Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this bill. As Nikki Kaye mentioned and I would agree with her—and we'll talk about the title at some future date—it's really about sport as much as about racing. It's about gathering revenue for the codes sporting codes and racing codes from people who should be paying: those people who are offshore and betting on our sport and our people betting on sporting activities. I know there are some—and the Deputy Prime Minister mentioned them—existing agreements that already exist between the New Zealand betting agency and offshore betting agencies. But this legislation will make it compulsory for the information use charge—that is the IP essentially; the information that we're providing to other offshore betting agencies—and the consumption charge—that is offshore people consuming and betting on our material in New Zealand—to pay for it and that's fair enough whether it's racing or sport which is a very important point. The sporting aspect of it is understated certainly in the title. It is understated and I don't think it goes far enough to support the sporting codes as much as it should. I think that you'll see some Supplementary Order Papers coming forward in that regard. Nikki Kaye's mentioned representation on the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) the interim agency as being an issue. There's also the issue of consultation with the Minister for Sport and Recreation. The Transport and Infrastructure Committee report recommends there be consultation with the Minister of sport—that's an amendment—but in our view it doesn't go far enough. There should be agreement with the Minister of sport because it is important to sport and without that agreement there is a risk that the racing codes dominate the calculation of the distribution of funds. That's why we advocate for stronger representation on RITA at the outset and for stronger representation in giving the Minister of sport a stronger voice by ensuring that there is agreement between those two Ministers not just simply a consultation process.I do support the racing industry. I'm very keen on going to the Tauherenīkau Racecourse. The next meeting is on 2 January and 6 February is also a very very good event. I've also in the past sponsored a couple of races at that event through my business interests. I love to watch the horses race. It is a family activity. It is quite rightly and should be distinct as Ian McKelvie pointed out from mindless gambling on the pokies—mindless gambling on the pokies. This is not what we're talking about. That is distinctly different and has a lot of issues around it. Pokie machines in my view are disgusting and should be minimised and they cause a lot of damage in this country in our communities. But horse racing and a flutter and a community get-together using your brain to calculate the odds whether it's on sport or on the horse or on a dog is a good thing and should be encouraged and supported and that's what this bill does.There's not much more. The only other point was I found it quite interesting that the Transport and Infrastructure Committee was chosen to consider this bill. I guess horses are a mode of transport but I guess that's the only reason. I couldn't really see any other reason why we got it but I guess there's an argument for that. Look I'm not going to go over the other issues or the other suggestions that we might make to this bill. We'll get to that in committee stage but I do look forward to seeing the fine-tuning that the Deputy Prime Minister mentioned around those existing agreements those existing international agreements which we did discuss at select committee and I think we agreed that the existing bill—there was some space for improvement let's say. Let's put it that way. So overall it was good to hear the Deputy Prime Minister suggest that extra time for RITA was not necessary but as he rightly pointed out the select committee recommended a couple of extra years. But it was good to see that he was of the mind that it was only going to be a very short transition period and that was good to hear. That is all I have to contribute this afternoon. Thank you.