O'Connor SimonSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I will not begin by greeting in all languages as my colleagues have done that but I will begin in a language close to my heart: ni sa bula vinaka. Ni sa bula vinaka sa bula vinaka saka. Na yacaqa ko Simon O'Connor. Ko Member of Parliament e Tamaki; Tamaki e koro e Auckland. Au koro au bure ki a waitu o Auckland. Na gauna e liu cakacaka e Tavuni. Na koro o Tutu Wairiki. Au cakaka e vuli beti Ko Marist Fathers. E totoka vanua; e totoka kai e kai vitit. Au taleitaka au lomani e yagona. Sa kena sosoqo so kina vinaka. Tulou visoti au. Au kila valalai na vosa vaka viti—au vosa vakavālagi.You will excuse me particularly those from Fiji—my Fijian is getting a bit rusty after all these years. But for the House's benefit somewhat I spent a wonderful 2 years living and working up in the garden island of Taveuni in that wonderful area of Cakaudrove working in a place called Tutu just south of Wairiki. It was an absolutely marvellous time in my life working with the people there and often into the far north of Vanua Levu as well. It would be remiss of me also in terms of languages not to wish a fakalofa lahi atu to those from Niue. I have had the great pleasure of having an intern called Salote Talagi working in my office for a while who has been a great advocate for Niue and has been a great encourager of mine to come and visit not just the island but to make sure that I get to Matapa which I believe is a most special place to visit and spend time in.In speaking somewhat roughly in my old Fijian I do actually just want to acknowledge particularly those in Fiji but also those across the region who were affected months ago by Cyclone Winston. I particularly want to add a few words to friends still in Taveuni who have been contacting me and sharing what their struggles are as they are trying to rebuild. Those of you who are in the gallery today and particularly those in Fiji know that you are not forgotten and even this little Palagi is still trying as hard as he can to provide for and encourage the support that is needed. I do want as we are wrapping this debate up to acknowledge all of you who are here from the Islands. Today in some ways it is a bit of a monologue. There are 15 MPs looking up and speaking at you. It is a monologue as such today but it is actually sitting on a background of great dialogue today and I know again tomorrow and I am hoping too it is a dialogue that has been established between our countries over a good number of years. Your countries and your nations as will ours will be much stronger when we work closely together. I am a great believer that in order to work closely together we first and foremost must understand our own cultures. I think therefore it is very important for all of the countries that you represent—just as I represent New Zealand—that we first and foremost know who we are and that we be proud of our own cultures and our own traditions because from that we stand strongly on both feet and from there we are able to embrace each other and speak with confidence and reach out across the divide to find those areas of commonality but also be able to engage in those points of difference with confidence. In listening to the debate here today we have heard many of the commonalities that exist but I think importantly too from a number of speakers we have heard of the commonalities that we seek to pursue into the future. The fact that all parties have been speaking today and from the heart is just fantastic. I think if it was completely appropriate as it would be for a number of cultures—I cannot speak to all the various Islands in the Pacific—at the end of this we should really be bringing our tanoa down here on to the floor with a mat and getting some of that yangona going and having a real old chat. I suspect it would probably make me as I remember very sleepy and if I remember rightly milamila—very itchy too—after too much of the stuff. We will not go into that—I do not think parliamentary privilege protects me. Amongst many other things—and different topics have been highlighted—I look carefully into the health sector. I chair the Health Committee. I am not going to bore you with all the statistics and figures but Government after Government has done what it can as best it can to support Pasifika communities and this Government is no different. We know that Pasifika people often suffer a higher degree of some of the diseases in this country be it diabetes or right through to our young people the likes of obesity and so forth. I just want to assure you that there are a number of Government programmes in play to support addressing that. But as I said a bit earlier this is not always about monologue. So I hope that over the coming days—and perhaps the days that you have already been here—you get to share with us your experiences of your own countries and your perspectives too so that we may do a better job obviously on your behalf of your people and of those who now call New Zealand home.I want to wrap up by acknowledging particularly my colleague Alfred Ngaro who is sitting behind me. I know that many people have been involved in pulling this together right across the Parliament. But I think it is right and proper to acknowledge Alfred for his work chairing and facilitating this. So well done Alfred—thank you for your work. Thank you to each and all of you who have come down here to New Zealand. I think it is a real privilege for us to have you here. I look forward to hearing more of what you have to say tomorrow as you join us in this Parliament. But I really just want to revisit what I was saying at the start: we are all strengthened in our nations when we work together when we speak together that talanoa—that conversation. It is a conversation that again for me personally is fundamentally based on great confidence in who we are first and foremost. We do not move ahead by compromising our values and our cultures; we move ahead by being strong in who we are knowing who we are and confidently speaking with one another. That common humanity eventually comes forward but it is a commonness with just so much colour and life because it is imbued with our different cultures.So again it is wonderful to have you here. It is probably a great relief to you all that this is the last speech of the day—probably a great relief to all of them here as well. But it has been marvellous to have you all here. May you have a lovely evening a lovely time in New Zealand. Sa moce mada.Motion agreed to.