Fox MaramaMARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Well tēnā koutou nau mai nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare ō tātau tēnei Whare o Pāremata. Ōku pou ōku rahi nō ngā tōpito katoa o Heretaunga Tamatea kai te mihi atu ki a koutou kai te mihi atu ki a koutou ngā rangatira kei waenganui i a koutou e kōkiri nei i tēnei kaupapa kei mua i te aroaro o Te Taraipiunara e whawhai kaha ki te taha o tērā o ngā Minita me ana kaimahi e noho nei kei runga ake rā. Nā reira ki a koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātau katoa. Man hareruia hareruia hareruia kua tae ki tēnei wā![And so thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Well acknowledgments to you collectively welcome come hither come into this House of ours this Parliament House. To my pillars and numerous from all extremities of Heretaunga Tamatea I greet you collectively and acknowledge the esteemed ones in your midst who thrust this proposal before the tribunal and fought hard alongside that one of the Ministers and his officials sitting up there above. So to you collectively I acknowledge and commend you my appreciation to us all. Man hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah this moment has arrived!And I could not be more proud. The day we walked up to the signing at Te Aute to that amazing site I grabbed hold of Donna Awatere Huata and said: Come on then let's make a bit of a stir." We thought we were making a stir because she was in Mana and I was in Māori; we were not making any stir whatsoever because all the stir was up there on the ātea welcoming the Crown to that significant day when they would finally—finally—sign the deed of settlement. Awesome. It was an awesome day and a day that I will long remember.I remember standing in front of you all feeling so proud seeing all of our rangatahi out there doing the haka doing their dues. And our young women out there leading out the front; our young men right beside them and then the way was split straight to our kaumātua—too much. What a sight. I wish that some of you could have stood where I was standing to watch it happen because you had practised over and over again ready for that day.But your practice came after years of preparation; years and centuries of preparation. I think back to Mohi Te Mātorohanga. Our tupuna Whatahoro reputedly one of his protégés sat at his feet to record the details of the whare wānanga to record the details of his knowledge and hold it in perpetuity for all time for all of us.And when we did the Kahungunu Reo—rah-di-rah; I am not sure what it was—we were looking at our language to see whether we could document it and record it and go around with tape recorders and record our old people speaking. They came to Wairarapa and said "Who have you got?" and we literally had to say: "Nobody." We literally had to say there was no one left that anyone could record who spoke Te Reo Māori tūturu from birth from Wairarapa from Ngāti Kahungunu. So where did we go? We went to those manuscripts that recorded your history—Mātorohanga's words Nēpia Pōhuhu's words—the words of the Māori Parliament to find the words of our ancestors veiled from us for such a long time because we did not have the language to read them.We remember Te Matatini—and how cool was that? How generous the people of Ngāti Kahungunu. It is all right we are in the House; it is just us. I will be the kūmara on your behalf—or actually the anti-kūmara. It was great and we should be proud to have gone from a people who were virtually languageless who have been told off by other iwi—do not pretend we have not; we have—for not having enough what culture tikanga; for observing differently the aspects and the cultural custom of our people. We have. But to stand up so proudly together at Matatini and show our Māori nation that we are still here we have still got skills and we have our knowledge. But we have our knowledge because people just like yourselves went out and searched for it went out and documented it and went out and recorded it. And now Kahungunu is held up as an example of what it looks like to revive Reo for Te Mātāwai—kia ora Jeremy. And soon we will come to Kahungunu again for the Reo awards.You know innovation sits amongst our people. And so I joined a group. I wanted to stand at Matatini with our young people. We got pipped at the post by Tamatea Arikinui again—and you have all heard that story you fullas—again came fifth to your fourth and they only took four. I am not bitter. I even tried to learn the words of that blinking mōteatea that I still have trouble with now but I have asked a few of our young ones if they would do it with me and I will try to follow with my phone because what is recorded in this House is recorded for ever—for ever. I look back over the Hansard of this House sometimes to find out the things that people said about us. It made me angry. It made me want to come and take a place here made we want to come and see the place where they said that the time has come to decide whether to civilise the natives—ooh or exterminate them. "But if we are to civilise them we have to do so in a language that is more conducive to human thought." Right? I got angry. But that is all right because that spurs us on. It spurs us on to do things like Te Matatini and the Reo symposium and the kura Reo and all the wonderful things that Kahungunu have done to revitalise and restore our lost knowledge. So I try—I am going to follow along but please help me out because I want to get this in the Hansard. Nothing better describes our people than this. Here we go nō reira:Hikitia hapainga ake i te tautara ki KahurānakiKei te uru rā ko te taupae ki RuahineKei runga rā ko te taupae ki RemutakaTe mata o Te Ika a Māui Tikitiki-a-Taranga e rarapa mai rā e-eKi Kahotea ko Mahinārangi taku ara rā ki Tainui Ki taku Upoko Ariki ki a Tūheitia e ko Te Kīngitanga e-eKo Te Whatu-i-apiti ki Te Roto-ā-Tara i kau tāwhai nei a Te Huhuti i te ānga a taraTe kōpū i puta ai ko Te Hāpuku ko te tātai manu kura o te rohe e-eKōmuri mai ana ki te hāronga o te kāhū ki Heretaunga raorao haumakoTe putunga o te kai e-e! Māhitihiti mai ana ngā wai tuku kiri o Tukituki-papa o Ngaruroro o Tūtae-kurīKo te iwi Ponaturi kei Te Whanga-nui-a-OrotūNgā uri rā ko Pānia ko tana tama ko Moremore Ka topa ka tiu ki Mōhaka ko Pāhauwera ko Te Huki tātai ure pūkakaKa nanati ka whiu i tana kupenga kia toro atu i Pōrangahau ki roto o Uawa Nāna ka noho mai ko te waikanaetanga ko te rongo taketake i waenga i te iwi e-eKei paku kō atu ko te wai matangi rau hōpūpū hōngenengene e ko Te Wairoa e-e!Whiua te titiro ki te uranga mai ko Hine-matioro ko Te Kani-ā-TakirauNgā mana tiketike o te motu eRākai-pākā ki Nūhaka ki Te Māhia-mai-i-tawhiti ko Ngāti HikairoKi Te Whakakī-nui-a-rua ko Ngāti Hinepua Ko Hine-pūariari ki Whareongaonga i kī nei tana korero"Kāore hoki tērā te hanga o taku tāne kāore e rūpeke mai anaTakoto noa mai te nuinga i waho"Utua ana e te tapairu o Tawapata e Rongo-mai-wahine i hinga nei i te pīhau pāua"Nā te mea rā he kōpua pāpakuMehemea rā e taka ana ki te kōpua hōhonu a Rapa e tuwhera atu neiPokopoko ana ia ki roto"Ka noho rangatira te tahā wairere nei a Kahungunu i ana wāhine tokowaru Pepehatia ana "Ko te ure whakaparatī"Ka puta ki waho ngā uri whakaheke e tū atu nei ngā tukunga iho o Ngāti Kahungunu e-e!There is not much more to say after that. I am going to give a copy of the kupu to the people who record and translate for us so they can get it down in the Hansard for all time immemorial.Tēnā koutou rangatahi mā ko koutou te tutukitanga o tērā o ngā poropiti a Paora Potangaroa nāna te kī [Accolades to you the younger generation you collectively are indeed the end product of Paora Potangaroa that one of the prophets who said]—[Interruption] I will be finished very quickly. He said that we will lose our language but our children will bring it back. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou katoa."