Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker and even though I have congratulated you and this is not my first time to speak in the House I feel it would be remiss and people may comment that I have not congratulated you on your role. Once again I look forward to working with you in this House. I am very mindful also of the gallery beginning to fill for the speeches that will come shortly with our new members and I want to congratulate them all very much on the most extraordinary opportunity to talk in this House for the first time. I recall it myself on 16 November a long time ago my father's birthday and it was a very special occasion. I wish each and every new member of this House the most extraordinary three years and longer. Ooh Mr Speaker—it is now Mr Speaker in the seat so I will very briefly congratulate you sir on your role and I look forward to working with you in the next three years.I am grateful today to be standing in this House. New Zealanders voted for certainty and stability in this election and I feel the weight of that expectation and responsibility from our community. I'm humbled by the faith that has been shown in our party and the exceptional leadership of our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. We all know that the global crisis of COVID-19 sits heavy on us all and we all know that we have difficulties to come in the future but we as a party and this House I believe commit to keep COVID-19 at bay at our borders and to stamp it out as it comes in. Our team of 5 million have indeed done a brilliant job. I'm getting a wave to say to sit down.SPEAKER: If the member does sit down she causes a problem. She's to speak till 4 o'clock.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Yes absolutely sir. Thank you for your direction. Like I said I look forward to working with you sir.I want to first of all acknowledge a debt of gratitude that we have to our front-line workers in COVID-19. It is an exceptional thing that our front-line workers have been doing for these last months. We know that their lives have been disrupted and the sacrifices that they have made are extraordinary and so I would like to put on record my great and deep thanks for their work. It is truly an important aspect of keeping us all safe. It is a huge cost to them personally.We have our five-point economic recovery plan which was endorsed by the people of this country. For me this plan is simply about the wellbeing of our people. People are at the heart of this policy: our financial security our environment our planning for the future when we build back better focusing on child poverty front-line climate change addressing housing.My city needs all the help it can get at the moment. We are facing a huge amount of issues. We are the sixth-least affordable city in the world for housing. This is so extremely difficult. We need to build back better we need to build back more we need to build back faster and I'm delighted that our Government is doing so and will continue to do so.Yesterday we declared a climate emergency—and I'm going to hurry this. My heart sang yesterday—my heart sang yesterday—for our country and for what we as a nation will do and the steps that we will be taking to move forward to make a difference. We've started that work in the last three years and we will continue to do that work and for me that is so very important. Not only our people but our environment must be cared for. If we can't care for our environment then where will our people live and if our people have nowhere to live what will happen to our environment?Once again I have to say I am delighted to take a very brief call in this House. Thank you.