Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Madam Chair and thank you for the opportunity to take a call on Part 2 of the End of Life Choice Bill. I would like to start my contribution—one of a few which I hope to make this afternoon—firstly in regards to the Supplementary Order Paper of Michael Woodhouse No. 295 and in later contributions also take some calls in regards to some of the Supplementary Order Papers that I've also put on the Table.The Supplementary Order Paper in the name of the Hon Michael Woodhouse speaks to the area of conscientious objection and I respect what the member in charge of the bill had to say in regards to the provisions which are already in place in his changes that he is making in his Supplementary Order Paper. What Michael Woodhouse's Supplementary Order Paper is designed to do is to provide additional protection and conscientious objection rights for organisations which play a role in the provision of aged care in New Zealand. I'd like to talk about this and frame it in a way that it is about the importance of providing these organisations the opportunity to exercise their choice and their freedom in their decision as to whether they wish to provide assisted suicide services or not.This Supplementary Order Paper doesn't undermine the intent of the bill but it does ensure that organisations who are involved in end of life care are able to make a choice as to whether they wish to be involved in providing these services. I'd like to draw the committee's attention to the very excellent work which was sent around by Hospice New Zealand recently and the commentary that they provided in regards to this Supplementary Order Paper where they said We believe this would allow organisations such as Hospice the ability to be upfront with patients families staff volunteers and the wider community that euthanasia will not be performed on the premises by a health professional or by staff employed by that organisation." The inclusion of this amendment would give hospices and others the right to choose whether they object or not as an organisation and would allow hospices to operate under their founding tenet of neither hastening nor postponing death.Now this issue that we're debating here tonight and the bill around whether we allow assisted suicide or not in our country is not what Part 2 is about. Part 2 is about the process as the member in charge has already outlined but is also around whether the doctors medical professionals those involved in the field have the choice to be able to be involved in this service or not. I believe that that should also be extended to organisations many of which do come to this whether it's a faith base whether it's an ethos or a value system which they subscribe to as a company whether it's something which is part of their charter in terms of how they were set up—I think of a business in my electorate Ambridge Rose which provides aged-care services to hundreds of people in the east Auckland area every single year. And I note that this is an issue which for them—they are in the business of providing healthy living and to ensure that death is not assisted by assisted dying. That is the decision that they've made. But without this provision in this Supplementary Order Paper they will potentially be put in a position where when they're bidding for contracts—whether that's through the district health board or the Ministry of Health—they will be provided with the choice of either taking the contract and having to provide assisted suicide which goes against their ethos or not applying for the contract at all. So this Supplementary Order Paper does what I think are four important things.Firstly it allows under subclause (3) the opportunity for an organisation to "(a) promote publish or otherwise publicly communicate that it is an organisation that has a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying:". So members and Madam Chair that is about ensuring that the organisation is able to be upfront and clear with those people who may wish to use that service as to whether they provide it or not. Secondly "(b) include in its conditions of admission residence care or other service that it is an organisation it has a conscientious objection to providing assisted dying:"—so that is about ensuring that the organisation can put that—[Time expired]"