Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. I am pleased to speak in the final reading of this bill the Compensation for Live Organ Donors Bill. This is a very worthy bill. I would add my congratulations to the member Chris Bishop on bringing this to the House to all the parties to the Health Committee—everyone actually because this is a unanimously supported bill and it is a very worthy cause. I represent a Māori electorate and there is a high incidence of Māori awaiting transplants and having renal issues. I have encountered many who have to travel large distances to get the dialysis treatment that they need. It is a very debilitating disease. This measure that we are implementing through this bill is very welcome. It provides for those who are very selfless to be able to get some fair compensation for their selfless act of donating their live organs. This is a very very worthy bill which we wholeheartedly support.I do note the amendments that were made. Likewise at Committee stage a lot of issues were canvassed quite extensively. But one issue that has come to my attention—and I am not a medical expert to any degree—is that there is a discretion that the director-general has to provide support for donors who forgo earnings in preparation for surgery whereas once surgery has been carried out the assistance applies in the recovery.I would hope that the director-general would be quite liberal with the discretion in terms of providing that support because I would imagine preparation for surgery is the most important step that a person contemplating donating their organs would have to go through in terms of all of that preparatory work and the suitability—and I guess the purpose of this bill is to encourage people those who want to to be able to take that step.I would hope that the fact that there is discretion there to provide that support would not be a stumbling block to those who would be denied financial support for going through that preparatory phase. But be that as it may this is a really great piece of legislation. It is going to be great. It is going to make a huge difference to the lives of many New Zealanders.Just as a case in point I would like to pay my respects and good wishes to Kīngi Tuheitia. He is undergoing a kidney transplant operation today. His son Korotangi has generously donated his kidney to his father. I know that there is a special karakia that will be taking place tonight at Te Puea Marae. Te Kāhui Wairua interdenominational group will be there to have a special karakia for Kīngi Tuheitia. I wish him well. I wish him a speedy recovery.Ā kia piki te ora te kaha te māramatanga ki a Kīngi Tuheita ā me tana tama a Korotangi i tēnei wā.[So let wellness strength and enlightenment be upon Kīngi Tuheitia and his son Korotangi at this point in time.]As I say this is a very worthy and great piece of legislation. I am looking forward to actually seeing the increase in the transplant operations that will be taking place the lessening of waiting times the availability of donors increasing and the healthy lives of many New Zealanders being able to benefit through the passage of this legislation. I commend it to the House. Kia ora tātou.