Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMāori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 09 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9551. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) BillSecond ReadingHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): Tēnā koe e Te Kaikōrero o Te Whare. E mōtini ana ahau Kia pānuitia Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori mō te wā tuarua. Hai tīmatanga kōrero māku me pēnei te kī “Tuia i runga tuia i raro tuia i waho tuia i roto tuia i te here tangata ka rongo te pō ka rongo te ao. Tuia i te muka tangata i takea mai i Hawaiki nui i Hawaiki roa i Hawaiki pāmamao. Te hono i wairua ki te whai ao ki te ao mārama. Koia rā e rongo whakairia ki runga tūturu o whiti whakamaua kia tinā! Tinā! Hui-e i tāiki e!”I a tātau e kōrero nei mō te mana o Te Reo Māori me whai wāhi au ki te tuku kōrero ki te hunga kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi i ngā rā tata kua hipa ake. Kō tākuta Ranginui Walker tērā ko Tāhuna Mihinnick tērā ko Roger Aranui tērā arā noa atu wētahi. Ēngari me whai wāhi au anō hoki ki a Ērima Te Toihōu o Te Taura Whiri i te wā i a ia. Haere koutou ki tua o Paerau whakangaro atu rā! Ki a tātau te hunga ora tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa!I roto i tāna kauhau ki Te Whare Pāremata nō te marama o Hōngongoi te tau 2014 i te wā i mōtinihia ai te pānui tuatahi i te pire nā taku rangatira nā Hōnore Tā Pita Sharples arā ko Te Minita Whakawhanaketanga Māori i taua wā te kōrero mō Te Reo Māori me tana kī ake: “he taonga mā ngā iwi mā ngāi Māori hoki he āhuatanga whakahirahira o te ahurea o Niu Tīreni”. I kōrero ia mō te heke haere o te ora o Te Reo rau tau rua tekau. Mō te tau 1900 he tata ki te 100 ōrau te tokomaha o ngāi Māori i kōrero i tō rātau ake Reo. Hoi anō i ngā tau 70 ka whai i muri mai i tino heke iho tēnei ki te āhua 20 ōrau. I taua wā he kaumātua te nuinga o te hunga kōrero Māori ā i te tāmatemate haere rātau. I whakapaetia ka mate Te Reo Māori. I ohorere a ngāi Māori. Ēhara mō te āhua mamate o tō rātou Reo anake ēngari mō tō rātou āhua anō hoki me kī ko tō rātau tūranga ko rātau nōhanga tō rātou mana hoki i runga tonu i tō rātou ake whenua. Arā hoki te āhua o te mimiti haere ā haere ake nei māna ka mahia ētahi panonitanga nui whakaharara.Ko te puāwaitanga Māori te urupare i tīmata ai i taua wā ā ko pērā tonu tae noa mai ki nāianei. Ko te whakaora me te whakarauora i Te Reo Māori tētahi wāhanga whakahirahira o tēnei puāwaitanga nā Te Māori Language Act 1987 i whakamanatia ai e Te Karauna Te Reo Māori hei taonga mā ngā iwi mā ngāi Māori hoki i whakaū ai hoki Te Reo Māori hai Reo whaimana ā-ture mō Niu Tīreni. Kua kitea e tātau te whakatūnga te tipu hoki o ngā Kōhanga Reo o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o ngā Whare Kura i nāianei hoki o ngā wānanga kei te taumata mātauranga matua. Kua wātea ake te ako i Te Reo Māori i roto i ō tātau kura auraki i ō tātau whare wānanga me ngā kura mātauranga matua kē atu. Arā hoki ngā reo irirangi ā-iwi ngā reo irirangi Māori hoki ko Te Pouaka Whakaata Māori i whakatūria hei whakarato hei whakapāho hōtaka i Te Reo Māori.Hoi anō ahakoa wā tātou karawhiunga hei whakarauora ake i Te Reo he āhua tokoiti tonu te hunga e uru ana ki roto i ēnei kaupapa. He urupare te whakapuakitanga o tēnei pire i te tau 2014 ki te whakaaro he mea whakatīna Te Māori Language Act 1987hei tautoko i te whakarauoratanga o Te Reo. Ko te aronga o te pire i whakapuakina atu ai he whakaū i te mana o Te Reo hai taonga mā ngā iwi mā ngāi Māori hoki hai Reo whaimana ā-ture mō Niu Tīreni. Ka whakatū tēnei i a Te Mātāwai hei hinonga ā-ture motuhake kia tū hai kaiārahi mā ngā iwi mā ngāi Māori hoki i roto i tā rātou mahi hai kaitiaki mō Te Reo Māori.I nāinanei ka huri au ki te pire i whakahokia pūrongotia ai e Te Komiti Take Māori. He pēnei te kī kāore i tere mārika te rerenga o te pire mā te tukunga komiti kōwhiri ēngari arā noa ētahi tino take i pēnei ai. Tuatahi nō te marama o Hōngongoi tau 2014 i whakapuakina i tukuna atu hoki tēnei ki te komiti nō mua tata mai i te pōtitanga ā-motu i te tau 2014. Nō muri mai i te pōtitanga nō muri hoki i taku whai haepapatanga mō te pire i pīrangi au kia mārakerake anō taku titiro ki te pire. Nā tēnei i whakatū ai au i tētahi Rōpū Tohutohu Reo Māori ki te whakaaroaro mehemea me whakapai ake me pēhea rānei te whakapai ake i te pire. Kai konei wētahi e noho nei ki runga ake nei. Nā te tāpaetanga i tukuna mai mā te tukanga komiti kōwhiri rātau i whai pānga ai i roto i taua mahi. Inā rā i pīrangi au kia tūturu te kitea o te haepapatanga o Te Karauna ki te whakamarumaru ki te toko ake hoki i te whakarauoratanga o Te Reo Māori.I tuku pūrongo mai te rōpū tohutohu ki a au i te marama o Pipiri i tērā tau ā i mārohitia ai tētahi tauira hou. I takea mai i tētahi ngātahitanga ā-mahi i waenganui i Te Karauna me Te Iwi Māori. I tēnei wā me whai wāhi au ki te mihi ki taua rōpū otirā ki ngā kaimahi o Te Puni Kōkiri ā hei te pānuitanga tuatoru pea au whakawhānui atu i taku mihi ki a koutou. Kei aku rangatira koinei te mihi o te ngākau koinei te mihi o te ngākau ki a koutou katoa mō te papai o ngā mahi kua oti nei i a koutou i a tātau. I tūtohu tana pūrongo tā taku komiti tāku e kōrero nei kia āta whakamāramatia ngā mahi motuhake a Te Karauna a Te Iwi Māori hoki kia whāia ngātahitia ai he putanga pai ake mō Te Reo Māori. Nō te marama o Whiringa-a-nuku i whakaaetia e Te Rūnanga Kāwanatanga ngā whakahounga i takea mai i tēnei pūrongo ki te pire i whakaurua ēnei hei tūtohutanga ki Te Komiti Take Māori. Kai te harikoa ahau ki te kī atu kua taunakitia e Te Komiti Take Māori ngā panonitanga ki te pire ā he ngākau tapatahi tā rātau mō te whakauru i ngā whakahounga katoa. Ka mihi ki a koutou ka tika e hoa mā! Ki ngā mema o Te Komiti Tāke Māori mō tā rātau mahi tā koutou mahi i te roanga o te tau kua taha ake nei. E hoa mā ka nui te mihi.Ko te hua o tēnei kua whakakahangia te pire i whakahokia pūrongotia atu ai. Ka whakatau tēnei i te tāpaetanga me te ū tonu o Te Karauna ki Te Reo Māori. Mā tēnei Te Karauna ngā iwi a ngāi Māori hoki e herea ai ki te mahi ngātahi. He haepapatanga hoki tā tēnā tā tēnā mō Te Reo Māori. Hei tuatahitanga whaiwhai hītori kua whakahokia pūrongotia atu te pire nei hai pire reorua. Koinei te pire tuatahi ka whakamanatia i roto i Te Reo Māori i te reo Pākehā hoki ā ki te ara he tohe he raruraru rānei i waenganui i ngā whakaputanga e rua ko te whakaputanga Māori tērā ka tino whāia! He mahi tika ko Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori te pire tuatahi o tōna momo kia kawea pēnei i roto i tēnei Whare tae atu ki tōna whakaturetanga!Ka paku kōrero mō ngā whakapanonitanga. Tuatahi ka tū a Te Mātāwai hei rangatōpū ā-ture motuhake e mahi ana mā ngā iwi mā ngāi Māori hoki kia tū hai kaiārahi i roto i te mahi toko ake i te ora Te Reo me te mauri o Te Reo Māori mō ngā iwi mō ngāi Māori mō ngā hapori hoki. Hoianō mā te rerenga aronga kai roto i te pire e tohu kaha i tōna hononga ki Te Karauna. E tutuki ai tēnei mā te āta tohu ki ngā aronga hoki o Te Mātāwai he tautoko he whakamōhio atu he whakaaweawe hoki i ngā kaupapa Karauna hei whakamarumaru hei toko ake hei whakarauora ake i Te Reo Māori.Ka whakamana ā-ture te pire i ētahi rautaki Reo Māori hōu e rua. Nō Te Karauna te haepapatanga mō tētahi arā ko te Maihi Karauna e hāngai atu ai ki ngā tāke ā-motu. Nō ngā iwi nō ngāi Māori hoki te haepapatanga mā Te Mātāwai mō tērā atu arā ko Te Maihi Māori. Ka hāngai tērā ki ngā whāinga ki ngā kaupapa here whai pānga ki ngā iwi ki ngā hapū ki ngā whānau ki ngā hapori hoki. Ka tū tonu Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori me Te Māngai Pāho hei hinonga Karauna ēngari tokotoru ngā mema o ngā mema poari tokorima o ia hinonga ka tīkina mai i ngā tautapanga a Te Mātāwai.Kei te hari koa au e pā ana ki te pire i whakahokia pūrongotia ai. Kua whakaritea hoki tētahi pepa Ōta tāpiri mā Te Komiti o Te Whare katoa. Ko te whāinga o tērā ko te whakatika i ētahi āhuatanga rerekē i roto i ia whakaputanga reo o te ture. He take iti nei ēngari he whakahōunga he take mātanga hoki te āhua o aua whakahōunga. Hei whakakōpani i taku kōrero e Te Kaikōrero o Te Whare ka tāpae atu au i tēnei pire ki Te Whare Pāremata hai wetewete me te mihi anō rā ki tēnā ki tēnā o tātau i tēnei rā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Greetings Mr Assistant Speaker. I move That the Māori Language Bill be now read a second time. I preface my contribution with a traditional proverb: “Fasten above fasten below unify and bind join the connections of people departed and living. Weave together the threads of humanity woven over vast distance and time from ancient homelands. Bind us into this world of light let peace prevail let us be steadfast and resolute!”