Mallard TrevorHon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South): I think it was St Bernard who said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions." I think that could well be the case with this particular bill. I will give the member credit. It is well intentioned but it is very very poorly thought through.In Wainuiōmata there is no demand to return to the system where the rugby finishes on TV 20 minutes after it does live because it has got ads all the way through. There is no demand in Wainuiōmata to go back to the system where the netball finishes quarter of an hour after the game finishes live because of the ads that were through it. That is the past that members want to go back to.Generally the Labour Party and I support the principle of supporting first readings of members' bills. We generally do it. But there is a higher value. The higher value is one of honesty and that one of honesty is that a bill like this will never pass. It cannot pass. No Government is going to take $125 million a year roughly off sport in New Zealand. No Government—no Government—is going to take roughly $125 million the sporting rights' income away from sports in New Zealand. No Government is going to be prepared to make that money up because if you have got $125 million to spend on sport you are going to spend it on kids' sport. If you have got $125 million to spend on broadcasting you will spend it on public broadcasting and improving broadcasting not going back to something in the past.It is a requirement on MPs to do some research and the member who brought this bill in did not do the research. He should have talked to a few sports organisations. He should have talked to the netball school development people who would lose their jobs if this bill went through because the funding would be cut. Professional sport would be damaged and community sport would be damaged even worse. I will give you an example from this bill and that is of the person who a decade ago got $100 in development funding from the taxpayer and is now in an international wrestling meet in Kazakhstan. It is not broadcast in Kazakhstan but there is an obligation under this bill for New Zealand to send cameras there and to broadcast it back to New Zealand. The bill is really badly drafted it is not thought through and it is not planned.I also want to say that this is a temporary issue. No one believes that the shape of broadcasting in New Zealand in a decade is going to be anything like it is now. Already it is my understanding about 40 percent of Kiwis have Netflix or something that is quite similar. People are getting things online they are getting them in bite-size and I am certain that the world will change so that the sort of approach that the member is fighting against will not be there in a decade or so.I want to ask the member to tell us who owns sport. Not a word. Not a response. Not a whisper. Well I think that sports own sport and the intellectual property the things that they have developed is something that they should be able to sell. It should not be confiscated by the Government. To the member who says that Kiwis cannot and do not watch sport I invite him just to talk to a few. Talk to the people who cannot afford it but go to their rellies. They go to their neighbours they go down to the sports clubs and they go down to the pubs. They get together. They have a bit of community and they watch things together.This is a very poorly thought through piece of legislation. I am not going to criticise the member's intent because I think his heart is in the right place. It is just a pity his brain was not engaged."