SpeechIBRAHIM OMER (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise to speak on the St Peter's Parish Endowment Fund Trust Bill.Before I carry on with speaking on the bill I just want to add my voice to the voice of other members who spoke in this House about the member who brought this bill to this House the Hon Grant Robertson and the last 15 years of his service to Wellington Central. In the last few months I've been engaging with a lot of Wellingtonians on the campaign trail. The testament—what I hear from the people that 15 years of his service to Wellington; even the last six years being the Minister of Finance he is always someone who turns up to events whether they're big small medium. I just want to thank him for his service to Wellington but also for bringing this bill on behalf of St Peter's church today. The purpose of this bill is to modernise governing arrangements of the St Peter's parish endowment fund which was last updated a long long time ago—which was 1927. The trust board was established by the declaration then of the trust board which was 8 August 1922.I just want to talk a little bit about St Peter's church. It is one of the entities that makes Wellington feel like home. I know that many members of the church are today here with us and many of them are people that I proudly call good friends as well. Because the role of the church in making Wellington what it is and looking after those most vulnerable members of our communities—the member in charge of this bill talked about the church's role in highlighting the issues of the LGBTQ communities 50 years ago for example. But also in the last 15 years of me being in Wellington I had a lot to with the church; that's around the social justice and the work that the church and its members do fighting for the living wage and the fair pay agreements for those who are most vulnerable in our communities. But also their role and the work that they have done with the members of the Muslim community after the March 15th attacks: St Peter's stepped up and embraced the Muslim community. They organised a lot of events after events making the community feel good but at the same time also feel safe as well. Not only their members but they managed to bring members of the Wellington community in wrapping their arms around the Muslim community as well.It was only after—in May the second day from the Budget the church's child poverty action group got us together to talk about Budget 2023 but also the work that has been done in the space of child poverty. It was a very useful discussion to everyone who attended. I was one of the people that was lucky enough to be invited and be there.So a few years ago St Peter's church was one of the entities that spearheaded the campaign to increase the refugee quota. I remember Bishop Justin who was walking all the way from Wellington Central to Parliament barefoot and demanding the politicians step up and increase the quota. Those of us who are in refugee communities are very grateful for the work that the church has done not only in the space of increasing wages but also speaking up on behalf of those often vulnerable communities. So this is a good bill; it's a timely bill. I want to thank the members of the Governance and Administration Committee who did diligent work on this bill and made it the way it is today and also the submitters who took time to submit to this bill. I'm sure their submissions improved the bill and because of their contribution and engagement the bill is now better than it was at the beginning. It's a timely bill and it's a good bill. I commend it to the House.