Marcroft Jenny; Brownlee GerryJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a privilege and an honour to take a call on behalf of New Zealand First as we pay tribute to Fa'anānā Efeso Collins. I'd like to begin my contribution by acknowledging the loss of the Green Party the Labour Party to his family gathered in the gallery today but also to his two daughters and I'm going to speak more to that in just a moment. Others in this House have spoken so eloquently today of the incredible values and the essence of this man and so I want to do something a little bit different with my contribution. I want to talk to his daughters and I do that with lived experience which I'll mention at the end of my contribution.But first I'd just like to mention a couple of times—a very few brief times—that I had met and had the privilege of meeting Efeso. It was back in 2022. There was a mayoral debate going on in Warkworth. It was a really horrible night. The weather was just atrocious but Efeso made the trip up to Warkworth and it was a very prickly crowd. He opened his mouth and he got attacked from the floor but he carried on delivering his speech because that was politics and he was doing his job. After the debate I felt a bit awkward for him so I made a point of actually going up to him and introducing myself and acknowledging him for just turning up to the area of the Warkworth region.I next came across Efeso once the election had happened and I got transitioned into the mayor's office as part of his transition team and Wayne Brown was the mayor. One thing that Wayne would always talk about was his fondness of Efeso and how much they had become friends over the course of the election campaign. Well it might have just been in Wayne's mind but he certainly articulated it on a regular basis so I just thought I'd mention that. We used to chuckle because a lot of the councillors would come up to the mayor's office and they would say Well actually we knew Efeso and we loved him dearly." He was definitely missed from no longer being a councillor at Auckland.I would like to dedicate the next part of my contribution to Efeso's two daughters and also to his wife Fia. Shock waves happen when there is a sudden death. Those shock waves they ripple through the family they ripple through a community and they ripple across all of your tomorrows and you don't know it until you get to tomorrow the impact of the death of the passing particularly when it's really sudden when it's someone who's young and it just feels like you have been ripped off.For his little girls to share their deep grief in public that adds another layer to it. So what I say to your little girls is: take care of each other. Keep your daddy's memories alive. Keep talking to each other as you grow up and make sure your special memories that aren't public memories keep them alive between you because that way you hold your father close.Now you might be able to google stories. There have been a lot of news stories about Efeso. Those would be great to be able to tap into as the girls are growing up but it's those special quiet private family memories that really will just keep you warm as you think of your father. Every event that happens in your life; every milestone that you celebrate whether it's a birthday or graduating school maybe getting a degree getting married one day maybe the first boyfriend—those are going to be times when you are aware that your dad is no longer with you but you need to keep those memories alive.Grief is a little bit like a tide. Sometimes it's in full; sometimes it is ebbed. But take heart that wherever you are your father will be with you. Every day for the rest of your life you will have at least one memory every day of your dad so hold fast on to those memories. It's natural to feel sadness grief and the pain of missing someone. The death of Efeso and the pain that his girls will go through will not determine their future. There is a shattering change that happens when you lose someone. We become someone different but we transform through that pain through that grief and then we can live our lives from a much deeper place because of that healing that happens afterwards. Such are the lessons of grief. I'm so sorry that you have to learn this lesson. My aroha to you you two beautiful little girls. Thank you Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: I call on the Hon—I call on Rawiri Waititi."