Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is Christmas time so it's not only time to unleash the entrepreneurship it's also time to unleash the Mariah. Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou. Mr Speaker you are here I am here we are all here. Tēnā tātou katoa.I'd like to begin by thanking all of our essential workers our ringa wera our ringa raupā our cleaners security catering library the Clerk's Office House Office the maintenance team and gardeners and all of those people that make all those things happen in the background. There's a whakataukī which is Ko te amorangi ki mua ko te hāpai ō ki muri."["The leader in front the food bearers in the rear."]If things are all sweet in the back rooms it's all sweet up front and so I would like to thank all of the workers across the precinct for all the different things that they do including our ministerial staff and our parliamentary staff that shape the words that we speak and make the images that get put out on social media help us to craft all those different things that help us to do all our jobs a lot easier and I also thank the press gallery who undoes all that work often. But I would also like to acknowledge the comments made to the press gallery recognising the context that we're living in when we're in a time of misinformation. So recognising that the press gallery play a fundamental part in our democracy is an important part of our work here. So tēnā koutou.Mr Speaker of course thank you to yourself for being the ref and the coach of Parliament. It's been my first year here. I'm still getting used to the weird school bell. The only experience that I have in terms of the role that you're doing is for a number of years I was a substitute ref and coach for my kids showing up on Saturday sometimes taking them for soccer and for touch rugby. And for years and years I did that they'd sub me on and as my children got older they suddenly realised when they're in high school that the old man—me—didn't actually know any of the rules. But that's not like you. That's not like you; you've got the Standing Orders book and the Speakers' Rulings book and whenever you make one of those rulings—just to let you know—I do go through it and I do study it so ka pai.We just had our Green Party Christmas party last week as well and I was sitting there reflecting as I was drinking my de-Luxon-ated kombucha reflecting about all of those different Christmas songs that make our childhoods—that help us to remind us of our childhood remind us of nostalgia and remind us of the hopes for the Christmas season: songs like the Mariah Carey classic "All I Want for Christmas is Urban Density Done Well" which helps us to access both public and active transport while ensuring that there is access and accessibility to essential services. Oh that's a great classic song And also another song from my childhood "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Essential Worker" who wants us to progress more aggressively all that work that needs to be done on sector-wide fair pay agreements ensuring that we lift up both working pay and working conditions for our workers. And it can't be Christmas without Whamageddon without Wham! and I reflect on the words of the great George Michael when he sung the song "Last Christmas"—"Last Christmas I gave you my heart" and then the very next day you over-speculated it and got a capital gain on it.It's not just about those modern songs; it's also about some of those traditional songs as well. For example "I'm Dreaming of a Please Check Your White Privilege Christmas"—it's a traditional Christmas song this one that goes right back to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and I'm sure my whanaunga from Te Paati Māori could appreciate it. It's a song that still resonates wonderfully today.But as the Briscoes lady says "But wait there's more." As I was reflecting at that party as well I was thinking "Well if I've got this playlist what are the other political parties playing on their playlist?" so I had to re-imagine what that might be myself. So these are my top three for the different political parties around the House. For the National Party my top three songs for them it traverses the journey that they have gone through this parliamentary year. For number three number three is "Land of Confusion" by Genesis which features the famous drummer Phil Collins who even today is still kicking it. Number two is "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley and number one on that list is "I'm Leaving and Arriving on an Air New Zealand Jet Plane" which the member will appreciate because that one's by John Denver. You know politics is up and it's down and sometimes your luck's off but sometimes your "Luxon". And this week the luck was on for that corner of the House because the ACT Party had a $53 billion hole that the Leader of the Opposition will be able to fly an Air New Zealand jumbo jet right through.To our ACT Party colleagues these are some reflections given that revelation this week and my reflection for them is playlist song number one "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. For those of us in the 1990s—remember the 1990s it was a good era. Number two "There's a Hole in my Bucket Dear Liza" and number one for them if none of those other two work is "Take the Money and Run" the Steve Miller Band.I've got to reference also my whanaunga from Te Paati Māori. You can tell he's a Joe Cocker fan so Te Paati Māori's number three song on my list is "Leave Your Hat On" by Joe Cocker—ties not necessarily required. Number two is "These Boots are Made for Walking" but I've updated that to "These Air Jordans are Made for Walking"—keeping with the way of the times. And my number one song for Te Paati Māori is "Tangaroa Whakamautai" by Maisey Rika which actually isn't a joke but it's really important to acknowledge the connection between the whenua and the moana and that we should be stopping seabed mining. So ka pai.I've got a couple of songs for our friends in the Labour Party. We like to give them a bit of rev—and I don't know if they take it personally to be honest. We try to do stuff within the cooperation agreement but we try to make them go further and faster and do all the things that not only their constituents want them to do but also us as well. So my number three song for the Labour Party is "That's what Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick.Hon Members: Aah!TEANAU TUIONO: You're welcome. The number two is another Joe Cocker song "I Get by with a Little Help from my Friends." Yeah and I hope they remember that in a couple of years' time. The number one song from my playlist recommendations for the Labour Party is for the Minister of Finance and it's completely on-brand this one. It's by Simply Red and it's "Money's Too Tight to Mention". But you can expect a Swarbrick-J.A.G. DJ remix called the "Capital Gains Re-ignition Remix" in the next year. And if the Labour Party did like those particular suggestions and will find some time to reflect on them the Green Party has many many scratched records we will continue to play over the next few years such as "No Mining on Conservation Land" "No Palm Kernel Expeller for Christmas" and a special one from Minister James Shaw: "Bad Luck You're all Climate Ministers Now".But it's not just all about all about the jokes as well. I also like to acknowledge all of the different work that's happened around the House as well—all the pieces of legislation that were passed around the House. Just recently we passed the BDMRR the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill—a shout-out to my rainbow fam. We passed the drug- and substance-checking legislation. And one of the pieces of legislation that we passed as well—or are in the process of passing—is the Matariki bill which is about grounding mātauranga Māori in the way that we connect with the environment but also the star constellations as well. It's called Puanga in Taranaki and Puaka in the South Island but in the National Party dialect it is known as "Te Mata-I-don't-know-rangi".But here's the thing: I'm not that confident in that particular dialect but I hope that that corner of the House will take some time over the over the holiday break to confide with their kaumātua like Tā Hēmi Bolger Mātua Kirihi Finlayson to go some way to look at about how you can properly engage in a real genuine authentic way with Māori communities.And on that I would also like to acknowledge all the whānau at home as well. People be kind out there be kind to your whānau be kind to your families—the families that you inherit or the families that you have found on the way. Also very importantly as well because of the ups and downs that we have been experiencing this year be kind to yourself. Have a "Mariah" Christmas everybody."