Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. Some time ago we were all witness to the dreadful weather events that started with the Auckland Anniversary floods on 27 January and then of course the Cyclone Gabrielle event. I need not remind everyone in this House but especially those that were affected in Northland Auckland Coromandel Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti of the effects of those events. But I do want to remind the House that these crippling events actually occurred many weeks ago.In my own electorate I've had over a hundred people out of houses and I've seen and visited many farmers; three of whom I know for sure have incurred losses of more than $500000 each. And when I've gone to the Minister for primary industries and asked Is there going to be any more money for these people because in many cases they've only received $10000?" I have been given no certainty that indeed there will be. And so I've had to say to these farmers "Don't bank on any more money." And of course in Auckland we had many businesses affected. And I know there's about 5600 applied for applications of which approximately half have had about $3000 each. But when you think about those business owners in Auckland many of them have had their homes affected and then they've had to go to their businesses they've had to rip Gib off the wall they've had to comfort their staff they've had to deal with customer inquiries and they've had to go about all the pressures and the risks and issues that have arisen as a result of those events. And unfortunately the result and the support from the Government has been tardy. Those people are hurting. They're really hurting. But more recently during the recess I was increasingly getting calls and emails from people in the Hawke's Bay who reached out to me because they weren't getting the help they deserved. I went down there and I've got to say that it was a sobering visit. Areas like the Esk Valley Pākowhai and Puketapu are obviously the areas most affected. But one of the things I found intriguing was that we met up with the Chamber of Commerce who are responsible for dispensing the funds to many of the affected businesses and what transpired is that they found out their responsibility after the announcement of the Government which was that they were going to hand out money and in fact they were going to be the lead agency. That was outrageous. It was outrageous that they did not know about it and it showed an absolute lack of planning from the Government. But then in the afternoon I met several groups of families with our excellent candidate from Napier Katie Nimon and it was harrowing. I've got to say to you that one family—and I can name them Maik and Marianne Beekman—they own a citrus orchard in Esk Valley. They grow avocados and other such—mandarins and oranges. They explained their situation. They had come to New Zealand in 2009. They'd moved to Hawke's Bay in 2014 and they've had a successful business but the floods have caused absolute devastation. There was only one tree left on their property that would remotely stand as an orchard tree that they could use in future. The rest of the property was covered in a metre and a half of silt. They've lost all but one of their pets. This is a family that is hurting. And they've now got to the stage where they cannot live on their property they cannot live on their orchard and they've moved into Napier and Mr Beekman has moved back to being a computer expert trying to get a living—he's living in rented accommodation with the family trying to make enough money to recover the $100000 in mortgage payments. This is an area that is absolutely devastated. These people are really hurting. They are people without a home or a business. They've got children that are crying at night. These are the people that need our help. Give them certainty. Give them hope. And I say this to the Government because these are New Zealanders that need our help: stand up and help them Government because they're asking for it every day.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."