Dr 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.