Salesa JennyHARETE HIPANGO (National): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Kia tau te rangimārie. May things be calm and peaceful. I think after the journey that this bill has been on from listening to the speeches in the House this afternoon in relaying the journey of others who have been affected and we've deemed have been afflicted by the labelling and the perceptions of their identity may this Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill give them a sense of rangimārie. In speaking about that—I had no idea that I would be speaking to this bill this afternoon but at short notice this is what we do because it is about service. It's also about recognising the importance of who we are as people within a nation within a community and our relationships. So when I look at this bill I just place beside my legal background and the context of that and I actually look at this bill as one of whakapapa and whakawhanaungatanga—that of identity connectivity and relationships. In saying that as I've tended to do over the course of time when addressing the House I do reflect and I do connect to relationships and this bill the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill. Last night I attended a Zoom hui of my whanaunga my whānau from throughout the world as we came together because of the death of a loved one a grand-uncle. The technology facilitated for those of us who weren't able to be with our whānau in Las Vegas and it drew us together in terms of the recognition of our whakapapa our identity and our relationships with the death and the passing of a loved one. Before I move to the bill I also draw from tohu signs that present themselves to me in significant incidents or events that occur in life. So as I left the House last night returning to my place of repose for the evening and as I was walking up the steps this white feather was on the ground at the entrance of the place that I was going to and I saw that as a tohu. A white feather is a mark of peace and it is a mark of calm and it is a mark of repose. So that tohu was after I had connected with my whānau from throughout the world globally with the death and coming together to celebrate the life of my grand-uncle and here I am today addressing the House on this Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill and hearing the kōrero about the anguish associated with those who have gone through this journey of recognition of what their identity their gender identity is. So this mark of rangimārie peace—this tohu—is so befitting and appropriate. I come to the bill because—it's a brief call and I've taken most of the call—befittingly it is about the significance and the relevance of identity of whakapapa of whanaungatanga. I acknowledge the members on the Governance and Administration Committee. I acknowledge Minister Jan Tinetti who has carried this journey on from Minister Tracey Martin when it was first introduced to the House and I acknowledge our good friend Ian McKelvie aptly described and acknowledged from across the House as a gentleman who conducted this committee where at times it was fraught and contentious with that sense of calm in bringing it back to a sense of respectful debate and engagement and relationships.Looking through the bill—I'm going to have to commend it to the House very shortly—it is fortuitous that I do stand to speak to address it because looking through it there are portions of this bill when I have advocated for people in my former life as a lawyer. I also look at the bill when it comes to registration of births. Some of my tūpuna did not have their births registered because in their day they were deemed not important and significant enough for that to happen. This bill—it's been a privilege to address the House and I commend it to the House. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): I call Camilla Belich—five minutes.