Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. It is with pleasure I rise to talk to this bill a bill that I believe is long overdue. It was June last year when the then Prime Minister the Hon Bill English paid a visit to the Pacific building on a lot of dialogue that has happened over many years as other speakers have indicated as to the usefulness of changing the settings and changing the rules. So National supports this bill very much.I acknowledge the Hon Henry Puna and others in the gallery whom I've spoken to about this situation many times. In the last term of Government when I was the Minister responsible for WW100 commemorations I learnt the stories that Alfred Ngaro my colleague alluded to just before about the courage and the bravery of the Pacific Islanders who fought and gave their lives for the Commonwealth. I don't think they were treated particularly fairly at those times but nonetheless they showed great willingness to serve as part of New Zealand's and the wider Commonwealth's battles that were going on.I think that when we tried to change the settings in 2015—and I was the Minister for Seniors at that time—it didn't work as well as we had hoped it would. I think we expected it to cost about $5 million; it cost about $1 million which showed the uptake was not particularly effective but really what was required—and the message has been coming through loud and clear—was that we needed to make it as easy as possible and that the five years after 50 rule needed to go. There was a letter in April of 2017 last year. The Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that based on advice he had received from his officials and the reports he had had during his own visits to the Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau the current settings were just not working as well as they had intended to be. So clearly more was done and I commend the Government and the Minister for carrying through this legislation. It has been an important thing to do and I acknowledge that.I also acknowledge that we needed to do this and we also needed to be fair. So as others have indicated there are special categories—one of them is special portability. So if an individual moves to one of the 22 nominated Pacific nations they can have a proportion of their New Zealand superannuation with them but there is a very special relationship with the Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau because those people are New Zealand citizens and this bill I think reflects a wider constitutional responsibility that New Zealand has for its citizens living in the Pacific. For them to be able to take their skills take the wisdom that they have learnt in their time away from their homelands back to those communities to fuel that economic powerhouse but also as the previous speaker Peeni Henare indicated the cultural exchange—we are richer as nations from having shared your people and we are becoming more aware of the issues through the Pacific through having people living here from the three islands. We need to acknowledge that they need to return home at some point and I think it needs to happen at a time when people are able to make a financial contribution through their New Zealand superannuation.So on many levels I think that this is an excellent thing to support. I don't intend to take too much more time on this beyond acknowledging the people in this House who over many years have listened to the people of the Pacific have heard what has been said and have come up with a solution that this entire House supports so that it can be to the betterment of the three Pacific island nations. So without hesitation and with pride I commend this bill to the House.