Shaw JamesHon JAMES SHAW (Minister of Climate Change): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Four days ago the community of New Lynn in Auckland was shaken by a senseless act of hate and once again Aotearoa New Zealand we have seen a response filled with love and compassion. In the days and weeks ahead as we continue to try and make sense of what happened and the steps that we take to stop anything like it from happening again we must continue to find ourselves worthy of the example set by people all over the country and to continue to act with empathy with decency and with kindness. Not only in our day-to-day interactions with the refugee or migrant communities who continue to shape Aotearoa for the better as our neighbours as our colleagues and our friends but in how we respond as a Government and as a nation.In everything that we do here our job is to build a future that is worthy of our children and our grandchildren. A place where everyone no matter where they are from or who they are is welcomed and supported with everything that they need for them and their families to thrive. Reaffirming our commitment to this vision and making it our common purpose is the best possible response to what happened on Friday. I want to stand here and say to all of those who come to Aotearoa to make a better life for their own children and grandchildren and for the generations who follow them as New Zealanders that Aotearoa will be a place where they can thrive where they can be prosperous and where they can feel at home.An Aotearoa that is built on decency compassion and kindness stands in direct contrast to the belief of Friday's attacker. Strengthening those foundations is the best possible way to prevent future violence and radicalisation and to promote inclusion and equality. Let me join with the Minister by saying that the thoughts of Marama Davidson and me and the rest of the Green Party are with those who were harmed in Friday's attack. I imagine that the grief and the worry that they and their families must be feeling right now is beyond description. Our hearts are broken too but we are here for you. Our thoughts are also with the local community who I can only imagine are confused and worried. We stand with you and we are here to support you. We also owe a debt of gratitude to those who responded at the scene; to the staff and the shoppers who were there at the time going about their lives picking up a few bits for the weekend or to provide for their families; to the police who were on hand to move everyone to safety and to prevent further harm; to the doctors and to the nurses who are working day and night to care for those who are injured. Looking after each other is part of who we are and it is a value that runs through our Government and our institutions a system where people are looked after as we would want our own loved ones to be cared for.If we want to continue to show the best of who we are then we must all work together at every level of Government to work out the best long-term response to what happened on Friday. Our shared resolve is beyond dispute. None of us want anything like that to happen again. But it is the decisions that we make in the coming days and weeks that will have the most profound impact on whether or not we are successful. These decisions give us a chance to do better to address past mistakes and build a genuinely inclusive future for the goal of terrorism is to scare us into changing who we are. And so as we work together to protect our communities let us remind ourselves that upholding our values is not a weakness it is a strength. Unless the Government knows of another clear and present danger that is likely to crystallise in the coming weeks the use of urgency to rush through legislation should be opposed on the grounds that it is more important to get right than it is to be seen to be doing something. Rushed legislation in response to events runs the risk of increasing harm to innocent people particularly Māori migrants and refugees. What we have seen around the world is that Governments do not make good decisions when they are driven by fear. Rather the best way to prevent further violence in the future is by upholding values of inclusion and equality. The ideology that drove Friday's attacker is not one shared by any faith any race or any ethnicity. It is not shared by us as a nation or any of those who choose to seek safety and rebuild their lives here. No one who calls Aotearoa home deserves to have this upended by the actions of a lone attacker who does not represent them. Aotearoa has a proud and rich history of welcoming immigrants from around the world. If we act now in any way that stigmatises our refugee or migrant communities either as individuals or as a Government it will serve only to fuel the same false grievances that Friday's attacker used to justify picking up a knife off a supermarket shelf and indiscriminately harming people. Marama Davidson the Green Party and I continue to believe that the best way to keep people safe is by solutions that are underpinned by evidence. This means acknowledging the complexities involved working with communities and wrapping our arms around the problem not pushing it away.Kia tau te rangimārie o Rangi e tū nei o Papatūānuku e takoto nei o te taiao e awhi nei ki runga i a tātou. Tihei mauri ora. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[May the peace of the Sky Father above the Earth Mother below and the surrounding environment prevail upon us. I now begin. Therefore greetings one and all.]