McKelvie Ian; Dean JacquiIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a short call on the Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Day Bill. This will be I suppose to quote Sean Fitzpatrick a speech of two halves. But firstly I'm a huge admirer of the late Queen and believe the least we can do as a country is take a day off to remember her extraordinary service to New Zealand to the Commonwealth to her own country of course but also to the world. I think that was very clearly indicated by the extraordinary events really that've happened—starting in Scotland interestingly—in Britain in the last few days or last 10 or 12 days in fact and the extraordinary response that she got from the rest of the world and world leaders who turned up from everywhere to what can only be described as an extraordinary display of I suppose British history to some extent but also it was an extraordinary event. I think anyone who stayed up last night and watched it would've—in fact my wife stayed up for hours watching it. I didn't; I went to sleep in the end but it was an extraordinary event.Seeing as Todd Muller started telling stories I thought I should tell a story about Government House. I don't get to Government House very often but I did get there one day and I was standing in a line waiting to meet one of her grandsons actually and I had a mince pie in my hand—anyone who's had a mince pie at Government House will know they're pretty special. I had it in my hand and he walked out the door and I was the first in line—Chester Borrows was second in line. I shoved the mince pie in my pocket and just as I shook the prince's hand Chester banged on my pocket like that. Ha ha! It was a very uncomfortable feeling. But I thought it worth telling that story because I did have the opportunity in my lifetime to meet most of the royal family and that was one I'll always remember because of Chester's attitude to it.But I do think that—and I had an opportunity last week to say a few words about this too so I think it's pretty special—the heroes in this—and I don't want to make any excuses for us supporting a public holiday because I absolutely think it's warranted and I think that it's the very least we can do to respect an extraordinary woman who played such a massive part in world affairs ever since the end of the Second World War really. But I do think the real heroes in this are those people who—farmers for example who have lost a day's processing and some of them have waited weeks and weeks and weeks for that to happen; those people who have had medical appointments cancelled; those people who have had their dentist appointment cancelled. I was at the dentist last night; I can still feel it—they've had dentist appointments cancelled that they've been waiting weeks for. Those schoolchildren who no longer will get what effectively—in a very difficult few years—is yet another day away from school and they miss out on school. Those are the heroes I think of the fact that we—and I as I said absolutely accept we should have a public holiday to acknowledge the Queen. I really quite look forward to next Monday because I think the memorial service to her will be pretty special and I think that the day will be special to New Zealanders and we'll remember it forever. But there are some heroes from a New Zealand perspective on that and those are the people that have sacrificed a lot to allow the rest of us to have a day off and I think we should remember that particularly as we go forward.So I think you know I make no excuses for the fact that the National Party have supported the Government in the opportunity to provide a public holiday in memory of who can only be described as the most extraordinary person that has lived in our times. I think her contribution to the world will last for years and years to come. So with those few words we certainly support this bill and I support it myself.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Debbie Ngarewa-Packer—five minutes.