Lubeck MarjaMARJA LUBECK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'll pick up that positive note from the previous speaker the Hon Michael Woodhouse because this bill makes several changes to current legislation. I just want to make mention of a couple.Firstly I'll pick up the challenge put on the floor by the previous speaker when he talked about gradual process injuries because that is one thing that this bill does. It does make some changes—well actually it reverses changes that were made in 2010 by the previous Government where in a bid to save cost the onus was reversed from being on ACC to prove that a gradual injury was in fact not work-related to deny that cover. A change was then put in place to make sure that the actual claimant had to prove that the injury was work-related. So that is a change that we are reversing so it makes it a lot more claimant friendly" if that's what you want to call it.The bill also reverses the threshold put in place in 2010 where the hearing loss of a worker for a work-related injury had to be 6 percent; that is reversed back to 5 percent. So that is a good change because it makes sure that there is more of an opportunity for Kiwis to receive fair access to cover.Secondly and it has been talked about most in this debate is of course the extension of the compensation scheme to cover birth injuries. In fact the majority of the nearly 800 written submissions—including 46 oral submissions—that our committee dealt with were heard on this particular topic. As the Minister already pointed out there were very personal stories showing that birth injuries can be extremely serious and debilitating. They were very personal stories shared very bravely by our submitters and we've done it again but I want to pause and really put on the record a massive thankyou to all of our submitters who took the time and who were brave enough to come before our committee and share those stories. I remember one of the submitters really specifically saying that while this bill would not apply to her personally she said that she was speaking up in that select committee process about something to make a difference for others. That is I think a really significant and brave thing to do of people not thinking of themselves.There's a review clause within this bill that the Minister spoke about and that is to ensure that the list of birth injuries is futureproofed in this bill.But additionally what our select committee did because the intention is for all birth injuries to be covered by this bill is that our select committee opened the briefing into the scheme for maternal birth injuries cover. What we actually put in our report was the line: "We hope to see the briefing reinstated in the 54th Parliament by the Education and Workforce Committee" and through this briefing there will then be an opportunity to review the way the bill is working in practice. That will then start before the formal ministerial review process which kicks in three years after the bill comes in place. So basically we strongly urge that next committee to pick up that briefing and examine that list of maternal birth injuries.Now when this bill is passed 28000 more women will benefit from the improved legislation. It's significant legislation. I want to thank the officials and advisers for their work on this bill; my colleagues around the House; a special mention to Sarah Pallett as our subject matter expert doing her great work; but definitely thank you to the Hon Minister Sepuloni for her bringing this bill to the House. Thank you Madam Speaker."