Rurawhe AdrianSPEAKER-ELECT: Kia whai korōria hōnore hareruia ki a Ihoā o ngā mano tūāuriuri whāioio.Kī tonu te rangi me te whenua i te nui o Tōna korōria. Nō reiraTihei Mauri ora.Kei te mihi atu au ki Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero te Tuawhitu me te kāhui ariki tēnā koutou rire rire hau Pai Mārire.Ki a koutou aku hapū aku iwi tae atu ki taku whānau whānui tēnei ahau e tuku mihi atu ki a koutou tēnā koutou nau mai haramai whakatau mai rā.Ki a koutou ngā mema hōnore o Te Whare o ngā Māngai tēnei ahau e tuku mihi atu ki a koutou mō ō koutou tautoko i ahau kia tū hei Mana Whakawā o Te Whare o ngā Māngai.Tēnei te mihi ake ki a koutou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kāti rā kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Glory honour and hallelujah to the Lord God of the countless multitudes.Heaven and earth are filled with God's glory.'tis the breath of life.I acknowledge King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII and the royal family greetings rire rire hau Pai Mārire.To you of my subtribes tribes and including my wider family I greet you: greetings greetings welcome.To you the honourable members of the House of Representatives I acknowledge you for your supporting my election as Speaker of the House of Representatives.I acknowledge all of you thank you and be well one and all.]Honourable members—I'll put my speech aside I think—you do me a huge honour in electing me as the Speaker of this House. I want to thank every single one of you for the support that you have given me today but also acknowledge the huge number of you who have encouraged me to take up this role. To you the Prime Minister thank you for the opportunity to take on this role and to other members as well across the House who have given me that encouragement.I think it's really important that I state here today that I will carry on the long tradition of upholding the rights and privileges of this House. I think it's important that all of those rights are upheld and acknowledged—rights and privileges like freedom of speech. You are all the voices of all of the people that you represent and it's important that their voices are heard. We may disagree with each other on both sides of the House but it's really important that those voices are heard.I can say to the House that it's my expectation that the House will hold the Government to account. I say to the Leader of the Opposition and party leaders that I will do everything to ensure that you have the opportunity to hold the Government to account. To the Government I say to you my expectation is that you will be accountable. There are a number of mechanisms by which that can happen.I've had the huge honour since the end of last year of presiding over question time on Thursdays probably something that has led me to this very day without me necessarily knowing about it. I have noticed a few things about question time that I think could be improved and unfortunately they are numerous! However some small things could happen—for example the Government holding itself to account by asking itself questions; some of the answers to those supplementary questions need to be a bit shorter and more succinct. I think I would encourage Ministers—and it's quite interesting and a little bit puzzling actually that the Government sometimes end question times with a significant number of unused supplementaries. I think some of those supplementaries should be used in this way: some of those answers should be cut down and be less speech-like and more succinct. You could achieve that by asking more supplementaries; failure to do so will see the Opposition receive more supplementaries to do it. That is one thing I can do; there are others as well. I'm probably going to leave it there I think—Hon Member: Keep going keep going.SPEAKER-ELECT: In a way I probably should go on because this is probably going to be the last time I have the opportunity to speak! I cannot proclaim to be an expert on all the rules of this House. However I believe that being fair is probably paramount. For me if it feels like it's out of order it probably is and if it feels as if it's OK it probably is. I hope that as a House we can collectively come to those understandings. I think there is an opportunity for more robust debate and that's OK but it has to be done by fairness. So that will be my role.It would be remiss of me not to mention my immediate predecessor friend colleague and mentor to me. I want to tuku atu te reo mihi ki a Trevor Mallard. [I want to express my thanks to Trevor Mallard.] I undertake to carry on his work his mahi to make this place a much better family-friendly environment.Nō reira e tika ana kia tuku atu te reo mihi anō nō reira tēnā rā koutou. Ināianei ka tuku ki a koutou te whānau tuku mai tētahi waiata pai.[Therefore it is appropriate that I express my gratitude once more and so thank you all. Now I will leave it to you my family to give us a good song.]Waiata