Penk ChrisCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I join my colleague and friend Tama Potaka in acknowledging our colleague Maureen Pugh and also want to add the acknowledgment of the wonderful parliamentarian and good man that is the Hon Rino Tirikatene at also a difficult time for him.I stand as National's senior whip not only because I gave myself the honour of speaking in this debate but also just to reflect on the way that Parliament has operated these past three years as is typical at an adjournment debate. Parliament will soon have its dissolution—as though this place were not dissolute enough already—and while the whip is in some ways the quintessential partisan role in terms of that person's internal and external dealings at the same time one has a great opportunity for operating across the institution of Parliament and I want to acknowledge all parties in this place particularly their representatives on their whip teams and musterers and so forth. I've enjoyed working with you all including in those very arcane environments such as the Standing Orders Committee—and I acknowledge the comments made by Jan Logie as well as my colleague and friend the Hon Michael Woodhouse and others in this place on the same subject earlier today.I will also acknowledge Marja Lubeck who is retiring but having been based in Kaipara ki Mahurangi and various West Auckland MPs with whom I have enjoyed good interactions in almost all places—no I was just kidding. That was for Marja and she'll understand what that means.There are many key players in Parliament—those who are seen and those who are almost entirely unseen. They all play a crucial role as others have acknowledged. Christopher Luxon has acknowledged them on behalf of the National Party and he had 10 minutes to speak. I've only got five so I'll just point in that direction.Hon Grant Robertson: He didn't use a minute of it.CHRIS PENK: Yeah that's true—I should get an extra minute Mr Speaker as the Leader of the House points out.Sir I also want to acknowledge you particularly. As I said to you at the time that you were coming into this role you enjoyed even at that time considerable respect personally and professionally and huge mana and esteem that you were held in by our people in the National Party. You've actually grown that if anything and that's an unusual thing I think to come to the end of the parliamentary term and the Speaker's Chair and be more popular even than when you started. So I acknowledge you and thank you for that and actually your predecessor as well—Mr Mallard—with whom for what it's worth I personally enjoyed a good relationship I thought.We've had many changes in this time across the three years. It seems so long ago now that we were operating in a hybrid House environment. Select committees retained their remote option and I think that's a good move sir for the reasons that we've discussed at great length in other forums. I think the institution is better and stronger but we must always remain vigilant that we don't go backwards in any sense in terms of access to democracy in the way that we operate within our parties and between them across the House.So I'll just comment briefly on the incident in the gallery today. I don't wish to speak in detail and give the notoriety that no doubt those people would seek but I do wish to express that I think it would be very sad if the result of such incidents would be to make Parliament less accessible to the general public and vice versa. I think that would be a shame albeit potentially inevitable given the situation in which we live in New Zealand in 2023.I also want to thank and acknowledge the Clerk's team as others have done but they're very notable. You are Parliament's person and you have exemplified that phrase but they no less have served all the members of this House and through them I think the people of New Zealand extremely well. I do want to add my thanks on that note. I also want to thank staff across all parties. No doubt the sterling work that the National Party team have done has been mirrored in terms of other parties both here in Parliament but also in the electorate and community offices. I'm glad that we do refer to them as electorate and community offices rather than out-of-Parliament offices. I think that much better reflects the importance and particular connection of those roles.But while I've acknowledged obviously the changes that were made and not made through the Standing Orders review process I'd be remiss if I didn't finish on a slightly more political note this far out from a general election. So I will say that of all the changes that should be made I believe that a change in Prime Minister is necessary and I support Christopher Luxon in that role and for the finance Minister likewise Nicola Willis. I want to thank them for the leadership of our team on this side of the House and hopefully soon not to be this side of the House.In terms of portfolio matters I've taken particular interest in cyclone recovery and courts. I think we need a much quicker and robust system in relation to both. New Zealand is suffering a deep malaise at the moment. Change is needed and frankly we need to get New Zealand our country back on track. Thank you.