Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I want to reiterate the support from the Greens for this bill around the House. I want to begin by acknowledging the love of Kyle and Katherine. I want to acknowledge that it is that love which has stopped the House tonight. It is that love and commitment for them and for their child which has made us actually as MPs take a step back and really think about what's really important. Often in this House things go backwards and forwards and we argue about stuff and they seem important at the particular time but it's moments like these when we actually step back and think Hey you know what's important? It's that love between parents and children; it's the love between that wider village our whānau." Those are the things that should be guiding this house on a daily basis. So Kyle tēnei te mihi atu ki a koe otirā ki a koe Katherine haere atu rā haere atu rā haere atu rā. Waiho mai tēnei me te aroha ki tō pēpi ki a Paige hei maumaharatanga mōu ki tō whānau whānui. [Kyle I acknowledge you; and you as well Katherine may you rest in peace. This is left with love for your baby for Paige as a memento for you to your wider family.] I would also like to acknowledge Katherine as well acknowledge that her pēpi that she leaves behind here is her legacy of that love and that commitment. When Louisa was sharing this bill around the House I had to give it a second look and then a third look and then a fourth look because you think these things would have been sorted out in the law. You would have thought that you know if you're a biological parent that you wouldn't have to go through the adoption process and the complications that many people have with surrogacy. I want to acknowledge the bill that will be coming to the House and the kōrero from Tāmati Coffey just earlier about trying to smooth that stuff through a bit more because some of these laws that we have they're archaic. They don't actually fit the modern reality of what it is as a whānau but also in many ways they also don't fit the reality of how whānau have always been they have always been interconnected they have always been fluid—it is about that love between parents and their children but also the connections to that wider whānau and that village that some of the members have talked about before as well. Those are the things that really ground a child those are the things that are really really important. It forms that foundation about who that child is and for them to know who they are connected to.People have spoken earlier before about whakapapa the importance of whakapapa the importance of genealogical connection. How you are connected in this world to your parents to your whānau and to your wider village and of course to wider society. These are the things that help a child orientate themselves in the way that they move through the world. So I see this bill as making us take pause as a Parliament making us take a step back and to ask and question ourselves about why the law was like this in the first place and what we need to do to come together as parliamentarians to correct that and to fix that and to take a wider view across all of these types of laws which don't but should have whānau at the centre should have children at the centre—have that connection between parents and their children at the centre.I'd also like to acknowledge te koi me te pukumahi [intelligent and hard-working] Louisa Wall. I've only been here for about a year and a bit and I wanted to acknowledge the Manurewatanga of Louisa Wall. I met her in Manurewa a couple years back—I'm from Manurewa myself—and seeing the way that Louisa has been able to go out and talk to all the different parties to really advocate for an issue to really get into the detail. I know there was this engagement process with the officials to really work with them to figure out "Hey this is a massive issue how do we get through it?" and Louisa went and did that. So I do want to acknowledge that. So kāore i roa taku kōrero [I won't speak for long]. I won't be taking a long call on this but once again I want to reiterate a mihi to Kyle to Katherine to Josh Renee and of course to baby Paige Harris for the day for the night that they made Parliament stand still and pay attention. Tēnā koe Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Our next call is a remote call and I just need to apologise to the deputy chair of the Governance and Administration Committee for ignoring her! Rachel Boyack."