Fox MaramaMARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Just like many others around the country just after midnight on Sunday evening our house felt like it was on a Swiss ball being tossed around. My 6-year-old daughter who happened to be awake at the time was quite excited by this. She spent most of the rest of the evening asking questions about that and then went off to bed singing and I could not believe that of her. I thought that was rather resilient of her and the words Keep calm and carry on." started to come to mind. The song that she sang as she went off to bed was a little ditty that she had learnt over the years called "Kindness Begins with Me". It says: I want to be kind to everyone For that is right you see.So I say to myself"Remember this:Kindness begins with me."Hearing the words of my baby as she went off to bed at about 2 a.m. I had started to go on Twitter to try to get all sorts of information because I could not believe that the earthquake was not centred under my house. When I found out that it was centred somewhere in the South Island I was a bit in shock and thought about how devastating it must be there. But then I saw even across the Twittersphere people already at 2 o'clock in the morning were reaching out to one another making sure that they were OK. So I rang in to Parliament to see what was going on because I knew that the security staff would be up and already they were checking the buildings. Already you yourself Mr Speaker had agreed to allow people to come here as a place of refuge and I want to acknowledge that.I want to acknowledge Jim Robb and his team who went and checked all the buildings. I rang in again at 4 a.m. because I was still awake just like many other New Zealanders to find out what we should be letting our staff know about coming in—what was Wellington like; how was that going to happen—and they were up and they were bringing people in and responding to the need. So I made my way over here on Monday morning because I had some things that needed to get done and I had to drop things off and I found that Taputeranga Marae had opened up its doors to accept tourists who had found themselves stranded and that neighbours had come here and picked people up because they had seen on the news that people were here and they had offered their homes to them. This is the New Zealand with a heart which my baby at 1 o'clock in the morning sang of—kindness begins with me.So today in particular in addition to all of those people who have stretched out a hand of kindness in such a turbulent time for our country I want to acknowledge the people of Te Wai Pounamu the people of Kaikōura and the people of Ngāti Kuri. I am pleased to hear that Whānau Ora commissioning agencies have already gone out and put their hands of support out into the community. They have brought 20 other organisations together already in this quick response. A thousand people have registered at Takahanga Marae the welfare centre in Kaikōura and the Whare Hauora in Ōtautahi has picked up six whānau from around the South Island—a woman with four children including a set of twins—and many other families and evacuated them to a safer place in Christchurch.I want to acknowledge the work of Kai Tahu who with their own helicopters and responders had flown into the area to give aid and to relieve the burden and the hardship that people are experiencing. Marae in Christchurch have opened their doors—Rehua and Tuahiwi Marae. They do this because they know they do this because they remember and what was most heartening to see in all of this was those people from Christchurch who across social media were giving hints to other families who were experiencing this for the first time.Our party is based on a principle of manaakitanga but that is not foreign to New Zealanders. It is just what we do. And so as a New Zealander I am proud of our country and the response that has been put out in this time of need. Kia ora."