Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd just like to echo the words of the last speaker Rachel Boyack in thanking Chris Penk for bringing this bill through the House and the way that he has managed that process but also engaged with Annie and made her ambitions a reality and done so in a very sensitive and understanding way. So a real tribute to you and your constituency work and also to Annie. This will be something she's looked forward to for a long time. Those of us in this House may be able to say what we think about the bill but the emotions that she will feel will be quite probably different in the sense that they'll be more heightened. She'll be more aware of what it actually means to her and her history and whakapapa—going back to her past—and understanding her future as well. So we congratulate her on her efforts to bring this forward and for the success in getting this bill through the House and looking forward to all parties supporting it here today. The last speaker made some very good comments around the reform that's needed in this area as well. I'd like to acknowledge Tāmati Coffey as well for the work he's done in that area—well overdue. It's one of those issues that I don't think should divide this House like some other conscience issues. I think that it's more for us as a Parliament becoming a little bit more up with the times of how life can change and things do change and that we need to reflect that in the laws of the land as well that were you know set up in a different time with a different space and a different attitude. Things are quite different now. I look forward to Tāmati's bill coming forward. It won't be under this Government obviously but you know in a future Government that that actually is the case and we actually see reform in that area.This is a bill that—there wasn't really too much dissention or need to change at the Governance and Administration Committee. The changes were quite minor in regard to really the actual approach to the definition of how that is recorded. The second one was really around the succession rights. It was just a clarification really. Not that in any sense there was any ability for any further succession rights to eventuate from this kind of a bill but really just a clarification to make it clear.The last speaker also raised the issue of the scale of this issue if it actually was to progress further. I guess there'll be other people out there that may be listening or looking at the history around this bill and thinking Well how do I do it?" I don't see that we'll see a rash of people going to each MP and asking them to do a member's bill in that regard. That's simply not feasible and the department was quite clear that if they had even a dozen of these kind of cases that would be an overload on their capability. So really this is a bill that is a trailblazer in the sense of setting down a direction I think for future Governments to actually look at this area and to try and accommodate these kind of wishes and also to look at the wider area around surrogacy adoption to make that more up to date with the reality of how people live their lives now. So in that sense I think it actually might push forward—for other people in different circumstances—their wishes to see the Parliament be a little bit more open and up to date in its approach towards adoption. So Annie might not have just supported her cause and other people that have the same cause but also supported a wider issue around adoption that needs to be facilitated in this House. So I commend the bill to the House and congratulate all those involved in making this reality. Thank you."