Sepuloni Carmel: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSepuloni Carmel: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8736. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CARMEL SEPULONI (Labour—Kelston): Can I just acknowledge the previous speaker Matt Doocey and congratulate him again on the birth of his child. We had a discussion about this in the select committee. The birth of his child came hot on the heels of the Rugby World Cup and he was weighing up whether to call that child Richie or Dan. My suggestion he did not take up but I think it was a good one: “Ma’a Doocey”. It would have been great.Speaking of family I do want to acknowledge all of the members of Parliament here and all of our families because we do spend a lot of time away from our families and regardless of which side of the House we are on we know that that is the reality of being an MP.I really want to acknowledge our MPs in the House who over the past year have lost a loved one. I do not know the details of that for everyone in the House but I do want to acknowledge on our side Peeni Henare for the loss of his father Meka Whaitiri for the loss of her father and also David Shearer for the loss of his mother. I acknowledge that because it has been a very difficult year for many members of Parliament in this House.This Christmas is one we are all going to be looking forward to and we get to step out of here and we actually get to spend some time with our families for at least a few weeks or a month perhaps. Many of us will be standing around that barbecue with our family members with our friends and what we will need to do in advance of that is pull together a playlist. I thought it was only too appropriate to think up a playlist that best reflects the year that we have had.So I am going to hopefully get from A to Z in this short 5-minute speech; if not then I will leave the rest of the letters that I do not get to up to your imagination. But let us start with A No. 1 on the playlist—A. Let us start with at our family barbecues “Advance Australia Fair” because actually this year we have seen the National Government and the Prime Minister roll over for Australia so I think we are going to be starting all of our barbecues in New Zealand with the song “Advance Australia Fair”.The second song: “Bridge over Troubled Water” and that song is dedicated to our transport Minister Simon Bridges for his pretend bridges in Northland. The third song is “Couldn’t Get it Right” by the Climax Blues Band which is again dedicated to the National Government and then the fourth song “Didn’t We Almost Have it All”—that is what New Zealanders are thinking when they reflect on when they had a Labour Government for 9 years with what they have got now.The fifth song is “Everything’s Not Lost” by Coldplay and I am going to dedicate that to our good friend Sam Lotu-Iiga. The sixth song is “Freedom” and that could also go to Sam Lotu-Iiga because at least he is free from the corrections portfolio and having to clean up after Serco. The next song is “Guess Who’s Back”. Who is that dedicated to? Judith Collins. Eminem’s “Guess Who’s Back” is dedicated to Judith Collins.The next song may not make sense to a lot of people but it is “Hello” by Lionel Richie because every time I see David Seymour I still get that image in my head of him jumping out from behind the hedge saying: “Hello I’m David Seymour. Hello hello hello.”The next song is “It’s Raining Men” because let us face it the reality is we still have a shortage of women in this place. And the next one is “Jailhouse Rock” which is in memory of Elvis Presley and also of Serco. The next one is “Killing Me Softly” because quite frankly some of the speeches in this House have killed us all softly this year.Tim Macindoe: Particularly yours.CARMEL SEPULONI: Ha ha! And the next one is “Let It Go”—let it go Tim Macindoe let it go. We get to M and the song is “My Little Pony” and of course we are dedicating that to our Prime Minister. Next we have “New York New York” so while we are all standing around our humble baches—or someone else’s humble baches because many of us do not own them—over the break we will be thinking of that $11 million apartment in New York.Then we have O—“Old MacDonald Had a Farm”. There are so many animals we could throw in on that farm: sheep bobby calves—we could put a panda on that farm. It is a very diverse farm. The next one is P and I hope this is not offensive to the Speaker but the song is “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna dedicated to the Speaker.The next song starting with Q is “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)”. R is “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” because every time we come to Wellington that is the kind of weather that we get. I come here with beautifully straightened hair; I leave on a Thursday with hair pulled back like that ruined by the rain.The next song is “Seven Years” by Norah Jones—it should have been “Seven Long Years”. The next song is “[Take a] Walk on the Wild Side”. I could not think of anything for T; Kris Faafoi gave that to me. He said: “Give that song to Nathan Guy because he needs to liven up a little bit.”The next songs are “Under Pressure” by Queen for all of us and “Virtual Insanity” because we have to be insane if we are going to be here. W is “Watching You” by Ardijah. “Watching You” is Judith Collins to John Key because she knows he is watching her too. “X Marks the Spot” by Coldplay—we will be back here on 9 February. Y—we have to dedicate this song to the flag referendum and that song is “You’re So Vain” dedicated to the vanity project. Finally I will end with “Zombie” by the Cranberries because that is how we are all feeling at this point in time.So I just want to say merry Christmas to everyone. We will see you all back here in the new year. Stay out of trouble because the media has a shortage of stories over the break and you will inevitably end up in the media if you get in trouble. Thank you.