Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's certainly a pleasure to be part of this general debate and talk about success and leadership. I was inspired by Minister Grant Robertson in the first speech because I thought of two people locally straight away: one of those the late Ruth Gotlieb 96 years old. She passed away on Tuesday but there goes a person a dynamic practical energetic Wellingtonian who just epitomised those two words. At 96 years old her contribution was not only in Wellington's eastern suburbs but across the city in her 18 years. She was controversial in many ways but I remember most her accompanying Dame Annette King to the Lyall Bay Bowling Club. Now that's not quite Lords but it's got the same quality of turf I think. But she used to give the rudest of jokes. I tried to find them. I was a bit nervous. I didn't read the Standing Orders so didn't know—SPEAKER: Not in here. Neither of their jokes in here.PAUL EAGLE: —whether to repeat them. That's the advice I wanted. I won't be repeating many of those rude jokes that she and Dame Annette used to share can I say.On the other side though in my seat just nearby I had a 16-year-old—80 years younger alive and kicking this time—in Jamal Fiso my Youth MP. I want to acknowledge Jamal. I want to acknowledge Minister Henare for leading that process through. Some may have said it was not necessary but look from what I saw and experienced it was one of the highlights of my 20 months here. He spoke about something that's really dear. He spoke about his school motto. It's not the school that I went to in the electorate but I do remember the motto well because four schools in this city have it lumen accipe et imperti". It means receive the light and pass it on. He was referencing the need for this generation for those who have gone before to pass the light on in a way that's going to respect the environment and that's his message.Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki: He got to sing "A Whole New World".PAUL EAGLE: He did sing "A Whole New World". I thought: is he going to pull this off? But being part Māori and part Samoan those natural singing abilities came through. I wanted to set the scene on that because when I heard what Minister Grant Robertson was talking about that was an easy thing to relate to in terms of those two themes. I did a quick reflection back in the other two general debates—I've only spoken twice during general debate—and they both mentioned the dark clouds thanks to those on the other side actually. But this morning I was walking along Lyall Bay and yes we were talking about walking last time but yes I was actually there and it was a dark cloud when I was walking past the Maranui Surf Life Saving Club. There's a cafe there too that I may have eaten at but I want to just say that it wasn't a dark cloud; it was fog—SPEAKER: The member took all the date scones. There were none left for me.PAUL EAGLE: Ha ha! It's not quite open at 5.58. I had to wait till 6.15. Never mind. But what I wanted to say is that in terms of some of those themes in those speeches I can now say look at the action that this side of the Chamber has put forward. They talked about there being no decision on a second tunnel a failure in housing in terms of supply and production of affordable housing more public housing—and I know Minister Kris Faafoi has taken up the reins and he'll do an outstanding job in accelerating not only supply but supply in the right areas. But the third message there was the environment. And I want to say that when I heard what Jamal Fiso was talking about I read the credits from the former councillor Ruth Gotlieb and I thought there were two reasons why the environment is so important.It was also the site where we announced our single-use plastic bag ban and today we talked about the comprehensive overhaul of the Resource Management Act. Brett Hudson: Virtue signalling Mr Eagle.PAUL EAGLE: That side of the House wants it; we actually did it because this is on this side the party of delivery. Thank you Mr Speaker."