Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Tuatahi ake ka hoki ngā whakaaro ki a rātou mā kua wehe atu ki te pō te wheao o Ihirama te 50 kua mate i Ōtautahi i te rā 15 o Poutū-te-rangi i tēnei tau. Mā tō atua koutou e manaaki e tiaki moe mai moe mai e oki.[Greetings Mr Assistant Speaker. Firstly our thoughts return to those who have passed away the followers of Islam the 50 who died in Christchurch on 15 March this year. May your god look after you and care for you rest in peace rest in peace.]I just want to very briefly acknowledge the previous speaker David Seymour who talked about how this was a bit of an emotional knee-jerk reaction. Do you know what? Maybe it is but you know what? I think that when his member's bill comes up very soon he's going to be hoping that there are a few people that vote—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! No you don't comment on future papers.TAMATI COFFEY: I shan't then. Twenty-six days ago something extraordinary happened here in New Zealand. We have the saying in Māori that when your iwi cry my iwi cry; when your whānau cry my whānau cry. On that day when Christchurch cried we all cried. We shared a moment in New Zealand's history and I'm sure that everybody will remember. I myself was waking up on a Saturday morning intending to do the Iron Māori sports event in Lake Taupō but actually that all went out the window because it didn't feel right. I started getting messages of pain and anger and frustration from my community people that needed support. So I pulled the plug on that event and I actually went home and I organised a candlelight vigil for Saturday night in Rotorua and it was mimicked all around the country. Everywhere in the smallest parts of New Zealand they were holding candlelight vigils because they too were affected by the events of that day.The people of New Zealand should know that we have done the best that we can with this piece of legislation. We have made some exemptions the exemptions that have well been talked about: exemptions for heirlooms and mementoes and exemptions for wild animals and pest control. What we've done is we've made sure that we have not made too many exemptions because what we didn't want to do was create an ineffective bill and create lots of loopholes for people to be able to crawl through. So we are proud of this piece of legislation. The unity that our Finance and Expenditure Committee showed in putting this legislation through mimicked the unity that New Zealand showed in the wake of those terrorist attacks in Christchurch.But you see we're not out of the woods yet because the hardest part is actually going to be the implementation of this bill. We can do what we can as lawmakers in here to set the framework so that these military-style semi-automatic weapons are taken off the shelves so that they're not in the community but we need New Zealand to stand with us and we need them to stand firmly with us. We need responsible gun owners to actually stand next to us as we take these out of our communities to ensure that this doesn't happen again.Although we can say that we're trying to do it so that it doesn't happen again are we guaranteeing that it will never happen again? Well no you could never guarantee that. If somebody wants to kill they will find a way to do it. But with this we have done something that this Government has been wanting to do for a very long time and I'm proud to have been part of the committee part of the movement that has washed through this Parliament after those terrorist attacks putting this bill through the House.It would be probably remiss of me not to touch on the actual cause of this heinous crime and that crime is something that we Māori have battled with for a long time. The root cause of this is racism and we'll call it out for what it is. It was a racist act against an innocent group of New Zealanders and we need to also sort that out. In the months to come we will have conversations about hate speech and we will have conversations about racism but what we need to do as a country as communities is look back into our communities and do as much as we can to celebrate and embrace the diversity that we have across the country.I fully support this bill. I'm proud of it. I will go back to my people that I represent and tell them that we did the best that we could. Kia tau te rangimārie mō ake tonu atu.[May peace reign forevermore.]