Simmonds PennyPENNY SIMMONDS (National—Invercargill): Thank you Mr Speaker and I genuinely rise taking no pleasure from having to take part in this debate. I want to pass on my empathy and best wishes to Kiritapu Allan and at this time when her personal and private life is under such public scrutiny just remind her that this too will pass and many people have talked about the likelihood of her rising again. So I want to endorse those sentiments. I want to speak about Kiritapu Allan's resignation and the context of this and it has been talked about before that her resignation comes within the context of five other resignations under this Prime Minister—so Jacinda Ardern Stuart Nash Meka Whaitiri Michael Wood Kiri and of course David Parker. But not only does it come within the context of those six resignations but it also comes within the context of many areas of failed reforms and failed behaviour from this Prime Minister. I believe that in the context of this resignation the Prime Minister is the common denominator of many of these issues. We're talking about a Prime Minister who while an experienced politician was certainly not an experienced people manager and he was certainly not experienced in exercising judgment over staff or people that he worked with. I said very early in my time here that Chris Hipkins wasn't capable of running a bath because he had never run anything and I stand by that and so I think Kiritapu Allan's resignation has been an incredibly sad consequence of a person being in a position of leading who did not provide that support and leadership that she should have been able to expect.I talk about the context of the things that the Prime Minister has been involved in in his time as Prime Minister and also as a Minister. I look at the education reforms of the vocational education sector that have been a complete and utter disaster. I look at the roll-out of the vaccines—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Come back come back please to within the debate.PENNY SIMMONDS: Thank you Madam Speaker. So I'm wanting to traverse the areas where I believe that the Prime Minister and at the time when he was the Minister of these various areas Chris Hipkins has let down not only Kiritapu Allan but a large number of people. When I look at farmers who have lost hope for their—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! I've warned the member once to come back to within the scope of this debate which is an urgent debate centring around the resignation of a Minister. I'll ask the member again to stay within the parameters of the debate.PENNY SIMMONDS: Thank you Madam Speaker. I do think that the Minister resigning is very much as a consequence of the lack of support and the leadership that was not shown to her by the Prime Minister and I believe that there have been a number of signals over the last few years that this Prime Minister in his role as a Minister has done similar things to people within those areas and now to his Cabinet. When we read through six Ministers in the last six months who have resigned there is a common dominator and the common denominator is Chris Hipkins who lacks the experience and lacks the judgment to be able to offer the support that should have been able to be expected of a leader in that context.