.As we are discussing the value of Māori language it is appropriate that I begin with acknowledging the recently departedwho leave with us cherished memories:in particular Dr Ranginui Walker as well as Tāhuna Minhinnick Roger Aranui and many others. Special mention should also be made to Ērima former chair of the Māori Language Commission. May you all join those who have already gathered beyond the distant horizon. And to us the living warm greetings one and all.In his speech to the House in July 2014 when moving the first reading of this bill my predecessor the Hon Sir Pita Sharples then Minister of Māori Affairs declared: “it is a treasure of both traditional tribes and Māoridom; it is an integral part of the cultural fabric of New Zealand.” He referred to the decline in the health of the Māori language over the past 120 years. In 1900 Māori was spoken by practically 100 percent of the Māori population. Within 70 years this had rapidly declined to approximately 20 percent most of whom were elderly themselves a declining population. It was predicted thattheMāori language would die out which caused alarm among Māori not just for the loss of the language but also at their own general situation including their position social status and authority within their own country. Such was the state of decline that it would continue without significant auspicious change.The response was the Māori renaissance which continues to this day. Māori language survival and revitalisation is a fundamental component of this renaissance. The Crown officially recognisedtheMāori language as a treasure of both traditional tribes and Māoridom through the Māori Language Act 1987 which also declared Māori a national language of New Zealand. We have seen the establishment and development of Māori language immersion preschools primary schools high schools and now tertiary level institutions. Study of Māori language is now available in mainstream schools in universities and in other tertiary settings. We now have tribal-based radio stations pan-tribal radio stations and Māori Television—all services established to broadcast programming in the Māori language.Despite our efforts for Māori language revitalisation there remains a low uptake of people entering these domains. The introduction of this bill in 2014 was a response to the view that the Māori Language Act 1987 had become less effective in fulfilling aspirations for Māori language revitalisation. The purpose of the bill as introduced was to affirm the status oftheMāori language as a treasure of both traditional tribes and Māoridom and as an official language of New Zealand. Accordingly Te Mātāwai would be established as an independent statutory entity to provide leadership for both traditional tribal groupings and Māoridom in their role as custodians of the Māori language.I now turn to the bill as reported back from the Māori Affairs Committee. It can be said that the bill has not had a swift passage through the select committee process. However this is due to a number of important factors. First it was introduced in August 2014 and sent to the select committee just before the 2014 general election. After the election having taken on responsibility for the bill I wanted to take a fresh look at it. Accordingly I established an independent Māori Language Advisory Group to consider whether the bill could be improved and if so how. Some of them are present here in the gallery. They benefited from the submissions received through the select committee process. I also wanted to emphasise the role and responsibility of the Crown to protect and support the revitalisation of the Māori language.The advisory group reported to me in June last year and proposed a new model based on a working partnership between the Crown and Māori. It is appropriate for me to acknowledge that group now as well as the Te Puni Kōkiri staff and perhaps at the third reading I will have the opportunity to expand on some of these acknowledgments. I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to each of you for the substantialcontributions;indeed from each and every one of us. The advisory group report recommended clarifying the distinctive roles of the Crown and of Māori to collectively pursue improved Māori language outcomes. In October Cabinet approved amendments to the bill based on this report and these were included as recommendations for the Māori Affairs Committee. I am pleased to announce the Māori Affairs Committee has endorsed the changes to the bill and members have unanimously adopted all the amendments. It is only right that I acknowledge and thank the members of the Māori Affairs Committee for the significant undertaking throughout this past year. Members thank you.The result is that the bill as reported back has been strengthened. It recognises the contribution and ongoing commitment of the Crown to the Māori language. It requires both the Crown and Māori to work in partnership each with roles and responsibilities for the Māori language. For the first time in history a bill has been reported back as a dual language bill. This is the first bill to be enacted in both Te Reo Māori and English with the Māori text taking precedence in any inconsistency between the two versions. It is only appropriate that the Māori Language Bill is the first of this kind to proceed through the House to enactment.A few brief comments regarding the amendments. First Te Mātāwai will be an independent statutory entity acting on behalf of both traditional tribes and Māoridom to provide leadership in promoting the health and well-being of the Māori language at tribal at Māori and at community levels. However the purpose clause within the bill still strongly emphasises its relationship with the Crown which will be achieved through the focus of Te Mātāwai to support inform and enhance Crown initiatives to protect to promote and to revitalise the Māori language.The bill makes official two new Māori language strategies. The Crown has responsibility for one—namelythe Maihi Karauna focusing on national level issues. The other—namelythe Maihi Māori—is the responsibility of both traditional tribes and Māoridomrepresented through Te Mātāwai. It will focus on objectives and policies and related matters at tribal sub-tribal family and community levels. The Māori Language Commission and Te Māngai Pāho will remain Crown entities;howeverthree of the five board members of each entity will be Te Mātāwai nominations.I am pleased with the bill as reported back. A Supplementary Order Paper has also been prepared for the Committee of the whole House that seeks to address any drafting inconsistencies in the respective language versions of the bill. The amendments are minor and technical in nature. In concluding I commend this bill to the House and wish to thank once again everyone on this occasion. Greetings greetings one and all.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Ko te pātai kia whakaaetia te mōtini.[The question is that the motion be agreed to.]PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau):Tuku mauri ora ki te wheiao ki te ao mārama tihei wā mauri ora! Ka wehi tonu ahau ki tō tātou Kaihanga nāna Te Reo Māori i hōmai nāna Te Reo Māori e kaha tiaki ki roto i ngā tau nāna anō hoki Te Reo Māori ka hāpai ki roto i ngā tau katoa kei mua i a tātau. Ka tautoko ahau i ngā kōrero me ngā tangi poroporoaki atu ki te hunga mate ngā mate kua wahaina mai e Te Minita ki roto i tana kōrero.I a au e rangahau ana i tēnei kaupapa Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori ka pānui ahau i ngā kōrero totohe o tēnei Whare i ngā tau waru tekau i whakatū i whakamana te Pire Tuatahi mō Te Reo Māori. Mehemea e whakaae ana e Te Māngai o Te Whare ka pānui ahau i tētahi paku kōrero ka kitea ki roto i ngā totohe o aua waru tekau tau. E ai ki te mema e kīia nei ko tōna ingoa ko Mervyn Wellington: “… I suspect merely respond to the demands of the radical intellectuals having identified the fact that it is the young university trained radicals coming out of the hands of Ranginui Walker.” Kāti ka tangi atu ahau ki tērā tupu ao ō tātou kua ngaro atu ki te pō rātau ki a rātau e Te Minita kua kōrero mai nā e koe i te ngākau o Pāpā kāti e tangi tonu ana ahau otirā te kāinga o Te Tai Tokerau koutou te hunga wairua ki a koutou e moe e moe okioki!E tautoko ana ahau i ngā kōrero o te motu whānui e mihi atu ana ki Te Minita me tana ngākau nui ki tō tātou Reo Māori. I hāpai ake i tēnei Pire Reo Māori i mahue mai nei e Te Tākuta Tā Pita Sharples ki roto i tana kōnae mahi. Nō reira e mihi atu ana au ki a ia ki ōna āpiha