Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. Firstly can I just acknowledge the sense of history. Mr Speaker you have mentioned it tonight: the Chamber is highly charged. I want to acknowledge the history and all of the people who have fought to get this legislation to this point whether it is Maryan Street whether it is Ruth Dyson whether it is Chris Bishop whether it is Amy Adams whether it is David Seymour—and I'm going to come to you later. I want to acknowledge all of the parliamentarians across this House who have exercised their conscience.This is an incredibly tough issue and I do not undermine anyone's faith anyone's decision making in this Chamber. I have had such challenging conversations with so many of my colleagues on this issue and so I pay absolute respect to you for your different views but I will advocate this evening that I hope that many colleagues maybe there's a couple of you sitting on the fence tonight—that you exercise your conscience and you vote for this bill. The first thing that I want to say is I do understand the huge public support behind this bill in my view and we may end up testing this in a referendum. I am very confident that New Zealanders overwhelmingly—their conscience is on the side of not having suffering and pain and that is where I think this bill should go through and enable people to have that tested. Nick Smith is absolutely right—I don't want to have a referendum ideally; this is a really complex issue but if it is the case of this bill passing or not I am going to end up voting for it.I want to acknowledge that there have been incredibly pragmatic changes through this legislative process. Not all of them would I have necessarily agreed with but because I have heard the voices of the Matt Vickers of this world the Seales family—I've sat down with people who have got grievous and irremediable conditions. We couldn't help them in this bill but I've heard their voices. I've heard their pain and I have heard their suffering and I would advocate that it is compassionate and it is about justice and fairness to be supporting this bill to the House. We have made a number of serious changes that make this in my view one of the most restrictive pieces of legislation across the world with all the safeguards from independent medical practitioners to second-tier level in terms of doctors to the fact that this has to be a terminal illness whereby we have a state of decline. So this is an incredibly narrow bill but ultimately what this comes down to for me is this issue of compassion and this issue of—when I sit there and I hear the stories of people dying badly in a very violent way I believe we can do better as a Parliament.I do not conflate this issue with suicide and I want to make that very clear this evening. I have sat with many families and parents who have dealt with people who have taken their lives. This is a situation where this legislation applies to someone with a terminal illness who has been judged to have six months left to live. This is not about young people and sending a bad message to them. We all have an obligation and a responsibility to ensure that less young people in New Zealand take their lives. This is about a very small group of people that make a conscious choice who are competent to end their lives slightly earlier and all of the overwhelming evidence shows that that is ideally not something that people want to do but they are doing it often because they don't want to suffer.So I support this bill to the House in the name of fairness and justice and I want to pay tribute to you David Seymour. I've been in the Parliament for 11 years and I do want to acknowledge that this has taken up years of your life and that your compassion and the way that you have worked tirelessly for this cause needs to be acknowledged in the Parliament this evening. Again I stand here and say to all of you that we can do better as a nation. We are a compassionate nation. We need to pass this bill in the interests of fairness and justice and as my colleague Paulo said in the interests of love and hope.