Tuiono Teanau; Pugh MaureenTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. Fa'afetai tele lava to all the members of the House who have engaged with the debate today. Also I want to once again say thank you to all the community members for coming to Parliament and to emphasise that this Parliament is your Parliament—this is your place this is the people's place as well. And once again to recognise acknowledge the Speaker of the House of the Samoan Parliament and the Samoan members of Parliament that are here with us today and people from the high commission.Thank you to those members that understood the intent of the bill. Fairness is at the heart of the bill. It's very simple: we had a group of New Zealand citizens who had their citizenship recognised and then they had their citizenship removed by statute. It's just unfair plain and simple. States should not be able to remove citizenship wholesale like this. It is just not the right thing to do.I just wanted to address some of the comments from the National Party. I hope that when this comes to the select committee they will engage with it in a open mind—that they will engage with this topic in a way that the community needs those stories to be heard. As they were speaking I was actually reflecting on the powerful debate that we had when the Dawn Raids apology was moving through this House. I reflect on the words of the then National Party leader Judith Collins where she actually talked about this bill. One of the points that she said and that I agreed with is perhaps it would have been better if the National Party and the Labour Party both did the ifoga because during that time period the Dawn Raids happened through both Governments as well. So it is in that spirit I invite the National Party to engage in this.I do also want to emphasise that this is automatic eligibility for a citizenship by grant which we could and we should talk about. What are the parameters of what that grant could look like? Because I do take that point and acknowledge that point that has been shared by members and also within the media as well: we don't want to be enabling mass migration. This is a call for the Samoan Government. It is something that should be done bilateral between Governments. But what we can do is provide a pathway for citizenship for those elders who had their citizenship taken away from them unjustly and acknowledge that some of them are here tonight.I want to acknowledge the comments from my relatives in the Labour Party—I was going to say Samoan party"; maybe I can tonight right?—and thank them for their comments. I was reflecting on the history that Lemauga shared about history that New Zealand should know about—because it is not just Samoan history it is our history. If we really learn about that history we can get this relationship right we can get this relationship well because that is what we need as a region. We need to understand the history. It is a painful history but it is something that we must unravel. It is something that we must deal with.There are things that we do well and I think we should continue to do well and that is that relationship diplomacy. There are tensions here political tensions in the Pacific and we can navigate that well when we do relationship diplomacy. This bill is relationship diplomacy. If we treat the elders of Samoa with respect and dignity and offer a pathway of citizenship back here to Aotearoa New Zealand that is good for Aotearoa and good for Samoa and ultimately good for our region.Fa'afetai tele lava. Meitaki ranuinui—682 to 685. I commend this bill to the House. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): The question is that the motion be agreed to. Those of that opinion will say Aye to the contrary No. The Ayes have it.Hon Members: Party vote.[Singing in the gallery Applause]"