Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): I'd like to address the amendment in the name of Andrew Falloon. It amends new Subpart MG 2(3) in clause 22 by replacing 4 weeks" with "8 weeks" in regard to when the bill as drafted cuts a person's eligibility for the Best Start tax credit less than a month after the death of a dependent child.I didn't think I'd be speaking so soon again on something so personal but the House will recall that in my maiden speech I referred to the death my own two-year-old son. So this is a topic that I have a very unfortunate circumstance to have such a personal journey with. The idea of cutting off the Best Start tax credit less than four weeks after the death of a child is incomprehensible to me and I want to be very clear on what I say. The journey that you go through in the first four weeks after a child dies means that you can't eat you can't communicate and normal household functions are the furthest things from your mind. You've got funeral arrangements. You've got an incredible amount of things to think about. You're absorbing how people are absorbing your grief. You cannot function. The idea that in an insensitive and cold-hearted manner you get ironically a Best Start in life package and in that worst start in life you get something cut off—often you won't notice you won't see you won't understand what's happening for your finances—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Don't use "you". Try not to use "you"—that means me.DENISE LEE: OK. Thank you Madam Chair. As the weeks go on—and I'm now referring to a little bit further than four weeks on; around the six-week mark—you begin to see a little bit of clear air. You've got things like—and this depends on the nature of the child's death of course—ambulance costs medical bills the coroner's process the police inquest officer process. You've got funeral costs and worst of all you've got the idea—well not the idea—the concept the possibility that you've got to begin to pack away children's clothes and address that very practical nature. This is all at the time—as this bill is drafted—you would have something that you enjoyed and received then coldheartedly cut off. You can't change the death of that child but you can show some sensitivity and some respect.So I've got some questions for the Minister and they're really pertinent. They are: what evidence from the grief cycle is four weeks based on? Was the grief cycle taken into consideration when it came to that four-week decision? Is the nature of the death of the child taken into account? For instance with the impact of sudden death which was my case you've got no time to adjust and you certainly won't have time to adjust to a financial adjustment. So how was that taken into consideration? I would also like to ask that if this was at a select committee how would this have been different? I know for a certainty that there would've been a whole line of parents grieving parents appearing before a select committee to talk through what I've just talked through in terms of what it's like to handle grief in the first four weeks.I'd like to see those questions answered. I acknowledge that the Minister acknowledged Andrew Falloon and this particular amendment and in doing so he referred to the relationship to how other Working for Families entitlements are cut off on the death of a child. But this is different. You're starting with the terminology "Best Start"; I'm referring to the worst start and I would like to see more sensitivity and respect. Thank you."