O'Connor Simon: Reports — Inquiry into Improving Child Health Outcomes and Preventing Child Abuse with a Focus from Preconception Until Three Years of Age (Volumes 1 and 2)Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeO'Connor Simon: Reports — Inquiry into Improving Child Health Outcomes and Preventing Child Abuse with a Focus from Preconception Until Three Years of Age (Volumes 1 and 2)[Sitting date: 10 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15467. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SIMON O’CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Mr Speaker—Hon Simon Bridges: It’ll be a National Government.SIMON O’CONNOR: Indeed it will be a National Government and it is a National member - led inquiry from which these results have come about. But I think there has been a great collegial atmosphere in the House today and it is a pleasure to rise and to speak to this report. Importantly I speak as a non-member of the Health Committee but I will come to that.I do want to acknowledge as colleagues across the House have done Dr Paul Hutchison who has the gravitas the energy the passion and the vision to have led this inquiry. Listening to colleagues speaking I can see the support he has gained and garnered from members across the House—from Labour the Greens and New Zealand First—to make sure that this report is tabled before Christmas. As everyone has noted this report is something that is not only time-critical in its nature—it is a report an inquiry about pre-conception to 3 years of age—but in an area that we as MPs across the House want to address quickly and thoroughly across a wide range of areas. So I also take an opportunity to thank Dr Paul Hutchison for the work he has put in. We are all conscious here that his time by choice is coming to a close next year but what a legacy to leave New Zealand and our children.I mentioned at the start that I speak as non-member on this committee. I sit instead on the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee and the Education and Science Committee but I find it quite appropriate to stand up because to me as an MP outside of this committee this report this inquiry has stood out. From the moment it was tabled until it reached my desk it was something I was interested to pick up and read through not only the light version I say to my honourable colleague from Coromandel but the full version as well. It is the result of enormous hard work and it has been a pleasure to sit in the House during this debate to hear all members speak about their particular areas of passion.I think that what I have heard underlying those speeches is the absolute importance of human life the absolute value of human life from pre-conception to 3 years of age and the need to put in place all that we can to help young men and women and our children our tamariki to live a good and full life a life that we respect a life that we celebrate and a life that we in a community draw together. I have always been struck in my years studying philosophy that one of the things I was taught and learnt was that from the very beginning we are born into community. We are never born alone be it a son to a mother a daughter to a mother and so on. We are born into community. [Interruption] Some of my colleagues I think are trying to emphasise health—they want to get away to lunch. But what I am trying to emphasise here is the real and important place of community. I think this report from Dr Hutchison and others on the Health Committee is emphasising that real importance of community our young people in it and all the elements of support that are needed.So again I note that my colleagues across the House in particular are keen to celebrate health by having lunch. I think they want me to sit down but I want to end where I began by acknowledging Dr Paul Hutchison for his leadership his chairpersonship of the Health Committee. To all members of the committee I say well done—kudos. We look forward to a Christmas break and to coming back in the new year to put these recommendations into action.