Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): E Te Māngai ka tangi ka tangi ka tangi au te ngākau mō a rātou kua hinga atu ki te pō. Haere haere haere atu rā. Hoki atu rā koutou ki ngā ringa o ā rātou tīpuna. Moe mai rā moe mai rā. [Mr Assistant Speaker I mourn I mourn I and my heart are grieving those who have passed on. Go well as you pass. Return to the hands of their ancestors. Rest in peace rest in peace.]The events of 15 March undoubtedly have shaped our nation for future generations and are etched into our collective memory for the duration of our lifetimes and lifetimes to come. It is through the tragic events of that day that I alongside almost every single member in this House today come together to collectively denounce the actions of that individual that perpetrated that horrendous act of violence by in part the legal acquisition of a military-style semi-automatic weapon and took the lives of 50 men women and children. It's not a common event where you can genuinely stand alongside almost every single person in this House. We represent multiple races religions cultures creeds urban environments and rural environments but we come together with a shared collective intention to denounce the use and legal purchase of those weapons that are designed to take the lives of humans not animals.I want to of course acknowledge the leadership of our outstanding Prime Minister in the way that she commanded and led our nation post the events of 15 March and the clarity through which she determined that there would be a wholesale ban on the legal acquisition of these firearms and in turn just days after the event used the powers accorded to her under the current arms amendment Act to use the Order in Council to ban the sale of those military-style semi-automatics (MSSAs)—known as a Henry VIII power which is in our current legislation. I want to turn to some of the points made by my colleague Christopher Bishop earlier very shortly but firstly I also do want to acknowledge the Minister of Police the Hon Stuart Nash and his team in the New Zealand Police force. I want to acknowledge the assistant commissioner Tusha Penny and all of her colleagues from the police and across the raft of Government agencies that've worked tirelessly under a very tight time frame to turn around the review of over 13000 submissions from a broad range of community members that have been impassioned by the events that have been undertaken over the last few weeks but also by the advent of the introduction of this legislation in this House. There are a couple of particular amendments that have been made to the bill that was tabled in this House last week that have been as a consequence of the submissions and the collegiality of the members in the Finance and Expenditure Committee but on behalf of all of our colleagues in this House. I want to acknowledge the submissions on behalf of the likes of Federated Farmers and others—Hunting & Fishing—that addressed a very narrow exemption for the culling of pests and wild animals and acknowledge the work by both officials and members in this House to find a comfortable medium in enabling commercial operators to legally own and acquire licences to undertake the activities of culling of significant pests in particularly highland areas. I just want to acknowledge the work done there. Turning to the Henry VIII provisions I also sit on the Regulations Review Committee and we had the responsibility of looking at those provisions. I just do want to acknowledge that the right of the executive is currently in the current Act and therefore the Henry VIII provisions are an extension of what is already there. So I want to make those two points on behalf of the Government. Thank you sir.