Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour): Tēnā koe te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koutou katoa. Ngā mihi aroha ngā whānau o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.[I acknowledge the Speaker and all members. My warm greetings to the families of the Pacific.]I'm incredibly proud to be a member of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee both in this Parliament but also in the previous Parliament and I did want to acknowledge the cross-party work that was conducted. So Gerry Brownlee Simon O'Connor and Golriz Ghahraman—we attempted to incorporate Pacific voices throughout our submissions so I want to acknowledge all those who made a contribution to this inquiry. The inquiry wanted to understand the different aid models. It wanted to compare the effectiveness of past and present aid models. We wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of past and present aid models. It wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of the programmes but it also wanted to build a social licence for New Zealand's aid to the Pacific. As others have alluded to fundamentally our relationship is built on whakawhanaungatanga and the fact that we are Pacific peoples ourselves and so we have taken a responsibility specifically for the Pacific in terms of our overseas development assistance which totals $2.219 billion. That is the effective spend in 2018/19 and 2020/21 and 60 percent of our overseas development assistance is invested in the Pacific. So we have been I guess very strategic in focusing on the Pacific because for us it matters. Our relationship matters. Our diaspora Pacific communities who call Aotearoa home actually will never lose that connection to their islands to the heritage countries and in fact probably a lot of them are dual citizens and return home a lot. Like all of us we have whakapapa. I have whakapapa into Samoa. My brother produced two beautiful Māori Irish Samoan Italian children. So for many of us we have a vested interest in ensuring that the Pacific has access to the resources they need to build resilient lives.I really wanted to focus on our commitment to helping with the human rights issues in the Pacific. Those challenges are ongoing in terms of the status of women and we as women in this Parliament have done a lot to tautoko and support women to run for Parliament and also those women who are in Parliament and I know this Parliament actually has created opportunities for us to assist the development of women in the Pacific. So the status of women continues to be a challenge in some of our Pacific communities. The status of LGBT peoples continues to be a challenge for some of our whānau but I think where we're at is supporting the communities the LGBT communities in our Pacific countries to actually drive for change from within. I want to highlight the Cook Island community at the moment and Te Tiare Association. It's very important that we support those local—I won't call them activists—communities who are advocating for their right to exist and within a context of law that we actually gave them. We were the coloniser within that context and we have a responsibility to ensure that those communities have access to resources so they can drive law reform themselves with us there to tautoko and awhi.I haven't got much time but I do want to focus on the challenges that crept in at the end of our inquiry which actually are about COVID and the effects of COVID particularly on the tourism sector. It's an incredibly challenging situation that many of our Pacific countries find themselves in and I think the ministry are going to have to think quite strategically about how we tautoko and awhi our Pacific communities through this period to when tourism resumes because the strategic assets that the industry relies on—airlines having appropriate food and beverage accommodation—are going to be I think a focus if we want to ensure the sustainability of our Pacific communities going forward and also obviously the vaccination programme which we are there to support.We have committed to helping purchase the vaccines but again the biggest challenge will be supporting our Pacific communities in-country who are the ones that will deliver that vaccine to their people. Kia ora koutou.Motion agreed to.