SpeechSPEAKER: Ā kāti rā tēnā rā tātou katoa. [Well then greetings to all of us.]This is the rare occasion where the Speaker gets to speak. I was going to ask Roland Todd to give me five minutes on the clock but then again I am the sole judge of time so this five minutes might take a little bit longer. But the main thing that I wanted to stand to do today is to do what a lot of members have done in this debate—say thank you to a lot a lot of people that make our democracy in this Parliament work.Can I start with the Deputy Speaker and Assistant Speakers to Greg O'Connor the Hon Jenny Salesa the Hon Jacqui Dean also helped during this term by a number of MPs including Ian McKelvie Barbara Kuriger the Hon David Bennett—who knew?—and of course my dear friend the Hon Poto Williams as well. I thank the team because it's not easy being a presiding officer. I have not once instructed any of my fellow presiding officers in what they should do in the House because actually that's not my job. The job of giving advice is the Clerk so my next thankyou if I can borrow a line from Ian McKelvie in his valedictory speech: They make us look good." Never a truer word was said. Can I thank David Wilson Deputy Clerk Suze Jones and all of the staff in the Office of the Clerk. They have a constitutional role and they are independent of the Government they are independent of the Speaker and they are independent of this Parliament. They work for our democracy and I want to thank every single one of them.Also in my role as chair of three select committees: first of all the Business Committee; I want to thank members of that. It's been both a challenging role doing the work and providing unanimity to do what we do in the House that stands inside the Standing Orders and I want to thank every member of that. But I also want to thank the clerks that have served us very well—Mary Drakeford and Ian Law—during this term.Also the Standing Orders Committee. A huge amount of work has been done by the Clerk; by Gabor Hellyer the clerk of that committee; and with help from David Bagnall. The amount of work that has gone into that to get to the place that we are passing the new Standing Orders for the 54th Parliament has been enormous. They wrote not only what you see in that report but everything else that was discussed and is not in the report so you can imagine the amount of work that has been done that I hope in the future will see its way into future Standing Orders. There are some very good things that we did not put in there.Can I also acknowledge James Picker the clerk of the Officers of Parliament Committee who served us incredibly well and also all of those officers that are part of that committee as well. All of the other parts of the Office of the Clerk—and I want to read them out because it's important I think that everyone knows that we appreciate the work that they do: Parliamentary Law and Practice; Select Committee Services; the House Office; the Chamber staff who look after us when we're sitting in here. Can I also acknowledge that the Chamber staff have been a pathway for young students at university passing degrees who go on to other roles within our democracy and to other things; they go into Hansard the House Office—all around this Parliament. They've started here in this Chamber. I want to acknowledge them. The Hansard team; parliamentary broadcasting; Ngā Ratonga Ao Māori our translation service; Education Services; the messengers; our Inter-Parliamentary Relations team—I just want to have a thankyou to Amber Walters for everything that she has done for all of us who have participated in international travel with the Inter-Parliamentary Union the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and everything else that this Parliament is involved with. Alongside of the Office of the Clerk of course is Parliamentary Service. And I want to acknowledge Rafael Gonzalez-Montero the CEO—and his deputies Mitch Knight Amy Brier and Will De Vos—for all of their work that makes this place logistically run—which of course though they've been mentioned: security catering the buildings team the cleaners the library staff the Parliamentary Engagement team information services technology the finance team our relationship managers Visitor Services—all of them. I'm sure we'll all join together to thank all of them.Can I thank members of my office: Roland Todd Tiarne Gush Brooke Lacey—and we've adopted Andie Lindsay; the Clerk and the CEO think that she works in their office but I think she works in mine! I want to thank all of them for the work that they've done—had to put up with—I'm really thankful to them.To the party whips musterers—thank you for your assistance within the Chamber. It makes life a lot easier when the presiding officer knows that you've swapped speakers around; things like that. Sometimes we don't know but we'll work it out eventually. To the Leader of the House and the shadow Leader of the House—it's important that I acknowledge you because you have a really good role to play in making sure that this place works and you acknowledged Peter Hoare and I think that's right to do so. Can I acknowledge all of the members who have given valedictory speeches—and not given valedictory speeches—who have chosen not to come back to this place. I wish you and your families all the very best for the future. Thank you for the amazing speeches that we've heard in the last two weeks. To all of our staff both here in Parliament and outside of Parliament—I join together with everyone to acknowledge them and to thank them. And I have one more thank you and afterwards I think we'll have a waiata—and my thanks is to the number one Warriors fan in Parliament and he's up there in that sound booth. His name is Colin Pearce. So Mr sound man: Up the Wahs!Waiata—Purea NeiNō reira e te Māngai e ngā anahera pono e te Tokotoru Tapu whakaūngia mai mātou ki mua i tō koutou aroaro anō. Paiheretia anō mātou ki te rangimārie mō ngā wā katoa. Mā te Māngai hei tautoko mai āianei āke nei āe.[So to the Holy Mouthpiece the true angels and the Holy Trinity instil us once again in your presence. Bind us to peace at all times. May the Mouthpiece confirm this now and forever yes.]Motion agreed to.The House adjourned at 5.35 p.m."