Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Every now and then a representative from each party gets up and congratulates our sporting bodies for their successes overseas.But if we scratch the surface of our speeches there are massive underlying issues with high-performance athletes coming to us as representatives and to our Government bodies highlighting that there is a crisis when it comes to the wellbeing of our athletes. I want to acknowledge Olivia Podmore and her whānau for their advocacy and bringing this to Parliament and for the many other athletes and sporting bodies that have advocated for this bill to finally—almost—come to fruition.So I find the ACT Party's comments to say things like that we've done well and have successes overseas and to then brush off the need to have a unit to look at threats to integrity frankly dismissive of the voices of the athletes who have been calling for Government to act on this. This is about setting a unit that will look at ensuring that we have fit-for-purpose standards and regulations to look after our athletes. To call it things like bloated bureaucracy" as ACT often calls it is completely out of line with what this bill is trying to do. More than anything it really shows that they're guided more often than not by headline-catching sound bites that have nothing to do with the bill.If the ACT Party was so concerned about representation of women in the board of this unit they could have supported our Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) to actually have gender balance in the board rather than just throw out sound bites for social media.But I want to commend the Minister for bringing this bill forward. I want to also acknowledge our officials who worked really constructively in the select committee—our Social Services and Community Committee—who worked in a really really constructive spirit to improve this bill and of the submissions that we've heard. I want to also thank the Labour Party for supporting my SOP to ensure that the rights of rainbow people were being considered as part of the make-up of the board.I think this will ensure that a broader range of perspectives and rights are considered particularly when we've seen how anti-doping provisions have been weaponised against trans people—which ironically end up then disproportionately impacting cis women—it's really really important that we get these provisions right. So I want to thank the Labour Party for their support and ensuring that we have great protections to get this right.Finally I also want to acknowledge that as this bill passes we're going to need to resource the unit adequately to ensure that this unit's able to consult with the stakeholders that are listed in this bill. That will be key to ensure that we get it right. I particularly want to acknowledge that with the e-sports scenes this will be critical because it is a growing scene. It is one where we have literal stadium-sized audiences watching e-sports athletes but massive challenges in terms of substances that are being used by the athletes that are not currently actually considered by the public as substances that would have performance-altering effects. Having a unit that is well resourced will ensure that this is tackled.Because as the National Party members talked about sport can play a huge role in improving social cohesion and bringing us together as communities. So therefore we need to consider the wide range of sports that are out there.Threats to integrity as defined in this bill include racism and I wanted to pay tribute to the Manukau United Football Club who released a report recently on racism in football. I think there's been many bodies that have talked about threats to integrity in many different ways and it's great that those bodies will now be able to engage with those threats to integrity now with the unit that is going to be set up.So I think if we all continue working constructively based with evidence and guided by the people affected by this bill we're going to have a brighter future and improve the wellbeing of our athletes. So the Green Party looks forward to commending this bill and seeing its passage.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Um the member—Dr Anae Neru Leavasa: Anae.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Anae Neru Leavasa. Thank you."