Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): I rise on behalf of the people of Waimakariri to condemn the horrific shootings on Friday at the Al Noor Mosque in Deans Avenue and the Linwood mosque; to grieve for the 50 people who lost their lives that day including a resident of Waimakariri; and to grieve for the young children at the school who have lost their grandfather. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims the families the friends the Muslim community fellow Cantabrians and the wider New Zealand community. Let us be very clear. This was not an attack on a small group of people in Christchurch; this was an attack on all of New Zealand—on all New Zealanders.I took my young kids to the memorial at the botanical gardens—aged five and three. What do you tell them? They asked us what we were doing and my wife and I said it was about people who hadn't respected each other. So we asked them to draw a picture of what respect would look like and they drew a picture of people hugging each other and of love hearts. So we lay those pictures and what a confronting memorial that was. The flowers the messages and the toys are something that will last with me for ever.I want to pay our respects to our emergency services. It was not only on Friday that those guys got up—and girls—but they went in again on Saturday and Sunday. We owe them a lot. I do urge the Government Government agencies and other agencies who can do so to speed up the release of any bodies that haven't been released to date back to their families so they can have a timely burial.I personally believe there are too many guns in New Zealand. We need to reduce the amount of guns in circulation. I don't understand why we have military-style weapons. I don't understand why we need semi-automatics.Mr Speaker I was actually with you on Friday and Will our parliamentary educationalist who's up in the gallery with a class of schoolkids today. We were actually at the Linwood primary school on a Speaker-led trip close to the mosque in the morning and then we went to the university. For me it had an eerie similarity because I have been in a lockdown for terrorism before. I lived in London for the 2005 tube bombings as a young New Zealander on their OE. What was confronting for the British that day for all their rhetoric that terrorists would be coming in from outside the country was that they were home-grown bombers and like we are confronted with on Friday these were not people that had come from the Middle East or North Africa. This terrorist did not look like he had come from the Middle East or North Africa. This terrorist did not sound like he had come from the Middle East or North Africa. He was white he was Caucasian. He spoke English and grew up not far from here.I do urge the Government—we've had threats of retaliation today—to ensure that our security services are well-resourced and focused to keep all New Zealanders safe going forward no matter what their religion what their race or who they are.I'd like to finish with a quote from Nelson Mandela: For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedoms of others." Thank you."