Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise and speak to this the Organ Donors and Related Matters Bill. I too would like to acknowledge Mike Woodhouse as the genesis of the bill and then Chris Bishop through the members' ballot who successfully negotiated it through to where we have it today. I recall that coming to the Health Committee and it seemed an interminable amount of time to get that bill through the committee. The challenging part was actually the IT software interface with the Ministry of Social Development. That was the part that took a lot of time. These were quite a complex set of changes. And I would note that since that bill has passed—almost two years ago now—almost 100 people have obtained full compensation for donating live organs. This is a 500 percent increase in organ donors receiving compensation than the year previously. Now this bill here does several things. First of all it seeks to implement recommendations from the 2017 strategy Increasing Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation. This particular document had six priority areas which I'll very briefly touch on. The very first priority area was improving public awareness in the understanding that public awareness campaigns overseas have shown that educating the public about organ donation and busting common myths clearly increases organ donation. I think what's also interesting here is the number of high profile public people who are very willing to lend their names to organ donation. Maybe our most famous is Jonah Lomu but I would submit that maybe Billy T before that with his heart transplant was also very famous in the organ recipient space. In fact in my final med school exams I was set up to examine Billy T at Middlemore in the late 2000s. I only knew that about three hours afterwards when Professor John Collins who was organising the exams told me he was too sick that day to bring him down from the ward and they were very intrigued to see how I would cope in the stress of your final exam interviewing Billy T and examining Billy T. But it didn't actually eventuate: he was too ill that day. The second priority in the strategy document of 2017 is improving New Zealand's system of registering and sharing donation. This talks about exploring the option of recording individuals' donor information not just on the driver's licence but also in developing electronic health records. I'll be interested to see how that goes hand in hand with the Government's intentions. The third priority: enhancing capability and consistency through improved training. It is kind of interesting that only 30 to 50 percent of intensive care physicians have done organ donation training; that would seem to be a relatively simple area to have some impact on as compared to moving organ donation to the blood transfusion service or the Blood Service. So that's another piece of work that could maybe be picked up and looked at. The fourth priority: increasing hospital-based capacity for deceased organ donation. This is talking about having specialist donation teams that work within the hospital. The second to last: establishing a national agency to lead the Increasing Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation. Of course this is the transfer that this bill does of these responsibilities to the Blood Service. I'll echo what my colleague Michael Woodhouse was saying that the resources need to be commensurate with that responsibility and need to follow.The sixth and final strategy which this bill looks to enable is to measure progress. That is our ability to critique how well we do with organ donation against a number of measures and particularly to benchmark how well we do that against international measures. There are other things this bill does. It addresses compensation particularly those who come and go from work and our international collaborative responsibilities. This is a bill that we've had a large part in and that we will support and I certainly commend it to the House. Thank you.