Edmonds BarbaraBARBARA EDMONDS (Labour—Mana): Fakaalofa lahi atu Mr Speaker. Thank you very much for the call. Three hundred and sixty-seven days ago a number of us in this House were elected as new MPs some on the list and some as electorate MPs. I'd like to acknowledge right across the House those who are new MPs. There are many things you learn in your first year as an MP. You learn what's a good speech and what's not a good speech. You learn what are good questions to ask and what are not good questions to ask. But one of the very key lessons that I learnt very quickly and it is something that I know a lot of us in this House hold true to our heart is that question: He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata. What is the most important thing in the world? It is people it is people it is people. On Super Saturday we saw our people come together for one cause: to raise vaccination rates. And we saw it right across the motu with 130000 people who were vaccinated on that day. The Capital and Coast District Health Board which covers my electorate of Mana they worked together with the Hutt Valley District Health Board. They had quite a unique perspective when it has come to vaccinations right from the very start. They went straight from the community. They went to the Pacific Island churches and said Can you host a vaccination event in your church?" In July we held EFKS church in Waihemo Street Porirua East in Waitangirua. This Super Saturday we saw events at Maraeroa Marae Takapūwāhia Marae. We saw them in Cannons Creek. We saw the Pasifika youth event in Cannons Creek. We had over 13500 doses in our DHB alone. So I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Capital and Coast District Health Board team who have been leading this response: that's Rachael Haggerty Tagaloa Junior Ulu and Chris Mitchell. For the way that they have reached out to our communities the Capital and Coast District Health Board and Hutt Valley District Health Board have some of the highest Pacific and Māori vaccination rates in this country.I'd like to also acknowledge our health providers on that particular day and I'm going to list them because it's not very often you get to give that credibility to these health providers on the ground in Parliament: that's Tū Ora and Ora Toa our main primary health organisations; Maraeroa Marae Porirua Union & Community Health Service Pacific Health Plus Mana Pharmacy Mana Medical Plimmerton Medical Linden Surgery Life Pharmacy in North City and Coastlands in Kāpiti Coast Team Medical the Kāpiti community vaccination centre Whakarongotai Marae. We also had the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in Kenepuru Drive in Porirua East who was doing a lot of the waste-water testing across the motu. But the great thing about this was that Super Saturday saw the best in business as well. We had a number of businesses support our efforts in Mana because unfortunately in the Wellington region Mana has some of the lowest rates in some pockets in our electorate. So we saw the likes of Vodafone New Zealand Uber Eats Google Capital GR Pak 'N Save Porirua New World Cus Uniforms & Sportswear and the New Zealand Māori Tourism Board. We even had the Pacific Island diplomatic corps come out and what was interesting about them is I put the challenge to them at the opening ceremony of the Pasifika youth event which was by youth and for youth. I put the challenge out to the corps saying "I see you've got flat shoes on. Come door knock with me and my team." So I acknowledge Papali'i Tommy Scanlan who is the high commissioner from Samoa. He and his wife beat the streets with myself with Minister Verrall with Minister Faafoi with our mayor with a number of our councillors and with a number of volunteers to knock on doors through Cannons Creek and Waitangirua to ask people the key question: what support do you need to be vaccinated? A number of them even needed transport or they needed in-home vaccinations which we are organising with our health providers. So we thank you all for that work.We also thank the 6039 Pasifika people throughout the country who were vaccinated on that day. It's not a competition but I must say the Samoans there were about 3642 of you that came out so mālo fa'afetai lava for that. I just want to finish with a small contribution from a family who met the Prime Minister on Saturday. The father of the Risati family from Porirua East said "On Saturday we're part of a vast group of first vaccinators back home in Porirua Cannons Creek. Obviously people have their reasons on why or why not to get vaccinated against COVID19 but as a family we had to do it not for the incentives or what people call bribes but for the sheer fact that we have an immune-compromised child in Lachy whose immune system isn't strong enough to fight off anything that is out there in our community. The basic cold or flu-like symptoms that we take for granted can be fatal for Lachs. This was mainly for him to help him be protected because we cannot afford for him to get sick again." COVID is here on our doorsteps. Let's respond."