Curran ClareCLARE CURRAN (Labour—Dunedin South): There has been a lot of passion expressed in the House tonight on this bill so I am going to be the the voice of reason. We do not support this bill. It gives me no pleasure to say that to New Zealand First as I have got a lot of respect for those members' guts and their values and it is a decision that is not made lightly. But it is the right one and here is why.Firstly we get that many people in New Zealand are pissed off that they have to pay $100 or more a month to watch live sport. We get that there are many New Zealanders who cannot afford to pay that money and feel locked out. I am not going to be an apologist here tonight for the dominance that Sky has on our small market and for what I consider to be a model that is becoming outdated. I know it is grappling with that right now. Its subscriptions have been dropping—that is in the public arena. The advent of Netflix YouTube—if you are under 40 you watch YouTube; you do not watch television. Well is anyone here under 40? Ha ha—Peeni Henare raises his hand. He is an outlier.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Generation X.CLARE CURRAN: Secondly—ha ha—we get that in other comparable jurisdictions such as Australia Canada and the UK there are requirements for live free-to-air sport. In each of those jurisdictions sport and broadcasting systems have significantly more financial support than they do currently in New Zealand.Thirdly we get that there are sports of national significance that are part of our psyche. We acknowledge that there is an issue of fairness. But here is why we cannot support it Clayton Mitchell. It is that it is completely naive and unworkable. To actually bring this bill into law would be a massive cost—a massive cost—to New Zealand costing over $100 million. That is money that could be used for more elective surgeries for more teachers for our schools for more affordable homes and for many other things.Just on that Labour wants to lead Government; therefore we have to be responsible about what we can support. I think Trevor Mallard said that there is a higher test around honesty but there is also a test around workability and we have to be conscious of that. Our priority is public broadcasting—public interest media—which is an argument for the notion that every citizen should be able to access their culture to be able to have free public broadcasting that is a multimedia service that operates across all platforms not driven by commercial interests and we consider that to be essential to our democracy.It is fascinating when you listen to people giving their valedictory speeches in this Parliament because almost to a one of them they mention the importance of media and its fundamental importance to democracy which John Key said in this House tonight. A lot of members leaving this House say that having public interest media is critical to our democracy. Well that Government does not invest in public interest media. That is the Government that has starved Radio New Zealand of funding for 8 years that has starved NZ On Air of funding for 8 years that is starving our culture of funding for 8 years.Sport is a fundamental part of our culture yes. But it is one part of our culture. What we need is an investment in a public interest media framework that truly does mean that we value New Zealanders that we value the fact that there should be an investment in journalism in current affairs in culture in programming that reflects everyone around New Zealand no matter where they live no matter whether they live in a city or in regional New Zealand and that actually puts a value on that. Sport is an important part of that but it is not the only part.