Seymour David: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSeymour David: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8724. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): What a year. I would like to thank the people of the Epsom electorate. The people of the communities of Epsom Mount Eden Parnell and Remuera—it is an honour and a pleasure to represent you and I never forget who put me here so thank you very much.I would like to thank the ACT Party. I would like to thank the board the members and the volunteers. The ACT Party is in the ascendancy. We are rebuilding our party and I am very proud to be your representative in Parliament too. I would like to thank my staff in the Epsom electorate. We serve many many people who come to us at their wit’s end. Often we can solve their problems and sometimes we cannot but I am very grateful for the support that I get from my staff for the people there.I would like to thank my staff here in Wellington who have been absolutely fantastic. I have some of the best staff whom anybody could hope for and that has allowed us to achieve some very good things in our policy portfolios and more generally in Parliament and in the House this year. Thank you very much to them. To the officials from Treasury from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and from the Ministry of Education I am very grateful for the support that you have given the advice that I have taken and I guess for your other advice too.I would like to thank the Prime Minister. I would like to thank the Deputy Prime Minister. Minister Parata my friend and colleague whom I had a tremendous year working with—thank you very much. I would like to thank Minister Joyce and the staff in his office for the work that we have done together and there is a lot more of that to come next week. But actually I would like to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues. The Labour Party members I feel in a way are sort of like my brethren in that all of us really need a lot more votes.I would like to thank the Green Party members. They have taught me the importance of economic education—sort of back to front but they have helped me to understand that very well. I would like to thank New Zealand First. I used to hate Winston Peters before I came to Parliament because I thought he meant what he said but since I have got to know him and we have talked about the olden days I actually reckon he is not a bad stick. Those people sitting behind him they are not too bad either. But I would especially like to thank Marama and Te Ururoa—what a fantastic couple a dynamic duo. I have enjoyed our exchanges about tikanga with you Marama and I am looking forward to more of that next year.I would like to thank my friends in the National Party. Sometimes I think you should maybe just get a little bit drier—get some guts as they say. But generally I am very very grateful for all of the support and accompaniment you have given especially to the “class of ‘14”—until you uninvited me from your drinks but that is OK.I would like to thank the press gallery. I have come to the view that we are actually very well served by our fourth estate here in New Zealand with the exception of one journo who will know who she is. All I would say is that if you are going to run an agenda do not tweet about it and do not have your friends showing up in the comments section of blogs—showing just how close you are while pretending to be an objective journalist—because that lets all of us down.I would like to thank the parliamentary staff. I would like to thank the Speaker’s office for helping me learn the ropes at various times and indeed I would like to thank the Office of the Clerk and particularly Margaret who did fantastic work helping me to draft quite a complex member’s bill this year.I would like to thank the security staff for keeping almost everybody except for Greenpeace at bay Ministerial Services Parliamentary Service the travel office IT support and all of those people who help us to keep this place functioning.Rt Hon Winston Peters: What about Goldsmith?DAVID SEYMOUR: I beg your pardon? Well I actually think Paul Goldsmith is a very fine hard-working member. The thing that the member for Northland could learn most from Paul Goldsmith is that he actually has a view that public policy should be the output and ultimate product of politics rather than background noise to be ignored whenever the next opportunity to fulfil one’s lifelong attempts to be taken seriously comes along which is what that member is really about—and do we not all know it?I would like to conclude by wishing everybody a very merry Christmas. I am very proud to represent the ACT Party in this House. I am very grateful to all the people who have said kind things to me. I actually had thought a Cabinet reshuffle was something that you did to make room for the gin which may be why I did not quite take that one at the right time but that will come again and maybe we will take it then.I would like to thank all of the people of New Zealand. It is quite amazing. Unless you look on Twitter we really do live in the most magnificent and fantastic country where you can be from any point in the spectrum the very wide spectrum that is represented in this House and by and large what you will find is that people are very forgiving very polite and very supportive. We have a tremendous future as a country being able to work through our various challenges in a constructive way. With that Mr Speaker I wish you and everybody a merry Christmas. Thank you.