Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. Just opening my contribution to this bill this evening I just wanted to confirm that the Greens will of course be supporting the Coroners (Coronial Cap) Amendment Bill as it appears that we have unanimity across the House. It's exciting. We don't often get that. This is as others have articulated a really important piece of legislation that goes some way towards addressing what has been actually for a number of whānau years' worth of backlog in processing these coronial inquiries.Here I want to acknowledge as my colleague from the Labour Party did Corinda Taylor but also the life matters trust who in 2019 tabled a petition which I was alongside to accept which then went on to the Justice Committee. And I'd note unfortunately we still actually don't have a report back from the Justice Committee on it. The petition requests therein spoke to not only the issues here with the amount of coroners that are available to process these cases but to the far broader issue. Their petition request I think is important to put on record in justice to the ask that they made of this Parliament about the justice system and about the coronial system particularly for those families that are bereaved by suicide.Their petition request was that the House of Representatives urge the Ministry of Justice to appoint more coroners introduce free legal representation for all suicide bereaved families and whānau provide funding to suicide bereaved families and whānau for specialist legal representation and expert witnesses equivalent to that of any State bodies public authorities and corporate bodies represented and notes that 3834 people have signed an online petition in support of this request. So I want to acknowledge that work is done by the community particularly given that they were coming to that mahi from a place of grief and from a place of experiencing a system that was failing them. That said what this bill does while increasing the cap and also matched as other colleagues have contributed with a Budget commitment is it lifts the cap from 20 to 22 fulltime-equivalents (FTEs) but it does not require that any given Government of the day is required to meet that as a minimum. I think that that is a really important consideration that all of us should have. Unfortunately it is not something I think that would be accepted were it to be tabled as an amendment in later stages of this debate today because of the potential financial implications. But none the less just in conferring with my colleague in the ACT Party Nicole McKee and then conferring quite quickly with my Green Party colleagues we will be supporting that amendment to the maximum number of coroners to 30 FTEs in line with the increase of our population. I also want to join in acknowledging the fact that this is not only an increase in the FTE for coroners but also for those who work in the coronial and justice support and administrative staff which is of course incredibly important for continuing to progress this work.The Greens support this legislation. It's been a long time coming. It's unfortunate again that what we're still talking about is a maximum and not a minimum. I want to acknowledge Corinda Taylor and the life matters trust whose petition was tabled back in 2019. For those families and whānau who are still caught up in that system this cannot come soon enough. And therefore I think that it is due that this bill is afforded urgency.