Potaka TamaTAMA POTAKA (National—Hamilton West): E te Māngai I wanted to acknowledge Maureen Pugh and her whānau at this time for their recent loss and also my esteemed kaumātua from Rangitīkei Ian McKelvie and wily Hamiltonian David Bennett for their support. I'm thankful to speak briefly to a couple of kaupapa.First education: education needs to return to teaching the basics brilliantly and the realisation of potential across many cohorts particularly Māori. As Parliament we should be whakamā of the situation we're in: 98 percent of kids in decile 1 cannot pass a basic writing test. Half of our Māori kids aren't turning up regularly to go to school. Half of our children fail to hit minimum OECD standards. We can do better. But all this happened when an extra $5 billion was spent on education over the past five years. The famous hiphop song resounds: the more tax money we come across the more problems we see. Each and every child should gain the skills and knowledge they need for further education and to realise the potential of their lives.Second Hamilton West is a microcosm of New Zealand. If Hamilton West succeeds New Zealand succeeds and if it fails New Zealand will likely fail. We've got hardworking whānau and organisations like the Wise Group a super Super Rugby team and exemplary iwi development like Waikato-Tainui but as the ram-raid capital of Aotearoa inflation law and order health—fail blog. Housing is particularly difficult in Hamilton: 750 kids and 750 adults wake up in motels and cars every single day and this Government is giving $25 million a quarter to the motel owners in Hamilton. National will unlock more land and build transport for the future in dynamic cities like Hamilton. As Scribe would say Keep our minds on the prize and our minds on the goal" and get our city of the future back on track.Third in my view kotahitanga or unity across the country has unravelled a little more in the short time I've been here and today respectfully opining that voting choices put everything at risk and that one party is an exclusive representative of Māori communities is unreasonable hyperbole. There are some unreasonable positions around the binary outcomes that people are positioning in our discussions in Parliament and to be fair I think there's a degree of maturity we can grow into. As Todd Muller eloquently observed we are seeing more toxicity around relationships between relations—Māori Pākehā Kiwis New Zealanders people from Waatea Marae and Ihumātao farmers townies employees employers Pākehā Māori journalists and digital platforms. We are all stronger when we bring evidence-based data together with a bit of innovation—for example the ingenuity and the innovation around settling Treaty claims like Christopher Finlayson did and Minister Little is doing tomorrow with Te Pūtake Rongo. E mihi ana ki a ia. [I acknowledge him.]Accelerating the novel implementation of social investment and wellbeing programmes—if we can have respectful and fun debate Matua Minita Jackson and Matua Minita Sio this place would be a better place and we could better create a safe prosperous and successful country Ms Dean. We will maintain stability for whānau and communities and both move and hold the centre in both a sustaining and symbiotic way.The first Māori King Pōtatau Te Wherowhero offered some great insight: through the eye of the needle must pass the red the black and the white thread—and I would add "the yellow the green the purple and the blue". It is time for all New Zealanders particularly us in this place to re-splice kotahitanga. We must show that we can be an outperforming economy and an outperforming society. We can help grow health and wealth without having to grow to peak Kāwanatanga and spending of Government. We can ensure that law and order is tied up with productivity and potential and we must guarantee that exemplary health and education services are delivered for Kiwis.The chaotic winter is coming to a close and with it comes spring and a promise of blue skies and the green growth that comes accordingly. I look over at my empty seat over there at our friends from the Green Party and say to them that green only comes through blue—and a bit of yellow. That's the biggest challenge that the Green Party has. The biggest challenge that the Labour Party has is that they know that kotahitanga can only come forth and emerge forth when members of the National Party coalesce and drive it together. And with that Mr Speaker e mihi ana ki a koe i ō pūkenga i tō mātauranga. Tēnā tātou katoa.[And with that Mr Speaker I acknowledge you your skills your knowledge. Greetings to all of us.]"