Marcroft JennyJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Tēnā koe Madam Deputy Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to take a call on this the final reading of the Organ Donors and Related Matters Bill.Kiwis we're really well known for giving the shirt off our back but we're not so great about giving one of our organs. There's considerable tapu around giving organs. There's a certain amount of emotion around giving organs whether that's being a donor when you're alive or after you have passed and becoming a deceased donor. But it's a really important thing to do.Each year we do have a large number of genuinely anonymous New Zealanders who give away a very small part of themselves and they give it away for nothing. They give this gift that is life saving and life changing; and that is the ultimate gift. It's the ultimate taonga. In fact you could consider it the ultimate koha.There is a key perception though in Māoridom that body parts are tapu. One of the problems with that concept is that it means Māori Pasifika and other cultures aren't coming forward in terms of making organ donations not unless it's a person who is directly related to them. So we need to find ways to encourage whānau to become donors. Because that is the challenge we have ensuring that we have plenty of people who are willing to make this ultimate koha.I won't traverse the detail of the bill—that has really been done ahead of me by previous speakers—but I would like to talk about a couple of cases of people who've been donors. We all have them whether they are close family or someone in our community—maybe they're you know a sporting legend. We heard the Hon Michael Woodhouse talk about Jonah Lomu and receiving that kidney that donation. But there are just cases like recently a young 22-year-old Kiwi was killed overseas in the United States and his parents a year after he died went over to the woman who received his heart and they listened to the beat of his heart inside this 60-year-old woman. What an amazing moment it was for them. They knew it wasn't their son but to have the sound when they put the stethoscope in their ears and put it to the chest of their 60-year-old recipient to hear their son's heart beating—you know that was a very emotional moment for them.Another woman she's given half of her liver to her husband and we know that the liver regenerates so both their livers have grown back. [Interruption] So yes. So that's been an ultimate gift that the wife has done for her husband.This is T-Bear. T-Bear is a very cute wee bear. The reason that I would like to point out T-Bear is that there's a well-known Kiwi entertainer Pio Terei and his son died of leukaemia about three years ago. He lost Teina—his son is Teina also known as T-Bear—and he lost his battle with leukaemia. Although bone marrow transplants aren't part of this bill what is something that we need to do and will do as a result of this piece of legislation is we need people who will go out and champion the cause of making donations of their organs particularly in our Māori community. Pio Terei has set up an organisation which is called Trust Teina and what they want to do and what they are doing is they are encouraging Māori and Pacific donors to give of their bone marrow. They've made a range of bears these T-Bears and each teddy bear is uniquely made. And a koha from each T-Bear that is sold is gifted to the Trust Teina. It's to help raise awareness and donations of Māori and Pacific bone marrow. So Pio Terei is championing that. We need more champions in our community who will encourage others to donate their organs whether they're alive or deceased.Ultimately this is a good bill. It's about saving people's lives. It's about extending the life of someone. And so without further ado I'd like to commend this bill to the House.