SpeechANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'd just like to acknowledge the previous speaker Michael Woodhouse who just about did a brilliant speech except for that last little bit—didn't agree with that. However it was a very reasonable conversation that you had with us. Your speech hit some notes that I think were really appropriate and as the chair of the Social Services and Community Committee I think we will have a robust and useful discussion about this bill. I'm really delighted that this bill has come to this House and I have to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Grant Robertson for bringing it to the House. I want to just acknowledge him for a couple of other things about this particular bill. Despite a lot of other headwinds in his other ministerial duties our Minister has continued to champion this work across two terms and it is important work. I know in 2018 we had a year of reckoning really—we had a year of reckoning with our cycling our football our hockey and our rowing and we had a number of reviews and it wasn't good. It wasn't good and we can all admit to that. There seemed to be a lack of a genuine focus on athletes' rights and welfare and there seemed to be a bullying culture and the Minister has taken the ball and run with it—Marja Lubeck: Ha ha! Nice analogy.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —in order to get us here today. So—OK OK that was a bad joke I know.I was going to talk about some of my previous sporting prowess as a rep for hockey and a whole pile of things like that but let's talk to the bill. I think it's much more important than me telling you about how good I was at hockey back in the day—or surfing or diving or any of the other things just saying.Marja Lubeck: And modest.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: And modest. So in 2018 the Integrity Working Group was set up and they've worked consistently for a long time to bring us to this bill today. They came up with 22 recommendations and those recommendations have been folded into this bill. And what's important about this bill I think is that everyone in this country wants to know that our grassroots sports—right through to our little nippers right through to our elite athletes—are safe and are taken care of and they're included. So safe inclusive and fair sports is what we're about and this piece of legislation creates this wonderful independent body which sits there quite clearly in order to do a whole series of things. I recommend you look at clause 5 the Meaning of the threat to integrity"—the bill speaks to that. I'm not going to read it off but it is a very useful interpretation. One of the things is around looking at competition manipulation and match-fixing. We all know some of the cricket stories back in the pre-2000s about match-fixing. That was a worldwide scandal and something that we want to make sure doesn't happen here in New Zealand. The use of prohibited substances and doping methods—nobody wants to see someone who is a cheat achieving and then losing. We want to know that our athletes are clean. We want to know that they are using all of their skills in order to achieve greatness. We don't want them to be cheats. We as a country need to know and be satisfied with their status and that talks as well to the World Anti-Doping strategy. So we as well need to make sure that we abide by that and this Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission will do that.It also talks about bullying abuse harassment sexual misconduct violence intimidation racism and other discrimination and the failure to safeguard children. We all know that children in sports clubs who go away who do things with their sports clubs can be held to be vulnerable. This bill creates integrity. It creates a system to support our children our grassroots right through. There is so much more I want to say but I just think it's important to say that I commend this bill to the House."