Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Nei rā te mihi ōku whanaunga ā ka tū ahau hei te uri o Taranaki hei te uri o Ngāti Ruanui hei te kaiārahi mō Te Paati Māori. Tēnā koutou katoa.[I greet you my kin and I stand here as a descendant of Taranaki as a descendant of Ngāti Ruanui and as the leader of Te Paati Māori. I acknowledge you all.]First and foremost I want to mihi to my whanaunga for your koha to this nation. There is no way that settlements in Aotearoa are fair or equitable. No one in this House has the right to congratulate themselves. I tangi with you I mihi to you for your aroha for your love that you give to this nation.I also think about how of course Ngāti Maru would be the last to come to the table—you were too busy manaaki-ing and looking after all our rebellious rangatira and for that I mihi to you again. What we have is the love of a people who have arrived here who have given everything they can to achieve this. We have—not once not twice—three times attempted this. I want to mihi to Tainui Tukatoa; I want to mihi to Charlie Hohaia whose son is here; I want to mihi to Poi Pue; Whata Pue—I wonder what he would think; and to Tamzyn who as a 16-year-old fought to stop the last time with her typewriter gathered from a garage sale. I want to also mihi to Pue—Matua Pue Wakaruru. I want to mihi to all those photos on ngā rongo the wall who weren't able to see this today. What we have is a people who are so damn generous to this nation they will come and do everything they can to make this happen. I want to also mihi to our negotiators to their wives to their children to their hapū. I want to mihi to Holden to Karl to Jamie to our grassroots fighter Anaru. I want to mihi to all of those on the side who championed them on when everyone else was sitting there looking at them: What are you up to now Māori?" I want to also mihi because I think people think that because we lost everything we have nothing to stand for and we haven't gained everything. You see because what you have 150 years later is an iwi here today who every time you see them post it's about job opportunities. They highlight the partnerships they've been able to create despite everything being set up against them. During the COVID response what I got to see was an iwi in Taranaki who was able to stand up and protect not only their people but everyone else's people feeding the masses. What you have is a people here who are active in our regional economic development strategy. What you have here is a people who hosted the largest Taranaki Tū Mai and ripped me off of my tautohetohe.What you have here is a people who fought for Māori wards when they thought they weren't going to give it to us in W'akaahurangi. What you have here in this House people are masters of resilience and I don't want anyone to ever forget what today is about: it is about these masters of resilience and their absolute tenacity to go out and forgive this nation who doesn't have the ability to see them for who they are. So I want to mihi as the only party with 100 percent membership here today to tautoku you. And I want to also mihi to my whanaunga; I know that we only get given five minutes but you know I'll say so much more than that afterwards. We don't believe in full and final. We believe that you are generous in accepting 1 percent of everything that was taken so that our future generations can come back for 99 percent. We will tautoku you in every capacity every breath we have so that the breath of Ngāti Maru continues to thrive and strive. It's a blessing to see our rangatahi here today and may you continue to lead by example and show what it is that we can achieve as Māori katoa. I want to also make sure that you are aware of all the aspirations in the Crown and all these departments that are here doing a great big mihi to themselves and actually that you know what you're capable of achieving. We will be there beside you to make sure every aspiration you have is fought for and to make sure every racist that doesn't get how generous our people are in this nation are aware of it.Ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa mō tō kaha mō tō manaaki mō tā tātou iwi katoa.[Loving greetings to you all for your strength and your care for all of our people.]I also want to make sure that we first and foremost humble ourselves to be kind to each other and remember what it takes to achieve settlements. They are divisive they do everything they can to remind us of what we don't have in common and I mihi to you to hold on to the strength of unity because that is what our rangatahi are going to need.Nō reira i te āhuatanga o tā tātou tupuna ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.[Therefore in the manner of our ancestor loving greetings to you all.]"