Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak in support of the Organ Donors and Related Matters Bill a bill that of course we support because on this side of the House we did a lot of work on it and the Hon Michael Woodhouse and Chris Bishop—I nearly called you Hon"; not quite there yet Chris but you know keep going with these good bills and you never know what might happen.Hon Member: That's right.Hon MAGGIE BARRY: Indeed. I think that this is a bill—and we've talked about it and had a conversation around New Zealand for many years about the need for more organ donations. But what do we do? What do we do about that? We need more organs and others—in fact the member who just sat down Louisa Wall talked about the ability of one person's death to provide life for others. A young Canadian man who died in Wellington at the end of last month—his family were pleased that he had donated his organs because he died in New Zealand and his father Darryl Bates told the news that his thrill-seeking teen had been on a vacation coming here for one month. He died but with the donation of his organs he has saved five lives today and the family of that visitor to New Zealand took great comfort from it.It has been an ongoing challenge. I was just googling before about what happens in different parts of the world. This is really carrying on the narrative from the Hon Michael Woodhouse as to how we can engage people more and make it easier for them to register and for that knowledge of their wishes to be carried out after their death. In Canada they've gone a few steps further around this and they want to be able to register their intent to become a donor by visiting a site. I was somewhat surprised although perhaps I should not have been that they have a National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. It's not very catchy is it? The acronym is not great! But apparently it really works and people have that focus and they write it down and so they have harvested a remarkable number of organs.On a sadder note with the euthanasia debate yesterday it became apparent that patients who went through euthanasia could be kept alive but their organs harvested over a period of weeks and months which personally I found a bit creepy but that's what they're doing and of course a live donor is a very important part of a life continuing. So the idea of a national organ donation agency that's needed to oversee and to lead the implementation makes perfect sense.We need to raise the profile and the need to have organ donation. Effective clinical governance is very important. Some years ago around the Christmas period a neighbour of mine needed a liver transplant. A young man had had a car accident and so my neighbour was shaved and sedated and wheeled in but by the time the family had discussed whether the organ should in fact be donated—because that's what the young man had written on his driver's licence—the organs had passed their ability to be useful. So it was wasted and I'll never forget having a conversation with my neighbour who was very upset indeed. He went through that process three times.I think working with the health sector to coordinate donation and transplantation processes is also a very important part of this on a practical level and providing expert advice and information to the sector also seems to me to be very sensible because we do need to achieve the aim of having more organ donors both alive and dead. We're doing well but we could do a lot better and we need to ensure those rates keep on rising. I wasn't aware that Dr Jackie Blue had sort of invented her own job well in advance and was now at the New Zealand Blood Service. Perfect symmetry really isn't it? And I'm sure she'll guide it very wisely because she would understand with her medical background as well as her political one how important these things are and how it needs to be very well governed to be able to work.I think having done the report that was commissioned under the Hon Jonathan Coleman—it was delivered in the middle of 2017—it really made perfect sense. On this side of the House we support it because it has had the kind of lead-in time and rigorous evaluation process that we have brought to our legislation and which is now being picked up by the Government which is good and filling the Order Paper which is also good. So I won't delay the time of the House any further but I do certainly commend this bill to the House."