McKee Nicole; Faafoi KrisNICOLE McKEE (ACT): Thank you Mr Chair. Minister I want to ask you some questions about Schedule 6 Part 1: Amendment to Coroners Act 2006" which is about the Coroners Act. The reason why I have come to questions upon this is because I spent a couple of years working for the coroner in Rotorua when I was a little bit younger. I am also quite aware that we have a huge delay in coroner hearings being heard at the moment so much so that I've heard of in particular one family who have been waiting over eight years. I see that in Part 1 of the Coroners Act you're wanting to introduce the use of audiovisual links in order for those families to be able to progress the coroner's hearings. What concerns me about this is while it's great to be able to progress and keep it going so we don't increase that backlog to do so over audiovisual is quite cold in some circumstances especially with tragic deaths. I just wonder whether or not the Minister in bringing forward this remote participation use in Part 1 new subsections 102A(1) and (2)—whether or not Minister we would have something available for the families that go through audiovisual set up to help them and to address any questions or concerns they have about the process but more importantly some support services for those families within their homes as well. Hearing some of the information that can be heard during a coroner's hearing can be very very distressing for many families and the concerns that I have Minister is that families will be sitting in their homes alone. Sometimes some of them are just single parents or a sibling that has no support going through the process when it's audiovisual. So while I do appreciate the fact that we're wanting to ensure that we don't have a backlog or we don't add to the backlog that we already have that we are actually able to support those families have them ask and get answers to questions and I also wonder at what cost that would be. Thank you.Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Justice): Thank you Mr Chair. I just want to make sure I respond to Nicole McKee's question around Part 1 of Schedule 6 around amendments to the Coroners Act. At the moment the coroner's office already uses audiovisual links but it doesn't have any reference within the legislation to enable it to do that. So in a technical sense we're just making sure that we have within that piece of legislation the legal coverage to undertake audiovisual link hearings.I do take the member's point and I have asked that the coroner's office does take the likes of cultural issues sensitivities into account when deciding whether or not an audiovisual link hearing is appropriate. I guess—and I don't want to get into the substantive debate because this is obviously very narrow within the legislation—that there are issues with delays but making sure that we have the ability to move through some of these hearings in a sensitive way is important and the use of audiovisual links where geographical distances might be a problem for some parties to not be at hearings physically is a way to deal with those issues sensitively but also make sure we keep momentum in dealing with the cases that are before the coroner at the moment."