Walters VanushiVANUSHI WALTERS (Labour—Upper Harbour): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker and thank you for the opportunity to take a short call in relation to this important bill. I want to begin by recognising the words of Minister Verrall in the House this evening but also recognising her work in shepherding this important bill through the House. I also want to recognise the important message that our Minister the Hon Kiri Allan sent earlier this year when she shared her story. The impact of her story has in many ways been a ripple that's created a wave—a wave of conversations but also a wave of action as many New Zealand women around the country have spoken to each other and made the trip to have their cervical smears done as well. Several weeks ago I attended an event run by an organisation called Empower Her which was an ethnic women's empowerment event at the Fickling Convention Centre in Auckland. There were about 40 women attending the event who recognised the importance of Minister Allan speaking up and the impact it had had for them as well. I have no doubt that her words have had an impact on several.I had an opportunity to speak to this bill at second reading as well when I spoke about the fact that Māori Pacific and Asian women have lower rates of participation in the National Cervical Screening Programme. It's a real priority in terms of ensuring screening equity to raise the number of women in those groups who are getting screened and that's the part of this bill that I'm really excited about: looking at how the bill will enable improvements to community-based screening support services. The way in which that will happen is that the fifteen district health boards will be undertaking community-based screening support services contacting participants who aren't responding to recall for breast or cervical screening. I do think we should never underestimate the power of a reminder. Sometimes it's a reminder just for busy women who need a reminder to set their appointments but other times it's an opportunity to touch base with a healthcare provider someone who knows their information to ask all those questions that only that group of people can provide. It is hugely significant.There are a lot of cultural changes we still need to navigate through to ensure that we see equity across screening stats but if we are to tackle those really horrific numbers around cervical cancer then we need a multi-pronged approach. We need to approach it with a scientific approach with an education approach but also with a cultural approach that recognises and doesn't deny that cultural context exists. We need to capably walk through those cultural doorways and reach out with information support and options and I do believe what's exciting about this bill is that's exactly what it does. It recognises cultural context by allowing things like being able to screen at home in your community. It recognises cultural context by removing words that are seen as not encouraging people to turn up to those smears to those cervical tests.Finally I just want to comment on the broad support across the House which I think speaks tremendously to the importance of this bill. I commend this bill to the House.