Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to speak as the MP for Papakura but also as a former Minister for Ethnic Communities in two terms of Government and also as a former Minister of Police in two terms of Government. I think I speak for us when I say that we are profoundly sad. We've heard some excellent contributions this afternoon. We have heard MPs speak about their personal experience with their constituents with the Canterbury-based MPs speaking about what they have seen so far and I know that some of our Canterbury-based MPs will not be here today because they are with their constituents.I would like to thank the Prime Minister for the work she did on Saturday. I thought it was outstanding. I know there has been unfortunate comment on the internet about the fact that she chose to wear a scarf. I wear a scarf and I do whenever I enter other people's places of worship where that is appropriate. It is a mark of respect and I thought it was the right thing to do. I would like to thank the Leader of the Opposition for the support that he gave with the Prime Minister and for those who were able to travel with her. I'd like to thank all our MPs who have worked so hard to put aside all politics and to put the people first. Thank you for what you have done.I would like to thank our New Zealand Police. Everyone knows how proud I am of New Zealand Police. I could not be more proud. They have saved lives. They have put themselves at risk. They have acted exactly as we expect them to act. I would like to thank our ambulance service in Christchurch. I would like to thank all those who are working now in the hospitals in New Zealand. My colleague Amy Adams just showed me a report that a little three-year-old is now in Starship hospital from Christchurch struggling to live.I would like to thank everyone involved because I know everybody will have been involved whether it's someone who's manning the roadblocks for our defence force to everybody. I would like to thank other countries for the offers of help they have given us and we should take them whenever we can because this is not just about us.I know that we have too many guns in this country. I know that we have lived in an age of innocence and that veil of innocence that we've had has been very cruelly ripped from our eyes. It has been ripped from our eyes because we now have 50 people dead—50 people dead—and many others in hospital or suffering. None of that is because we decided it was going to happen; it was the act of one person a person who refers to himself as an eco-fascist—whatever that means. Well I'll tell you what I think it means. It means a filthy coward who has taken the lives of innocent people. I grieve with the people of the Islamic religion in New Zealand. I grieve with them as I would with anybody in this situation.One of the things I know is that Muslim New Zealanders have been with us since 1850. Islam is part of New Zealand as are all other religions are that are here and those who don't have religion because it is something that people have as a belief system and it is part of who they are. We are very lucky in New Zealand that with our 220 ethnicities we have not had anything like this before. I hope that when we get to the bottom of what could be done in the future to help stop this happening again we will have a much safer and a much better community from it.I just want to mention to finish that we have a vigil in Papakura at the Papakura central library on Friday at 7 p.m. for all those who wish to attend. Thank you Mr Speaker.