Hayes JoanneJOANNE HAYES (National): Ā tēnā koe ka nui te mihi atu ōku whānau nō Papawai me Rangitāne ki Wairarapa me Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa hoki kia ora nau mai haere mai! [Thank you; a huge welcome to my families from Papawai and Rangitāne at Wairarapa and to Ngāti Kahungunu at Wairarapa. Hello there welcome and come hither!]I stand to take a call on the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill shepherded through the House to the third reading by my colleague here Alastair Scott. My colleagues have outlined the purpose of the bill very eloquently. As I have said in previous contributions that I have had in the House it is a bill that has been modernised. It has been brought up to date so that the governors of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Board can get on and do the work that they have been doing over the years that the trust has been in action.I guess for my contribution to the third reading I want to talk a little bit about the whakapapa around Papawai because it is around the Papawai Marae. It is the key to the basis of this trust because without the history around that this trust would never have come into being. Papawai Marae used to be one of the biggest marae in Aotearoa. Many people many Māori looked up to the Papawai Marae because of its history around the first Māori Parliament—the Kotahitanga—and its history around the education background that emanated from Papawai Marae. That is why when we look at the whakapapa behind Papawai Marae we can see that its maunga is Tararua its awa is Ruamāhanga and its marae is Papawai. The whakapapa cements the relationships that have gone through over and over in that area. It is something that binds all of us. And when I say it binds all of us I am saying myself Meka Whaitiri Metiria Turei Ron Mark and Marama Fox: we all whakapapa to that marae.When we look at the history of Māori MPs I think this would be the first time in the history of this Parliament that we have representation of Māori MPs who whakapapa to that one marae. That is something that we can be proud of because that is the education background. That is the kaha and the mana that comes from being a descendant of Papawai Marae. That is the educational background that we all stem from. I am very proud that our whānau are sitting up there in the gallery and that they are witnessing today the updating of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Act.As I said before Papawai Marae was revered throughout the country; it was looked upon. I can say that the ancestors or the major lines that made up Papawai came from Paikea/Iratūroto which connected the northeast to the south and the original Wellington tribes. It was also Whātonga that connected Papawai to the Rangitāne tribes and it was Tamatea that connected our people to the Tākitimu tribes. That is why it is really really important that I put this in the House today as part of my final contribution. I do not know whether it has been said in as many words but I did want to put that as I was talking about the bill.The Māori Affairs Committee received a number of submissions on this bill and everybody around the table at our select committee was all in favour of what was to eventuate today. We too want to see the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts go forward and help not just the tamariki from Wairarapa and Kahungunu but those from right along the East Coast—and actually throughout the whole of the motu—who have whakapapa lines into Papawai in Wairarapa. This is an important stepping stone because there are other Māori trusts that our tamariki can access education scholarships from but this particular trust comes with a lot of good history behind it. It has been run very smoothly and that could be due to the fact of the education prowess that actually emanates out of Papawai or it could be a number of things. But the way that the trust has actually worked with the Anglican Church to be able to deliver various scholarships and such to a number of our tamariki is a credit to the work that it continues to do.I was fortunate enough to visit Papawai with John Hayes a couple of years ago—not a relation of mine but an MP here—and I took a group of overseas students on to the marae. The kaha and the feeling that you get when you enter that marae when you see the tekoteko—the pou that surround it and they all look inwards into it. Most pou stick out you know as a protection thing. Well these pou actually look in and that is to look after and nurture the people in that marae—and that is really key to the basis of Papawai. It is the—how would you put it—a feeling of wairua when you go on there. It is no wonder that Papawai Marae was the basis for our Kotahitanga our first Māori Parliament.All in all as I said the trust gives a third of its income to post - primary education funds and scholarships as well as going across the whole of the country to people who belong to the Anglican Church who are of Māori descent and who whakapapa to Papawai.There is not much more that I can really add to my kōrero. I just want to finish off with this whakataukī. I think it is poignant for Papawai because it has had years of history and when I translate it you will see that it is very poignant for closing my speech with today. Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi he toa takimana. [My strength is not individual but comes from thousands.] That describes the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts. Kia ora.