Mallard Trevor: Crimes (Match-fixing) Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Crimes (Match-fixing) Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 02 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:996. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South):I want to reiterate to the Committee that it was my hope that this Committee stage would not be necessary. There was a series of questions that Labour Opposition members wanted to ask at the Law and Order Committee and we were denied that opportunity by Mike Sabin breaking his undertaking. I will give some of the questions on the list in the hope that the Minister in the chair the Hon Nick Smith can now answer them. They are really practical questions like: who did Sport New Zealand consult? I ask him to list the organisations. Did it issue a consultation document? If so can that document be tabled? What were the responses from the sporting organisations? The Minister in the chair smiles but actually he is asking us to pass legislation and to pass it quickly. These are simple practical factual questions that should have been answered in the select committee but we were denied the opportunity to do so because of the approach of the chairman.What is the view of Drug Free Sport New Zealand? Does New Zealand suffer from match fixing as a result of cocaine debts as has occurred in Australia? Is that a practice that has occurred in New Zealand? Has it been picked up? Does Sport New Zealand know about it and if so within what sports? There is the question of steroid users and blackmail with them. Again there has been international evidence of blackmailers from sportspeople who have been involved in steroid use. Is that an issue in New Zealand? Has it been picked up and if so at what level? I think that all of us who have been around sports for a few years know that as dope testing has improved—for one thing at the time it came in the weight of the All Black front row dropped substantially—steroid drug use has gone away we think at the very top level. But what is happening further down and are people who are involved in steroid use subject to extra pressures that lead to blackmail and that lead to match-fixing?A number of colleagues have asked about the consistency of the rules. I want to reiterate to the Committee that it is my understanding that if I go to the local kōhanga reo and sit down with the boss there because she is the mother of a contracted rugby player albeit playing in London at the moment I am not allowed to have a bet on a rugby match at the New Zealand TAB or send a bet or whatever. Friends and family are caught out by the International Rugby Board’s rules. The question I have got is around what role Sport New Zealand has taken in trying to get consistency between the various rules and the law so that everyone can know we have a consistent package to work with.I want to ask when the Minister for Sport and Recreation last received a briefing on the Cairns case. We know that because of the importance of the issue to New Zealand’s reputation and the fact that there will be massive subcontinent betting on the cricket that is happening here in February and March the Minister will be receiving regular reports. I do not want the details of those reports but I do want to know that the Minister whether it is part of the weekly or fortnightly briefings or in some separate way is being properly kept up to date with the behind-the-scenes details. We know that we have some very good contacts in the International Cricket Council at the moment but the details are needed so that the Minister is kept up to date. I heard the Minister—I was out of the Chamber temporarily—indicate that the activities were to be activities that occur in New Zealand—