Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Firstly nau mai ki tēnei ao [welcome to this world] Charlie Douglas Hipkins so tau kē [cool] and congratulations Chris and Jade on the addition to your whānau. It is a very special moment. Can I say that I think this bill actually epitomises what is good about Parliament. You bring a good kaupapa to this House and the way that we can work together actually produces something that is incredibly good and it is going to benefit so many people. So congratulations Chris Bishop. You are going to have a bill go through this House in your first term which is something you should be incredibly satisfied with. I think that we should start at the beginning and—believe it or not everybody—I have got a little research paper. The beginning was 1964 when we as a Parliament passed the Human Tissue Act. There has been progress between that particular piece of legislation and what we have today. So I am going to take us on a little bit of a trip because I think along the way we need to acknowledge some pioneers. In 1989 we allowed the establishment of a database of potential organ and tissue donors through the Land Transport Act and it was at that point that we really focused on increasing the availability of donors and focused on deceased donors. How relevant is it? Well we need 550 donors every year. Of those 450 are kidney donations. We also need donations of livers hearts lungs and for pancreas. Then in 2002 a guy called Andrew Tookey sent a petition to the Health Committee requesting that Parliament address the shortage in donors. So we have known for quite a while that we have some issues. In 2004 the Government agreed and in 2005 we actually created Organ Donation New Zealand. In 2006—and I think it is good that we acknowledge those champions—MP Dr Jackie Blue introduced a member's bill called the Human Tissue (Organ Donation) Amendment Bill. What was behind her bill—and this is really interesting—was that she wanted to make it legally binding on people who wanted to donate and were part of this organ donor register because what was happening was their parents or their family members would change their minds and that person's wishes were not actually followed through. That was the intention of Jackie's bill. The Government actually picked it up and it went through the select committee process and then unfortunately there was huge objection to it so in 2007 it did not pass its second reading in the House. Then we had the 2008 Human Tissue Act which was to facilitate the establishment of a donor register or empower the Government to establish a donor register. Then in 2009 the Auckland Renal Transplant Group established a national kidney-paired exchange scheme. I know a woman called Kim Hassan whom I played rugby with. She was part of a matching set—her mother needed a kidney. She went through this process with her mother she donated to somebody else and then somebody donated to her mother. I have seen her at different events and she is very passionate about this area.Then in 2010 Michael Wood put in a member's bill called the Financial Assistance for Live Organ Donors—Hon Members: Woodhouse.LOUISA WALL: Sorry Michael Woodhouse—the Financial Assistance for Live Organ Donors Bill and then I think Chris Bishop was incredibly thoughtful in selecting this bill. I am going to credit you with that Chris Bishop. This is an amazing bill; it really is because what it will enable is for people who want to donate to be able to do so. It is incredibly relevant to Māori and I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that we are the group that is most affected because of our high rates of diabetes. We suffer from type 2 diabetes—we are three times more likely to get it. November is Diabetes Action Month so I have put my hand up—I think Sam Lotu-Iiga on the other side Jacinda Ardern and I think there might be some others in the House but there is a Diabetes NZ Fitbit Movement Challenge and it is all about creating awareness around diabetes. I have become aware—Hon Simon Bridges: That Kris Faafoi's a Fitbit".LOUISA WALL: Oh I am sure you would like to join. The relevance of this piece of legislation to Māori communities I really must highlight because we are the ones who are queuing up to get the kidney donations. So if this is going to motivate people who really want to donate but because of—usually—financial constraints cannot then I think that this bill will save lives and actually mean that families can stay together. I want to look at the change in name because it is actually really important. When you look at the Financial Assistance for Live Organ Donors Bill it is actually about the Government helping to give somebody something because they are in need. But when you look at the concept of compensation—and I like looking at definitions—the act of compensating is making up for somebody's loss damage or injury because they are giving something to somebody else. So we are recognising that philanthropic act and valuing that philanthropic act. For people who choose to donate an organ it is quite a process. It is a process to go through in terms of finding out whether you are a match and then actually having an operation must be pretty scary and then recovering from that operation. So I think this is a really good piece of legislation. I am really proud of us for passing this legislation for working together to make sure that we can meet that demand—550 people needing organ donations is a heck of a lot and actually that is also why we need to focus on these diabetes challenges and Fitbit challenges because we want that number to reduce. We do not want it to keep getting larger and larger. We want to make sure that fewer and fewer people need organ donations because they are living happy healthy well lives. So I think that is the other part of promoting this opportunity that families and people now have out there because by creating I guess the mechanism now for people to put their hands up and say "Yep I'll donate. I'll go on a register. I'll help be part of a matching pair." what we are also saying is that we all need to take better care of ourselves. We have to create an environment where doing—I think the winner of last year's Diabetes Action Month Fitbit challenge walked 156000 steps in a week. That is crazy because that is almost 20 kilometres a day but if we can get people walking 20 minutes a day or 30 minutes a day and actually looking at portion sizes and being a bit healthier then the overall goal is to reduce the demand. I like Poto do want to mention somebody. I am seeing Georgina Beyer tomorrow. I am fortunate that Georgina has been in my life for a long time. When she was in Parliament and I was not in Parliament she was—she is—an absolute icon for our LGBTI and rainbow community. She is a champion and a pioneer who has shared so much of her life with the country and in fact she is still doing that. She is one of the people who suffer from chronic kidney failure and in an ideal world she would have got a transplant in 2013. That ability to be matched took a while and in fact she is in a position now where she cannot have the transplant because her heart is not up to it. This piece of legislation hopefully is going to enable people who really need our help people who are part of families to get the support that they need. So to Chris Bishop the Health Committee and this Parliament: this is a piece of legislation that we should celebrate to its fullest because it is going to save lives. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa."