Kanongata'a-Suisuiki Anahila; Williams PotoANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Five minutes. I acknowledge English as the dominant migrant—migrant—language of Aotearoa New Zealand society. The first speaker said a foreign language that he learnt was French. Well French is the sixth most spoken language in New Zealand. Since the arrival of the coloniser—I'm saying coloniser"—they were the foreigner in this land and now in this House we speak a language that is not an official language. Thank goodness for Standing Order 108 that allows the English language to be spoken to the Speaker. If that wasn't there—I did my research—in Standing Order 108 then I would be able to speak Tongan because that is an unofficial language just like English is an unofficial language in this House.I want to acknowledge Jan Logie for speaking the truth about this little secret the little secret that Te Reo Māori was made an official language of New Zealand in 1987 followed by the New Zealand Sign Language. But there is no law in this land that makes English the first foreigner of this land an official language. I want to remind the member who spoke of his heritage as English that this is a good time to remember that manufacturing false hierarchies based on language and culture in order to enforce a class system is a very very long story of colonisation in this land which we all call home Aotearoa New Zealand. If we all call this land—"all" does not mean you wait until you go to the Chinese New Year festival so you can say something in Mandarin or you can go to the Tongan Language Week and start saying something in Tongan or the Samoan Language Week or save it for churches to start saying something in their language. Why are you saying that when—oh sorry Madam Assistant Speaker. Why are members of Parliament speaking another language when they are in their presence? Why is what I want to know—why? Then when it comes to the law of the land to the place where you come to serve all the people of New Zealand can they speak? The first word you say in this House is "I". My first word I said in this House was "Ko ahau" in Te Reo. After Te Reo I spoke Tongan. The first time I spoke the unofficial English language was when I said "Mr Speaker" after I had acknowledged the land God and everybody because it is my identity. It is my identity because Tongan New Zealanders add value to this land.The top player of the Commonwealth Games was a Tongan New Zealander whose heritage language is Tongan whose parents are in Tonga—a Tongan migrant. I say to you that Statistics New Zealand has a projection that in 2038 more than half of this land are going to have ancestry from first of all the tangata whenua; from Asia where Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi said his oath in Hindi; where the Korean—where is she—where Melissa Lee spoke in Korean; where Marja Lubeck spoke in Dutch; where the Hon Aupito William Sio spoke Samoan; where the Hon Jenny Salesa spoke Samoan. They will make more than half of this country.We waited for the leadership of Dame Tariana Turia in 2004 to take her declaration in Te Reo Māori. How many years after the first foreigner—Pākehā—arrived here? I actually can't do my maths at the moment. We waited for her to do that. And we waited for 2008 for the Hon Aupito William Sio to say "I'm a New Zealander too. Can I be afforded the same privilege as the first foreigner to speak my language in this House?" I put it to you—sorry Madam Assistant Speaker. I put it to this House: is it OK is it OK for just English to be spoken for the English speaker—is it OK for them to not have to go to all parties and seek their agreement to speak their language here? Or is it only OK for Tongans or for Samoans—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] I apologise to the member. Your time has expired."