Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm quite delighted to stand and take a call on this bill. I'd like to thank the member who's just taken her seat the Hon Louise Upston for her very thoughtful speech and the things that she added to the debate. I'd also like to acknowledge our Minister the Hon Kelvin Davis for bringing this to the House. I acknowledge that this is not necessarily work that you have started but it is definitely work that you will be finishing and I appreciate this work coming to the select committee; so thank you for that.Essentially this is a bill about fairness. It's a bill quite simply around two lots of children often in very similar circumstances: one group of children who are under State care the other group of children who are often under family or whānau care or family members' friends' care. Essentially what this bill does very simply is try to rebalance some of that inequity that is existing. The Minister and the Hon Louise Upston have both discussed well the changes to the bill and what will be happening. So I wanted to take a brief call to talk about the personal experience of my own family and why this bill is so important to us here in this House and also to those carers out there.First and foremost I also do want to acknowledge absolutely the amazing work that our caregivers do. It is not an easy job to do. It is often blood sweat and tears to raise children and the work that people undertake is just amazing and I want to also put on record my thanks for that work.So in my family experience—and I think I have spoken about this in the past—my whāngai brother came to us as a small child a baby three months old. He received the unsupported child's benefit and did so until he was no longer eligible. He's now 21 and he's a family member of ours. He's never returned to his birth family. The circumstances I won't go into but it is what it is and he's our family member. At the time that the unsupported child's benefit was granted my mother was required to give up work because he was a little baby and she needed to care for him and that was incredibly financially difficult. I do know how much she saved and scrimped to support him and how she often planned for Christmas and birthdays in advance and saved the money that was paid from the State in order to support him. And I know what a difference it would have made to our family. She later in her life became a foster carer and during that time as a foster carer a couple of things that were remarkable in comparison were the fact that when the children—our whānau children—came to my mum she needed a set of bunks; that was immediately supplied by Oranga Tamariki because there wasn't appropriate bedding in the household. The children were supported with pocket money. The children were supported with birthdays and Christmas allowances and the difference was really remarkable in terms of—these are children that we love. These are family members and it just helps. It is just a little bit fairer for us here in this House to change this legislation to enable our children who are in these difficult circumstances to have some support. So with that I would like to commend this bill to the House. And I thank the Minister once again for bringing this to the House. Thank you.