Allan Kiritapu; Rurawhe AdrianHon KIRITAPU ALLAN (Minister of Conservation): Tēnā koe e te Māngai otirā ki a tātou i raro i te tuanui o tēnei Whare. Ka huri atu au ki te taumahatanga o tēnei kaupapa i muri i a tātou i whakawhiti kōrero tātou i roto i tēnei Whare i te ahiahi nei. Ko te tino kaupapa ko te ngāngara o te whakamomori. Heoi anō kei a koutou kei a koutou ā kei a mātou ngā mema o tēnei Whare mō te āhuatanga o te kōrero kei roto mō te āhua tau i waenganui kei roto i te Whare nei aku mihi ki a koutou ki a tātou mō te āhua o tēnei taupatupatu.[Greetings Mr Speaker and everyone under this roof. Let me turn my attention to the seriousness of the matter we have debated in this House this afternoon. The main issue is this terrible thing suicide. It is up to you all and you all and we as members of this House to uphold the peace of this House in our discussions thank you all with respect to this debate.]I want to acknowledge the tone of the debate this afternoon because this is not an issue I think that any single person in this House takes lightly. As my colleagues have all said whakamomori—suicide—impacts us personally in every single home in every single whānau in every single community. As I was purviewing the statistics—and some of them are absolutely heartbreaking—I was putting faces to those statistics. In fact as a brand new member of this House in my first year I lost a young niece just starting out in her life to whakamomori—a young beautiful wahine Māori; a young beautiful woman 18 years old passionate about her culture a love for our reo a strong whānau unit. I remember at that tangihanga we all held each other and we cursed ourselves for not doing enough. We cursed ourselves for not seeing the signs.I want to acknowledge the work that the cross-party group has done. You've brought to the forefront for all of us a well-considered report that builds on the commissioned work that has resulted in this Zero Suicide Aotearoa report. I want to touch on three particular groups because they're groups that sit in my particular community and that I think about the most—and gosh these groups look so different. In my back-patch of the East Coast our economic backbone is from horticulture agriculture and I was most struck when I had—it was actually the wife of a young farmer. She came to talk to me and I'm sure we've all had these experiences as rural-based MPs. The rates of whakamomori amongst our farming community are incredibly high and it was something so taboo that actually it wasn't talked about. I want to highlight the work of Rural Women's trust for bringing to the forefront the conversations that were impacting by and large—and I will say it: it was young men. It was men actually of all ages that didn't talk about mental health and didn't feel so comfortable and we're noticing a shift but there's more work to be done.I remember as a young person I sat on the board for RainbowYOUTH. It was the biggest issue of our time. When we sat there we would talk about how whakamomori was so invasive amongst our communities and my friend here shared a personal story about our rates for takatāpui are far too high when it comes to whakamomori. But the rates of course that break our heart—that break my personal heart—are those that relate to Māori. Huge amounts. It's an issue that's impacting. So the work that we're doing to prevent suicide—and whilst there may not be unanimous support across the House for a zero target there is a lot of work that has been done that has been taken from that report. I want to highlight the fact that we have set up the Suicide Prevention Office. We're implementing the recommendations where it makes sense to for He Ara Oranga. We've directed the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health with—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.