11. Question No. 11—RacingDAMIEN SMITH (ACT) to the Minister for RacingQuestion No. 11—Racing11. DAMIEN SMITH (ACT) to the Minister for Racing: Is he satisfied with the operations of the TAB?Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister for Racing): I genuinely thank the member for his question. I do have confidence in the TAB to carry out its operations. It is important to note that as Minister I am responsible for the legislative framework under which the TAB operates and appointments to its board. Operational matters are the responsibility of the TAB. If the member has concerns about the returns on his investments I suggest he chats to the senior Government whip. Damien Smith: So will the TAB be taking odds on the Government's proposed Auckland cycle bridge construction and if not why not?Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I do note that that would very much be an operational matter for the TAB if they were to do that. But I—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat. As someone who was actually on the select committee when the bill went through I'm telling you it's not an operational matter.Damien Smith: Will he discuss with the TAB the opportunity to offer a multi-bet on whether the Auckland cycle bridge and the Auckland light rail will begin construction this decade?SPEAKER: Order! Order! Out of order.Damien Smith: Point of order Mr Speaker. As the Minister just pointed out he is responsible for the operation of the legislation and what sorts of bets the TAB actually can take. So as the odds for 1.6 million Aucklanders are—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat.Damien Smith: Supplementary question.SPEAKER: The member will resume his seat. The Minister is not responsible for that. There is legislation. The Parliament is responsible for legislation and I don't see any bill before us to change the legislation in order to allow the TAB to take that sort of bet along with a whole pile of others which involve political decisions.Rawiri Waititi: Point of order.SPEAKER: Sorry?Rawiri Waititi: Point of order.SPEAKER: A point of order Damien—oh sorry Rawiri Waititi. Is it a point of order?Rawiri Waititi: I look very different to David Seymour Mr Speaker. Did you call David Seymour did you?SPEAKER: Damien.Rawiri Waititi: Oh Damien. No no point of order.SPEAKER: No you certainly don't look like either of them.Rawiri Waititi: Ha Ha! I would be interested—SPEAKER: Is this a point—Rawiri Waititi: —to know the answer to that quinella thank you.Damien Smith: Supplementary Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Well the member will resume his seat for a second. The member will resume his seat and I'm just going to tell Rawiri Waititi that if he continues with that sort of irrelevant point of order it may be that bookies but not the TAB will start taking odds about when I next throw him out.Damien Smith: I refer to the Racing Industry Act 2020 where the responsibilities of the Minister to take odds are quite clear and place bets—the question is: is the TAB refusing to—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat. I'm just going to warn the member now that if he is misleading the House as part of a supplementary question as I think he is risking he gets in quite serious trouble. Remember he's probably arguing with the last person in the House who sat on the select committee that allowed anything other than horse and dog racing betting by the TAB.Damien Smith: Is the TAB refusing to take odds on the construction of the cycle bridge and Auckland light rail because no reasonable person would take it?SPEAKER: Any further supplementaries? Right. Question No. 12 Tim van de Molen. [Interruption] Look I called someone else. I sense an interest in the House in allowing Mr McAnulty to ask a question. I'm going to warn him that if it's out of order he goes. I think we'll go for Tim van de Molen. [Interruption] Well are we going to have the life history of this member now?