Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. It is a great pleasure to rise and make a short contribution for the Green Party again in support of this bill which is currently known as the Financial Assistance for Live Organ Donors Bill. I too would like to add my congratulations to the member Chris Bishop on getting this drawn and seeing it through the process. It does seem to me that this bill in its essence has been a success on two levels. Firstly it has provided a bill with some substance from a Government member with the potential to really help people in society and that is quite a rare thing on members' day in this House. Secondly the select committee process has worked and delivered back a bill consistent with the intent that was put forward by the member but significantly changed to be able to deliver on that intent more effectively. It has been wonderful to hear how the Health Committee worked so collaboratively to actually realise and respond to the submissions from the I think 110 New Zealanders offering guidance on how to improve this and we now have a much better bill as a result. That is a credit to the member who brought it to the House and to the committee and to this parliamentary process. The Green Party is very pleased to support this because we do believe it will make a real difference. On a personal level like other members in this House I am really pleased to support this. For me there are two people I think of when I am speaking to this bill. One is of course our hero Georgina Beyer—as already mentioned by Louisa—who was waiting for a transplant and for that match and who is now no longer in a position to be able to receive a transplant. She is a great New Zealander and it is a shame that that is how it has played out. For me there is also an amazing woman Kate Lynch who was the sister of my ex-partner who had a triple transplant. As a result of those transplants she lived many more years. She was an amazing public servant and I got to have her as an adviser on the paid parental leave bill that we were hearing submissions on—I know that the Hon Ruth Dyson worked with her quite closely when she was a Minister. That is the difference: when people manage to get transplants they have an opportunity to live and to contribute and we are all better off for that. So I am really grateful to the member for bringing this bill to the House and I am grateful for it to progress. I would like to acknowledge some of the changes that were made in the select committee process that have made a very significant improvement. When the bill initially came in it was looking at modelling the income assistance on ACC—an 80 percent compensation of wages and only for people in paid work and not for beneficiaries. That raised concerns for the Attorney-General that beneficiaries who were also in paid work would not get compensation because it was making a distinction. This bill fixes that human rights issue and it also moves to cost neutrality as opposed to an 80 percent compensation rate. That is regardless of income level because it is working on an acknowledgment that nobody should benefit or be worse off. So it is about removing the barriers to people being able to be in a position to donate organs and I think that is commendable.It is a very rare thing—it is my first experience of something going through a select committee process and coming out the other end with higher costs to the Government. And I really really want to acknowledge the work that must have gone on behind the scenes in the National Government to get that result. It is a good result. It will pay off for New Zealanders I hope. I also want to acknowledge the fact that it is moving from being a Ministry of Social Development (MSD) payment to a Ministry of Health payment. And I have heard that it is no reflection on MSD but that people's stories were that they found it very difficult because this is such a rare situation to get caseworkers who understood it. The reality is we hear stories from MSD all the time of people being denied support when they need it—that is a much bigger problem but it is good to see the shift here.