Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Broadcasting and Media): E te tuahine Kiritapu ahakoa he taumaha koe i tēnei wa ka hoki mai anō koe e mohio ana au. Kia kaha katahi ka toa tō mātou aroha ki a koe i tēnei wā. Nō reira kia kaha kia māia kia manawanui.[Sister Kiritapu although you are feeling heavy you will return I know that to be so. Be strong and you will win. Our love to you. And so be strong be brave and be resolute.]It's a very sad time for this whole Parliament and I agree with our lady from the Greens Golriz who said it for many of us—that we did not need to have this type of debate today. Mr Seymour on one hand talks about supporting Kiritapu and then this whole debate turns into a political kōrero. It saddens many of us today but what will be will be.Her resignation is tragic and as Megan Woods said we thought she was OK a week back. Yes we're not experts but she was adamant and particularly with me that she was ready to come back to work. Mental health's a funny thing—well it's not a funny thing; it's a terrible thing I should say. I should put that in a better place. We saw how she operated in the media conference last week. She was absolutely on her game—brilliant actually. According to Claire Trevett she gave a masterclass performance in the media conference on ram-raiding and justice. So who would know when you see a Minister like that on top of her game? She worked well in the House after taking questions from the Opposition. Then just a few days later down she went.It was shocking for all of us to see how she went down that track. For me I take this very personally. My uncle Moana Jackson talked to me about Kiritapu six years ago. He said to me I have this young woman who is a great great talent and you better look after her." So that's when I first met Kiri. I hadn't met Kiritapu before. He said that she's got talent and brains and she's a contemporary of people like—I think you're a bit older than her Tama but she's part of that legal crew who are so brilliant—that young Māori crew. So he put it on me to support her and so her and I have grown very close over the last six years. I suppose on Sunday I was very sad because she got in touch with me at 6 o'clock and said she was a bit lonely and she wanted to go for a kai. I wasn't in Wellington at the time but I thought everything was OK. We were happy at the end of our kōrero but at 10 o'clock on Sunday night it all went wrong. So just so saddened by this. But I suppose I'm buoyed and happy when I see the type of support I heard from the Greens; the Māori Party have been very supportive. Our women out there—I saw Professor Linda Smith salute her. She has a lot of support out there that other MPs would love but I think it is because she represents so much. She's young she's brilliant she's funny she's a young leader and she's also proudly from the coast. You know she's such a hard case and at the same time is incredibly brilliant. So she's got so much support out there. So I've heard the kōrero. She'll rise again and I've said that to her too. Politics is a funny game. Politics is all about timing. A few of us know that—a few of us know that.Hon David Bennett: Winston. Ha ha!Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Yes that's right Mr Bennett. Like when is the right time to come into politics? When is the right time to leave politics? When is the right time to come back into politics? For Kiritapu Allan she is without doubt one of our mana wahine. She has been a leader for Māori she has been a leader for her community and she is revered right across the spectrum. I said yesterday when I was speaking to an interviewer that she's a bit different to some of us who just want to smash into the Opposition. She always rose above that. That's why people like Mr Seymour gave her a good mihi and others from the Opposition they supported her because Kiritapu never really got too personal with anyone and that was her great strength. I'm glad now she's going to find some wellbeing with her whānau. I wish her all the best and she will be back. Kia ora anō tātou katoa."