Warren-Clark Angie; Rurawhe AdrianANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a real pleasure to rise this afternoon on the third reading of this Child Support Amendment Bill. I have some thankyous also to give. In particular I would like to thank our officials. Tax is not my favourite thing but as a group you have really helped me understand this legislation and also taken the time to explain some of the processes that are behind the scenes around this. This bill essentially is about modernisation and the ability to improve the administration. But I have to thank my entire select committee for their work and in particular my colleague Glen Bennett who in his second-ever select committee meeting had to step in and chair for me as I was recovering from eye surgery and was actually unable to read and I just had to sit down. He actually chaired a very procedurally difficult meeting on my behalf so I want to acknowledge you Glen for the sterling effort. And I'd also like to acknowledge the entire select committee and our officials for helping and supporting me through a time when I wasn't that able to follow along with things because of that disability. So thank you so much for that. I do greatly appreciate that. I'd also like to acknowledge and it is one of those moments I guess—this is my fourth year in this House. I had my Minister Priyanca Radhakrishnan reading the initial statement and we had the under-secretary Deborah Russell class of '17—and colleagues Deborah Russell came to us and spoke to us around the policy intent. It's a new process in the select committee to have Ministers come and talk about that and she took that responsibility from the Minister of Revenue and brought the matter to the House. It's a great advancement I believe in the process and frankly it makes my heart warm to see my sisters from the class of '17 stand up and do these things. So there we go. I think I shall get on to the bill now. So one of the particularly interesting submissions that we did have was from Birthright New Zealand. This comes back to Andrew Bayly's statement about broken homes and I just wanted to add some information to the comment. Twenty-seven percent of families are led by one person and of that 27 percent 84 percent of single-parent families are led by women and half of those women are in paid employment. And further around one-in-two mothers has spent time as a single parent by the time they reach 50; indeed I am one of those parents. So for me this piece of legislation had a whole pile of mixed emotions attached to it. I was very fortunate when I was working to enter into a private arrangement without IRD's involvement and I was also very fortunate—and I think probably I need to acknowledge my daughter's father. He knew his obligations he followed his obligations and he continued to support and care for our child as the father of our child despite our relationship breakdown. Now that's the best outcome. That's the best outcome we can hope for for our children to continue to be fathered and mothered by parents.When that doesn't happen and child support needs to be put in place by the IRD we need it to be a simple balanced approach. We need it to be based absolutely on the engagement with parents the liable parent the receiving parent. We need it to be balanced in a way that supports and encourages the financial contribution to the family to be continued. And that's why I'm really delighted that we've got rid of these incremental penalties which we heard time and time again—the balance was too harsh. The balance had basically got a small number but a significant amount of money—it had basically made those parents disengage with the process. And as a consequence debt was out of control. There was no way that those parents were prepared to come back to the party and to contribute. So I'm very pleased that that part of this legislation has been passed. Time is ticking on. I just really want to acknowledge that there are 182000 children affected by this piece of legislation. I'd like to acknowledge that because even though it does feel like we had some huge opportunities to do some amazing things this was a piece of administrative repair. But 182000 children are affected by this legislation. Therefore I commend this bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call Simon Watts—five minutes.