Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker and may I start my contribution for New Zealand First by wishing you a very merry Christmas. I want to start on a positive note by firstly acknowledging those people who make it possible for us all to do our job here. I know other speakers before me have mentioned the Office of the Clerk the select committees and the messengers. I want to make a special mention of those who service our offices in the wee hours of the morning—I know I have been there when they have had to come and clean around me. I see them time and time again. They always tell me they never see David Seymour in his office at that hour of the morning but never mind.Anyway for those people who do that work for the minimal wage that they earn it is very useful for us to ponder how we would survive in this day and age on that sort of a salary. I just leave it for a moment for the House to reflect upon. It is one thing to give Christmas wishes to these people but I do think that some of the members might spend some time over Christmas wondering how those cleaners and how those people who service our offices in those hours of the morning—some of whom pick up an afternoon job to keep their head above water so they can pay the rent—and their families survive on what they earn. From New Zealand First thank you very much to those people. Thank you very much to security.I want to pay respect and acknowledge all of my caucus colleagues. I think Mr Speaker you will agree—and I thank some of the members from other parties who have made this observation to me personally—Hon Simon Bridges: Name check.RON MARK: —including Mr Bridges—for a caucus that brought in so many brand-spanking-new MPs for whom this is their first term to be fronting Ministers daily at question time as front-bench members and to do it so well throughout the last year building on it to do it with such aplomb to do it with such accuracy and to generate the squirming in the seats that I get to observe from my front pew is absolutely a pleasure. This is in contrast to—I'm sorry Nuk—those of you who have to stand up and read out these pathetic patsy questions time after time much to their own embarrassment.On behalf of myself and the leader I want to express to my caucus absolute admiration for the way they have gone about doing their job this year. I want to also acknowledge our parliamentary staff—New Zealand Firsters—and our out-of-Parliament staff who do a sterling job assisting people in the community as I know all out-of-Parliament staff do helping people with their day-to-day problems and helping them get better access to services. I want to particularly thank those members of the executive on the Government side who have come to the party and assisted us in solving some of those problems. Simon thank you for that; it was very well appreciated.But I do hope that over the holiday break this Government will take time to reflect on a few things. I do hope that the new Prime Minister Bill English gets to recover and have a think about the hospital pass that he has just been given by John Key who read and fled. He read the polls and he fled the Parliament. Of course everybody knows that John Key hates being on a losing team. He can see quite clearly that the National Party benches are going to be much reduced in 2017 and he does not want a part of that. He is going to buck-pass it to Bill who will cop it again. It is not Bill's fault but he is going to cop it again. He must be regretting that he did not announce his retirement before John Key announced his retirement because he is going to cop it again and for that Mr English we sympathise with you.I want the Government to reflect on how arrogant and how out of touch it has got. So when Government members are on the beach—please do not pick a Hawaiian beach; go to a normal beach and sit down—please look at the New Zealanders there. Please talk to them and please take on the message that they are bound to give you which is simply this: they have had enough. They have had enough.I will finish my speech by saying that this year will go down as a year of accurate predictions by our leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters who predicted Brexit and who predicted the American election result. It will come down as a year that the Greens ruled themselves totally out of Government next time round because they cannot possibly accept the democratic decision made by the good people of the United States of America and they cannot play any diplomatic role in any sane sensible Government going forward.To you Mr Speaker merry Christmas; to the Government merry Christmas; to my colleagues merry Christmas. There is more to come. We are going to have a ball next year. To all of our colleagues in Opposition thank you; it has been a pleasure. Good afternoon.