Tangaere-Manuel CushlaCUSHLA TANGAERE-MANUEL (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): [Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]It's my privilege to bring with me today the voices of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. What you hear today comes from the people I've recently visited on an electoral visit not just from myself. So it's my pleasure to be here today.Throughout Ikaroa-Rāwhiti there are many diverse communities. There are communities like the beautiful Rangitukia where I come from—population approximately 150. And I note a whanaunga up in the gallery today and there are bigger regional towns. Every day as I said in my maiden speech we bring light to Aotearoa. We are the rāwhiti. However today the people of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti feel like they are in the shade. So I'm bringing their light today in spite of the shadow being cast by that side of the House.Today we've heard speeches about the value of farmers and I should be excited; however clearly that does not include the farmers who currently live at Aropaoanui in Tāngoio Hawke's Bay. The farmers who while they have cleared their logs have not received a visit from anyone on that side of the House. No one from that side of the House has gone down their unfinished driveway to see how they are recovering. You don't have to look far in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti to see that we have not recovered. I do acknowledge te Wairoa who once again have been hit. But we can't go past the people like Aropaoanui who seem to be invisible under this Government.But while not recovered they will recover. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti will recover and we will thrive and it will be in spite of this Government not because of this Government. I want to assure people like Tāngoio that Labour get it. Labour get it and that's why we invested $1 billion in cyclone recovery to enable people like the whānau at Aropaoanui to stay on their whenua and to thrive. Right now what they're left with is piles of contaminated chip and land that will not be productive for approximately another five years. So I'd like this Government to prove me wrong get out to farms like Aropaoanui and help them thrive as well.Housing has been alluded to. We heard about emergency housing. I want to address the rangatahi. Currently in Maraenui Heretaunga alone there are 60 homeless rangatahi. We all know that $20 million that was previously budgeted to youth transitional housing is gone. So I want to mihi to all the people in Heretaunga supporting our rangatahi and a special shout-out to Te Hiwa a Māhaki who are doing it off their own backs. Why? Because they love their community they're connected to the whenua they're connected by whakapapa. And once again they are doing it in spite of this Government not with this Government. You will recover and you will thrive.We've heard employment being talked about. Well in all the things that we're hearing about what this Government want another thing that's been taken away: progressive procurement. Soon I will be going to attend the investiture of Kat—I was going to say hubba"—Kaiwai KSM who employed many many people throughout the Tai Rāwhiti. And that side is right employment does change lives it impacts whakapapa for generations to come.So that said I also want to make a shout-out to the Tolaga Bay innovation hub. It was great to be there with my opposite member Dana Kirkpatrick the Mayor Rehette Stoltz and the chair of Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou. However what support will this Government provide? Ūawa you will recover you will thrive and it will be in spite of this Government not because of them. Please prove me wrong e hoa mā. Tautoko. Get out there. Listen to Ikaroa-Rāwhiti and support them.Finally a big mihi to all the councils throughout Ikaroa-Rāwhiti who have already supported Māori wards. Nothing to be afraid of. [Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]"