katoa i whakapau werawera mō Te Reo te take. Ka mihi atu ahau ki Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i ngā Take Māori anā ko Te Heamana kai roto i Te Whare i tēnei wā e Tūtehounuku e mihi atu ana au ki a koe me ngā mema katoa o Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri. E tautoko ana ahau ki ngā rōpū i awhi i tēnei kaupapa mai i te pānuitanga tuatahi tae noa mai ki tēnei wā. Kua kōrero mai Te Minita mō Te Rōpū Tohutohu Reo Māori. Ko tana kōrero e kī ana ko ētahi kai roto i Te Whare i tēnei wā e mihi atu ana.E mihi atu ana ki tētahi atu rōpū e tautoko ana i tēnei kaupapa arā ko Te Paepae Motuhake mō ngā mahi katoa mō ō rātou ki te hui ngātahi me te iwi Māori. Ko wai hoki ko te motu whānui. E mihi atu ana au ki a rātou. E mihi atu ana ahau ki tērā kōrero a Te Minita e mea ana ko te kākano o tēnei pire nā tērā rangatira o tātou arā ko Tā Pita Sharples. I manakohia ai kia whakahoki atu te mauri me te mana o tō tātou Reo Māori ki ngā iwi ki ngā whānau ki ngā otaota o te marae. Ki roto i te roanga ake o ngā totohe e pā ana ki tēnei pire ka whakamātautau tātau mehemea ka tutuki taua hiahia. Ka whakamātautau tonu tātau mehemea kai roto i te roanga ake o tēnei pire me ōna whāinga katoa ka tutuki i taua hiahia a Te Minita a Tā Pita Sharples. Kāti ka mihi atu ahau ki a ia me te whakaaro nui.Kua roa rawa Te Rōpū Reipa e tautoko ana i Te Reo Māori. Kua kōrero ahau mō taku mahi rangahau i ngā kōrero me ngā totohe o ngā tau waru tekau kua pahure ake nei. Ka whakaaro ake ahau ki tērā tupu ō tātau a Te Honore Koro Wētere me tana kaha ki te kawe ake i tō tātou Reo Māori ki roto i tēnei Whare. Ka whakaaro ake ahau e Te Māngai o Te Whare mō te tūnga o Te Taura Whiri i taua tāima me te whakamana i tō tātou Reo Māori ki roto i ngā ture ki runga hoki i te mata o te whenua. Nō reira kai konei mātau e tautoko ana kai konei mātou Te Rōpū Reipa e tautoko ana.Ki roto i te roanga ake o taku kōrero me ngā kōrero o ōku hoa mahi ka rongo i wētahi pātai kai roto tonu i a tātou ka rongo i wētahi nawe wētahi āwangawanga ēhara i te mea he maunga ka kore e taea tātau te eke kāhore! Ēngari ka mea atu ki a koe e Te Minita otirā ki a tātou e Te Whare koinei hoki ko ngā kōrero a te iwi Māori ka hoki mai ki a au otirā ki a mātau ki roto i wā mātau mahi.Nō reira kāti; ka huri atu ahau ki te pire. Ka huri atu ahau ki tēnei pire e mihi atu ana ki te whakaaro nui ka whakamanahia tēnei pire ki roto i Te Reo Māori me te reo Pākehā. Āe mārika ka mihi atu ahau ki te hunga whakamāori; i whakamāori i ngā kōrero Pākehā. Kātahi au ka pānui i te pire ki roto i Te Reo Māori me taku papakupu hei whai atu i ngā kōrero katoa kai roto kātahi rā te ātaahua ō tō tātou Reo Māori. E mihi atu ana au ki Te Minita me tana kaha ki te whakarongo ki te iwi ki ngā pahupahu o tēnei ki roto i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei.Kua roa rawa au e mea ana kai hea Te Reo mō te hunga noho tāone? Kai hea Te Reo mō te mātatorutanga o Te Iwi Māori ka noho ki roto i tōku wāhi pōti o Tamaki-makau-rau? Nā kua rongo i Te Minita e hari koa ana. E hari koa ana ahau ka whai tūranga te hunga noho tāone ki runga i Te Poari o Te Mātāwai. Nō reira ka mihi atu ahau ki tērā āhuatanga. Ka mihi atu anō hoki tēnei ki te whakaaro nui o tōku pāpā me tōku tuakana a Pita Paraone e noho mai nei. Ka pupuri tonu tātau Te Iwi Māori otirā te motu whānui o Aotearoa i Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori. Kia kaua e motuhia i aua taura kia tuku pai kia tiaki pai i tō tātou Reo Māori me ōna nekehanga katoa nō reira ka mihi atu ahau ki tērā whakaaro nui e Te Minita.Ko ētahi o ngā take ka puta mai ki roto i wā mātou whiriwhiri i te take nei ko tētahi kua roa rawa mātau e mea atu ana he aha te take o te kākahu Pākehā ki runga i te taonga Māori? He aha te take kia whakatūngia i ētahi atu peka o te Kāwanatanga hai whakahaere i tō Tātou Reo Māori? Ko te hiahia me te whāinga matua o Tā Pita Sharples i a ia e kōkiri ana i tēnei take kia whakahokia atu te mana ki ngā iwi ki ngā whānau ki ngā hapū. Ko reira te oranga o te iwi Māori. Nō reira he aha te take o tētahi atu peka hei arataki hei tiaki i tō tātou Reo Māori? Ko tēnā te kōrero ko te kākahu Pākehā ki runga i te taonga Māori. Ko tētahi atu ka pātai atu mātau i te āhuatanga o Te Mātāwai e kīia nei ā ka tukuna mā te tokoiti hei whakahaere hei kawe ake i Te Reo o te tokomaha.I a mātou o Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i ngā Take Māori e noho ana ki te whakarongo ki ngā kōrero e pā ana ki tēnei pire i puta mai tētahi kōrero ātaahua rawa atu ā e ki atu ana ki a tātau nō Ngāti Hine tēnei kōrero ko wā rātau anā nā Te Waihoroi. Hei tāna e mōhio ana tātau katoa ki ngā kau kai roto i te pāmu o Te Reo Māori i tēnei wā tonu. E mōhio ana tātau he aha ngā kau kai roto i te pāmu. Ko te hiahia ā kai hea ngā kau e hiahia ana kia uru mai ki roto i te pāmu hai whāngai i tō tātou Reo Māori hei kawe ake ki roto i ngā tau kai mua i a tātau. Anā ko ngā ingoa o aua kau ko Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga. Anā ko te ingoa o aua kau ko ngā tari Kāwanatanga kua roa rawa e aukati kua roa rawa e pēhi ana i tō tātou Reo Māori ki raro. Kāti he kōrero tēnā i kohia e mātou ki roto i wā mātou mahi whiriwhiri kōrero mō te take o Te Reo Māori.Ko tētahi atu take he aha nei te whāinga matua? E mōhio ana tātau i te hiahia o Te Minita tawhito a Tā Pita Sharples mō Te Reo Māori ēngari ki roto i te pire e ka waihona atu mā tātau anō ngā whāinga matua e tohutohu e kimi horekau he raru mō tēnā. Ēngari e mōhio ana tātau katoa ki roto i ngā whakatipuranga e toru tātau ka kite he aha nei ngā hua. Nō reira ka whakaaro ake me kimi tonu tātau he aha nei te whāinga matua mā tātau hai kawe ake ki roto i ngā tau kei mua i a tātau.Ko tētahi atu e pā ana ki te wāhanga tuatahi o te pire e mea ana ko te mahi arotake i te pire nei. Ka tukuna atu mā te toru tau ā ka mutu te toru tau ka arotakengia e tātau te mahi o Te Mātāwai me ngā hua katoa o tēnei pire. Kai konei mātau e aro haehae ana i ngā nekehanga o tēnei Kāwanatanga mehemea ka tutuki pai ngā moemoeā me ngā hiahia o Te Iwi Māori mō Te Reo te take.Hai whakakapi ake ka hoki atu ahau ki tērā kōrero mō ngā whāinga matua o tēnei pire. Ka whakaaro ake ahau ki ngā whare tupuna ka tū ki runga i ngā marae puta noa ko reira ngā maihi o ngā whare. Nā kua kōrero mai te pire nei ko te maihi Māori ko te maihi Kāwanatanga i a au e mātakitaki atu ana ki ngā whare e noho wahangū ki runga i te motu whānui ka whakaaro ake ka pēhea wēnei maihi e kōrero? Mā te tangata ngā maihi e kōrero kāti ka waiho anake tēnā whakaaro hei whakaaroaro mā tātau katoa ki roto i te roanga o tō mātau totohe i te pō nei. Ka rongo koe i ngā kōrero a ōku hoa mahi kāti huri tua atu ki a tātou katoa e Te Minita e Te Māngai o Te Whare; tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Let the breath of life come from the dawn to the world of the light; behold the breath of life. I pay homage to our creator who gave us the Māori language; he carefully nurtured the language over the years and he will assist in its maintenance in the years to come. I support the words and lamentations expressed for the deceased including those deceased mentioned in the Minister for Māori Development’s speech.While I was researching this matter the Māori Language Bill I read the various debates that occurred in the House in the 1980s when the first Māori Language Act was enacted. If the Assistant Speaker approves I want to read a little excerpt that I found in those debates of the 1980s. According to a member called Mervyn Wellington: “… I suspect merely respond to the demands of the radical intellectuals having identified the fact that it is the young university trained radicals coming out of the handsof Ranginui Walker.” Enough I grieve for that genius of ours who has vanished into the night. Minister you mentioned my father and his inclinations; alas I still grieve for him and indeed so do the people of Northland. May all the deceased abide with the deceased; sleep and rest in peace.I support the acknowledgments from all around the country directed to the Minister for his passion for our Maori language. He continued with the Māori Language Bill left by Sir Pita Sharples in his portfolio. So I want to thank him and all of his officials who expended a lot of effort for the language. I want to thank the Māori Affairs Committee and the chairman who is in the House at this moment. I salute you Tūtehounuku and all the members of the select committee. I support all the parties who embraced this matter from the time of the first reading until now. The Minister has spoken of the Māori Language Advisory Group. He mentioned in his contribution that some were present in the