Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Madam Speaker and can I just acknowledge the previous speaker Dr Anae Neru Leavasa who has sat down. If that first contribution is a sense of what we're going to have in the future I'm sure you'll be able to add a significant amount to this place. And indeed through your comments I think have underpinned why this inquiry was so important because we are talking about family particularly in a Pacific context.I'd like to reflect on a couple of the components within our final report. The first is climate change and we've already heard from the Hon William Sio around how important climate change is from a Pacific perspective. In the report we note the $150 million specifically that is dedicated to the climate change programme in the Pacific. What I am particularly pleased to see is that it is focused on adaptation because whilst it is absolutely critical that the Pacific voice along with the New Zealand voice is heard in a global context in a conversation around mitigation and what that journey looks like in our respective countries very much for the Pacific it will be adapting. Because they are ultimately going to be impacted by a warming climate—already are—and actually it's very important that our aid support enables those communities to be as successful as they can as the water rises around them which it will. And the fact that we are so open and honest about that reality without accepting it as something to welcome but it's a pragmatism that the committee have reflected on in terms of ensuring that that $150 million is spent effectively in adaptation projects.In addition still on a climate change theme one of the key feedbacks that we had was that the Green Climate Fund is actually a challenging fund for the Pacific countries to be able to access. They do have a tendency to focus on mitigation priority as opposed to adaptation but also the nature of the funds the scale of the funds have an expectation of scaled capability from the receiving countries which at times is simply not there in a Pacific context and it is important that that's acknowledged. I had a great few days many years ago in 2017 representing Ministers Joyce and McCully at the Pacific Islands Forum where this particular issue was raised—the frustration of the Pacific not being able to access effectively and efficiently the funds that sit within the Green Climate Fund and it's great that that issue has been acknowledged and the commitments around looking at other more flexible mechanisms have been prioritised from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The second area that I would like to briefly touch on relates to ensuring that the private sector in particular both within country in the Pacific but also those who seek to support the commercial opportunities that exist in the Pacific is assisted through a particular focus on not only trade—and the PACER-Plus deal was highlighted. I was involved in the select committee when that was reviewed. I think it does have fundamental opportunities to be able to support trading between ourselves and the Pacific and building from those trading links greater community and business resilience. And there is significant value that already exists. New Zealand exports around a billion dollars' worth of goods to the Pacific a year and around 30 percent of Pacific nations' exports go to Australia and New Zealand. It's very important that those trading relationships are strengthened and I think it is right that we as a committee identified that PACER-Plus is a critical part of that.Also in the context of that is a particular commitment from the ministry to ensure that the private sector has a greater opportunity to be able to participate in the aid projects which are focused on the Pacific. There are many New Zealand businesses that hold the view that they don't have the opportunity to participate in the delivery of that aid and that should be an area of focus. It has been identified in the report as an area that deserves significant focus.Finally I would just like to echo the comments of other speakers—and I think very eloquently touched on by the previous speaker. We are a Pacific nation. The Pacific peoples are part of the whānau of this country and vice versa. It is absolutely critical for us to approach our relationship anchored in humility and true partnership. That is what we saw through the select committee process and that is what to a person everyone on that committee sees as both the opportunity and obligation on this House. Thank you.