Bennett Glen; O'Connor GregGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): This Parliament is a place that definitely reflects our society reflects the values of our society and as a House of Representatives it is a place that decisions are made which I want to say run parallel with what's going on in the outside world. But sometimes I feel like we're often a bit slow to the game or we have to be pushed and nudged a little to get to a place of making decisions that affect what our society reflects. If you look at things like adoption if you look at things like our rainbow issues and rainbow reform and inclusion if you look at things like Te Tiriti o Waitangi and including that as part of our founding document when you look at the environment or climate or womens' rights and reproductive rights the list goes on. This bill this piece of legislation is a reflection of our society and of us moving forward.Now I've got to say to the Governance and Administration Committee: thank you for the work you have done on this. It's always encouraging to read the report that comes back and to see that together across the aisle of Parliament here it was agreed to in terms of getting this right so that Annie Oxborough could be recognised and have her birth parents recognised on her birth certificate. I want to thank Chris Penk who was been mentioned this evening for his willingness to take this on. This is a justice issue. This is something that is important for people—for Annie but I'm sure there are others out there who can reflect on what this means for them. So it is good as a House to be working together to get something right. For many people it might be strange that this is just for one person but it's a symbol of what it means for that one person and what it means for us as a House as we look to mirror and reflect the values of our society. So as my colleague Paul Eagle just said looking at the review of the 1955 Adoption Act is something that we need to consider and we are considering. And it is time because the early 1970s was a very different time when Annie was born to the early 1980s or the early 2000s which are very different to the 2020s here and now.In the first reading I reflected on my mother's own journey and what that meant. I had the privilege last month to meet Annie Oxborough thanks to Chris Penk inviting her here and spending time. It was lovely to briefly meet her and to see her face to face to realise the significance of something that for many might seem so small but it is impactful—the fact that she can have a birth certificate that represents and names her biological parents. The fact that she can have a birth certificate that represents and names her lineage her whakapapa is crucial for so many of us. And I'm glad that this House has taken time to consider that for her. I'm glad that we're able to make this change so that she can have that opportunity to be able to seek the change and to see the change on her own birth certificate.For me as I reflect I think of my mother today. The fact that she doesn't have that opportunity not because this House wouldn't allow it but because she doesn't know her lineage or her whakapapa. She has a small connection. But records of the 1940s have long since been lost to find who she was and the whakapapa that she has. So for me as a member of Parliament and someone who stands in support of this bill I am glad to cheer and champion and say Yes. Let's get on with it and let's get this past." But it also makes me slightly sad to know that for myself—although I have my parents' name on my birth certificate—there's a part of me and my whakapapa that is missing because generations past and the way that life was lived and done and what we thought was right for the sake of a child or a baby has been lost.But it is good. And I don't want to dwell on the negative. I want to dwell on what is possible and the fact that today we get to pass a law that Annie Oxborough gets to change her birth certificate. The fact that we get to think about what it means to make change in this country in this House so that we live in a 21st century nation where adoption rights where the ability to have records to represent who we are are there and are in place. So thank you to Chris Penk. Thank you to the committee for working collegially together. Thank you to the fact that we live in a democracy that can do something seemingly so small but yet so great and powerful for somebody and for her generations to come. I commend this bill to the House.Motion agreed to.Bill read a second time.DEPUTY SPEAKER: In accordance with a determination of the Business Committee this bill is set down for committee stage immediately. I declare the House in committee for consideration of the Annie Oxborough Birth Parents Registration Bill."