Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): I want to start by paying acknowledgments through a Māori lens and that is to the wonderful great New Zealander Tā Harawira Gardiner. There was a wonderful rā whakamaumaharatanga remembrance service for that distinguished New Zealander rangatira and that is the work and that is the legacy that he has laid down and I'm really disappointed by the ACT member in terms of taking us back to way into the last century with his views in terms of race relations in Aotearoa. Tā Harawira Gardiner was an outstanding servant of the public service he had a distinguished military career and he laid a legacy.Hon Michael Woodhouse: And the National Party.RINO TIRIKATENE: And even though he was partial to the blue side of the House—Hon Michael Woodhouse: Partial? He bled blue.RINO TIRIKATENE: We note that but we pay that respect and that's what we do in Māori.Āpiti hono tātai hono. Rātou te hunga wairua ki a rātou. Āpiti hono tātai hono. Ko tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou. Tēnā tātou katoa. [The lines are unbroken. Let the dead rest with the dead. The lines are unbroken. Let us the living be with the living. Greetings one and all.]Now with that out of the way to the business at hand. I'm delighted to be a member of this Government. What a wonderful unified team that we have. We have an economic plan which is actually achieving results for New Zealand in spite of the global turmoil and difficult circumstances that the world is facing at the moment. I want to acknowledge our Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern; our Minister of Finance Grant Robertson; and Stuart Nash our Minister for Economic and Regional Development. We have an economic plan and it is delivering for New Zealand because our economy is growing: tourism is back and it's up; goods exports in our term of Government have been going up every year. We are delivering for New Zealand in two particular areas too: the lowest unemployment rate for Māori and Pasifika we have achieved as a Government and also the highest employment rate for women for wāhine across Aotearoa. We have achieved that through our management of the economy in spite of the difficult and challenging global situation that we're in. And as part of our economic plan we are strengthening those foundational elements to our economy and I want to acknowledge the Hon David Parker Minister for the Environment and his associate the Hon Kiritapu Allan for their work in introducing—we're getting rid of the Resource Management Act (RMA) and we have two new pieces of legislation which will make it cheaper faster and better for resource management processes and resource management law—long overdue long overdue. This is something the Opposition could never deliver. Even with their nine years of power they could never deliver what we have achieved in these landmark pieces of legislation. So I commend them for their work the work of this Government—including dealing with difficult issues around Māori issues infrastructure local government all of those issues. To be able to bring forward that legislation is a really great achievement that we are doing.So our economy is doing well. We are making foundational changes through the RMA. And I want to talk about the strengthening that we are doing in our international connections. As we've heard during question time today we have achieved more in terms of free-trade relationships and free-trade agreements than the last Government when they were in power: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership upgrades to the China FTA. We've just heard about the recent Association of South-east Asian Nations FTA. We are doing so much work and our Prime Minister is currently over at APEC meetings and the East Asia Summit leading business delegations. We are doing the work in terms of reconnecting with the world to ensure that we can have those important agreements in place which can support our exporters and which can bring forward greater revenues and greater returns to all of New Zealand. That's a hallmark of our trade-for-all agenda and we are excelling in terms of the achievement that we are making on the international stage. So I'm really proud of the achievements that we are doing but we know that there is a lot more work to do and that's why we're working hard as a team to ensure that we can continue to build the foundations for a strong economy to ensure that it can deliver for all New Zealanders.One final shout-out again to the Minister for Economic and Regional Development for his economic plan that he has put out and he is championing for New Zealand and that is delivering for us all. Kia ora tātou.