Meager JamesJAMES MEAGER (National—Rangitata): Mr Speaker thank you very much. As chair of the Justice Committee it is traditional to hand out thankyous at this stage of the debate. My first thankyou goes to the white saviours on the other side of the House Kieran McAnulty and Celia Wade-Brown. Thank you for saving us poor helpless Māori from our own ill will! Thank you for being the defenders of all things. We need your help. We desperately desperately need you to support us and save us from ourselves because clearly we cannot do it on our own. Clearly we have no way of getting ahead in life apart from with your help. So thank you to the great white saviours on the other side.I will not be lectured by a party who in 108 years of their history has not had a single Māori leader. I will not be lectured by a party who had a deputy leader and for three years with a majority Government refused to make him the Deputy Prime Minister of this country. And I certainly refuse to be lectured by a party the Green Party about process and consultation given their sordid history. So my first thankyous of the night do go to the Opposition for showing their complete ineptitude—Mariameno Kapa-Kingi: He called you a Nazi James and you had feelings.JAMES MEAGER: —when it comes to all things Māori. We did have a challenging ride through this bill in the committee—Simon Court: Point of order Mr Speaker. Apologies to the member who's speaking. I did really enjoy that. I just want to raise a point of order. I heard the member from Te Pāti Māori describe the person speaking as a Nazi and I am just wondering if that would be included as an offensive or disorderly word in terms of Standing Order 120 Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): I didn't hear that. If the member did use that term I'll ask her to stand withdraw and apologise.Mariameno Kapa-Kingi: I did not use that word.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): I'm taking the member's word. If the member did use that word I'm going to ask her to stand withdraw and apologise.Mariameno Kapa-Kingi: I did not use that word as in I said it. I was repeating what was said at the select committee.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Well I'll take the honourable member's word for that. She has stated that so I will take her word. Carry on. Did the clock stop then? Carry on Mr Meager.Simon Court: Point of order Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): A new point of order Mr Court?Simon Court: Without seeking to relitigate your decision Mr Speaker I just wonder if you could provide some advice to the House as to when it is appropriate to say that somebody else said a word that I just said. And is that stretching our understanding of whether we could potentially say an offensive word or something we intend to be disorderly that could be regarded as disorderly and simply explain that because somebody else said it and I'm repeating it and directing it towards that member somehow I'm absolved from responsibility? Mr Speaker would you give the House some direction on that because it's just not clear to me what the implication of your ruling is.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): The explanation as given by the member accepted by the House was that she was referring to a statement made at select committee. That's sufficient for the House.JAMES MEAGER: Oh Mr Speaker I don't take offence to the member's comments. Much of what she says does not make any sense and that's another one of them.We worked very hard as a committee. I want to give my sincere thankyou to the clerk Liam and the team there who worked tirelessly to process submissions. All in all we received roughly 10500 submissions through the online portal. And if members care to actually read their papers and consider the departmental report they will see that those written submissions were two-thirds opposed to the bill and one-third in favour. Of course on top of those submissions we received 13000 submissions by email. I wanted to thank the providers of those submissions the Taxpayers' Union for working with the committee to make sure they were combined into one single submission.I did want to thank also members of the committee for the generally collegial way in which they approached the work although we did have Willie Jackson sitting on our subcommittee and in between terrorising Don Brash and popping out to have a go at the Taxpayers' Union he did make some very disparaging remarks about Helen Clark which I thought were very unfair. And that goes to the root of this bill because this bill restores the situation to what it was in the early 2000s when it was first introduced by Helen Clark by the Labour Government and sustained all the way through to 2021. We are doing nothing more than restoring it to the status quo. I thank the Speaker for the time of the House.