SpeechTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): This is a really necessary piece of legislation that's happening here and I want to thank my colleague Louisa Wall for bringing this to the House. And can I acknowledge the family out there who will no doubt be watching Parliament TV or listening to this in their little part of New Zealand.Our surrogacy laws need a lot of reworking. This is a really big area where lots of families who have entered into surrogacy arrangements seem to fall through the cracks. It happens regularly. Our surrogacy laws are not fit for purpose. Our surrogacy laws need to be modernised and we need to be able to say with our hands on our hearts that we here in New Zealand have modern laws for modern families and unfortunately this is one occasion where that hasn't quite worked out.Can I thank Kyle and his support network around him actually for championing this and for making sure that he's delivering on as we've heard earlier a promise that he made to his wife now passed. He said that he would get baby Paige's mum recorded on that birth certificate and that's why we're all here today.Before my member's bill was talked about and it's still waiting for its first reading; it's sitting there on the Order Paper. We will get to it but when we do one of the things in the bill will talk about the fact that if we are modernising our laws if we are creating modern laws for modern families then the idea that a family should have to go through a pretty arduous adoption process through Oranga Tamariki as our child agency—actually we should have other means to be able to do that. In my member's bill I'm proposing that we put forward a surrogacy order and that surrogacy order goes through the courts and from the time of birth baby then becomes the child of the intending parents and that transfer happens at the time of birth.So we're discussing those options but if we had already had surrogacy orders in place the surrogacy order would have dealt with this. The fact that the mother Katherine had died would have been secondary to the fact that the surrogacy order would have been approved by the courts and everything would have just happened as it should happen. Paige's mum would have been recorded on the birth certificate because it would have gone though that formal court process. Unfortunately we don't have that law at the moment so while we're waiting for it to happen this is a private bill that's been brought to this House to deal with this very specific issue. As the previous speaker Todd Muller said there's not too much more that needs to be said on this except to say that we are standing alongside the people who brought that petition forward on behalf of Kyle and his family the 50000-odd of them who saw the injustice and reached out to us as members of Parliament whether from that side or this side really seeking that solution. I want to take a bit of time to acknowledge the angst probably is the best way to put it of Kyle who I have had the pleasure of having a few conversations with. In those conversations I realised just how overwhelming it must seem from his perspective and that of his network around him. All he wants to see is a name on a birth certificate but it's taken all of this—it's taken our parliamentary counsel our lawyers our MPs really turning it on—to figure out how we can do this. It is daunting process. The legislative process can be incredibly intimidating for people that don't walk into this House every single day such as ourselves so I want to acknowledge Kyle for his persistence and also for his network of people around him who have stood next to him and provided strength for him and his baby girl at a time when he really needed it most.So Kyle to you and to the family who are listening we're on the journey now and hopefully it won't take as long as it's taken to get us to this point today. I commend this bill to the House.