House; I acknowledge them.I want to pay tribute to another group that supports this matter and that is the Paepae Motuhake foritsgreat efforts in meeting with the Māori people; indeed with people from all around the country. I congratulateit. I want to acknowledge the words of the Minister when he said that the seeds of this bill were planted by that esteemed leader of ours Sir Pita Sharples. It was his desire to return the responsibility for the life force and authority of the language to the tribes to the families and back to the arena of the marae. For the duration of this debate we will be examining if indeed this will come about. We willstill examine throughout the duration of this bill and its aims the question of whether the will of the previous Minister Sir Peter Sharples will be realised. So I thank him for his great idea.The Labour Party has supported the Māori language for a long time now. I have talked about my research on the discussions and debates that took place in the 1980s. I am reminded of that other genius of ours the Hon Koro Wētere and his perseverance in bringing the Māori language to the attention of this House. I am also reminded of the establishment of Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Maori at that time and the enactment of legislation that made our language the official language of this country. Therefore we are supporting this bill. The Labour Party supports this bill.Throughout the period of my speech and from the comments of my work colleagues you would have realised that we have questions. You would have heard some concerns and some complaints. It is not as though it is an insurmountable mountain for us;indeed not. However I would say to you Minister and to us in the House that these are the thoughts of the Māori people that I hear; indeed what we all hear in our work.Therefore I return to the bill. I turn to this bill and acknowledge an important aspect which is that this bill will be given effect to in the Māori language and the English language. Yes indeed I want to thank the Māori translators who translated the English version. When I read the Māori version of the bill I needed to have my dictionary alongside me. What a beautiful language we have. I want to acknowledge the Minister and his tenacity in listening to the people and their commentary on this matter over the years past.I have for some time now wondered where does the language feature in terms of those who live in the cities? Where is the language for the majority of Māori who live in my electorate of Auckland? The Minister has heard and I am pleased. I am satisfied that the urban dwellers will have a position on the board of Te Mātāwai. So I acknowledge that point. I want to also acknowledge the great thought of my father and my elder cousin Pita Paraone who is present here. We the Māori people indeed the whole country retain the Māori Language Commission so that we do not sever those connections that deliver and care for our Māori language and all related aspects. So I acknowledge that very important gesture Minister.Other points that came out of our discussions on this matter and we have been saying this for some time now—why throw a Pākehā cloak over a Māori treasure to run it? The desire and primary goal of Sir Pita Sharples during his research was to return the mandate to the tribes families and sub-tribes. Its well-being is there! Therefore why have another branch to lead and look after our Māori language? That is what“a Pākehā cloak over a Māori treasure”is on about. Furthermore we question the situation concerning Te Mātāwai which states that this minority group will administer and be responsible for the language of the multitude.When the Māori Affairs Committee was convened to listen to the submissions in regard to the bill there was a poignant remark made—and I must say it emanated from Ngāti Hine. It was made by Te Waihoroi and he said that we all know about the cows that are on the Māori language farm at this very moment and we know why those cows are on the farm. Is there a need for more? Where are the cows that are willing to enter the farm and impart our Māori language and take it into the future? Well! One of the names of those cows is theMinistryof Education and those cows are all Government departments that have been suppressing our language for a long time now. Anyway this was a contribution that was taken on board in our deliberation on the issues of the Māori language.Another point that we are all aware of is what is the main goal? We know what the previous Minister Sir Pita Sharples desired for the Māori language but in the bill it is left for us to take advice on and to seek. There is no problem with that. We all know there will be three generations before we will see what the benefits are. Therefore I think that we are still trying to ascertain what the main aim is for us in taking our language into the future.On another matter regarding Part 1 of the bill where it mentions the review of this bill: at the end of 3 years the work of Te Mātāwai will be reviewed along with all the other outcomes of this bill. We empathise with the undertakings of this Government and hope that the wishes of the Māori people in regard to the language are realised.In conclusion I go back to that comment about the main goals of this bill. I think of all the ancestral houses that stand on all the marae around the country. That is where you will find themaihiof the ancestral houses. Now this bill makes reference to theMaihiMāori and theMaihiGovernment and I reflect on all the ancestral houses that are sitting in silence around the country. I wonder how thesemaihiwill speak; humans are required to make them talk. Anyway I will leave that thought for all of us to consider over the course of further debate this afternoon when you will hear from my colleagues; so enough from me. I turn now to face us all Minister and Mr Assistant Speaker; greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you and to us all.]NUK KORAKO (National):E mihi atu ki koe e Te Mana Whakawā ā tēnei te mihi o te mema o Te Whare Paremata e huri noa i Te Whare me mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. He hōnore tēnei mōkū ki te tū ki konei hei Heamana o Te Komiti mō ngā Take Māori he tūraka kua noho au ina tekau mā ono mārama kua hipa. I roto i te wā kua wānaka tā mātou komiti i ētahi pire he nui tonu. Ki a mātou he mea nui rāwa atu ngā pire whakatau kerēme Tiriti. He whakatikatika i ngā mahi o mua hei awhina ki te whakatipu i te ōhakao Te Iwi Māori. E whakapono ai au ko tēnei te pire nui rawa atu kua wānaka mātou. Mā tēnei hanganga ture ka rerekē ngā kawenga mō te ora o Te Reo Māori. Kia tae ki te pānui tuatoru o te pire ka kōrero whānui au mō ngā painga hoia i te rā nei ko taku hiahia kia kōrero mō ngā āhuataka o te pire me te huarahi i whāia kia tae ai tātou ki tēnei pānuitaka tuarua.Ko tētahi tirohaka o te pire nei he mea auaha i te wā o Tā Pita Sharples. Nāna hoki i mau mai ki Te Whare i te rā i puta tana kauhau mutuka. I taku kuhunga mai ki Te Pāremata ka eke hei heamana o Te Komiti mō ngā Take Māori kite tonu au i te nui o te mahi nei me te mea kia tika tonu. Kua rongo ki ngā tohetohe nei mēnā ko te pire nei te huarahi tika kāore rānei. Ahakoa he aha te kaupapa ka tohea tonutia te huarahi tika hei whāingahia ko te mea ki ahau kia whānui kia hōhonu ngā whiriwhiringa i te pire nei.I te hui tuatahi ake o Te Komiti mō Ngā Take Māori o tēnei Te Pāremata e rima tekau mā tahi ka puta tā mātou pānui kia tukua mai he kōrero tāpaetaka. Ka tono āwhina mātou i Te Puni Kōkiri mō ngā tono i whiwhi rātou me ngā whitiwhitinga kōrero i tū. Waihoki ka hoki Te Minita mō ngā Take Māori ki te titiro anō i te pire nei. I te mārama o Tīhema i tērā tauka whakatū e ia Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i Te Reo Māori. Ko te mahi a tēnei rōpū he whakatakoto whakaaro motuhake mō te pire me ngā rerekētaka ka taka mai. I noho motuhake Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i Te Reo Māori i ngā mahi a te komiti. Hoia i puritia e mātou ā mātou whiriwhiringa mō te pire kia mutu rā anō ngā mahi a Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri. Nō te mārama o Hune i tērā tau ka tae mai te pūrongo a Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri ki te aroaro o Te Minita ā nō te mārama o Oketopa ka whakaaetia ngā panonitaka e Te Rūnanga Kāwanataka. I wānaka i tautoko te komiti i ēnei panonitaka.E whai iho nei ko ngā whakarerekētaka matua: tuatahi kua takoto ki te pire he kōrero i Te Reo Māori o ngā kōrero Ingarihi. He mea tino nui rawa atu tēnei kotahi anake te pire kua takoto katoa ngā kōrero i Te Reo Māori me Te Reo Ingarihi hoia ko tēnei