Omer Ibrahim; Mallard TrevorIBRAHIM OMER (Labour): Kia ora and al salam alaikum Prime Minister. Today is a very difficult day for our community so to speak as the report of the royal commission into the March 15 attacks comes out. But also I can't help but go back to March 15 to the day that the attack was carried out. I was just in a quick meeting when I got a text from a friend who said Have you heard what's happening in Christchurch?" and I said no. She said that there was a shooting. I thought it was just this random shooting and I didn't think there was an attack that potentially was going to take 51 precious lives. Like Imam Gamal Fouda said it was an attack on a beautiful image of New Zealand; it wasn't just the Muslim community. The Muslim community might have been a direct target but it was an attack on an image of our beautiful country. Across New Zealand the Muslim community leaders have raised concerns of the potential attacks to mosques and other Islamic centres for many years. Those warnings they were ignored and the security agencies chased Muslims some of us because we were suspects and some of us because they wanted us to work with the agencies. I was one of the people who was contacted by the security agency. My answer to them was that I do love and care about this country and that if I were to see anything that potentially could hurt this country then I would report it and that was the last time I spoke to them. So now we see in the report that there was nothing that could have been done to stop that attack. But also as we move forward I just spent a couple of days with the Muslim community and the affected whānau down in Christchurch and their resilience their strength is just as it was on March 15. Now as we move forward what the families want is they do not wish this kind of attack to either the Muslim community or to anyone in New Zealand. Primarily this is the assurance and this is what they're looking for alongside of course other supports and the other stuff. So it was an attack on our identity. To me and to many other Muslims as well it was the day that we doubted our sense of belonging to this country and that was the intention of the terrorist in the first place—so he can make us feel that we don't belong to this country and so he can make us react with revenge. His intention was primarily to divide the country and turn us against each other but he failed. Today it's heart-warming to see that the Government has accepted the 44 recommendations in principle and they will be acted upon. Some of the things that have been mentioned in the recommendations are some of the things our communities and all the ethnic communities and the Muslim community in particular have been asking for. So it's really good to see that this detail has been mentioned in the report. I'll be looking forward to seeing the implementation of this. The last two days I've spent with the Muslim community and the affected whānau down in Christchurch. Primarily they are looking forward for those recommendations to be implemented as it's being demanded by the royal commission. So today we acknowledge the 51 shuhada. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant them the highest spot in Jannah but today the real work starts. The real work not just to protect the Muslim community but also to protect every New Zealander—those who are vulnerable to these kind of attacks. So as we pay our tribute to those who passed away we also want the security agencies to focus not just on a specific group but also on every threat that could potentially hurt New Zealand. Kia ora. SPEAKER: The question is that the motion be agreed to. Motion agreed to."