SpeechHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. This is my first intervention in the House since yesterday's news that that my good friend and colleague the Hon Simon Bridges was going to retire from it. I mention that in this context for two reasons: one is Simon Bridges and Todd Muller were actually involved in this case in the early stages—so this has been a success with a number of contributors—but secondly when he was asked by media yesterday what he would remember most about his political career he did talk about a few transport projects but he actually talked about the really important work that we as MPs do for the people we serve. I wouldn't trivialise it by saying the smaller things but the things that have a really really big impact on individuals' lives that we don't always get success for but when we do picking up the phone and being able to say we've got a solution for you we've got a win for you with ACC or Housing or Immigration is actually one of the great moments I think.Louisa Wall probably has more luck than any other member in Parliamentary history in member's bill ballots and will pass more legislation in her time here than some Ministers will. So I'm confident that in Louisa Wall's rocking-chair moments she would look back on this piece of legislation as a really important thing for the Harris family but actually emblematic of what good we can do and how important that job of an MP is.I'm not a huge fan of expedited processes as the House knows. I think we risk sometimes rushing bills and getting them wrong—and this isn't one of those occasions. I think all parties were pleased to agree to a process that had this legislation passing I think it's prior to the end of this month and the selection of people to make submissions to the invitation to make submissions the excellent work that officials did in advising the committee—so ably chaired by the chair of the Governance and Administration Committee a person Mr Speaker you know very well and I congratulate that person—and a real shared sense of wanting to get this right for Paige.In Tāmati Coffey's submission—I mean I went on a bit of a voyage of discovery. I didn't know much about surrogacy law in this country but I was staggered that as Louisa Wall has just alluded to the revelation that the biological parents have no rights at birth without having to go through a prolonged process—indeed to change the law in this case. We're changing outdated legislation all the time some of which was passed in the 1980s and 1990s. This is an Act the Adoption Act I think—from 1955; it was a busy year 1955—that could not have possibly foreseen technology and society changing in the way that it has to even give rise to the sorts of situations we have and so I am wholly supportive of Mr Coffey's member's bill. My mild rebuke might be that it is important enough to frankly be on the Government's agenda and I think there's a wider review of the Adoption Act that's necessary and probably going on. So I look forward to that also being expedited.But it really is absolutely staggering to me that the biological mother tragically taken prior to the baby's birth has to go through these hoops to be recognised and for Paige Harris to have a birth certificate that reflects reality. It's not a waste of this House's time but we don't want to be doing this again—there have been a number of times where we've had to do this. I hope we can just as quickly expedite Tāmati Coffey's bill—well not just as quickly but as smoothly—because there are some questions in it that will mean that this is the last time we ever have to do that. I look forward to this passage today as quickly as possible.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): The question should have been that the motion be agreed to and fortunately it was. I call—and it's a remote call—Tāmati Coffey.