Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker for this opportunity to speak on this very important bill the Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People's Commission Bill. Now I'm going to start by talking about the select committee briefly. We see in the select committee report that despite the very clear disagreement about the bill the select committee was unanimous in making the changes that it suggested—so congratulations there. We also see in the select committee report that some effort was made to engage with young people and to do things differently in the select committee process. So there was special thought about the time when young people would be wanting to make submissions—after-school hours is an obvious one sitting from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.—also ensuring that if requested the oral submissions by children or young people would not be live streamed or posted on Facebook. There was a range of methods that the select committee did to ensure that participation and I commend them for that work.I also want to acknowledge the membership of that committee. We heard from my colleague Dr Emily Henderson about the range of skills and life experiences on that committee on the Labour side. I also want to acknowledge around the House. This is a particular select committee which does have deep knowledge and real interest in these issues and I believe everybody who's spoken about this bill very much cares about the wellbeing of our tamariki and I commend them all everyone for their passion on that. It's been clear that there is agreement on the importance of the Children's Commissioner or commission and I want to add my voice to that and acknowledge that one of my very special mentors in my life was a previous historian social worker and children's advocate; he was John Angus who was the commissioner from 2009 to 2011 and I cannot say enough the influence that he's had on my life and really being committed to the advocacy for children and how important that is.So why do we have this bill? We want to strengthen the oversight of this system and we've heard from my colleague Glen Bennett about how important it is that the system—of course the system is not perfect; it would be great if we didn't have this system in the first place—how it's so important that the oversight is improved. So the bill does that by three main parts. There's the advocacy that's with the commission; complaints and investigation mainly with the ombudsman; and monitoring with the independent monitor that other speeches have spoken about. Now of course there is some overlap between those functions. The Minister talked about that and the bill is very explicit about this at clauses 57 and 102 on common duties. The start of the bill deals with that monitoring—the independent monitor and the ombudsman role—but it's Part 5 that relates to the commission and this is from clause 82. The idea I believe is that this Part 5 will become its own separate bill in the next stage. What Part 5 does is it replaces the Children's Commissioner Act 2003 and it establishes this board that we've heard a lot of about particularly from my colleague Dr Liz Craig. So that board is created at clause 91 and it has a chair. The chair is going to be called the Chief Children's Commissioner. Now the select committee is very clear about why they recommended this. They took on board the submissions that we need a face for people to be able to engage with. So that person is there. But not only are they there by themselves; they've got two to five other members. So that increases the diversity that increases the skillset and that will increase the good governance of this role of advocating for children which is so important.I just want to quickly note that the select committee added to the functions—at clause 99(ha)—this ability to report to the Prime Minister. So that's there and also noting that at clause 118 there's a provision there for a review of the commission within five years. This is a very sensible clause and in general I commend this bill to the House.