Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Kia ora Madam Assistant Speaker. I stand to speak on this bill that everybody is supporting in the House to do with the Social Assistance (Residency Qualification) Legislation Bill. I am very much like the previous speaker Tamati Coffey—with the purpose of the bill being well traversed in the House and with me being just about one of the last speakers. I'm really pleased that this bill will actually allow whānau within the Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau and those that live in New Zealand to actually remain in their respective Islands without having to travel to New Zealand to qualify for superannuation and the veterans pension.I'm going to traverse another area of whakapapa and I'm talking about the whakapapa of Cook Islands—of your whānau Madam Assistant Speaker. I think it's really interesting that whenever we travel overseas to the Islands and whenever we meet as Māori and Pasifika we always treat each other as brother and sister and never more so than with the Cook Islands community and whānau there. Why do I say that? It's because we share a common ancestor. We share a common ancestor in Paikea. Paikea's name was actually Kahutia-te-rangi—was his real name—and he was an ancestor of the Cook Islands people and lived in the Cook Islands. So if you asked a Cook Islands person about where Māori come from they would respond by saying Nō konei"—in other words "from here; from our islands and from Kahutia-te-rangi."So what happened with that whakapapa—Madam Assistant Speaker I know that you're well aware of it but the members of the House may not be—was that Kahutia-te-rangi had a brother Ruatapu. He was of lower rank to Kahutia-te-rangi and so he hunted him down. He hunted him down because Kahutia-te-rangi was an excellent fisherman and because the younger brother was jealous he hunted Kahutia-te-rangi down and tried to kill him. But Kahutia-te-rangi did an incantation which brought forward the southern humpback whale of which Kahutia-te-rangi jumped on the back and voila—he ended up in Aotearoa New Zealand. Therefore the iwi of Ngati Porou and Ngāi Tahu were actually born. That is why when I am down in Ngāi Tahu and when I'm up in Ngati Porou I see the whakapapa of Paikea: Paikea on the walls of schools at Waitākiri School and other schools. I hear the kōrero about Paikea and that is what actually links Māori and Pasifika together. That and many other—a lot of people call them our "legends" but they are our history. They are the things that bring us together.So when I look at this particular bill this bill where New Zealand has constitutional responsibility for the Islands I am very proud that we can go across all political realms and actually come together and support this bill. I know that this bill actually started under a National-led Government and it was led out by the Rt Hon Sir Bill English because he had that passion there and he wanted to see that our constitutional responsibility for the people of the Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau was being upheld. So I am really pleased that I can stand here and say well done to everybody in this House for supporting this particular bill.I want to also mention the select committee and the process that they went through. I no longer sit on the Social Services and Community Committee but I think that the work that they have done on it has been really good. Even though there haven't been any changes to it I think that it has been well traversed and well debated in the submissions that have actually come forward to the select committee. I do look forward to the committee stage. I think it could be quite a quick committee stage and then a very quick third reading because this is a bill that we all support.I just want to acknowledge all of the residents within the Islands and within New Zealand. I don't really have a lot more to say about this bill just that I do support it. I think that if we can have more bills like this—my colleague Maureen Pugh talked about the bill that was in the ballot that has been drawn out the Mark Patterson bill the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income (Fair Residency) Amendment Bill and about extending the time of residency in New Zealand. I think that the Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau people have actually nothing to worry about because like Māori they don't travel that far—we stay fairly close to home. So I think that this will have no impact on them.So without any further any ado—it is always the hardest part to be one of the last speakers because everybody's said everything—I'm very proud and very honoured to support the bill. Kia ora."