te wā tuatahi me te pire tuatahi ka noho rite te kaha o tēnā reo me tēnā reo. Ki te tohea te tikanga o waenganui i te tuhinga ā-Reo Māori me te tuhinga ā-reo Ingarihi ka arongia ko te tuhinga Reo Māori. Tuarua tērā tētahi atu whakarerekētaki nui ko te whiti e mea ai he taoka Te Reo Māori o ngā iwi me Te Māori ko te reo taketake ia o Aotearoa he mea nui rawa ki tēnei whenua. Tuatoru i te tuhinga tuatahitaka o Te Ture e mea ana kia tangohia Te Taura Whiri me Te Mangai Pāho tā rāua tūraka hei hinonga Karauna kia noho mai hei hinonga ā-ture noa iho. Ka tūtohu mātou kia kuhuna he panonitaka ki te pupuri i te tūraka o ēnei hinonga hei hinonga Karauna. Mā tēnei ka noho tonu rāua i raro i Te Ture mō Ngā Pūtea Tūmatanui. Ko ngā mahi me ngā whakapaunga putea ka noho tonu i raro i Te Pāremata.Tuawhā ko tētahi atu mea kua tūtohu mātou kia panonitia ki ahau he mea nui tēnei ko te whakatū kia rua ngā rautaki mō Te Reo Māori. Ka noho a Maihi Karauna ki raro i ngā kawenga o Te Karauna ko tāna he titiro ki ngā kaupapa ā-motu. He kōrero nui tēnei kei roto i te pire. E ai ki ētahi mā tēnei e whakakapi te whāwhārua i te tuhinga tuatahi o te pire arā kei Te Karauna te kawenga kia whakatairangatia kia tiakina Te Reo Māori. Ko tērā atu o ngā rautaki kīia ai ko Maihi Māori. Kei Te Mātāwai ōna kawenga mō ngā iwi Māori me Te Maori. Ka noho ēnei rautaki e rua hei whakaatu atu he mea nui kia rite kia tika te pire ki ngā taha katoa. Ka whakahokia e te pire te tūraka o Te Māori hei kaitiaki o te taoka kamehameha.Hāunga tērā he mea nui tonu kia kaua te pire e unu i te kawenga o Te Karauna nāna nei Te Tiriti i waitohu ki te tiaki me te hāpai i Te Reo. Whakapono au nā runga i ngā whakahounga ka noho te pire ki te wāhi tika e rite ai ēnei whainga nui e rua. Kei te whakapūmautia te kawenga o Te Karauna mā tētahi whakahounga ki te kaupapa a Te Mātāwai te wāhi e mea ai “Te Minita mō ngā Take Māori” ka hurihia ki “Ngā Minita o Te Karauna.” Mā tēnei e whakaatu atu ēhara i te mea ka noho ngā kawenga o Te Karauna ki runga i ngā pakihiwi o Te Minita kotahi ēngari kei runga i Te Kāwanatanga katoa.Tērā anō whakahounga kei pōhēhē ētahi he mea iti noa hoia ki ahau he mea nui te kake ake i te tokomaha kei runga i Te Mātāwai atu i te tekau mā rua ki te tekau mā toru. Nā te tapiritanga o tētahi māngai mō te hunga Māori i ngā tāone ka piki te rahi ki te tekau mā toru. Ahakoa te nuinga o ngā tākata o Te Mātāwai kei reira hei kanohi mō ngā iwi me aro tonu tātou ki te nui o tātou tae rawa ki te hunga rakatahi kei te noho ki ngā tāone. He nui rātou kei te noho tawhiti i ō rātou iwi kua motu rānei te here ki te iwi. Ahakoa tērā kia whai wāhi tonu rātou hei kaitiaki o Te Reo Māori.Me kī ko ngā reo o te rakatahi nui rawa atu i roto i tēnei mahi. E kore pea e nui ngā rerekētaka i roto i te wā poto. Ēngari ki te tika tēnei mahi ko ā tātou tamariki ka whiwhi i tētahi reo ora reo kaha reo kōrerotia. E mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa.[This member of the House acknowledges you Mr Assistant Speaker and all of you throughout the House. It is an honour for me to stand here as chairman of the Māori Affairs Committee a position I have held for the past 16 months during which time our committee has considered some very important bills. Treaty of Waitangi settlement bills are of great importance to us as they address past grievances and assist the economic growth of Māoridom. I believe this to be perhaps the most significant bill we have considered. This new legislation will alter responsibilities in regard to Māori language revitalisation. When it reaches its third reading I will elaborate on the benefits. Suffice to say today I will simply discuss aspects of the bill and the process we followed to bring it to second reading stage.One perspective is that the bill was created during the time Sir Pita Sharples was here and he introduced it on the day he gave his valedictory speech. When I entered Parliament and was elected as chairman of the Māori Affairs Committee it was obvious to me that this was a big piece of work and we had to get it right. There was already dissent about whether the approach was right or not. Regardless of what approach would be followed it would be debated so it was apparent to me the consultation on this bill would have to be wide and comprehensive.At the very first meeting of the Māori Affairs Committee of the 51stParliament we called for submissions. We sought advice from Te Puni Kōkiri on the submissions it had received and the consultation it had undertaken. In addition the Minister for Māori Development decided to take another look at this bill. In December that year he established the Māori Language Advisory Group. The purpose of this group was to provide independent advice on the bill and on any changes that emerged. The Māori Language Advisory Group work was independent of the work carried out by the committee. However we did put our consideration of the bill on hold until the advisory group had completed its activities. In June 2015 the advisory group reported back to the Minister and in October the changes were approved by Cabinet. After careful consideration the committee also supported the changes.The key changes are as follows. Firstly a Te Reo translation of the English has been inserted in the bill. This is very significant as there has been only one other bill where the text is in both Māori and English; however this is the first bill where both languages are of equal validity. If the meaning between the Māori and English is contested it is the Māori version that will take precedence. Secondly another significant change is the line that refers to the Māori language as being a treasure of Māori tribes and of Maoridom; it is the indigenous language of New Zealand and valued by the nation. Thirdly in the first draft of the bill it stated that the Māori Language Commission and the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency would lose their status as Crown entities to become statutory entities only. We recommended that the entities retain their status as Crown entities and in so doing remain under the Public Finance Act where their activities and expenditure would remain under the Crown.Fourthly another thing we recommended and which I believe is significant was the establishment of two Te Reo Māoristrategies. The Maihi Karauna—Crown Strategy—will remain the responsibility of the Crown and focus on national-level issues. This is prominent in the bill and some say it covers the gaps in the first draft of the bill in terms of the Crown being responsible for promoting and protecting the Māori language. The other strategy is referred to as the Maihi Māori which will be the responsibility ofTe Mātāwai on behalf of Māori tribes and Māoridom. These dual strategies represent the important balancing act that is required in this bill. The bill reiterates the role of Māori as guardian of the great treasure.That aside it is important that the bill does not allow the Crown to relinquish its responsibility as one who signed the Treaty to protect and promote the Māori language. The responsibility of the Crown is reinforced in an amendment to the purpose of Te Mātāwai where “the Minister of Māori Affairs” is replaced by “Ministers of the Crown”. This ensures that the Crown responsibilities are not left on the shoulders of one Minister alone but on all of the Government.One further amendment which some may consider minor but to me is quite significant is to bump up the membership of Te Mātāwai from 12 to 13. This change results from the addition of a representative for urban Māori. Although most of Te Mātāwai membership will represent traditional tribal groupings credence still needs to be afforded to the broader urban and youth population many of whom are displaced from traditional tribal regions and populations. Despite this they still have a stake as guardians of the Māori language.It could be said that the voice of the youth is perhaps the most important throughout this process. Dramatic changes are not expected overnight; however if done correctly our children will inherit a thriving strong spoken language. I acknowledge you all.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Ko te wā kai tēnei; ka hoki mai ā te 7.30 p.m.[This is the dinner break; we will come back at 7.30 p.m.]Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.NUK KORAKO: He roa te wā kia hoki mai te pire nei ki Te Whare heoi ka whakapono au ka hoki mai he pire pakari ko te mutuka iho ka hua anō he rua pakari. Ka whaiwhaitia e au tēnei pire ki te aroaro o Te Whare. Nō reira e koutou mā he mihi he mihi he mihi atu ki a koutou. Kia ora.