final—were live and they were free. All domestic one-day cricket internationals—same; they were live and they were free. And all Football World Cup matches involving New Zealand last time we played were live and free. The All Blacks tests against the Lions who are coming soon—they are not going to be live but actually there will be delayed coverage on Sky. So everyone who wants to watch those three All Blacks tests in June will be able to—coverage will start an hour after kick-off.So the whole premise of this bill is that sport is not free and that New Zealanders do not have access to sport in this country. That is not true; it is a fallacy and I want to articulate why those sports are provided to New Zealanders. It is because Sky and the codes themselves want all New Zealanders to be able to access sport in New Zealand. I mean I know as we all do the value of sport. I have played sport. I have got a history of international sport. I woke up this morning and it was incredibly interesting—I am not sure whether people saw but Cricket Australia is going to increase its women players' annual retainer by 227 percent. Currently those women get $79000 a year; they are going to get $179000 and in 2021 they will get $210000—this is the women. Why? They got $590 million worth of broadcasting rights from Channel 9 and Channel Ten. So what do I expect will happen to some of our codes that are getting money from Sky to ensure that their sport continues to development and thrive? Actually what I am hoping for in New Zealand is that there will be more opportunities for women's sport and for women to be professional athletes. This bill undermines the integrity of that intent not only by cricket but I know by rugby and other codes in New Zealand. Kia ora."