McAnulty KieranKIERAN McANULTY (Labour—Wairarapa): Thank you Madam Speaker. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a big fan of racing. I will do what I can to support the racing industry. The racing industry is very important to the New Zealand economy. It provides as much to the GDP as the fishing industry and that's something that's lost on a lot of people. Because the racing industry is not just going to the clubs and having a punt. The racing industry has many aspects to it and part of that is the export element of racing the breeding and the exporting of horses. That part of the industry cannot happen if it wasn't for the domestic racing industry.So when I looked at this bill my natural instinct was to support it. Part of that was for the fact of the member who sponsored it. Ian McKelvie is one of life's gentlemen. Despite the fact that he's a Tory he's also a decent bloke and so I like him a lot. He cannot play cricket to save himself but I admire the fact that he tries. So when I saw this I really wanted to back it. My natural instinct was to back it.But being a good electorate MP I rang my local racing clubs. I've got three in my electorate. There's the Tauherenīkau racing club there's also the Masterton Racing Club which operates out of Tauherenīkau there's the Woodville and there's the Waipukurau. I rang them all and they all gave a different answer. But their answer equated to the same conclusion which is that ultimately they didn't feel this bill was necessary. I was quite surprised by that response.And so I'll walk the House through how it worked out. Tauherenīkau already have a BYO licence with their council. They didn't think this bill was necessary. They have an arrangement with the South Wairarapa District Council that on particular days they have BYO licences and on other days they don't. Of course they make more money out of the bar when they don't have a BYO licence. And when they do have that situation it is more controlled and they're able to assess each punter as they come up to the bar as to whether or not they meet the criteria that then entitles them to purchase a drink. So I thought OK. Fair enough. I'll try Woodville." Woodville don't want it. They haven't applied for it because they like I said make more money out of the bar. I was like "OK. Fair enough." I spoke to Waipukurau that operates out of the Hawke's Bay Racing Club. They have a similar situation. Some days are BYO and some days are not.So I'm in a dilemma; I'll be honest. I want to back racing clubs but when I speak to my own racing clubs they don't want it. So what do I do? So what I've decided to do in this bill is to back it to select committee. I'm going to vote "yes" on this bill. I'm going to give the select committee the chance to actually scrutinise this bill and propose any amendments that could improve it. And actually if we're honest that's the purpose of select committees isn't it? That's also the select committee—Toni Severin: Oh yes.KIERAN McANULTY: I didn't expect to be heckled on this particular bill. But anyway thank you Toni Severin. I appreciate that. I don't know—some neoliberal nonsense; let's not take any notice. But look the point of both members' days and select committees is to propose an idea and let's scrutinise it. So whilst my local racing clubs say to me for various reasons that they don't particularly see the need for this bill I still want to vote for it.This is a conscience vote on this side of the House. Those that have been watching Parliament TV tonight will see that some Labour members have spoken in favour of this bill and some Labour members actually quite enthusiastically have spoken against it and that's all good because that's what conscience bills are all about. But for me not only as a racing fan but also as a local MP for Wairarapa I just want to give this bill a chance. Let's get it to the select committee. Let's hear it out. If it turns out that actually this bill is not needed and that each racing club can go to their local council and get a BYO licence much like Tauherenīkau racing venue have and it turns out that it's not needed: fine. We gave it its fair share. We gave it a shot.You know I've got a history of working with Ian McKelvie on members' bills. You know I remember the cattle rustling bill that he first put up and it didn't quite work out. But he and I worked together. We went to the Minister. I said to Ian "I think I've got a way forward here." We proposed a way forward to the Minister and he got it through and it passed. That was a great example of parliamentarianism. Perhaps this might be another opportunity for that. But we won't know that unless we get it to the select committee. So I'm going to vote for this and I wish you all the best Ian McKelvie. I hope this will be able to come out of a select committee in a form that the whole of Parliament will support. But I guess what I'm saying my message is that in its current form I probably won't support it past select committee. But I want to give it a shot to make it get to a point where I can. All the best."