Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Kia ora Madam Assistant Speaker. Tuatahi e tika ana ki te mihi ki tō tātou kuia Auntie Lou Cook kātahi anō kua hinga; nō Ngāti Porou tēnei kuia te teina ki taku kuia me te tino hoa ki a Ron Mark. Nō reira Auntie maumahara tō mahi ataahua i roto i te rohe Masterton i roto i tō hapori. Kāore mātou e wareware. Kāore mātou e wareware hoki i tō aroha ki tō mātou whānau taku pāpā Bob Matua Kēkē Brown me Monica hoki. Nō reira Auntie moe mai moe mai moe mai ra. Ka nui tēnā.[Firstly I take the opportunity to make special mention of our elder stateswoman Auntie Lou Cook who has just passed away; this lady is from Ngāti Porou she is a close relation of my grandmother and a cherished friend of Ron Mark. Therefore Auntie your wonderful work will always be remembered in the Masterton area within your own community. We will never forget. Neither will we forget your kindness to our family to my father Bob to Uncle Brown and to Monica as well. Therefore Auntie rest rest rest in peace. Let us leave it there.]I did a farewell speech there Madam Assistant Speaker to one of our kuia who died in Masterton. She was a Labour supporter—a very very close friend to Ronnie Mark. So tomorrow I go with Ronnie Mark to her tangi. She was my grandmother's sister Auntie Lou Cook and someone who played a pivotal part in the Hon Ronnie Mark's life. So I just wanted to honour her here tonight as we come down to dinner. She was a very special person in a lot of our lives.I just want to say of the nonsense from the other side: we've got to move on sometimes—gotta move on. We can't carry grudges. This bill has gone through despite the constant attacks from Gerry Brownlee and others and the weak chairmanship from the other side but we've tried to help him along—Mr Simon O'Connor. We've tried to help him through.Hon Tim Macindoe: That's an appalling comment.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No. I'm just trying to be honest like yourself. It's been a slow and tough process for our committee but we've got there through the hard work of the Labour Party and Green Party colleagues in the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee.But it is an important bill and despite this waffle about what was said from Ronnie Mark a year back—times have moved on and things change in politics as the National Party who are now part of the losing fraternity on the other side know. The key points I think to discuss with regards to this bill—well there are many but I do say that in terms of the regulatory regime for the brokering of weapons and military equipment by New Zealanders this bill clearly establishes that and also the requirement that all New Zealand citizens New Zealand ordinary residents and New Zealand entities wishing to engage in brokering to register with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade obtain a permit for each brokering activity—very important that we go down that track.I think the key thing to note with the bill is that it requires ordinary New Zealanders residents and New Zealand - based entities wishing to broker the international—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member; the time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. The key thing to note I think with the bill is that it requires New Zealanders ordinary residents and New Zealand - based entities wishing to broker the international transfer of arms military equipment or civilian goods that they may have a military end use too to first register with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade and second to obtain a permit for each brokering activity.This has been well traversed over the last hour or so but as previous speakers have said—Hon Member: Sure?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No no absolutely sure. They've covered most of the key points of the bill but I'd add that with this bill it helps New Zealand play its part in the international framework by ensuring that there are appropriate controls in place that will prevent Kiwis and New Zealand - based entities from being involved in illicit arms brokering and deter any illicit arms brokers from shifting their activities to New Zealand.Weapons that are capable of having a devastating impact on a people or nation if they are traded into the wrong hands should be of major concern to us. We've all seen from the relative safety of Aotearoa some of the effects weapons have had abroad from attacks that have taken the lives of the innocent to those that have helped change the landscape of many a nation. So it's important to us as a people that proudly declared all those years ago that we would stand alone and ban nuclear energy from our shores that we continue to rally against illegal trading in weapons and military equipment.Hon Member: What's Wikipedia say?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: What Wikipedia says is that the Labour Party saved this bill and despite the very very incompetent chairmanship from the National Party chair we were able to get to this position today. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.