[This bill has taken a long time to come back to the House but I believe it comes back a robust one and at the end of it all a fruitful one too and sturdier twice-over. I will follow this bill that is before the House. So to you at large I acknowledge commend and applaud you collectively. Thank you.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Tēnā tātou katoa tuatahi e tāpiri ana i aku whakaaro ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia rātou nō te kāinga tēnei ka tukuna aku mihi maioha: ki a pāpā Matua Dick Rākena nō Ngāti Tamaterā ki tērā rangatira rongonui o Te Whakatōhea a Ranginui Walker. Tērā kuia o tō mātou nei rangatira nō Waikato a Vivien Tapa nō Ngāti Korokī arā ki a koe Tāhuna ko koe tētehi o ngā māia hoki ngā toa kei waenganui i a Ngāti Kīato e moe e moe!E tū ana ki te whakatakoto i ētehi o ngā whakaaro e pā ana ki tēnei pire ki tēnei wāhanga o te pire. E tika ana e tautoko ana a Reipa i tēnei wāhanga me ngā momo kōrero kua puta mai i mua i te aroaro o Te Komiti Whiriwhiri. Mēnā ka whakarāpopotohia ētehi o ngā whakaaro ka penei te whakaputa atu. Ka nui te mihi atu ki a koe Minita. I whāia e koe te rori pikopiko nau i whakatinanahia tērā rotarota a Robert Frost. Ka nui te mihi atu ki a koe nā te mea i te tīmatatanga o tēnei wāhanga ka whakaaro ake te komiti me waiho. I tukuna te pire tuatahi kia mutu taua wāhanga ā tīmata anō koe ēngari nā runga i tō hiahia ki te whakapūmau ki te whakaū ki tērā hiahia o tō rangatira a Tā Pita ka haere tonu tēnei mahi ahakoa ngā piki me ngā heke ahakoa te roa rawa o ngā āhuatanga ki tēnei pire. Heoi anō he wāhanga anō mō te komiti hei āta wānanga i ngā nawe i puta mai i mua i tō mātou aroaro me te wawāhi i ngā kōrero kia āta whakaarohia ka pēwhea ka pēwhea anā kua kite koe i ētehi o ngā whakaaro o te komiti. Kua kite mātou ētehi o ngā whakaaro kua whakahokia mai e tō komiti motuhake ki waenganui i a mātou ā ka pai! Kua titiro ake ki te painga o tērā mahi ka nui te mihi atu ki a koe. Ko ēnei take kāre ano i tutuki pai i tā mātou komiti.I whakaaro mātou nā runga i te ngākau nui ki Te Reo Māori me kuhu tētehi wāhanga hei whakapāha atu a Te Karauna ki Te Iwi Māori mō ā rātou ture patu i tō tātou Reo Māori. Ahakoa i wānangahia tērā kāre i whai wāhi ki te whakatinana i tērā o ngā hiahia. Nō reira kāre i uru mai tētehi whakapāha mō tērā tūāhuatanga. Ko tētehi anō e pā ana ki ngā mahi a Te Taura Whiri me Te Māngai Pāho. Kua tae mai ētehi me ō rātou nei whakaaro me tū motuhake tonu aua tari me ā rātou nei mahi hei noho whakaruruhau ki te hāpai i ngā āhuatanga o Te Rautaki Reo Māori. Kei te pai kua kite i tērā!E pā ana ki ngā maihi. Kua whai whakaaro mātou ki tēnei tūāhuatanga mēnā ka tū Te Maihi Karauna me Te Maihi Māori ki te taha me kī ki te whakaatū atu ki Te Karauna me ngā iwi anei ngā pou o Te Whare ka pēwhea te whakatinanahia? Kei roto i tēnei pire ētehi o ngā wāhanga hei tuitui i ēnei rautaki kia whakatīnanahia tēnei tūāhuatanga mō Te Mātāwai. Ū kua tae mai ētehi o ngā tāngata nō te tāone me ō rātou nei hiahia me whakawāwāhitia tētēhi tūranga mō rātou nā kua tutuki tērā wāhanga. Koinā ētehi o ngā whakarāpopoto mō ngā tīnihanga hei whakamanatia me kī ngā nawe i haria mai i mua i te aroaro o te komiti. Ka tika me kōrero atu ki tērā!Ki roto i a au mēnā kei roto i tō whatumanawa Te Reo o ō mātua tūpuna kei reira te tīmatanga o tō tātou nei Reo Māori kia ora ai. Ahakoa ka whakaturengia tēnei pire ko te tino whakatinanahia o tēnei wawata o ō tātou nei mātua tūpuna kei waenganui i te whānau kei waenganui i tō iwi hei hāpai i tērā tūāhuatanga mō ngā whakatupuranga. Nō reira i tēnei wā ka nui te mihi atu ki ērā momo a Te Rangihau arā a Heikōkō Mataira a Ngāhina Teuira me Mīria Simpson ērā tangata e kaha ana i ō rātou wā i waenganui i ngā whare wānanga ki te kawe i ngā kaupapa pēnei ki mua i te aroaro o ngā tāngata ahakoa ko wai ahakoa nō whea. Kia kore ai au e noho tonu ki roto i Te Reo Māori ki te whakawhānui ake i ēnei kōrero ki te nuinga ka huri au ki te reo Pākehā.[Greetings everyone but first of all I add my thoughts and tributes to those from back home who have departed: to the father figure Uncle Dick Rākena of Ngāti Tamaterā and that widely acclaimed academic from Te Whakatōhea Ranginui Walker. To this matriarch of ours from Waikato Vivien Tapa of Ngāti Korokī and indeed to you Tāhuna one of the capable and bold ones amongst Ngāti Kīato rest sleep.I rise to express some views that relate to this bill. It is fitting that Labour endorse this part and the various thoughts that have been put before the Māori Affairs Committee which considered this bill. If these views were summarised this is how they would be expressed. I commend you highly the Minister for Māori Development. You chose a path that meandered this way and that but in doing so brought the world of Robert Frost to life. I really commend you because at the start of this process the committee had considered abandoning it but because of your commitment to ensure that the goal set by your former leader Sir Pita was fulfilled this process continued despite the ups and downs and regardless of the lengthy delays in regard to circumstances that concerned this bill. Nevertheless there was a part that came before the committee that had to be considered analysed and examined by the committee until a way forward was found. You have seen some of the conclusions the committee arrived at. We have seen some of the views expressed by your advisory group that it sent back for our consideration and that is fine. We have looked at the positives that came out of that collaboration and acknowledge your high input into those benefits Minister. Some of these issues have yet to be resolved by our committee.Because of the enthusiastic attitude towards the Māori language we considered that an apology from the Crown to Māoridom should be inserted because of the detrimental effect that its laws had on our Māori language. Despite the debate over it that one ofour wishes was not implemented. Another issue concerned the roles of the Māori Language Commission and the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency. Some came with their views that the independent roles of these agencies should remain so that they can continue to foster and support aspects of the Māori Language Strategy. That is fine; we have seen that.Now in terms of the maihi. We have considered this situation: if the Crown and Māoridom maihi are placed on the side let us say to demonstrate to the Crown and Māoridom that here are the pillars of the house how will it be implemented? Contained in this bill are some sections that can be drawn together to manifest these strategies as far as Te Mātāwai is concerned. And so some people representing the interests of urban-based groups have arrived with their hopes that a position be brokered for them. This has been done. These are some of the summarised modifications shall we say to be mandated in terms of the grievances that were brought before the committee and which rightfully need to be addressed.In my personal view if you have the language of your ancestors in your heart that is where the revitalisation of our language will begin from. Even if this bill is mandated the manifestation of these aspirations of our ancestors is really within the family and the support of the tribe for future generations. Appropriately at this time I too would like to acknowledge the likes of Te Rangihau Heikōkō Mataira Ngāhina Teuira and Mīria Simpson who worked tirelessly in the universities to bring policies like these to the attention of all people regardless of who they were and where they were from. In order that I do not remain speaking only in Māori I do wish to elaborate on these statements to the wider audience in English.]This Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill is an opportunity for us to I think ensure that its aims and intents reflect the highest aspirations of what we would like to see for this country and that is that Te Reo Māori is the flourishing language for every New Zealander. It is by no coincidence that just this morning we had two young women come before our Māori Affairs Committee with their aspiration to have a national day of significance—Māori and Pākehā coming together. We asked the question: in 20 years’ time if we were to have a day such as this commemorated what would New Zealand look like? Two words—proud united. As well Te Reo Māori is one of those types of issues that can ensure that every New Zealander is proud about where we come from and the place of our language in this country.Many changes were made to the bill. As I said previously we did try to encourage the Minister to actually dismiss the bill and start again—to give himself free rein so to speak. But the