Coffey TamatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you Mr Speaker. Tērā Matariki ka rewa i te paeNau mai haere mai te hua o te tau houTākiri ko te ata; ka pua te ataKorihi te manu tino awateaTūī tui tuituia Ko te tangi mai o te kō ko korimakoI te atatū tū ka takatūKoia rā te Rongo whakairihia ake ki rungaTūturu whakamaua kia tina!Haumi eHui eTāiki eNgā hapū e toru o Ngāti Whakaue a Ngāti Hurunga-te-Rangi Ngāti Te Kahu Ngāti Taeotū tēnei te mihi nui ki a koutou katoa kua tae ā-tinana mai ki te taha o Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao te whanaunga anō kua huihui mai nei i tēnei rā i te taha o Te Poari ō Pukeroa Ōruawhata. He mihi nui ki a koutou katoa ki roto i tēnei Whare Te Whare o te raiona mō tō wā tuatoru mō tēnei kaupapa. Ko te wā whakamutunga pea.He hōnore ki te kite i ā koutou i tēnei rā whakahirahira mā tātou katoa o Ngāti Whakaue Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao o Te Arawa whānui. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Yonder is Matariki suspended over the horizonWelcome and come forth the fruits of the New YearThe morning rises the morning bloomsThe bird of the morning chirpsBind it bind it togetherIt is the sound of the korimako I hearJust after sunrise I awakenIt is that indeed Rongo hang it up above permanently affirm itIt is Secure it. Draw it togetherIt is indeed it is secureTo the three tribes of Ngāti Whakaue Ngāti Hurunga-te-Rangi Ngāti Te Kahu Ngāti Taeotū I acknowledge you all who have accompanied Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao our relations who are walking as one with the Board of Pukeroa Ōruawhata today. I would like to acknowledge each and every one of you in the House today the lion's den for your third reading of this bill. It will hopefully be the final stage.It is an honour to see you all today on this special day for Ngāti Whakaue Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao and wider Te Arawa. Therefore greetings to one and all.]Whānau I've got about nine minutes on the clock before I have to wrap it up so I'm going to keep it nice and short. Mr Speaker can I declare my conflicts of interest which is that every organisation every rōpū that I just listed I affiliate to I whakapapa to and I do it so proudly as well. What you've just heard in the many speeches that have just happened in this House are the main reason that our Māori members of Parliament are so important in these conversations that we have down here in Wellington.Iwi politics are hard; iwi politics are tough. As my colleague over here from the Green Party said to me after the day of submission hearings that we had in Rotorua I need a flowchart. I don't know how it all intersects. There's all of these different hapū and these iwi that are overlapping and I don't know. I don't understand it." I said "It's OK. Take a breath. We are complex beings but you know what we are beautiful as well." And when we come together on occasions like this that comes out.Can I acknowledge you for your patience as well. This has been a very long road for our people. This started a long time ago and it hasn't been an easy road. There have been ups and there have been downs and there have been people that haven't been happy with the progress that has been made. But as we move forward we must move forward together and we must make sure that we're inclusive of some of those voices that haven't necessarily been on the journey but are on the journey right now.Can I also acknowledge the previous member for the Waiariki electorate the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell who in August of 2017 initialled the deed which got the ball rolling. As we came into Government it was my colleague the Hon Nanaia Mahuta that picked up the wero and ran with it. It's taken a little while whānau but good things take time and we're in a good place right now.I want to acknowledge the impact that COVID-19 has had on Te Puia. And I see you there Tim. I thank you for your work that you do with our whānau on the ground. I acknowledge the wealth of experience that you have and how during COVID you were willing to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it took because the people were depending on you. So thank you to you.I also want to thank all of our whānau that continue to actually do the hard yards. Despite tourism being in one of the worst states in New Zealand's history here in New Zealand we continue to have an operation. I know that it's probably not making a lot of money at the moment but the doors are open—the doors are open and the people have come. We've just had school holidays and hopefully that saw a boost actually of people coming through the gate.I wanted to dedicate my kōrero today to our guides—our many guides on both sides of the gate. I want to acknowledge them both past and present for the work that they do in telling our story because I hope that one day they will be able to tell another story. I think that my colleague over here: my part-time Whakarewarewa resident Willie Jackson who comes down and squats at Tania's house—it's not even your house. He comes down and squats at Tania's house every now and then and calls himself a person of the village. I say hmm! Go slowly on that one. But actually one day we will have that conversation. I know personally that that conversation about the gate has already started. And what better time because at the moment with our borders closed we have an opportunity in front of us and I hope that we grab that opportunity with both hands.Can I also thank our Prime Minister and our Minister for Māori Development and our Minister of Tourism who post-COVID allocated $7.6 million to Te Puia to enable our school to keep going to enable those scholarship students to keep on training. Yes it's a tourism operation but at its heart at its centre it is actually our arts and crafts institute and the knowledge the mātauranga the mōhiotanga that is encapsulated in our institute needs to be preserved at all costs. Thank you to those that came forward with the tono but also to our Government for realising the taonga that Te Puia is.I hope that we're able to celebrate this back home because of course it's nice to be here but you know as well as I do that there are so many people that aren't here at the moment that would like to be celebrating in this moment because it has been such a big journey. All of those submitters that showed up on the day to pour their hearts out to our select committee and I'll take this moment to acknowledge our Māori Affairs Committee led by my colleague Rino Tirikatene. We came down there that day and we listened to all of the kōrero from the whānau from the iwi but also from individuals as well that felt as though they needed to be heard in that process too. We're in a better place now and I'm just really happy that so many people have come today to hear the third reading.No they haven't come. They don't know. You guys don't know what's happening up here but we're having a really big thing over on this side. Thanks for being here and the ones above me too. This has been a journey for me as a first-time member of Parliament. Some would call it a baptism of fire but I'm OK with that; that's what we do in this role. I'm happy to be the member of Parliament for the Waiariki I'm happy to be Ngāti Whakaue I'm happy to be Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao and I'm happy to look up into the gallery and see all of you today smiling down on this moment. E Te Māngai o tēnei Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou huri rauna i tēnei Whare tēnā koutou katoa. [Mr Speaker greetings one and all throughout the House.]Bill read a third time.Waiata"