Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. I arise to make a brief contribution on this particular part. As my colleague Mr Nash—Stuart Nash: Learned.PEENI HENARE: —my learned colleague; I apologise—takes the lead from Jacinda Ardern our other learned colleague I like to take my lead from the Hon Phil Goff who has seen much legislation pass through this House and would have been here when the bill was introduced. He also I thought gave a very good speech on his amendment one that acknowledged the families and the tragedy that sadly met Mr Tamatea and the others in military action serving our country. He was approached by the people. So when I consider this particular bill I think about the people in cases like this. I think about whether this particular amended bill will meet the needs of the people.We heard harrowing submissions from the people around some of the processes that have taken place in the past and it seems that far too often we are in the House here debating bills that really only tinker around the edges. They do not actually get stuck in and make some meaningful changes. Although it might propose some good things we would like to see more good things in this particular bill. That is what we wanted to see. I believe that the amendments that were sadly voted down in this Committee would have really given this bill some teeth. I will say this: we had come very very close. Jacinda Ardern in leading the Labour Party on this issue came very very close to supporting this bill. Sadly once again the Government has given us a Coke Zero or a Diet Coke when what we are actually looking for is the full-bodied Coke—something that will actually give the coroner's office the power to do what the public expects it to do.Coroners do a great job and I want to thank them in this contribution but I will say this—I will say this: the hard work that they do is not being recognised by this bill. It really is not. They have produced great bodies of work in the past. This side of the House in particular has taken health and safety in the workplace very seriously. In my contribution earlier on this bill I talked about the tragic and sad and horrible record of the forestry industry. We on this side of the Chamber would have liked to see the recommendations from the coroner actually carry some weight so that people across Aotearoa New Zealand would see that we are empowering the coroner to make sure that these kinds of tragedies are not revisited.This is an instance where once again we are tinkering around the edges exemplified by the number of amendments put up by our side of the Chamber by the Labour Party that I thought would have actually really given this particular amendment bill some punch. In closing the Coroners Amendment Bill perhaps should have been the Coroners Tinker Around the Edges Not Quite Hit the Mark Bill".Stuart Nash: The "Disempowerment Bill".PEENI HENARE: The "Disempowerment Bill". I agree with the comments made by my colleague here Mr Nash that there is a good chance we are going to be back here some time in the future. I have had a discussion with a current serving coroner who expressed to me his dismay that the bill did not quite get across the line. For those who are actually dealing with the people those who are doing the work it does not give them the capacity to make sure that the office stands with a solid reputation moving into the future. Thank you."