Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I too stand in support of this bill the Coroners (Access to Body of Dead Person) Amendment Bill in its third reading. I want to acknowledge the member Nuk Korako who's just resumed his seat for the role that he played with the Māori Affairs Committee of the 51st Parliament which initiated the inquiry which has led to this piece of legislation and all of the members of that committee and likewise the response from the Government.This bill has straddled I guess two separate parliaments and so there has been cooperation from both Governments both the previous one and the current one to ensure the passage of this legislation and the acceptance of the recommendation which the committee made which has led to the bill.So this is a small provision that we're inserting into the Coroners Act but it's very significant. As we know coroners are judicial officers. They perform a very important and very professional role in what they do in determining matters around suspicious or unexpected deaths and as part of that judicial role that they play inevitably there are the issues which come with the intersection of grieving whānau—with loved ones. And what this bill does is follow through on those recommendations to ensure that coroners do take into account the ethnic origins social attitudes and customs spiritual beliefs also of the person who is deceased or their immediate family to ensure that those are taken into account to allow either immediate whānau or representatives to be able to view to be able to spend time with and to touch their deceased loved ones.So I believe this is an important piece of legislation because it is showing humanity even though we all know that the coroner has to perform a very important judicial role. There is definitely scope in it and what we're doing is ensuring that it is a requirement that coroners in exercising their discretion as to who may have access to a deceased loved one take into account those cultural considerations. It's definitely important for tikanga Māori and this provision also extends to all cultures that are part of Aotearoa New Zealand society.I don't intend to take too long with this contribution other than to say I support the bill. Coroners do play an important role but there are also other important steps I guess that take place—whether it's the role that district health boards play in terms of their role with dealing with deceased persons; likewise undertakers and funeral directors. I know that there is across all of those different offices and different organisations consideration given to those cultural concerns and spiritual beliefs and the like. And so I'm pleased that we're able to set this directive through this piece of legislation to ensure that that also applies in the Coroners Act to direct our coroners as well.And so with that I commend this bill but as is Māori custom I'd like to as we say āpiti hono tātai hono rātou te hunga wairua ki a rātou āpiti hono tātai hono tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa [let the connections be made the spiritual ones remain with each other let the connections be made those of us who are living remain with the living greetings greetings thrice greetings].