SpeechHon ANNE TOLLEY (National—East Coast): Kia ora tātou. I just wanted to take a very brief call as we come to the end of this 52nd Parliament to talk mainly about the Standing Orders because I missed the opportunity to do it last night. And I want to echo the words of my colleague Chris Bishop in that I think the changes that we're making to the Standing Orders for the 53rd Parliament will see some quite major and innovative changes.As part of that I want to really thank the House for going along with the changes that we made earlier on in particular to the committee stage because I can remember way back when I was first a Minister—and I think I got into trouble with you Mr Speaker because I sat there at the table while a bill was going through the committee stage which was a very perfunctory time actually when a bill was going through this House and I wrote out my Christmas cards. And when I think back now that was outrageous. We took that whole process of that extra bit that we have in our legislative process for granted. It was perfunctory. We paid it no mind; everyone got up and made their five-minute speeches. Some people had to make five-minute speeches on a bill they'd never even read and worse they had to make two five-minute speeches when you were trying to draw out a debate and that's not good legislative process. We owe it to people to take that seriously. So when we trialled that new system of the Minister in the chair and instead of making five-minute speeches we gave members the opportunity to ask as many questions as they liked and the Minister was obliged to answer it meant the Minister had to understand the legislation. And the Opposition in particular had to resist the opportunity to get up and make speeches about a piece of legislation they didn't like. And really I just want to thank the House for everyone really contributing to that and making it work. It was hard it was a bit scary for some people and it took some people a bit longer than others to get used to it. But what we saw over these last two weeks I think was exemplary and I think we will get much better legislation out of it as a result. So I'm pleased to see that that is now the norm and the expectation in this House.I also think it's great—I mean I don't understand why we had a dinner hour and everyone knows I argued for no dinner hour. We're not all in the House at same time. We could finish a couple of hours early and go home and some of us could be with our families. But I think we're making a decent change and to get out of this place on a Thursday and try to get everyone home to their families I think is very good.Then lastly I'm delighted that we are going to create more opportunities for local employees for backbench MPs whether Government or Opposition to be able to stand up and have an opportunity to talk about things that might be happening in their electorate or things that are important to them or that they've been doing in their select committee. The Standing Orders that you've adopted for the next Parliament will enable it to happen. So actually it's so good Mr Speaker I almost thought about staying on. But I'm joking—I'm joking. Can I thank you Mr Speaker. It was an unusual arrangement to have a Deputy Speaker for you from the Opposition. I credit my colleague the Hon Simon Bridges with that. In fact for a brief second there he was going to put me up as Speaker. If you remember I remember him pointing to me. But actually it's worked really well and you and I have worked hard at developing a relationship that I think has served this Parliament well. I do want to acknowledge you for that. In my valedictory the other night I forgot to thank my fellow presiding officers because I think we've had an outstanding team of presiding officers that have delivered for this House fair and unbiased but consistent rules throughout the debates and so I do want to acknowledge them. Thank you Mr Speaker. Thank you everyone. I'm outta here.