Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Cantabrians have demonstrated once again why responses to local emergencies are best led at the local level. Canterbury-based first responders Ngāi Tahu, Federated Farmers, the Hakatere, Koukourārata, and Tuahiwi Marae, and community and rural leaders, including the Rural Support Trust, St John, Red Cross, and many other organisations and individuals, were critical to the response. I want to thank all those families and friends and neighbours who took in evacuees over the weekend, helped clear debris, and even, in some cases, saved lives. I especially want to thank the hundreds of volunteers like those that I met at the civil defence centre at the Mandeville Sports Club, and also those at the Ashburton and Waimakariri emergency operation centres. There is a significant recovery ahead for affected communities, and Government agencies are well involved in that.