Mallard TrevorSPEAKER: Thank you members. What I'm going to do is the traditional run-through of some of the stats and then acknowledge and thank people who need thanking.The House this year has sat on 95 days. We've had 28 and a bit extended sitting hours. We've had 14 hours under urgency and I say to the Leader of the House that while it might be a lot fewer than in the past I'm not sure that any of the hours were necessary. We've sat for a total of 569 hours. The Government has introduced 60 bills. Fifty-five Government bills have been passed. Thirty-three members' bills have been introduced: of those 12 have bit the dust and six have passed through the process. There have been three local bills introduced and two of those have been passed. There have been 1126 oral questions to Ministers five to members and I'm slightly behind the Leader of the House in that my stats are as of last night that there have been 40127 written questions lodged and there are quite a few of them left to be answered.Members I would like to go on and give some thanks to people: first of all to all members of the House because you have all been generous to me and in different ways helpful. I want to specifically acknowledge the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. I think arguably one has the most important job in the country and the other has the most difficult job in the country. But I think all of us know that both of them put their heart and their soul into their respective jobs.I want to make a special mention of the Hon Paula Bennett who has been through a very difficult issue for me enormously helpful open to me and also I think has done some really important work for staff and members in this House.I want to go on to staff members. I want to make special mention of David Stevenson whom we acknowledged earlier in the day and his extensive team which involves the corporate staff security messengers library office staff and people around the electorates. All of them are necessary and important to make sure that we can do our jobs well.I want to acknowledge the catering staff and the cleaners who are contracted staff. I'm still having trouble with some of the longstanding cleaning staff who think that after 25 years of calling me Trevor they've got to stand back in the corridor and call me something else but we're slowly getting back to a good relationship.Hon Ruth Dyson: Are we allowed to call you Trevor?SPEAKER: I think the Hon Ruth Dyson who other than the Hon Shane Jones is probably the biggest contributor to extra questions to the Opposition might well be quiet at this point.I want to acknowledge the press gallery who have had—and always have—a tough year but there have been some incidents this year that have made their lives harder than normal. I want to make a special comment an acknowledgment to Tova O'Brien who chose a principled compassionate and caring approach to a story that she chose not to break to the public. I think that that was something which should be acknowledged something which is quite unusual and something which I think was important to an individual. She put the individual over the story.I want to thank members of the Business Committee especially the Hon Gerry Brownlee with whom I think I get on quite well although I think both of us occasionally seem to act in other ways and Chris Hipkins the Leader of the House. People know that I've known Chris for a very long time and I think it's fair to say that he's coming out of—I think of him sometimes as an apprentice. But if he's an apprentice I'm not sure who I am so I think I'm going to leave that image alone.I want to thank my fellow presiding officers: the Hon Anne Tolley Poto Williams and Adrian Rurawhe. They do an incredibly hard job very well. I get the stuff where the public might be more interested and they get the hard grind and they often have to make decisions which are not that popular with people—in fact more often than I do—not that popular with members of the House and all of them do it I think with a good knowledge and a growing knowledge of the rules and with considerable integrity.I want to thank my small but well-formed team in my office led by Carlie Bromley and Jessie Manning and Roland Todd. Roland we have added to your responsibilities in the last year or so and I think I can share with the House that it's not unusual for there to be a difference as far as the count is concerned at the end of the day but I'm yet to be informed of a time when Roland was wrong.Members I want to wish everyone all the best for the festive season. Spend time with the people whom you care about be safe and come back here refreshed.WaiataSPEAKER: Before I put the motion as people sometimes do when they scribble notes they miss out people who are very important and I do want to acknowledge the people in front of me: David Wilson and his team including Raf Gonzalez-Montero who is moving across to his new role. I want to especially acknowledge Andie Lindsay and I think members should understand that her knowledge and her efficiency is a very important part of our democracy. To the Chamber staff Inter-Parliamentary Relations the people who run the select committees and all of those who make the Office of the Clerk work well I say thank you very much.Motion agreed to.The House adjourned at 5.29 p.m.