Warren-Clark AngieORGAN DONORS AND RELATED MATTERS BILLSecond ReadingDebate resumed from 22 October.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. So I last spoke on 22 October and at the time that I was speaking I was just making a mention of Wairangi Te Rupe my daughter by another mother I guess you could say who had had an organ donor replacement. I wanted to just bring the attention to the House again to that. This is a bill that has importance to me and our family. It's important that we look at this legislation and the wide programme that we're implementing in health. This is one of those parts of the legislative programme that sat for a long time with the Opposition—sat for a really long time with the Opposition—as a member's bill and wasn't picked up. There wasn't the opportunity to progress it at that time so it has now come before the House as a Government bill and I'm very pleased about that.While we are talking about organ donation I want to urge each and every one of the people listening tonight and everyone here in this House to consider organ donation. As a person if you come to this decision I urge you to talk and speak with your family really clearly to explain and articulate your desire to share your organs. The important aspect of that—and this was clearly outlined to us in part of the hearings that we listened to—is that while we all think that we can donate our organs and we record it on our driver's licence unfortunately upon our death we are actually no longer able to do so and it is the wishes of the family. So I just want to acknowledge that it is a conversation that may be difficult but it's one that needs to be had.Now to the bill: this bill changes and amends two parts of the principal Act the Compensation for Live Organ Donors Act 2016. People who are live organ donors—so those are the ones that are donating an organ; for example a kidney—have not in the past been able to access compensation if they return to part-time work or they go back to work and then realise that having donated they're not well enough to be at work and they go back off that work. They were unable to gain that compensation and as a consequence that really did put a barrier in the way or an additional barrier to donating organs.I'd just like to pause here and take a quick moment to acknowledge David and Anna. Now David is the mayor of the Taupō community. He was very fortunate in that his wife was able to donate an organ to him last year a kidney. I wonder in terms of the legislation as it sat then whether as a family they would have had both people off work at the time and I wonder now whether this legislation would really have supported them to be able to afford to do this. I don't know their circumstances financially but it was a tremendous gift that Anna gave David and it is important that financially there are no barriers to do so.The second change to the bill is the changes to the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. Now this bill is setting up the New Zealand Blood Service to be able to take on the new role within the organ donation and organ transplantation system. Essentially—most people have previously spoken about this—it sets up a system or an organisation that will in fact enable a better more coordinated approach to organ donation. So it does a couple of things. It sets it up to raise the profile of organ donation support clinical governance coordinate donation and transplantation processes and provide advice and information.This is a small bill. It's a bill that across the House has been pretty successfully discussed and I think it's really important. I think that it is a good piece of legislation and I commend this bill to the House.