Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to take a short call on this and acknowledge obviously the family involved here but I also want to acknowledge the work of Louisa Wall who as the former MP for Manurewa—she and I with our electorates or her then electorate sitting very close towards mine on boundaries—we've had an awful lot to do with each other over the years. And what I've seen is with Louisa and I think this is true for the whole of the National Party caucus I think I speak for us all on this when I say we have a tremendous amount of respect for Louisa and her ability to reach out across politics and political views and to be able to engage with us and others in Parliament in a responsible adult manner without any personal animosity. So thank you Louisa for taking up this cause reaching out to a family in need.I think many of us who look at this and think of the situation: this darling little girl her mother died three months before she was born. Of course when we were growing up—and I think I include us all here—this was just simply not possible. But with technology with science with research innovation—all areas very close to my heart—this has actually been able to happen. But it's also been able to happen because of the tremendous kindness of friends—close friends—to Katherine and to Kyle. So this little girl aged two years old now she cannot be expected to go through life with no mother recorded on her birth certificate. This is simply not acceptable. And it is a big thing for Parliament to take time to look after one little girl. But as has been said today this is one little girl now Paige but can we ever imagine her trying to even get registered into school or being able to get a passport with no mother recorded on her birth certificate? She'd have to explain everything over and over and over again. She'd have to explain that her mother Katherine Elizabeth Harris née Fraser died on 28 December 2019 at the very young age of 37 and that she was a much-loved daughter wife and now mother. So we need to correct the situation and—I'm sure the whole House knows that I'm a lawyer—I think the law has to constantly evolve. It's got to constantly evolve to meet the challenges but also the opportunities that technology and science innovation actually give us. For something like this to happen whereby the House is in a very quick manner going to be able to remedy the situation of Paige's mum's name not being on the birth certificate it is important—and Tāmati Coffey has referred to it of the need to better reflect the surrogacy laws—to reflect the reality for a growing number of New Zealand families.I am very fortunate to be very close friends with a family who have had children by surrogacy. Their children have been born overseas; they have had to go through the process of adopting children. I have myself in practice been involved in adoptions as a lawyer on the odd occasion. Very few cases ever went through and now most of them are about surrogacy. So that tells us we need to adopt and adapt to the modern world and the fact is that yes sometimes people are having children later. Sometimes people do need to have the help of a surrogate. But I also think that we need to look at the recognition of those surrogate mothers. To do what they do to be able to help their family friend or even someone that they've met and they want to help them to have a child is an extraordinary thing. What a marvellous thing to do for someone else. I don't think I would do it—I mean obviously not now—but I don't know how they could even do that. Because it is such a gift such a wonderful thing to do for somebody who is otherwise going to miss out on the joys of parenthood.So I would like to acknowledge the family of Paige and those who've enabled this to happen—for a surrogate mum for surrogate mum's husband but also for her dad who has helped so much to have this happen. This is a great day when Parliament can sort these things out and I look forward to us being able to address these issues in a wider context so that we better reflect the people that we represent. Thank you Mr Speaker.