Sepuloni CarmelHon CARMEL SEPULONI (Labour—Kelston): I want to acknowledge the last speaker for that beautiful speech. It was just such a lovely tone. I can't guarantee that mine will be of the same manner. So we were told that we would be kept here until Christmas. We're here and then we come to the House and we find out the most senior person from the National Government is Chris Penk—here on the last day. I'm really proud of the fact that we've lasted till the last minute and it just goes to show how seriously we take this place how seriously we take our representation and that even though we may not have won the election we are up for the fight. We came back after the election to urgency and what did we come back to in terms of what the Government perceived as being urgent? The repeal of fair pay agreements the repeal of the Resource Management Act the repeal of the Clean Car Discount and then the extension of the 90-day bill. This is what they prioritised in their first two weeks—legislation that doesn't serve to actually help New Zealanders but actually takes away from them. And that is indicative of what we can expect for the next three years under that Government. They are mean-spirited they are the Christmas Grinch they are the Scrooge Negative Nelly and now we've just heard in the House today that someone was at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi even.I feel for New Zealand. I don't think they actually knew what they signed up to. Gracious in defeat—we lost the election and we are gracious in defeat and we absolutely accept that. But I don't think they know what they signed up for. How could they know what they had signed up for when we were hit immediately with the repeal of smoke-free legislation? No one knew that was coming. Cuts for the tax cuts is what we got. And actually tax cuts where we don't even know when they will arrive what they will look like how they will be delivered or how much they will cost. I will add too Sorry but not sorry." said the Government when during the campaign they said "Oh we'll just do the proposed changes for Working for Families that Labour said that they're going to do." and then they get into Government and then they say "Oh no sorry New Zealand—can't do that now." New Zealand had no idea what they were signing up to when they voted in that side of the House. I think it's very fair to say there's been a bit of a cringe fest watching this three-headed demon watching this very awkward three-way political relationship going on over there. And lots of people are saying "How long will this last?" And many people are saying "Give it 18 months." Because actually when the head cowboy has to give up the ranch to the nephew cowboy from Northland as well then I think we're going to see a few problems. We all thought that the person inheriting the ranch would be Shane Jones but it turns out it's that it's Rawiri Seymour and let's see how that goes at the 18-month mark.I do want to end on a positive note even though that wasn't that negative really. So I'll move away from the three-ring circus the awkward political three-way the three-headed beast over to my thanks for the many wonderful people that do work in this place and they have been named. I want to apologise to the people that work in this place that will no longer get access to the fair pay agreement—our security guards our cleaners—and I apologise on behalf of the Government for the fact that that will no longer happen.I acknowledge that it has been a really tough year for New Zealand actually and I was there in Auckland on Auckland Anniversary Day when Auckland was hit by the worst flooding that I think we've ever seen. At the same time my house along with many others was flooding too and I want to acknowledge that there were so many not just Aucklanders but New Zealanders that were impacted by those weather events. I also want to reiterate what James Shaw said earlier. It was the first real wake-up call for many people that climate change is real. I want to wish everyone in this House a good Christmas. It has been a hard year. I want to wish the general public a good Christmas and please please God let the weather be better than what it was last year."