Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): I rise to speak in support of the Racing Industry Bill but I do have a few things to say about the process by which we got here. In particular I speak on it because it concerns an asset in my community—Avondale racing club—deeply; it concerns it deeply. You see in the Messara report the Avondale Racecourse was identified as one of those possibly surplus venues. It might be surplus to racing but it is not surplus to the Avondale markets. It's not surplus to the school sports teams that play there on a Saturday morning. When I was down there at the racecourse yesterday morning talking about it with someone there's about 12 or 14 sport pitches there which are used in my community. It's not surplus in terms of being a large green space in the midst of an urban area which is used by all sorts of people for exercise for fresh air and just for being in the green. That racecourse matters deeply to my community and as the bill was introduced it was to be honest under threat. It was one that was clearly going to be designated as surplus and sold off—to no benefit to my community.But the select committee process worked. The select committee process worked to ensure that this extensive community asset built on land that was gifted not to a racing code but gifted to the Avondale Jockey Club cannot just be disposed of just like that. Instead in terms of the select committee process the bill now has within it what I think is a really good basis for the racing industry the racing codes the racing clubs and the communities that surround them to move forward. The bill introduces a process of review in which a racing code and a racing club must try to negotiate. If that fails a reviewer is appointed who is acceptable to both the racing code and the racing club and that reviewer must undertake a process looking at what is intended to happen with the surplus venue to what other purpose it could be used to what extent there are other not-for-profit purposes tied up with the racing venue the legal or beneficial interests of iwi whether it's used as a trading venue what the value of the land and buildings is and whether it's used by clubs that don't actually have an ownership interest in the venue. The proposal is put forward by the wider community as to what use there should be for that venue.If I was to characterise this—taking it away from specific provisions—what this is in this revised bill is a very very clear directive to the racing codes and the racing clubs and the communities which surround them to get together to talk to negotiate to really understand each other's positions and to make sure that the outcome of any process is a fair one that respects all the interests.So that's what I say to my community to the members of the Avondale Jockey Club and to the racing codes. Let's talk—let's talk; that's what this bill tells us to do—and reach an outcome that works for everyone including the racing industry which really does need to be set on a more secure basis as we go forward. Because there is this strong process of negotiation and talking introduced by the Transport and Infrastructure Committee and one which I know the sponsors of this bill are happy to work forward with I support this bill.