Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Mr Speaker. As the MP for New Plymouth I rise to reflect on the challenges the opportunities the hard times the misinformation that faces us daily in my electorate and I'm sure all around Aotearoa New Zealand.I think of Colleen Tuuta one of our leaders one of our people who has much influence in our region. I rang her recently to say Colleen I need your support can you please get into our communities encourage the vaccination and make sure the people in your community are getting vaccinated?" She said "Glen you know I've never been a vaccinator. I've never gotten vaccinated" and I said "What? I had no idea." And she said "For years it's been something I've been against. But it's different this time COVID is different and the Delta variant is different." And she said to me "Glen my sister is dying of cancer and I realised I've got to do something to protect her." She said "Glen it's my tamariki who can't get the vaccination that we must protect" and so she said "Glen I've made sure that our whole whānau our whole household has been vaccinated. No one is allowed in or out of our house unless they've had the vaccine." She's a staunch advocate for the COVID-19 vaccination and I'm glad that she's on our side making sure that we get our nation vaccinated.Secondly on Super Saturday I had the opportunity to travel right across the electorate and I met a woman who had a needle phobia. The lovely doctor and myself sat down with her to have a chat because she had tried at least three times to get the vaccination and she couldn't. We sat we had a conversation and she said she just could not do this; she'd had bad experiences in her past. So we had the conversation and thanks to the DHB—they do a Thursday morning clinic where it's sensitive to those who maybe have different needs whether they be abilities whether they be sensory needs and she was able to go there. I checked in with her this morning and last Thursday she went in and got a first shot. She's booked in for a second. I'm grateful for our DHBs supporting the vaccination roll-out doing what they can for all of our communities.Thirdly I want to talk about our Waitara aunties our wonderful Waitara aunties. Auntie power all the way. That's right. From our Māori Women's Welfare League they've joined forces with our Taranaki District Health Board to ensure that they were defenders of their kaumātua they were defenders of their community making sure that everyone was vaccinated. Our dear aunties old Aunty Wiki and the wonderful Aunty Patsy were out there—and they continue to be out there twice a week—with a bickie with a cup of tea with a kōrero and of course with a vaccination. Making it more accessible to those who may be hesitant maybe those who are nervous. And I was listening to Aunty Patsy on the TV recently and this is what she said: she said "Forget about me forget about you—this is about us. This is about our community our people our whānau but most importantly this is around and about our tamariki. Thank you Aunty Patsy thank you Aunty Wiki for your support. Finally I want to speak around Todd Williams Louie Knuxx and it wouldn't be often that Louie Knuxx would be mentioned in this House. He was on the Sunday programme—his whānau was on the Sunday programme just this Sunday gone. Sadly he passed away a couple of months ago. It was my honour my responsibility to walk the whānau through their last moments with him to bury him to say farewell. And for me that was a great honour to be there. But it was really sad to see that people got hold of this pro-vaccinator of this young man who was working with young people this young man who was a musician. This young man who had worked with START Taranaki worked in Melbourne and worked in Auckland to support our rangatahi and people were using his name to criticise vaccinations to put it down. It was shameful and to Brent and to Kerry his parents I thank you for lending him to us. Thank you for allowing him to be a voice in support of vaccination in his life and now in his death.For us I'm grateful that as a Government we are supporting the vaccination roll-out we're supporting that this summer so that we can hope that businesses will be open that we can hope that people are vaccinated so people can feel a little bit more normal. And so to be a little bit selfish for the sake of Todd Williams of his whānau of his friends that we can just have a really big concert bring our muso friends bring our artist friends together to celebrate his life.Thank you Todd. Thank you Colleen. Thank you aunties.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."