Shaw James; Rurawhe AdrianHon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Mr Chair. I'd just like to start by acknowledging Mr Seymour for his management of the process of this bill. I think that it has brought out the best of this Parliament and is actually Parliament as it should be as it can be.I just want to start by speaking to the changes to the bill that he has proposed in his Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 259 and I am speaking on behalf of all eight members of Parliament who are members of the Green Party. That is because although this is a conscience vote we have been through a process in the Green Party some years ago to come to a position around how we feel about this and as a matter of conscience we are supporting Green Party policy on this. So all Green Party MPs voted to support this bill on second reading so that we could get to this point with the debate in the House and work towards these kind of amendments and I really do want to thank David Seymour for his work with us and with other members of the House to get to this.As I said our MPs are guided by a very clear party policy that was developed by our members and it was a very difficult and occasionally fraught process to arrive at that party policy and of course it is because this is a very emotional and very personal principles-based and difficult issue for pretty much everybody. So we recognise that quite rightfully it's one that New Zealanders care a great deal about and from a number of different perspectives. So obviously where that leaves us is that there will be members of the community right across the community who are unhappy with (a) where we land and (b) with different aspects of where we land when we get there.The policy that we've got is that terminally ill New Zealanders should be able to choose their end of life in a supported and an open way in circumstances of their own choosing as long as there are clear safeguards and I just wanted to enumerate those. First of all that they are terminally ill. Second of all that they are suffering enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable. Third that they have made durable and persistent requests for assistance in dying. Fourth we also want to see a second opinion that can help confirm that that person has decision-making capability and fifth that they are making an informed decision free from undue influence. The changes that David Seymour has set out in his SOP bring this bill very closely in line with our member-led policy and that is why we will be supporting this SOP.We will also be supporting two other SOPs which closely align with Green Party policy and they're both from Simon O'Connor. First that we make an explicit requirement for an education programme for medical practitioners to complete before administering assisted dying and second to prohibit assisted dying advertisements. So we think those are both very sensible amendments and we'll be supporting those as well.On the referendum SOP we understand that supporting this is the most likely way to be able to achieve the legislative outcomes to ensure that medically-assisted dying in New Zealand—and for that reason we've chosen to support it even though it wouldn't be our first preference. I do want to acknowledge that amongst our members amongst the wider public and supporters of all parties here there are a diverse range of opinions and I do want to acknowledge those who have come to us directly with passion with fear often and with anxiety about this issue. I also want to acknowledge that this is an important issue for Māori for whom issues of individual decision-making and relationship to iwi and hapū and community cannot be easily disaggregated. So the importance of understanding those connections is an important part to this.We know that for the disability community this is a particularly difficult issue and we would not have been able to support this legislation without restricting it to people who are terminally ill and that's because we simply cannot be confident that it wouldn't further marginalise people with disabilities in the form that it was up until the amendments that Mr Seymour's made. We've met with the Disability Commissioner with members of our own Green Party disability network and with other people in the disability community to talk through what this means and our policy is explicit that we could not support the extension of medically-assisted dying for people who are not terminally ill until New Zealand has in place policies and practices that ensure full social inclusion.CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Before I give the next call I've noticed people are venturing off outside of Part 1 and I just want to let everyone know namely to come back and just speak specifically to Part 1.