Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. By my recollection of our Estimates hearing and having Minister Winston Peters attend it was one where actually he needs huge congratulations. If we look at Vote Foreign Affairs and Trade he has secured $549.59 million which is an increase of 15 percent under that portfolio. Now people may quibble about what he intends to spend it on but actually from my perspective it's a very good increase and it should be acknowledged.In Vote Official Development Assistance which I am particularly interested in that total is $768.39 million and over the next three years from Budget 2018 it's going to see a 28 percent increase in official development assistance. Where will that money be spent? Actually it will be spent predominantly—60 percent of it—in the Pacific. So for the Minister to be belittled in such a way by the previous speaker Tim Macindoe I find incredibly infuriating when the priority and focus of this reinvestment is on the Pacific.He talked a lot about the Pacific reset—how we're going to invest this money. And we're going to invest this money in mutually beneficial and sustainable development in the Pacific region. And why are we going to do that? Because we are changing the relationship that we have as a country with the Pacific. We now know that to be successful we need partnerships we need collaborations and we need to support Pacific leadership development. And to what end—to what end? Actually the focus is going to be on attaining the sustainable development goals.And two issues that were highlighted at our select committee the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee were actually domestic violence and malnutrition. So if people think those are joke areas I find that incredibly offensive because the levels of domestic violence—not only in the Pacific but actually here in our own country—are abhorrent. So the reality of the work of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is to provide the resources so we can address these critical issues.What is the other critical issue that we will invest in? It's actually the challenges of climate change. And that is going to be incredibly challenging especially when we have countries like Nauru that potentially may not exist anymore. So we're needing to invest in partnerships and collaborations that have the technology to ensure that that country continues to have a land mass. Without a land mass how can you be a sovereign country? Again this isn't an issue that we should quibble at.The other issue is our support within that climate change challenge for climate change refugees. And I actually think the Pacific reset—the focus of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in working on addressing those types of issues—are things that we should actually celebrate and focus on.One of the major issues that we talked about was this concept of tied aid and I do find that incredibly interesting because there now is an emerging discussion about whether we should have some expected outcomes for the aid that we give to developing countries. Should we for example insist that they sign up to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women? Should we insist that they sign up to the different conventions and regulations around civil and political rights and social and cultural rights and that actually issues like homosexual law reform are addressed in these Pacific countries?What the Minister said was that he's considering it. And so that is an interesting development in terms of the relationship that we see we have with the Pacific because it is one of tuakana-tēina. I want to use that word because my colleague Aupito Su'a William Sio uses that all the time. But what it also highlights is that more and more the interests of our Pacific brothers and sisters and us as a country have become more intertwined. And it has become more intertwined because many more of us—and I can speak as a resident of South Auckland—are actually marrying and having children together. So there is no separate Māori identity or Pasifika identity; there's actually a merged identify. And what I see from this reprioritisation of our Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade is a realisation of that and a focus on that and also a commitment to enhance that relationship going forward. Kia ora.