Halbert ShananSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote) (remote): E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā rawa atu ki a koe. He mihi ki ngā rangi he mihi ki ngā whenua tēnā koutou katoa he mihi ngā whetū o Matariki. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Mr Speaker warm greetings to you. Greetings to the skies greetings to the lands greetings to you and greetings to the stars of Matariki. Greetings greetings greetings one and all.]Mr Speaker thank you very much for the opportunity to speak this evening on Te Pire mō te Hararei Tūmatanui o te Kāhui o Matariki/Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Bill. The Matariki bill is in front of us this evening at this second reading and it's been an honour to be a part of our Māori Affairs Committee who have heard the oral submissions heard from communities heard from Māori heard from business owners about their aspirations for this particular kaupapa what Matariki can bring and the economic benefits of Matariki too. I want to reflect on my time and I take the point from the chair of our Māori Affairs committee Tāmati Coffey. He acknowledged that there was once upon a time where all of us even being Māori didn't know the knowledge the mātauranga of Matariki.In fact I go back to part of my career in communications and marketing and working for an organisation who picked up Matariki as a kaupapa. Te Wananga o Aotearoa is a tertiary organisation but plays a role in educating and inspiring Aotearoa not just Māori—educating all of Aotearoa New Zealand in particular a large number of Pākehā in our country who are passionate about culture and passionate about culture in our country. Matariki in this sense starts to feel like a bit of a natural step in some instances. I go back to a piece of work with back then Dr Rangi Matamua with Paraone Gloyne and the work that they did to start to talk about te iwa o Matariki the nine stars as opposed to what we understood as the seven at that particular time. We worked with kura with schools with tamariki with businesses to communicate our knowledge around Matariki: the stories of nine stars the names of each star. I acknowledge Minister Kiritapu Allan who spoke of her daughter earlier on who is named after the wishing star Hiwa-i-te-rangi. Beautiful.Throughout that project we learnt a lot and then that morphed into a partnership with Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Council who launched a large Matariki festival both for cultural reasons and educational reasons but to bring economic benefits to the city of Tāmaki-makau-rau. They set up a number of events—and can I acknowledge Anahera Higgins and Ataahua Papa incredible people who started the journey to share the stories of Matariki to share a festival across New Zealand's largest city and to bring all of Aotearoa out to celebrate this particular event just like we do at New Year's.I go back to reflecting on the last speaker Chris Baillie who doesn't think there's any economic benefits to such events such activation to bringing all of New Zealand together out and about particularly at this time post - COVID-19 when businesses desperately need a reason for people to come out of their homes to build their confidence to spend their money to feel good and to have something to celebrate. What better than a kaupapa of Matariki which is about starting fresh resetting starting the new year together and wishing about what are our future aspirations? That is what Matariki brings for all of us.I want to go back to some of the research that I did and some of the information that we heard from businesses and just to put on record the important facts about Matariki this public holiday that we're proposing and at our second reading of. It is expected to have a net benefit of $25.7 million and a net cost of $133 million and this calculation is based on estimated economic benefits of between $310.4 million and $496.1 million and estimated costs of around $443.4 million. Now I'm no mathematician albeit I've worked in marketing communications—some would call that business—but that tells me that there definitely are economic benefits. I've spoken to businesses to hospitality owners to tourism operators in Tāmaki-makau-rau. They know that Matariki as a public holiday will enhance their business because it will get people out and about spending the money that they desperately need.I'm excited about this bill not just because of the opportunity to continue to educate and inspire Aotearoa but I see it as another opportunity to reactivate Tāmaki-makau-rau to bring our people out to celebrate to share the economic benefits that this presents. And so without further ado I commend this bill to the House. Tēnā tatou.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): The next call is a split call. I call Joseph Mooney.