Robertson Grant; O'Connor GregThird ReadingHon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister for Sport and Recreation): I move That the Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill be now read a third time. I want to begin by thanking a large number of people who have been involved in the development of this legislation. We undertook a piece of work over the course of the last couple of years around integrity in sport and that involved a wide range of stakeholders beginning with a piece of work that delved quite deeply into integrity issues consulted very very widely. We in turn then developed the integrity transition committee that's being chaired by Don Mackinnon—not to be confused with a former member of the House—who is a well-known lawyer and sports lawyer and supported by a range of other experienced people. I do want to just note the role here of Tim Castle who is the current chair of the Drug Free Sport New Zealand board because obviously they are being brought in here and other members of that committee. I particularly want to acknowledge the work of the Executive Director of that group Rebecca Rolls who has played a truly significant role in shepherding this legislation forward and working with all the officials from agencies across the board including Sport New Zealand. I want to thank all of them for their work. I want to thank every member of the sporting and recreation community of New Zealand who took the time to submit and who took the time to care about the issues that are in front of us today. What we are creating here I believe is something that will ultimately improve the experience of a range of New Zealanders when they go about sport and recreation in their community. I think it's going to mean that some people stay in sport when otherwise they would have left. I think it's going to mean that some people and I do not say this lightly some people's lives will be saved by this piece of legislation that we are passing tonight. On that note I want to—and I did this I believe in an earlier reading—I want to acknowledge Olivia Podmore and the family of Olivia Podmore. While I can't speak directly to issues that are currently before the coroner's investigation I do want to acknowledge Liv and her family and the tragedy that surrounded that. I equally want to acknowledge all of those people who have courageously come forward to blow the whistle about things that have been happening in their sports often women often people who have been placed in quite difficult and vulnerable circumstances who have put their hands up and said this is not right and it needs to change—sometimes at the elite level of our sports and other times just at the grassroots. This bill creates an entity where those people can go. They'll be heard fairly they'll be heard independently and they'll know that something will happen. I don't want to raise too many expectations on the body they're going to have a lot of work when they come together but I do believe that place that independent place where things can be handled well and transparently will make sport better will give people confidence and as I say I ultimately believe it will also help save lives as well.It's also worth noting at this point the issues that have been raised by the select committee again one more time. This is a situation where the committee has added real value to what we're trying to do here—picked up some of the more challenging issues around definitional matters around the way that the codes will be worked on and made sure that we have a better bill and that review clause that allows us to be able to come back and look at whether things are working particularly when it does come to the codes.I also want to acknowledge Drug Free Sport New Zealand again. Drug Free Sport New Zealand has been an extraordinary organisation to keep New Zealand sport clean. It's also members of the Drug Free Sport New Zealand family those who've been on the board those who've been on the staff of it that have played an extraordinary role internationally at the World Anti-Doping Agency in particular and I think here about the likes of David Howman who played such an important role in its establishment. Drug Free Sport New Zealand has done a great job and from this bill's enactment onwards they become a critical part of this commission.I want to acknowledge the current team there. As I said before Tim Castle is the chair of the board but also Nick Paterson who is the reasonably long-serving chief executive who has done a tremendous job. Their work will carry on and Mr Woodhouse raised this earlier that the education piece is important. That's what Drug Free Sport New Zealand has been doing really well over the last few years is actually getting out there among competitors even starting with senior secondary school students who are at the elite level saying Hey this is what's expected of you as you move through sport." That education piece now becomes part of the wider commission's work. But Drug Free Sport New Zealand even if their name will disappear what they've done and the path they've blazed on this is important and I wanted to acknowledge that today.I also wanted to acknowledge the issues that the committee dealt with around children's rights. I absolutely agree with the work there and I want to acknowledge members of the committee who have supported us bringing that forward. Children in certain sports are made very vulnerable—I think it was Penny Simmonds who said it before you reach the elite level quite quickly in a number of sports and they are the ones where we really do need to look out for children's rights as we go forward. So I think that work and the way in which the committee brought that forward is important.The bill also acknowledges the diversity of our communities and I'm very pleased as I said earlier on in the committee stage that we've got a piece of law now that gives a good solid definition of our rainbow people that can be used to help guide the consultation that's there. It's important that those who are often marginalised are there can see themselves and see their place in there. Equally that we've got a focus on making sure that we've got people who have an understanding of tikanga and Te Ao Māori within the commission as well.For me this is a really important and significant day. As the Minister for Sport and Recreation I'm immensely proud of what we do in New Zealand in sport as we've seen in recent weeks and as we often see—what this does is give me confidence that we're setting up a system where everyone gets a chance to be involved. No one should be excluded from sport and recreation in our communities. No one should feel unsafe when they are involved in sport and recreation in our communities. Everybody should have been included and have a pathway to resolving issues that they do not feel are fair or that they do not feel they have been treated well or their wellbeing has been looked after.Sport as I said before brings communities together. What this bill does I believe is allow everyone to be a part of that community and for that reason alone I commend the bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is that the motion be agreed to."