Hayes JoanneJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Chair. It is sad but a privilege to speak on this bill. I do say this is the first time that I've spoken on the End of Life Choice Bill and I find it very very difficult to actually do this. Three weeks ago my sister passed from cancer. She lay in a hospice bed and we all gathered around her. She lasted for six days and during those times my older sister and my younger brother spoke a lot about this bill actually—of all things to talk about while your sister is dying in the bed. We spoke about it when we were away in the lounge and how her children should this bill have been passed as legislation may not have had the time with their mother to the end.This bill goes against everything that is in my culture. We have our children. We treasure our children. We treasure each other. And there is no way that we would ever want to see a bill like this passed into any piece of the legislation of this country. I don't want to be part of it. And it will be a sad day for this Government for this Parliament should this bill end up passed into legislation. And I ask all of those who are supporting this bill to walk in my shoes. I have had a history of my whānau dying from cancer-related diseases whereby we sat through their journey as they passed over. And I would never trade that for anything in the world. They would never have opted or even thought about the possibility of dying or being forced or having options like this because we treasure life. And I believe that many of us in this Parliament actually treasure life. We treasure life. And you need to have your hearts come out and actually vote against this bill.I stand here today and I am saddened that the sponsor of the bill admits that there may be mistakes if this bill gets passed—there may be mistakes. Has life—has human life—got so little and inconsiderate and we've become so inconsiderate that we treat it like that. Oh it's just a mistake. That was a mistake." That's terrible. That's absolutely terrible and we look at each other and we have to look at each other. And whatever happens if this bill goes through—will we feel good about it? I don't think so. I will feel ashamed to be standing in this Parliament to have this bill go through.As I look through it there's so many gaps so many gaps. The cultural gap—the cultural gap—and I can say my people won't support it. And I know that even to make little changes in it to put in clauses. And as I stand here today I look at the clause of the Hon Maggie Berry who has been a champion in driving and leading our side of the House in going against this bill. I stand here and I want to say to her—to congratulate her for trying to make some sort of sense to give it some sort of something. So we look at her new clause 4A or Supplementary Order Paper 263 where there's an insertion of new clause 4A some principles. Because this bill doesn't have any principles. It has nothing. It doesn't value life. It values death over life and that's a damn shame. And everybody should be hanging their heads in shame if they support this bill.Everybody will say "Oh you know it's really hard watching people pass and that and the pain that they suffer." but that's what whānau are there for. These principles that the Hon Maggie Barry is proposing in her Supplementary Order Paper 263 are some way through helping—some way through helping. You know we're Ngāti Porou women in our family and everything that she has in her Supplementary Order Paper 263 new clause 4A for the principles—[Time expired]"