Minister was absolutely sure that notwithstanding the challenges of the imperfect bill that was tabled in this House he wanted to maintain the essence of what was trying to be achieved which is a new way forward for upholding our ambition to see Te Reo Māori as a language that all New Zealanders can draw from draw strength from and draw identity from but also uphold in a way that reflects the type of country that we are. It was not easy. It was not easy because there were a number of craggy issues and I have outlined some of them. In the Committee stage we will probably highlight in more detail some of those aspects but can I say that in terms of the substance of the changes they give us as the Māori Affairs Committee enough confidence to believe it is a starting place. It is by no means a finishing place.My colleague Peeni Henare identified that the review will be very significant because this is a new way forward. It is the first significant piece of legislation that will be written in Te Reo Māori and the status of Te Reo Māori within our legislative system will be elevated. It will be an opportunity for the Crown to think in a very uniform way about how it upholds its obligations to have targets and achieve some more uniform ways to embrace Te Reo Māori.More fundamentally than that it is an opportunity for New Zealand to consider its ongoing commitment to the indigenous language of this country. With that I still regret that the committee was not in a position to be able to come up with the type of apology that the Crown could make on Parliament’s behalf for the systemic destruction of our identity through the loss of language through the institutionalisation of the Native Schools Act and through English being the only language heard. All of us can tell a story about our grandparents being beaten for speaking Māori but I tell you what it did not beat it out of their hearts that they had to uphold their language. It is with regret that we could not do that as a very important gesture to show that we have moved on that this country is moving on and that Te Reo Māori should be a language that is normalised in the lexicon of every New Zealander no matter where they come from to stay here. This is a language that belongs to everybody. Nō reira ki a tātou katoa tēnā tātou. [And so thank you to us all.]JOANNE HAYES (National): Kia ora. I stand proud to take a short call on the Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill in its second reading sponsored by the Minister for Māori Development the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell. I want to acknowledge before I start my contribution the late rangatira and Māori Language Commissioner Ērima Hēnare for his leadership and his contribution to the health and growth of the Māori language in our country. Moe mai moe mai e te rangatira [rest and sleep esteemed one.]I also want to acknowledge the former Minister for Māori Affairs Tā Dr Pita Sharples for the work that he began and for leaving so much of the hard yakka really to our Minister for Māori Development the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell who has done I think a fabulous job and a challenging job.I want to take a brief walk down memory lane a little bit mainly because we must not forget the hard work that has taken place to get us here today. I want to talk a little bit about my father because my father was a fluent Te Reo Māori speaker. He hailed from Te Araroa on the East Coast and as the Hon Nanaia Mahuta explained towards the end of her contribution he was one of those kids in the 1930s and 1940s who got whacked for speaking Māori at school. He brought us up in a little place called Rangiwāhia and did not encourage us his children to speak Te Reo Māori at all. At times when we went to our school which was predominantly Pākehā the only Māori that we got was Māori Day where we got to sing a few Māori songs. So as we grew up as adults he was not surprised that his children pursued the learning of Te Reo Māori. There are four of us in our family. Two speak Māori fluently and two do not.I want to note some dates in my contribution. As I was preparing myself for this very important contribution tonight I took a little bit of a look down at whereabouts we have come from. I started with 1980 when Television New Zealand opened up for the first time in broadcasting history a Māori production unit. It was a very good start and 2 years later in 1982 the first kōhanga reo was set up and now we have over 450 kōhanga reo. But that came because in 1930 90 percent of our Māori children—tamariki—spoke Māori but by 1975 it was only 9 percent who spoke Māori.At that time there was a strong view that perhaps our Reo was dying. We all know that the power behind indigenous peoples is our Reo. It is the basis of where we come from. It is our heart.Then following on from the kōhanga reo movement was the first kura kaupapa Māori at Hoani Waititi Marae. It was interesting that our former Minister Dr Pita Sharples was the one who set that up and from then many kura have blossomed. By 1987 Te Reo Māori had become an official language of New Zealand and then 3 years after that we had the very first Māori radio station which was established in Pōneke here called Te Upoko o Te Ika. That was run by Piripi Walker and Tama Te Huki.I am saying all these things because I think that in order for us to go forward and in order for New Zealand to go forward in acknowledging Te Reo Māori and participating in our language we have to know where we have come from. We have to know where we have come from before we know where we are going to. In 1989 we saw the emergence of Te Māngai Pāho through the Broadcasting Act and in 2004 Māori Television went to air.Carmel Sepuloni: All these good things under Labour. Kia ora Labour.JOANNE HAYES: They are good things. It does not matter who did them—they are good things. In 2006 a survey of the health of Te Reo Māori was conducted and we realised that more needed to be done. We might have moved from the 9 percent but we had not moved far enough. By 2013 19 percent of New Zealanders spoke Te Reo Māori so it is no wonder that action is needed today and action needs to be taken fairly quickly to be able to reverse that percentage.My speech is a short speech. It has focused on the past and on my personal perspective. There is a lot of progress that has been made and there is a lot more to go. This bill repeals the Māori Language Act and also repeals Part 4 of the Broadcasting Act. Importantly it establishes the entity Te Mātāwai which has had a lot of discussion out amongst iwi in terms of how it is going to move forward. But the bill also gives to iwi and Māori organisations a pivotal role in shaping the revitalisation of Te Reo Māori in this country and it is right that iwi and Māori should be at the centre of this and not the Government.I believe that it is not how fluent one is in Te Reo Māori but how often we speak it whether it is in total immersion or intermittently with English because as confidence grows the more you speak it—and that is exactly my story. In closing I commend the bill to the House. I strongly encourage all people of Aotearoa where possible to have a go. We should be speaking it singing it praying it and playing it because that is the only way. We can have every bill this side of the black stump but unless we actually do it we will get nowhere and it will go. I know that from this bill and forward it will happen. E Te Mana Whakawā ka mutu tāku kōrero. Kia ora.