Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): Where do I start? I do not blame the National Party for not supporting this bill. In fact when we put this legislation into the ballot we knew that it would not. Why would a party that is in so deep with its mates at Skycity Casino ever conceive of doing something—David Seymour: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The member should know by now—he has been here for almost 3 years—that imputing a motive like that is against the Standing Orders. The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am the judge of that. CLAYTON MITCHELL: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. And of course the absolutely lunatic contribution that was made by the ranting Captain FIGJAM" over there earlier on made no sense at all and I will not even give it the time of day. I am going to give a metaphorical thick ear if you like or a metaphorical fat lip to the Labour Party however. I just want to bring your attention to dare I say it a media release that was released on 29 March 2013 by the wonderful Clare Curran which said: "Kiwi sports fans being 'ripped off'—Labour. Labour's broadcasting spokeswoman Clare Curran says Government regulation is needed to rectify New Zealanders' lack of free-to-air television access to major sports. Her party opposes Sky TV's buy-up of major national sports over the past decade. 'Sky have held at bay the prospect of regulation probably for decades and very successfully. I have said for a couple of years now that that has to stop' says Ms Curran. With the ink just dry on an exclusive five-year deal to show the V8 Supercar series Sky has completed a master coup. The subscription-based channel has now bought up all of New Zealand's major sporting series. 'It's a monopoly in a regulation-free environment. It's doing all it can to boost its own revenues and the outcome ultimately is that people who can afford a Sky subscription get to see a sport and people that can't or choose not to can't get it and can't get our national sports' says Ms Curran." This is yet another flip-flop from the party that thinks it is preparing itself to run this country. It is an absolute joke. We had a flip-flop earlier on today with a workplace relations amendment bill that that party's leader said its members would maybe consider supporting—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! CLAYTON MITCHELL: —and then turned around and opposed it. Just for your information this House which we are in today is a place where we make legislative changes. We are here to vote and to make people's lives better. That is our purpose. All I heard tonight all around the House is the fact that you are trying to put regulation in place before we have got the legislation. This bill is about the legislation. This is about what we are doing and why we are doing it. How we are going to put it together comes afterwards. The whole idea—your hollow shallow insipid words from Trevor Mallard who said: "We support the intent of this bill. We support the intent and we would like to see it go through but unfortunately it makes no sense to us." What absolute lunacy. Why would you make a comment like that? The best thing for you to do if you were genuine and sincere about making a difference to people's lives would be to get it into a select committee so that it can actually be debated pulled apart and actually put back together again. We understand—we absolutely understand—that things can be tightened up and that we can do some better things. We would not even mind if we had some oversight by the Minister as long as it was not the Hon Simon Bridges. The reality is that some ministerial oversight—which can ultimately change the outcome of which sports we deem to be significant or not—can come later on. The fact that you are all talking about what the cost of this bill is going to involve is absolutely ridiculous. We are at a stage of deciding whether it is fit for purpose. The reality is in Australia—Louisa Wall: They're already free and most of them are live. CLAYTON MITCHELL: Louise you just mentioned earlier on about—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! CLAYTON MITCHELL: —Louisa sorry—Channel 7 and Channel 9 allowing people to get a higher payment with netball. They are both free-to-air channels. They broadcast both live and free to air. This is around the fact that we as New Zealanders spend nearly $1 billion every single year on sports and recreation. Because it is so significant to all of our country folk—to our people around this country—we need to make sure that we have got the ability to have access to it live and free to air. It does not mean it is going to be free. Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 10 p.m."