Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It is a real pleasure to rise and speak to this bill. I am delighted to hear that the Opposition will support this bill through the first reading—quite surprised after hearing that speech that they were going to do so. This is a bill that I believe the community has been asking for for quite some time. I want to acknowledge the Minister bringing this bill the Hon Carmel Sepuloni and also the good work of the Hon Kelvin Davis who is working to improve Oranga Tamariki and what we all know and having heard from many people over many years is a system that is groaning under the need to change. We know that the people who work at Oranga Tamariki often do that with the best of will but this is a system that has been recognised under the Kahu Aroha report as needing significant change.We have at the select committee that will hear this very important piece of legislation heard a number—a number—of petitions and those inquiries looked into the briefings and those inquiries into what was happening at Oranga Tamariki. We all each and every one of us at select committee in the 52nd Parliament and also here in the 53rd Parliament were greatly moved by the stories by the commitment of the families that do the work to look after our most vulnerable children. So I am personally delighted that this piece of legislation is here and that my select committee along with my colleagues will work to get this into its best shape. What I can assure this House is that we will give it the scrutiny that it certainly needs. It is an omnibus bill. It is large—82 pages as previously recognised—and there are some really interesting processes that will come out of this.This bill does something I believe that is long overdue something that has been thought deeply about by this Government in its recognition that New Zealand should be the best place for children to grow up. As a consequence the three things that it sets up it strengthens absolutely the oversight of Oranga Tamariki. Many of us on the select committee have the experience of having worked in the system or having been in the system or having been a caregiver or a person who has been a foster parent etc. So we inherently know some of the issues that happen and what we know from our own experience and from what people have told us is that the system needs more accountability and this is what this bill seeks to do. This bill seeks to strengthen that oversight. There's a monitoring of the system there's an investigation and resolving of complaints and there's advocacy for all of the children in this country but in particular for the specific role of our children and young people who are under Oranga Tamariki. Because those pieces of work interact between each other it's right and it's appropriate that they are in different models or they sit in different organisations. That is because independent scrutiny and support of these processes is best managed in that way.I am as I have said really delighted that we have this piece of legislation. I think that it will improve the systems that we are putting in place with Oranga Tamariki the systems that already exist in Oranga Tamariki the accountabilities the monitoring and the support for our families who are most vulnerable in this country. I commend this bill to the House.