Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I just want to start my speech by saying thanks to my colleagues on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee who heard from the submitters during the recent recess break. Can I acknowledge the Rt Hon Winston Peters who's not here but did say to me on his departure that he had to get to a Cabinet committee and wanted to—DEPUTY SPEAKER: We don't mention when members are not present.PAUL EAGLE: Sure. That's no problem. Look this is the second reading and I last week was in fact at a fisheries meeting on the Chatham Islands and as the meeting went on and I was looking out the window I saw the Chatham Island Jockey Club there. Just when I thought I had no affiliation to this sector I suddenly thought Aha! Here we are right outside my window." "1873" the sign says and I thought "Wow." They suddenly all got a little tetchy at me for not listening to them about pāua but instead I said "Tell me more about this jockey club." And they said "Look it meets on 27 and 31 December and then they have a picnic day on the first Saturday in January." So there are some key dates for those wanting to get down and see probably one of the oldest jockey clubs in the country and the only one dare I say it on the Chatham Islands and therefore in the Rongotai electorate. It was good just to be able to have a chat and a lot of them said "Look once we have this AGM finished tell us about this Messara report and what's been happening." It was good to be able to provide just a quick update from the recent process in terms of submitters.We've heard that there have been 42 and yes I make no apologies for the truncated process. I was looking back through the public consultation angle. That's been raised around this being too tight—"not enough people" "last minute". We've heard terms like those but actually in September and October last year 1700 submissions were received. That's pretty good I think. And look I know that there's been a member's bill an amendment bill there from 2017 too. That was withdrawn. So I think there has been the time put in for people to have their say and these submitters are passionate. We've heard that. We've heard how different codes and different parts of the sector were able to give their views—again to say "Look this is what we think." In terms of the industry being—and I had a figure here—$1.6 billion worth in 2016-17 that's a big sector. And I thought "People are engaging in this because it does mean significant change." They did say to me "Does this mean the end of the Chatham Island Jockey Club?" I said "No because the Deputy Prime Minister the Rt Hon Winston Peters will be down here over the New Year to ensure that your track stays open. But it does mean change."Jamie Strange: The Chatham Islands champion.PAUL EAGLE: I think we need a champion of the Chatham Islands—there we are. But in terms of my link to the sporting sector it was good to see Sport New Zealand there and if you read their—they've only got a short submission but it does say that they support everything. I was going to go through and pull out the lines but actually there was nothing in there—in fact the point to where the Minister for Racing has an influence on who the membership of the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) Board is and some of that future work—they were supportive of that. And they are the representative Crown agency who have the linkages with the national sporting organisations and also there's a part in there that says that if you are not affiliated to your national sporting organisation the Sport New Zealand entity will ensure that they have an arrangement with RITA to ensure that that funding process is tight and accountable and is done with integrity. There were other submitters there but that's the one I wanted to pull out because I thought it would be good just to get that clear around them being supportive but also to clear up some of that issue around the engagement and the truncated process that went with it.I'm not going to say too much more because I think that's been covered. I commend this bill to the House."