SpeechIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): It's a pleasure to take a short call on the Annie Oxborough Birth Parents Registration Bill. I think it's great that Chris Penk could bring this bill to the House. But I find that if you live in this House for long enough you'll agree with everyone in the House on something and I found myself agreeing with Tāmati Coffey on just about every issue he raised tonight. It might have taken 12 years but I'm agreeing with him.I think that you know having sat on the Governance and Administration Committee that passed both the Paige Harris Birth Registration Bill and the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill which allowed people to change their names on their birth certificate—their sex on their birth certificate actually—I'm of the view and I guess that I'm one of those people who is fortunate enough to think I know who I am and think I know who I've always been but obviously a lot of people don't. I can't imagine what it would be like not actually knowing who you are for a fair bit of your life. That is what has happened to Annie obviously and I think it's pretty cool that this Parliament can fix that for her. But quite aside from that I do think that we have to find ways of avoiding—and I spoke on a bill earlier in the night on the same issue. Here's where I agree with Tāmati Coffey: I think we do have to find ways of dealing with these issues without having to bring these bills to the Parliament every time it happens. There will be numerous people in New Zealand in exactly the same position as this. Some would probably be like me and probably don't even know what my birth certificate looks like but some people do care about this sort of stuff and we have to account for that in the course of what we do here.Actually in the course of the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill there was some discussion about the fact that there are a whole lot of other things that need to be dealt with in the course of birth certificates and this was one of them—not this particular case but the fact of adopted people wishing to register their rightful parents or their real parents on their birth certificates. So I think there's got to be a way of this Parliament doing some work on this and resolving it. Of course there are some issues in that very same Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill which weren't resolved at the time and that related to overseas people coming to New Zealand. I think that with respect to this the same thing will apply here. So there'll be exactly the same issue in this instance given especially that we adopt a lot of overseas children in New Zealand. So it's quite an issue for those people as well I would imagine or it will become an issue for them as they get older or it may become an issue for them.So I think there's quite a few challenges in how we deal with this but I do think it's worth doing some work on it because we take a lot of time in this Parliament on these bills. I've never worked out what it costs to run this place but it wouldn't be cheap. I'm not saying that these people aren't worth spending the money on—in fact some of these bills might be a whole lot more relevant than some of the bills that we put through in good faith as a Government—but I do think there's an opportunity for us to look at these issues and to change the way we go about it. So I look forward to the discussions on this. I'm sure it will be resolved and it's good to see the Parliament united in the view that it needs to be resolved. So that's probably all I need to say on this bill and no doubt we'll have an opportunity to take this further at a later date. Thank you Madam Speaker.