Doocey Matt: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDoocey Matt: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8735. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Can I first say a thankyou to you Mr Speaker and your office for all your support this year. I must say being part of the new intake for the class of 2014 I think it has been a fantastic year. We have survived the year well despite what Trans Tasman has said.I think when I look back at question time today there were a few examples of where individual members brought the views and the questions of New Zealanders into the House. I wanted to continue this theme. I want to bring in the views of “Auntie Helen” from Mt Albert who has given us a gift for Christmas that keeps on giving. Not being in the Trans-Pacific Partnership she said was: “unthinkable for New Zealand as an export-oriented small trading nation.” Of course New Zealand has to be in on the action with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and go for the best deal it can. I would just like to thank “Auntie Helen” from Mt Albert for those comments and for that gift at Christmas time.Christmas is a time of giving. It is also a time of reflection and a time to pause and think about what has gone well what has gone less well and how we can improve. I would like to take this opportunity to thank members from all sides of the House who extended their well wishes when I had the arrival of my son James Thomas in the last few weeks. So on behalf of myself and my wife Viktoria I would like to thank members from all sides of the House for those well wishes. And yes James already has more hair than I do and it would be fair to say that over the adjournment period it will be less dirty politics and probably more dirty nappies.Can I also say a big thankyou for the honour and the privilege of representing the people of Waimakariri—the very hard-working people of Waimakariri—who have been through a tough time since the earthquakes. But we have had a fantastic year in 2015—a year of milestones of new beginnings of openings. We have opened the Rangiora Town Hall the Oxford Town Hall the Ruataniwha Kaiapoi Civic Centre the Ashley Bridge and the Rangiora Hospital. There have been $300 million worth of roading projects in that region. What is really good is you can look at the retail developments on the high streets of Rangiora Kaiapoi and Oxford and see the vibrancy of those high streets coming back to life and that is great for the people of Waimakariri.I would also like to acknowledge and take this point of reflection at the end of 2015 to reflect and say thank you to all parties in this House for their continued support of Canterbury. It has been a tough few years for Canterbury. But if you take one thing like the Rangiora Hospital which is part of a $900 million hospital rebuild—the largest rebuild we have ever seen in the history of New Zealand—that has been done because of the support of members from all the sides of this House. If we look at the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill that is going through at the moment it is moving us from the response stage to recovery and into regeneration.I would also like to pause and reflect. Recently we commemorated the 5-year anniversary of the first earthquakes. We call them the Christchurch earthquakes but they were the Canterbury earthquakes and a town in my electorate Kaiapoi was hardest hit in the 4 September earthquake. The town was decimated and residents lost over 1000 houses. It is great to see that town getting back up on its feet. But as we start 2016 our thoughts will be focused on the 5-year anniversary of the devastating and fatal earthquakes of 22 February and our thoughts will go with the family and friends of those who lost ones they loved at that time.On saying that there is a lot to be proud about in Canterbury as it gets back up on its feet and it rebuilds. It is great to see all the activity down in Canterbury because what we are doing is building the best new small city in the world. A big shout out goes to the Canterbury rugby team which won the ITM Cup rugby championship this year cementing Canterbury as the best rugby region in the world. Of course we should acknowledge the All Blacks for winning the Rugby World Cup. I do not know how we are going to be able to replace Dan Carter and Richie McCaw.But my last thanks go to New Zealanders—hard-working New Zealanders. They are the ones who in 2015 have returned this country to surplus and given us the best GDP growth—which is the envy of all other OECD countries—and of course the highest workforce participation rate. On behalf of all the 2014 new intake I thank everyone for all their support: our executive assistants electoral agents and all parliamentary staff. We are renewed energised and enthusiastic and we are looking forward to getting back for another great year in 2016. Thank you.