Mallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2) — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2) — In Committee[Sitting date: 02 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19198. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour - Hutt South):A few of us were wondering why this Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2) rapidly came up the Order Paper to become an urgent matter when it had not been so important for the Government ever since the election in 2008. In fact if one looks at members opposite I think Colin King might have been here when it was introduced—Peter Dunne obviously—but I cannot see anyone else in that corner of the Chamber who was actually a member of Parliament at the time the legislation was introduced and that shows a certain lack of urgency.But then I recognised the fact as to who has now got the portfolio and who wants to get a bit of publicity because he can feel Ginny Andersen—the hot breath of Ginny Andersen—heading towards being the member for Ōhariu. That is because what we have discovered in the phone calls that we have been making is that the people of that electorate are no longer biddable. They know about Peter Dunne’s disgraceful behaviour over a period of about 18 months. They know about his leaking. They know about the leaking that he did of the Government Communications Security Bureau report. They know about his disgraceful behaviour with regard to animals which has become clearer and clearer and what the Minister in the chair the Hon Peter Dunne is trying to do is to get back in the good books in his local electorate by picking up a very good piece of legislation that was in the name of the Hon Rick Barker.Well I see it is still in the name of the Hon Rick Barker. The Hon Rick Barker has not been a member of this Parliament since 2011. What a lazy lazy Government. The Minister with all these months and months and months could not get his twink out twink out a name on the bill and write his own name there. With all the time the Government has had to consider this legislation the Minister the very lazy Minister who is in charge of the bill who I can see is tweeting away now—I hope it is better than some of the tweets he has done in the last couple of years—Chris Hipkins: Be careful.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: Well I think the Minister is obviously and it is very clear from the extensive phone calling that the Labour Party has done—[Interruption] Well Mr Chairman Part 1 of the bill deals with the purpose and the interpretation and new section 5 “Extended meaning of ‘conduct’ ”. I think we can focus in this particular area looking at the Minister on the extended meaning of “conduct”. The extended meaning of “conduct” is something that is very appropriate to consider with this particular Minister because what happens in this particular area after the interpretation clause—and I must say that the changes to the interpretation provisions are absolutely massive.I do not think I have ever seen such a thorough piece of work on an interpretation clause as has been the case with my honourable former colleague Rick Barker. The changes in the interpretation clause of the bill go through a number of pages. In fact they run through to page 10 of the printed bill where in clause 6 there is new section 5 substituted which repeals the previous section 5 and deals with the extended meaning of “conduct”. In this particular case it is in relation to gambling rather than to the other sort of conduct that one might focus on at the moment but it does involve any of the following activities. It involves “organising using managing supervising and operating (but not playing) gambling or gambling equipment:”. So it is not the person who is actually doing the gambling but the people who are involved in running the gambling.Progress to be reported presently.House resumed.The Chairperson reported the Appropriation (2014/15 Estimates) Bill without amendment and progress on the Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2).Report adopted.