SpeechDr JIAN YANG (National): National will support the bill to progress to a fuller discussion in the committee stage. I would like to thank our colleague Melissa Lee for her work and her understanding in contributing to the improvement of this bill. Now no one would disagree that we should reduce the potential for harm to consumers from viewing inappropriate content. Research indicates that there are indeed harms that have occurred due to insufficient classification regimes online. So while people have become more aware of the potential for harm online or commercial video on demand the Government has its responsibility to somehow help the consumers by providing more protection. And this bill is an effort.So this bill will require that the commercial video on-demand content that is made available in New Zealand display appropriate and consistent labelling—I would like to emphasise appropriate and consistent. At this stage the providers of the commercial video on-demand content do not have a consistent regime to follow. Basically it is very hard for consumers to get enough information or consistent information to make an informed decision because there is a gap in our legislation at this stage. The gap is that on-demand online content in New Zealand is not subject to the mandatory labelling requirements that films for cinemas or DVD release are. So that is the commercial video on-demand is not within this particular regime. That is why we need to somehow make this amendment have this bill.Under this bill the labelling will provide information about the content rating and a description so that consumers are able to make informed decisions. This is the core of this particular bill the purpose of the bill. To help achieve this the bill will basically update the function of the Classification Office to empower the office to somehow make it more workable for the office to do their operational work.Also the bill will replace the definition of film" in the Act because at this stage the definition of "film" in the Act does not include commercial video on-demand and therefore this bill will make sure that the Act itself will cover this area. Also this bill has an amendable schedule which will have a list of the providers of these commercial video on-demand and the list itself can be amended as it sees fit. So these are the main provisions or main purposes of this particular bill.Now we support the bill as I said we would like this bill to progress to committee stage so we have a better discussion. But as the previous speakers have mentioned we believe this bill itself is narrowly scoped. We have a much broader issue here. That is the content regulation. The content regulation is a much broader issue we need to have more discussion about this. So this bill itself because it's narrowly scoped could conflict with a broader regime and therefore may become outdated before too long. We believe we should have a wide-ranging open-scoped review of New Zealand's media sector and this is the best approach to tackling the hard questions affecting broadcasters producers and content creators.At a more technical issue we need to have the right sort of classification framework and also content regulation that inform and educate consumers instead of frustrating them. So we made a number of recommendations or amendments at this committee stage and we are going to go through all these recommendations at a later stage. But overall we believe that this bill itself is a good bill. We'd like to support it to the committee stage so that we have a better discussion."