Dean JacquiJACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): I will add my congratulations to the member in charge of this bill Chris Bishop who introduced this bill. He was not the first member attached to this bill but it has to be said that in the time of the consideration of this bill in the Health Committee Chris Bishop made an impact on the very shape of the bill including the name of the bill. So he does deserve a good deal of credit for the work that he did on the bill once it came to us at the select committee.We considered this bill in the committee for over 12 months and gave it a lot of consideration and significant improvement on the way through. We did receive a number of submissions on this bill and a number of New Zealanders came to submit in person to the Health Committee on this bill. What was notable around that was that it could not be ignored that those New Zealanders who have been in receipt of an organ donation—it is not only a life-changing event for them in terms of their health and their life expectancy but also a life-changing event for their families and friends. It is a large event in each and every one of those persons' lives so that comes to the very heart of why this bill I believe is being so enthusiastically supported across the House and across wider New Zealand.What is seemingly a small legislative measure—although I am sure Chris Bishop would argue otherwise—here in the Parliament has such a disproportionate and beneficial impact on those individual New Zealanders who are in receipt of an organ and it will increasingly be so in New Zealand as a result of this legislation. We are I believe as parliamentarians—and the member in charge Chris Bishop certainly has raised the issue publicly so now I guess we would all like to think that the issue of live organ donation and the opportunities that that brings for recipients and also donors has been much enhanced by this parliamentary process.Also at the heart of this bill is the notion that the live donation of an organ is a very altruistic move either promoted by love or promoted by some feeling of making a contribution to a person. Deservedly they should expect compensation while they recover from that donation because it is a big medical event donating a live organ for that person and there will be a time of recovery and adjustment. So this bill seeks to and does very adequately I believe compensate those New Zealanders who big-heartedly make a donation. That was almost a joke but not quite because of course live organ donation now is restricted to kidney and liver donations but also in this bill there is the ability to widen the scope of live organ donation as medical advances occur.We do have in New Zealand a low organ donor donation rate. Again I think that through the offices of this bill that is another barrier that will be removed. There are a number of strategies across Government committed to increasing organ donation including a wider Government review of deceased organ donations. So there are many implications and ramifications of this bill. Currently there are not enough donations to meet demand. It is hoped that with Government policy enhancing the increase of organ donation rates—and in Budgets in both 2012 and 2014 there were financial increases to work towards this purpose of increasing organ donation.I just want to close my contribution by once again thanking those submitters who took the time to submit to the Health Committee—in writing by teleconferencing with us or by coming in and sharing their personal stories. Those personal stories of New Zealanders giving their take on the issue based on their experience of the issue have been most effective in our consideration so to those of them out there I give a pretty heartfelt thankyou from the committee. With those comments I conclude my contribution and my congratulations to the member in charge on getting this quite significant piece of legislation through the House. Thank you.