SpeechJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. To start to be clear the Green Party supports this proposal and thanks the Leader of the House for bringing it. But I do want to firstly again express the Green Party's aroha to everyone who has been directly and indirectly affected by the floods and now by Cyclone Gabrielle and acknowledge the emergency responders of all stripes who are right now putting themselves at risk to keep our communities and our people safe.It is clear we're living in the times that we warned about. We are living early-stage climate change. The impacts are anything but abstract. For some the impacts are literally the roofs over their heads; the loss of all of their possessions their businesses of power; of internet the ability to tell their family members that they're OK or actually that they're not to be able to even reach out for help on those that we've always thought that we could rely and infrastructure we thought was reliable to move beyond the doors of their home and to have a sense of security for now and for the future. For so many of us right now that's gone.People have lost their lives. As a country and as a Parliament we haven't even had the chance to properly grieve or mourn for those people—right now we are sending all of our well wishes to those volunteer firefighters who we desperately hope are still battling for their lives. We send all of our love to their friends and family and colleagues.It's the very strong view of our MPs when we came to the discussion about this adjournment that and particularly the MPs who are on the ground in affected areas—and you'll see four seats behind me that are empty; 40 percent of our caucus were unable to get here because they are in those affected areas. They were very clear with us in our caucus discussion that this is not business as usual" and that they did not believe it was appropriate for Parliament to be continuing on as if this cyclone compounding major unprecedented floods was a minor inconvenience that we just work around. It is not; this is a crisis and needs a crisis response.We recognise that our Prime Minister and our Ministers and all of the officials across our agencies that their focus needs to be on working with our people to do whatever is needed at this moment and recognising that we would have had a political debate and ask questions—and we could have done that better today in terms of the ministerial statement if a hybrid Parliament had been enabled yesterday.I do want to come in somewhat in defence of our Māori Party colleague who drove through the storm to get here to be present in this House so that that party could have a voice in these discussions today. So to be suggesting that they are not doing their job as parliamentarians in prioritising this in doing that and putting themselves at risk is not what the Green Party believes this Parliament should be encouraging. We believe that MPs should be able to do their job and be safe and be in proximity to their communities in times of crisis where that is possible through technology. If we'd made that decision yesterday that would have been possible through technology. For those communities to be able to actually hear their MPs stand up and bring their voices—that they'd had conversations with people about—into this House would have strengthened our democracy. For the Green Party that is a real shame. As we come to terms with the climate crisis we need to strengthen our democracy to ensure those voices are stronger in this place as we make those changes. But again we support this adjournment proposal."