Allan KiritapuHon KIRITAPU ALLAN (Minister of Conservation): Mr Speaker tēnā koe otirā ki a koutou i raro i tēnei tuanui i tēnei ahiahi. Ka nui aku mihi ki a koutou mō tēnei wā o te Mahuru Māori. Tuatahi ka whiu atu i ōku nei whakaaro ki ngā whānau hapū kaimahi ringa raupā i ngā whānau hapū katoa kei roto i a Aotearoa i tēnei wā. Tuarua ka huri ōku nei whakaaro ki ngā tāngata ki Tāmaki-makau-rau i tēnei wā ki a koutou e noho haumaru ana i te kāinga mō tēnei wā o te taumata tuawhā. Me titiro mātou ki a koutou i tēnei wā. Ka nui aku mihi ki a koutou mō tō koutou kaha i tēnei wā. Heoi anō e me whiu anō i ōku nei whakaaro ki a rātou ki Tāmaki-makau-rau. Kua haramai te ua i te tīmata o te wiki kua eke nei. Kua haramai te waipuketanga. E 78 ngā whānau e kore e hoki ki ō rātou kāinga i tēnei wā. Heoi anō kei a koutou ki Tāmaki-makau-rau i tēnei wā kua kitea e mātou tō koutou kaha i ērā atu wā e tino taumaha he wā tino taumaha ki a koutou. [Mr Speaker greetings to you and to everyone in the House this afternoon. I greet you all during Mahuru Māori. Firstly my thoughts go out to the families the subtribes the workers the hard workers in all the families and subtribes of Aotearoa at this time. Secondly my thoughts turn to the people of Auckland at the moment to all of you staying safely at home at this time in level 4. We must look to you at this time. I thank you for your strength in the current circumstances. Again my thoughts take me to those in Auckland. The rains came at the beginning of the past week causing flooding. There are 78 families unable to return to their homes at the moment. And so to those of you in Auckland right now we have seen your strength at other times when you have found yourselves in difficult circumstances.]I'd like to reiterate the comments of those within this House this afternoon who have started our contributions this afternoon by turning our thoughts to those that are in Tāmaki-makau-rau at this time. Whilst we have I guess the liberated freedoms to be here in level 2 our friends and our relations that are doing the heavy lifting for us in Auckland have had to undergo a fair bit in the last week or so. Of course there was the traumatic time on Friday as those that went to do their shopping had to endure the attack the unreasonable and irrational attack of hatred on Friday at the West Auckland mall.I also too want to acknowledge the 78 families that have been displaced from their homes as a consequence of the flooding just at the outset of the week last week in Auckland. Ordinarily that would've probably preoccupied a lot of the nation's attention because it was quite a significant event: 78 people out of their homes either red-stickered or yellow-stickered. I want to acknowledge all of the emergency management teams that have wrapped around those families and will continue to wrap around those families for some time as a consequence of that flooding event.So the terrorism the flooding and those families that are still in alert level 4—I want to reiterate the commendation of my colleague Minister Little who recognised and said in this House that the number to call or text for those that need it is 1737 if people are feeling like they need to turn to somebody to have a little talk to.As we turn as a nation to how we can turn away and come out of the alert level 4 that our friends in Auckland are in and as those of us in the rest of the country are now enjoying some more freedoms at alert level 2 we know that a fundamental component to turning the tide in terms of our country's response is ensuring that we get our vaccination rates up. So I want to acknowledge those front-line workers: the vaccinators the nurses all of those that are wearing the complete regalia as they entertain us as they make us feel safe as they make us feel calm as we go through those vaccination stations. To date 2.3 million New Zealanders are completely vaccinated—what an immeasurable effort that those at the front line have undertaken. Over 3.5 million doses have been administered throughout the country. Last week over half a million doses were administered and I can't but thank those that were on the front line doing that.But there are a lot more vaccination rates that need to be lifted. I just want to give a little pop shot to my mate David Seymour—maybe we should see less of those actions trying to takahi on the mana of those trying to get those vaccination rates up. Tēnā koe.