After the select committee received a number of submissions about the limitations of the existing process and without any further public consultation, it decided to replace it with a new administrative process based on self-ID. But it got messy. In February 2019, the then Minister of Internal Affairs, Tracey Martin, announced the bill would be deferred to deal with problems caused by that select committee process. She said, at the time, that the changes had been made without adequate public consultation and that this had created a fundamental legal issue. Six months later, she announced some interim measures to make things easier, like waiving fees for applications, and also announced the establishment of a working group to provide advice on how to further reduce barriers. In April this year, Minister Tinetti announced more changes to improve the current regime, following that working group report. So that brings us up to today, where we are debating the bill's second reading before a draft Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) is referred to the select committee for public submission and consultation. 