In making recommendations, one of the main recommendations that our inquiry and our committee agreed with is that we should not only look at continuing to invest in the Pacific through our aid programme but that we should look at continuing to increase that investment through the official development assistance (ODA) to the Pacific. In making that recommendation, the committee intended to reflect the depth of New Zealand's commitment to working closely with our Pacific partners, as well as to signal the recognition that we are indeed part of the Pacific whānau; Aotearoa, after all, is very much part of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the vast ocean we call Pacific. 