Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. It's actually the first time I've spoken when you're in the Chair so I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your leadership. I have diligently watched you since you've taken the role as Assistant Chair and I actually am enjoying your leadership Madam Chair.Right—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): That doesn't give you any longer than five minutes but thank you.ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: OK yeah—or a second call would do. Anyway I just want to acknowledge the member that just sat down Maggie Barry. Dr Shane Reti and I co-hosted an international conversation with Dr Theo Boer just over dinner and I said a joke about the member across the floor. I said a Māori whakataukī that really to me represents that which is—as it's Māori language week I tried to look for a whakataukī that actually kills somebody but I couldn't come up with it. So my favourite whakataukī is: kaua e mate wheke mate ururoa"—don't die like an octopus die like a hammerhead shark. I want to acknowledge the member the Hon Maggie Barry for her leadership in this. If I was to need a defender I'd want her to be my defender in terms of her diligence.We had the Tongan Language Week last week and the theme for the Tongan Language Week was: Fakakoloa 'o Aotearoa 'aki 'a e Tauhi Fonua which is the Tongan Perspective of Enriching Aotearoa. Our Tongan perspective is that we live a life with other people; that we live a life in a collective. It's ironic that we are now talking about a part about accountability. We are now talking about how should we set up groups of people who will make sure of what the bill proposes to do.So an individual chooses to exercise this option. There's actually no Tongan word for "euthanasia" but the Tongan word for you taking your own life is to'o 'eku mo'ui—take my life; teu to'o 'eku mo'ui—I will take my life. So when I put that into a Tongan collective perspective what basically it's saying is take my life. But you know at the end if one of my family members decides to take this option I might have to say to them "Wait until recess because I might not get leave to come to your tangi." or because—the reason why I say that about my family is because when somebody is in pain in my family I'm usually the one that gets called to come to the hospital to make that final decision. Why? Since I was 14 I've been doing this basically just because they think my English is better than theirs and I will understand it better.I want to speak on Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 341 by Simon O'Connor. The SOP talks about clause 20(1) inserting new paragraph (aa): "a person who is legally qualified by virtue of having held a practising certificate as a barrister or as a barrister and solicitor for at least 7 years;". The reason why I've said that is in the dinner break when we heard Dr Theo Boer talk about—somebody had asked him: do you think a solicitor should be in this group? Do you think a lawyer should be in this group? He said "Yes". The reason why he said yes was that lawyers seem to keep in mind earlier rulings. That's something that they do. They keep in mind earlier rulings and they actually—well it's their job to know the processes. If someone has been practising as a lawyer for seven years then I would trust that person to make sure that—their due diligence in being part of this group is that they ask the right questions and that they recall the right memory.I go back to my experiences in terms of being a 14-year-old and being part of my family and making decisions about turning off a machine that keeps someone in my family's life open. I have been in black since October of last year in my mourning gears because my mother's youngest brother has passed away. And yes I was the one that made the decision to talk with him about removing his oxygen mask so that he could die peacefully. So I have experience. OK I'm 50 now and I have experienced people losing their life with dignity.I tell you what: the gift of that person for all of us to be in the room when they pass away—it's their gift to us to mourn in a way that we'll be able to live our life positively. It is the gift that they've given to us. So in a Tongan perspective being in a room of a family member that passes away that is a gift to the living.I don't often agree with Dr Nick Smith but I actually agree with what he said today. Some of what this bill is aiming to do is putting barriers for families to be involved in the last breath of a loved one."