Ngaro AlfredHon ALFRED NGARO (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's an honour to rise and give my adjournment speech. Actually it's the first time in seven years I've actually had the chance to be able to do that. I want to do it in four parts.The first thing I want to do is actually—because I was raised to always give thanks so a bit of gratitude. Mr Speaker I want to thank you. I personally want to thank you because you allowed for the introduction of languages during the prayer throughout this year. I want to thank you for your tolerance in allowing me and others of different languages to be able to pray their prayers. I want to say thank you for allowing us to do that through this House as well.I also want to acknowledge the Prime Minister as appropriate in her status and in her role and especially since we worked collectively together from this side to that side in regards to the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. It was a collaboration it was bipartisan and I want to acknowledge the Prime Minister. I want to acknowledge Simon Bridges our Leader of the Opposition. He's had to endure some pretty tough times. I know that many others may have fallen may have failed and may have actually decided to throw the towel in and walk away. But Simon I want to say to you—the Hon Simon Bridges—thank you for your leadership and your courage to continue on and the convictions that you have that are leading us as a party as a caucus as well.I want to acknowledge all of those in the caucus. I think that we've got a fantastic a fabulous an amazing team and I'm proud to be part of this National Party caucus.Can I quickly acknowledge the parliamentary staff all around the building from Copperfield's to Bellamy's right the way through. I think about Julius from the Diplomatic Protection Squad who I met today. I shook his hand and wished him merry Christmas. There is Malcolm from VIP cars and big Jim David Tere and many others that are part of the security around the place. I want to also acknowledge our own staff as well: Ollie who works for me and also Marie up in Auckland for all of us have staff that we appreciate for the roles that they play; and our volunteers throughout and up and down the country. Finally our families—I want to acknowledge the fact that all of us come from families who love us and care for us and even at times when it's difficult they are there right beside us as well. So I want to acknowledge our families as well.My second point today in my speech is a round of reflection. We've got Netflix at home. Apparently inside that Netflix when I've gone down there's a thing called classic movies. When I think about a reflection of the Government of the day the classic movie I want to watch this Christmas is called The Good The Bad and The Ugly. It's Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. You're smiling Mr Speaker—you probably have seen this. That's what I would say is the reflection of this Government.So let's talk about the good bits. Well we talked about child poverty reduction. That was a good thing bipartisan. Actually it's something that happened over a long period of time over previous Governments as well. Let's talk about 215 working groups. Well that's not too bad; that seems like a good thing. Why? Well over nine years you didn't actually have a chance to think about what the policies are and now you're at a point in time where you want to ask the people and so maybe we'll call that a good thing as well. Let's talk about KiwiBuild: 33 homes. Well that's OK—just 99967 more homes to go. You won't take long. You should get there. But you're trying you're making the effort—OK. Could be built could be bought. There are 1.7 million families worse off from the Government Families Package—we'd say that that maybe is in the good.But let's talk about the bad. There are $2.5 billion of new taxes. People are going to hurt out there. People are suffering. But here's the thing: 65000 people have gone out on strike from teachers to nurses even those in the justice area. But here's the one I didn't understand: I didn't realise that the Inland Revenue Department could go out on strike but they did. Unbelievable—65000 people went out on strike. That's got to be some of the bad stuff as well. Petrol taxes are 15.5c a litre higher. People are hurting.What about the ugly? Now this gets a little bit ugly. Karel Sroubek—that's got to be ugly. That's got to hurt. There's a lot of pain in that and it's going to carry on a long way. Why? Because if someone made the right decision at the right time actually we wouldn't be here today. This story wouldn't be continuing on. But hey we've been told Just read between the lines."The one that really hurts that no one's acknowledged: 400000 seedlings were mulched and killed. Their lives were taken. There was a hope there was a vision that one day they could become tall tōtara trees in Northland. Sadly they were taken from us. They've departed. That was truly ugly.Three thousand people have left our shores have gone away from New Zealand. They've said haere rā. They've gone to other places. When National took office 30000 were leaving. By the end of that nine years nobody was leaving. Now we've got 3000 that are leaving. That's ugly. It's the good the Bad and the ugly—get Netflix and watch it.I've got 26 seconds left to go. The reason for the season is a little baby called Jesus who was born into a working-class family who was abandoned and who was actually born in a place where he was homeless for a little while. The purpose of that story is this: it gives us hope that can come in places that we least expect. It will teach us a lesson that even we could be the reason of hope for people around in our community. I hope and pray that we will give a little bit of love out there a bit of hope to people who need it in our communities. Kia orana. Thank you."