Costley TimTIM COSTLEY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you Madam Speaker. A really special moment to speak this evening on this bill and I will just try and keep my time a little shorter so that we can get the final speech in before dinner because I think it's important that we honour and acknowledge the guests and not have them have to come back. So I'm just going to try and condense this if that's OK with the House in respect of our guests here and look I love Samoa. They gave us Tana Umaga and Jerry Collins; how could we not love this country? I had the pleasure of flying Jerry Collins in the back of my helicopter once and I can tell you he had the loudest and highest pitched scream I've heard in my life. But it was a real honour because they were two guys that I really looked up to in their heyday.And I do want to acknowledge you know that it can be at times difficult to engage in a debate without getting too emotive and losing focus. You know we talk about—and the member opposite mentioned—the wreath acknowledging Samoa. And on the one hand I acknowledge that this was about opposing colonial rule and not wanting to put one country and their occupation and their rights of citizenship—but also the responsibilities that came with it—above another country. And yet it was also done when New Zealand went in in 1914 as was just mentioned—it was done without firing a shot; it was completely peaceful. And isn't it appropriate that we can have this discussion and as it no doubt moves through to select committee and wherever it may go from there that we can bring different perspectives that we can have these conversations but we don't have to be firing shots at each other. It's actually OK to tease out some of these ideas and to use the parliamentary processes we have to work through this and to talk about these things.I note that what this bill does is restore citizenship not to those in more recent times from Samoa not to those who were living in New Zealand—because they always had it and even in 1982 their citizenship was of course protected if they were living in New Zealand. But the specific date period is nothing actually to do with New Zealand's colonial trusteeship as it was known at the time of Samoa but it's actually around being a British subject; it's not about New Zealand. And so I think we do need to think through this thing. We're giving New Zealand citizenship in response to British citizenship. So it's actually not quite as simple as maybe some of the emotive arguments bring out.So I do think it's important that we consider exactly why it is without just getting into the kind of Russian doll of the Privy Council said this but then that Government said this and now we're going back to the other one." So I think there are some complex issues to go through if we want to genuinely look at these issues. Are we looking at the colonial rules are we looking at the old citizenship or are we looking at what is best for New Zealand which is ultimately what this House has the responsibility of doing.So with that and in a view of the time I'll end my contribution here. I do again just want to acknowledge all those that have spoken before and those that have come to tautoko support this bill tonight."