Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you Mr Speaker. We're debating this evening a truncated select committee process of just two weeks and for a bill that is of this size—three schedules 31 pages numerous changes—it's worthy of a longer select committee period. I support Gerry Brownlee's amendment that says it should go out to November. That's fair enough for a bill of this size and the magnitude of the changes that this bill encompasses. I think that the 50000 people that are associated with the racing industry deserve to be heard and for the Minister for Racing to stand up in the House earlier and say Oh well there's already been widespread consultation on the Messara report that generated 1700 submissions. There's already been consultation on National's bill that we head through the Parliament and the select committee the Racing Amendment Bill so therefore we don't need to have widespread consultation."—well that's not the way that it's meant to work in this Parliament. How it's meant to work is that it's opened up for a decent amount of time so people can submit.I've been in this Parliament long enough to know that rushed legislation means that at some point in time it's likely to be back in this Parliament to be fixed up because how can it be that just the 10 hours that the select committee is likely to be sitting over this period of time when you take out the weekends and things—that 10 hours can do justice to a bill of this magnitude. It can't. The select committee can't and I don't support that the Transport and Infrastructure Committee is the right committee because part of this bill is indeed it repeals the tax changes and taxation to do with gambling for the racing industry. So surely a bill that encompasses taxation should go to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. I would've thought that that's a logical place but instead it's heading off to the Transport and Infrastructure Committee. Normally a bill of this magnitude would go to the Finance and Expenditure Committee or indeed across to the Primary Production Committee where the bill that preceded this one indeed went to.So we've had quite a debate on the truncated select committee period—SPEAKER: Yep.Hon NATHAN GUY: —and what I want to conclude with is I don't think it's fair that the 50000 people that are associated with the racing industry—17000 jobs are created by the industry. I'm not saying that all of them want to trundle into Wellington and be heard but they'll need time to submit. They'll need time to read the bill. I just refer members to the two—there are three schedules. Schedule 2 "Consequential amendments to principal Act"; Schedule 3 "Consequential amendments to other enactments". The big one—and you'll remember this from your time Mr Speaker as the previous Minister of sport—takes the distribution section that's in the Act out of the Act and plonks it over in a regulatory-making power that the Minister and Cabinet can decide. Now the question for the select committee and for those that no doubt want to submit: is this appropriate? Is it indeed going to be fair? I think—SPEAKER: Now I'm going to do the last warning to this member because he's very experienced and that is that he's to talk about the time period or the committee not the substance and certainly not to draw my work on the select committee setting up the regime into the debate.Hon NATHAN GUY: In summary this truncated select committee I don't think is fair on the racing industry. Some of them will think that it should go through in two weeks because the racing season is just around the corner but the reality is the Government's had a long period of time to get this bill ready and get it into the Parliament. They have had four or five months since the Messara report so now because they're—SPEAKER: OK OK we haven't heard anything new for a while so I'm truncating the member's speech."