Hayes Joanne: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8738. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): It is my privilege actually to speak in this adjournment debate. I want to add my thanks to all the staff of Parliament House and Bowen House everybody out in our electorates who works tirelessly for us in our electorate offices and our volunteers. I just wish that they have a very happy safe and healthy Christmas and New Year.I want to acknowledge our coalition partners—the Māori Party. Who can forget Marama Fox and her way of dancing on Q+A when they went around all the offices asking MPs what their favourite songs were? I was taken by the way that she can quite easily move around and perhaps that is exactly the way that she does her politics. I want to say thanks to Peter Dunne from United Future and to Mr Seymour from ACT who at times reminds me very much of my younger son—but anyway we will just leave that one there.I want to thank my fabulous National Party colleagues. You have been fabulous all year every year. I want to thank our Prime Minister. He is the best Prime Minister this country has seen in aeons—in aeons I say; not just years but aeons. It is going to be very very hard for any future Government to replace our John Key. He is fabulous and he is going to be there for a long time believe you me. I want to also thank our team for the 120 or so bills that we got through in 2015. That is amazing amazing work. Eight of those were Māori bills the Treaty bills. That is one less than the Labour Government put through in its 9 years of tenure—one less I tell you. So kia ora to my colleagues in the National Party.I want to take this time to reflect on the people of Christchurch East the people for whom I am the National list MP. I want to thank you for accepting me into the electorate. I want to thank the people from New Brighton especially the landowners and business groups. We have had an interesting time. It has been one of a lot of introductions and I have been proud to be able to give you a voice in this Parliament over the year.I want to also now start working on our Opposition parties. I want to look at the Greens. There are only two of them up there now but I just want to ask them to take back to their leaders that National actually pipped them every time at the post when it came to our environmental policies. Our marine reserves—who would have known that we would come in from behind and go ping ping ping—that is all of ours. I do want to wish you a merry Christmas because it is going to be many many Christmases that you are going to be sitting over there on the Opposition benches never to come into Government with any Opposition party. So anyway that is OK. That is all right.To New Zealand First to Tracey and her team—because you are sitting there—it was the wrong thing to dump you out so I am going to address you Tracey. I want to say thank you to Tracey. I know that you know there are a lot of people in New Zealand First who support policies more akin to our policies over here in National. You know that; we know that. This is what I am saying to you. Anyway merry Christmas to you too Tracey.Over here to our Labour Party Opposition—again I was absolutely shocked when the reshuffle came about and the senior Māori MP was demoted. Come on Labour. The Māori electorates do things for you but all I have to say to you Labour is watch out because the National Party is coming. We are coming into those Māori electorates. Be very careful—be very very careful. When you look at the National Party we actually have more Māori MPs on our side than you have on your side. We have done so much more for the Māori constituents of this country.In closing because this is a short kōrero from me again I want to wish everybody in the House a very merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year and I look forward to seeing you all back next year in 2016. Kia ora.