Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well it's Christmas time almost and in the spirit of Christmas I think it's really important to acknowledge some of the members opposite. I think in the spirit of Christmas I should take some time in this contribution to single out all of those members who have made a significant contribution who have worked extremely hard who've given this year everything that they've got and to wish them a very relaxing break. So to that end I'd personally like to wish Chris Hipkins a very restful holiday period—it's not your fault mate; you're the only one. It's been a really busy year. It's been a year of ups and it's been a year of downs. I have been extremely fortunate and I am very humble and very grateful to have jumped up 18 places in our caucus line-up but I have to acknowledge that it's not all been positive. There are two sides to every coin. For every positive there is a negative and I actually looked it up. It turns out that it's science—Newton's third law; for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction—and the downside of my success has been felt in opposite and equal measure by Minister Faafoi who fell 18 places in the mood of the boardroom this year. Mate it's just science—I'm sorry to say it's just science—or it may be the fact that you singlehandedly destroyed the immigration system; I'm not sure. But fortunes change my friend and I'm sure yours will too soon—very soon. I have been thinking about members opposite and what they'll be doing during the break. Robertson on the beach dreaming up more plane puns to try and bring down our leader; Anna Lorck sipping Berocca at the side of the pool thinking about one day when she may reach the dizzying heights of being able to ask a patsy of Grant Robertson on what reports he may have seen although I suspect that she's quite happy with the dizzying heights that she's already at; or Nash spending all summer pumping iron getting in peak physical condition in preparation for his very important event—his third booster shot. But I want to leave this House with something to think about during the summer break. It's an amazing story of a bunch of individually brilliant but somewhat underperforming people who've failed to work as a team. Their individual ambitions and their need to outshine each other got in the way of success. Winning was a distant dream. But along comes a truly brilliant and inspirational leader who has never before seen this environment who's had to learn the ropes really fast and who's had to find his way in a brand new and unknown territory. But with the help of a brilliant woman by his side he takes his exceptional leadership skills his ability to mould underperforming teams and build them into high-performing machines—he takes this somewhat ragtag bunch on a journey of transformation and on to incredible success success beyond their wildest dreams. It's an important inspirational tale of ruling a line under the past turning a page or you could say starting a new season and that season is season three of Ted Lasso starting on Apple TV+ in February next year. I want to finish up my contribution in this debate just by acknowledging some people this year. I want to acknowledge the people that I have worked with to raise the issue of split migrant families—so the people who are involved with the Migrants NZ website and the Reunite Families website to Anna and to Charlotte and to Katie and all of those immigration lawyers and agents who have dedicated their time to highlight some of these issues. They've taken court action. They've spent time with me trying to get the stories of these migrants up. It's been a really long hard couple of years for these migrants and they are staring down the barrel of another year apart from their families. We see again from this Government more and more workers being allowed in through border exceptions who can bring their families almost immediately and yet people who have been here for nearly three years and who have been working hard in roles that require them to get up in the middle of the night and to man our borders who work in the IT sector or on our dairy farms who have been separated from their children for—this will be their third Christmas and I just want us to think about that. As Chris Bishop said earlier it has been a stain on this Government's record that we have done nothing for them in the 18 months to two years that they've been separated from their families. So to all of those people who have helped me to raise their stories to raise the issue and to get some of the wins that we've had for teachers and nurses there is a lot more to be done and I look forward to working with you over the next few months to try and get more resolutions. Happy Christmas.