Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Matua Tama Wairua Tapu me ngā Anahera Pono me te Māngai āe.[Father Son Holy Spirit and the Faithful Angels and the Holy Mouthpiece Amen.]To our mokopuna of our maunga from a mokopuna of our maunga I actually want to speak to our Minita and to this coalition Government on behalf of my humble w'ānau who sit above and who sit at home. This House time after time has legislated and made horrific decisions that have impacted on our people and as a consequence in the 1870s we saw passive resistance. I want to take you on a journey of who is upstairs and what our maunga has created and what it is that we have before you as a nation. Passive resistance Parihaka and the kōrero of patua te hē ki te rangimārie" or "let peace combat the errors of our ways"—1.2 million acres were stolen; our language our marae our culture. In fact the land that many of these descendants up here have ownership to as uri contributes to this country's GDP and what do we have? Instead we have the love and the aroha of our people who arrived today. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie—let peace combat the errors of our ways.The love and the compassion and the generosity that the people above us and the people at home in Taranaki have for this nation is so huge that eight iwi agreed to 1 to 2 percent as settlement in recognition of the hē that the Government had done to them because they wanted this nation to grow they wanted their mokopuna to prosper and they wanted to live as one. That is the wairua of the people who arrive here who were raised by our maunga. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie—let peace combat the errors of our ways.They love you all so much; even you David Seymour who's not here. But they love you all so much.DEPUTY SPEAKER: You can't refer to members who are not here.DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: Sorry—nōku te hē. Generation after generation our grandparents of the negotiators today have walked across the threshold in Parliament seeking the Crown's honour seeking the Crown—even though we had our maunga named after an Englishman who had never set foot in Taranaki. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie—let peace combat the errors of our ways.Pests populated our maunga. Birds that used to sing—tens of birds came down to three or four. We can see the sky when you walk in. The ngahere that used to exist has gone but still in good faith Taranaki turn up here. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie—let peace combat the errors of our ways. Minister that is the essence and the wairua of how they have come to you with humility today. There are so many other ways that things could have been negotiated but what does Taranaki do? What our maunga tūpuna taught us to do was to stand with humility to stand with vision and to practise peace. That is the opportunity that the coalition's partners are missing with us. We are not the enemy. They have arrived here today to restore your mana; to restore this House's mana. Our tūpuna never lost mana. Our mokopuna and our w'akapapa never lost mana. The love that they have for you and for you as a nation out there is to arrive here and to help you fix your mana and to help you to remember your memory of where our tūpuna and our mokopuna belong: side by side. We never left the table. We never left any of these relationships. Your tūpuna and today you risk forgetting who we are. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie. The generosity of our people continues with the negotiations we have here. I think about all the success and the opportunities we have and they will be realised with or without you. Minister that's the opportunity. That's the opportunity afforded to you today. It is to see and appreciate the value of what peace and what relationships and the connectivity of how Taranaki arrives here today to connect with you. We will love you even when you hate us. When you berate us we will still love you because that is the āhua of how we've been raised. Patua te hē ki te rangimārie. Nowhere else will we be Taranaki. We go nowhere else where we'll be indigenous and I ask you Minister as we go through these relationships and as you take your very first time that you've been a Minister in a settlement that you remember that. Nowhere else can we come and share our love for you for our nation and the peace that Taranaki brings today. E te rangatira it's good to see you in that seat. You might need to take that seat back again. Nō reira tēnā koutou katoa."