Kanongata'a AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A (Labour): Thank you e te Mana Whakawā. It's an honour and a privilege to speak on this bill the Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Bill. I need to respond to the last speaker Harete Hipango. She asked a question about the onus of responsibility to support their child in terms of the liable parent and she also asked a question: why is it introduced under urgency? The Minister for Social Development and Employment the Hon Carmel Sepuloni has said that this will lift up to 14000 children out of poverty—14000 children out of poverty. And that is the response to the question raised by that member.I was somewhat confused listening to that last member so I think I need to actually quote the legislative statement tabled by the Minister today because I think that will actually clear up some confusion. So I want to quote—Mr Speaker if you can please allow me this—This Bill proposes amendments to ensure that beneficiaries receiving a sole parent rate of main benefit are not treated differently from other beneficiaries." It proposes that from 1 July 2023 child support collected by Inland Revenue would no longer be retained and would instead be paid to those beneficiaries. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) would then treat these payments as income when determining entitlements to a rate of a benefit or any other assistance.So that basically means that before a sole parent who was receiving the sole parent benefit needed to apply to Inland Revenue to be assessed to receive child support from Inland Revenue. Then Inland Revenue informs MSD of what needs to be paid separately. This would make it a lot clearer—a one-step process. It will allow Inland Revenue to—instead of having 12 months—spread the payments out on to 52 weeks making it simpler. It means an extra $20 a week for a sole parent. For a sole parent $20 a week would mean—I don't know—10 loaves of bread because we're always saying that this Budget is supporting for today; building for the future. It would allow 10 $2 loaves of bread. It would allow how many litres of milk? It would allow for that—$20.I want to get back to the question that was asked by that member Harete Hipango: why is it introduced under urgency? The answer to that is that this will lift up to 14000 more children out of poverty. Can I remind the House that the objectives of the Budget have been since it was called a Wellbeing Budget five objectives. One of those objectives was about child wellbeing—lifting children out of poverty. We'll lift 14000 children out of poverty.Also I have been a person who has been a liable parent and I have been paying liable parent to my mother when I didn't have my children in my care because she was the other custodian of my two older children. It felt somewhat unfair to me that I'm paying child support to Inland Revenue and they didn't pass that on to the parent—to my mother—who was caring for my children at the time. So this would incentivise liable parents to actually pay their liable parent contribution because they know it's going to end up in the household where their children live. This is evidenced by research that it will incentivise liable parents to pay their liable parent contribution. And might I say I did pay my liable parent contribution; I didn't have anyone chasing after me.Again I have said in my speech previously that the Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Bill will lift 14000 children out of poverty. I commend this bill to the House."