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Speechnotes for the First Reading of the Arms Legislation Bill, Parliament

Introduction and overview

Mr Speaker

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Police

Tena koutou katoa, thank you for the opportunity to be here today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Transport

One of my priorities out of Paris has been to develop a shared crisis response protocol – a shared set of expectations and understandings on who to contact and how to do it, should there be another attack like Christchurch.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Recently in New Zealand our journalists, like many around the world, took part in the Covering Climate Now campaign.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Earlier this year I visited the remote atolls of Tokelau in the South Pacific.

With a population of 1,500 people that is only accessible by boat, they have a story not often heard but a message that must be shared.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Moderator, your Excellencies.
We in New Zealand remain deeply committed to supporting the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which form the core of the body of international humanitarian law, applicable to armed conflicts.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Your Excellencies, good afternoon, tēnā koutou, warm Pacific greetings for you all.
I thank you for this opportunity to reaffirm Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to universal health coverage.
New Zealand believes firmly in the objectives of today’s event, the acceleration of progress towards achieving universal health coverage to build a healthier world for all.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora and Warm Pacific Greetings.
The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land is unequivocal: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2°C, if not 1.5°C. Changes to the global agriculture and food system are necessary if we are to address climate change, eliminate hunger and halt biodiversity loss.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Mr Secretary-General, it has been New Zealand’s honour to work with China in assisting you to prepare for your Summit.
The commitments on Nature-Based Solutions have demonstrated the significant action under way, working with nature to increase resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But more than that, the commitments and initiatives will also protect biodiversity, strengthen food security and underpin sustainable livelihoods around the globe.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora. Ni hao ma. Greetings and Warm Pacific Greetings.

It has been an honour to work with China and other coalition members to assist the Secretary-General in preparing for his Climate Action Summit. Nature-Based Solutions for climate change are something New Zealand has a strong focus on, and we look forward to working with many of you here to further this agenda.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Kia Ora, Ni hao ma, Warm Pacific Greetings.
In co-leading the Nature-Based Solutions pillar, we realised that for many people nature is not top of mind when thinking about climate action. And we realised, too, that nature is sometimes thought about as “out there”, in the countryside or forests or oceans, not here in the heart of cities where over half of us live.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi, e ngā rau rangatira mā

Tēnā koutou katoa

Konnichi wa

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, ka nui te mihi kia koutou.

Thank you Bruce for your introduction, and welcome everyone.  

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Fisheries

I want to thank the Water New Zealand board and staff for assembling such a comprehensive list of domestic and international three waters experts.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Local Government

Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment - Speech

Event:         Water NZ Conference 2019

  • Hon David Parker
  • Environment

It’s a pleasure to be here today at the first of four workshops on Planned Care being held this month.

  • Hon Dr David Clark
  • Health

E ngā maunga whakahī, e ngā uri whakatipu o ngā moana me ngā awa tapu o te motu nei tēnā koutou.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Development

I am addressing you today as the Minister responsible for arranging the referendum on whether or not to legalise cannabis, which will be held with next year’s General Election.

  • Hon Andrew Little
  • Justice

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tatou katoa

  • Jan Logie
  • Justice

Introduction

  • Hon Kris Faafoi
  • Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Madame Chair, the Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa. My fellow ministerial colleagues from across the Pacific region. SPREP and CROP officials present, ladies and gentlemen. Let me underpin my comments with what’s been said in New Zealand, that the transition to a low emissions economy needs to happen on the scale of the industrial revolution, but at the speed of the digital revolution.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

E nga mana, e nga iwi, e nga reo, e nga hau e wha, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Talofa lava, Kia orana tatou katoatoa, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Taloha ni, Ni sa bula vinaka, Mauri, Bonjour, warm Pacific greetings to one and all.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Fa’afetai i lau Susuga ile fa’afeagaiga mo le tatou talosaga momoli. Oute talitonu lava ua mu ma talia le tatou Taulaga osi.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Thank you for the invitation to take part in this symposium about building our regions and the future of infrastructure in New Zealand.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Local Government