[My address ends Mr Deputy Speaker and thank you.]MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green):Tēnā koe e Te Māngai huri noa i Te Whare tēnā koutou katoa. Tuatahi rawe te whakarongo atu rawe te kite atu i a mātou ngā kaitōrangapū ahakoa te pātī e kōrero ana i tēnei Whare e aroha ana i tō tātou nei Reo. Kikī ana te ngākau me te aroha mai ō tātou katoa o tēnei Whare Pāremata me tō tātou aroha mō tō tātou Reo Māori ahakoa nō wai ahakoa nō hea. Nō reira tuatahi e Te Māngai pirangi au ki te kōrero e pā ana ki tēnei. Āna te hōnore nui māku ki te tū ki roto i tēnei Whare tautoko ai i tō tātou Reo Rangatira.Ka pōti whakaae ana Te Rōpū Kākāriki i Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori ahakoa ki a mātou he mea paku raru tonu ki roto i te pire; ka pōti whakaae ana mātou. [Interruption] Āe āe. Ka haere tonu te kōrero me te mahi ki te whakakaha i te pire nei ki te pupuri ki ngā moemoeā mō Te Reo. He rā whakahirahira tēnei mō tātou Te Iwi Māori mō Te Reo hoki nō reira ahakoa taku wiriwiri taku werawera kua maringihia ka tū au ki te kōrero i roto i Te Reo mō te katoa o tōku kōrero mō tēnei pō hei māngai mō te Ropū Kakāriki i roto i tēnei te pānuitanga tuarua o te pire nei. Kia ora.Mārama te kite atu i te wero Reo kei mua i a tātou katoa. Te maha hoki o ngā tāngata pēnei ki a au ngā tāngata ihu hūpē tonu ki ngā take Reo Māori. Kāore ano mātou kia tino whiwhi. He wero tāku tā mātou ki te patu i tērā whakamā. Nō reira tēnā hoki koutou katoa ngā tohunga Reo mō te awhi mai. Ko tērā te tino kaupapa o Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori nei. He pire tēnei ki te tautoko i ngā wawata o tātou Te Māori.E tika ana ka mau Te Kāwanatanga ki ētahi o te mahi whakakaha i Te Reo i te mea nā Te Karauna te hē tuatahi. Heoi he tika hoki te whakahirahiratanga o tātou Te Iwi Māori e ārahi ana i tēnei mahi. Me noho rangapū ana Te Karauna ki Te Iwi Māori hei whakamana i tō tātou Reo me Te Tiriti o Waitangi.Hoki aku mahara ki ngā kōrero nō tōku kuia. Nō Te Rarawa ia. Ko Patricia Broughton née Hansey tōna ingoa. Nā te patu o Te Kura Māori arā ngā native schools tōna whakamā ki te kōrero i Te Reo ki āna tamariki. Pēnā tērā ki a mātou nē? Nā rātou ngā kura tōna mana i tūkino nā ngā ture kino i takahi tō tātou Reo Rangatira nō reira kua ngaro Te Reo i aku mātua i tērā whakatupuranga katoa. Āna e tika ana mā Te Karauna e tautoko te whakatikatika.Ki a mātou nei he mea pū raruraru i roto i te pire ēngari he maha hoki ngā whakarerekē anō i te pānuitanga tuatahi kua whakakaha i te pire. He pai te kākune o te pire nei kia whakatika ai i ngā mana whakahaere o ngā rautaki whakaora i Te Reo me te whakawhiti i ētahi o ngā mana whakahaere ki a ngāi Māori me ngā hapori. [Interruption] Āe.I muri i te panuitanga tuatahi i whakatūria Te Rōpū Tohutohu Reo Māori e Te Minita. Tēnā koe e Te Minita. Kua kōwhiri ētahi tohunga Reo o Te Motu mō tērā rōpū arā a Ahorangi Rāwinia Higgins rātou ko Tākuta Ruakere Hond ko Tākuta Wharehuia Milroy ko Charisma Rangihuna ko Charlie Te Pana hoki. E whai kupu ana rātou i ētahi rerekētanga nuinga kia whakakaha ai i te pire. E whakaae ana mātou Te Komiti Whiriwhiri Take Māori no reira i uru atu ērā rerekētanga ki roto i te pire tēnā hoki rātou.Ko tētahi o ngā tino rerekētanga ka whakatū te pire i ngā rautaki Reo Māori e rua ko Te Maihi Karauna me Te Maihi Māori. Ko te hiahia o Te Maihi Karauna kia noho haepapa ai mō Te Karauna me te whakahāngai i tōna arotahi ki ngā take ā-motu. Ā ko te hiahia o Te Maihi Māori ka noho nei te haepapa ki Te Mātāwai mō te taha ki te iwi mō ngāi Māori ki te whakahāngai i tōna arotahi ki runga i ngā take iwi take hāpori hoki. Ki a mātou nei he pai hoki kia noho tonu a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori me Te Māngai Pāho hei rōpū motuhake o Te Karauna. He tino pai ēnei āhuatanga e rua ki ahau kia whakatūturu ai me kore Te Kāwanatanga e whakataka ana i a rātou takohanga ki Te Reo hei taonga o te whenua. He take Te Tiriti o Waitangi tērā.Ko tētahi o ngā tūraruraru i roto tonu i te pire ko te mahi ngātahi o Te Mātāwai ki ngā whānau ngā hapū me ngā iwi pīpī. Nō reira me arotake tātou i ngā piki me ngā heke o Te Mātāwai e pā ana ki tēnei āhuatanga. Ko ētahi atu mea ko te putea moni mō Te Mātāwai me te mahi kōwhiri i ngā mema mō Te Mātāwai. Me arotake tātou i ērā mea hoki. Ko tōku nei hiahia kia mahi ngātahi ai ngā mema o tēnei Whare ā ngā pānuitanga kei te haere mai kia whakakaha anō te pire pērā i te tuhi i tētahi rārangi arotake.Kāre tēnei pire i te tino whakataunga mō te whakaoratanga o tō tātou Reo Māori—e mōhio ana tātou katoa i tērā āe. Ka mate ka ora Te Reo i roto i te kāinga arā ngā whānau me ngā hapori o Te Motu. E tika ana te kōrero a tā Royal Tangaere ko te kāinga te ūkaipō o Te Reo āe ko te kāinga te ūkaipō o Te Reo. Nō reira me tino tautoko tātou i ngā mahi hapori me whakaako ngā kura katoa i Te Reo ki ō rātou tauira āe. Ēngari ko te tino painga o tēnei pire ka whakatū i te anga whakatakoto i te ara kia whai ai i ēnei mea whakahirahira. Nō reira ahakoa ngā āwangawanga e pā ana ki ētahi āhuatanga o te pire nei kua kōrerohia e au ā e ētahi hoa mahi hoki ka tautoko tā mātou o Te Rōpū Kākāriki mō te pānuitanga tuarua nei. [Interruption] Kia ora. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou huri noa i Te Whare tēnā tātou katoa. Kia ora.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to you all throughout the House. In the first instance it is great to listen and to hear us politicians regardless of party speaking in this House with passion about our language. The heart is filled with benevolence from all of us in this House of Parliament for our passion for our Māori language regardless of who it belongs to or where it comes from. So the first thing for me is that I want to speak about this. It is a huge honour for me to stand in this House and endorse our esteemed language.The Green Party votes in favour of the Māori Language Bill.Even though there is still a minor flaw in the billwe will vote in favour.[Interruption] Yes yes indeed. Discussions and work to strengthen this bill will continue to hold on to the dreams about the language. This is a wonderful day for us in Māoridom and for the Māori language as well therefore despite my nervousness and the perspiration oozing out of me I stand to deliver my entire address this afternoon in the Māori language as spokesperson for the Green Party in this the second reading of the bill. Greetings.The challenge before us all in terms of the language is clear to see. There are a significant number of people also who are like me and really inexperienced when it comes to Māori language matters. We have not fully grasped it yet. My challenge our challenge is to overcome that embarrassment. Therefore I also commend all the language exponents for embracing us. That is after all the real purpose of this Māori Language Bill:to support our Māori aspirations.It is appropriate thattheGovernment has a role in strengthening the languagebecause it was the Crown’s fault in the first place. Accordingly it is apt as well that we as Māori have a prominent role in guiding this work. The Crown must work in partnership with Māoridom to give effect to our language and the Treaty of Waitangi.My thoughts go back to the conversations of my grandmother. She was from Te Rarawa. Patricia BroughtonnéeHansey was her name. Her embarrassment to speak Māori to her children was the outcome of corporal punishment at State native schools. That is what happened to us did it not? Schools violated her dignity—they did. Harmful laws walked all over our esteemed language and as a consequence my parents and all that generation lost the language. Accordingly it is only appropriate that the Crown support any restorative action.To us specifically precisely this is a problematic area in the bill but there have also been many changes since the first reading to strengthen it. The intention of this bill is to amend formal responsibilities in regard to revitalisation strategies for the language and transferring some of those to Māoridom and communities is meritorious.[Interruption] Yes indeed.Following the first reading the Minister for Māori Development established an independent Māori Language Advisory Group. Thank you Minister. Language experts Professor Rāwinia Higgins Dr Ruakere Hond Dr Wharehuia Milroy Charisma Rangipunga and Charlie Te Pana make up that group. They made some crucial changes to strengthen the bill. We the Māori Affairs Committee concurred and those modifications were inserted into the bill and for this I acknowledge the contribution of that advisory group as well. One of the significant changes made to the bill was the establishment of two Māori language strategiesone for the Crown and one for Māoridom:Te Maihi Karauna—Crownstrategy—and Te Maihi Māori—Māoristrategy. The intention of the Crown strategy is for the Crown to have responsibility for and focus on national-level issues. The intention of the strategy for Māori is fortheTe Mātāwai entity to have responsibility on behalf of Māori and to focus on issues at both tribal and community levels. We consider the retention of the Māori Language Commission and Te Māngai Pāho as being a good one. These two entities in my view are very good in that they ensure the Government will not deviate from its responsibilities in regard to the language being a treasure a possession. That is a Treaty of Waitangi matter.A problematic area in the bill relates to Te Mātāwai working in unison with families subtribes and smaller tribes. Therefore we must review the ups and downs that Te Mātāwai might experience in regard to this. Other concerning matters include TeMātāwai funding and membership selection. We need to review those things as well. My desire is that members of this House work in unison on future readings to strengthen the bill such as writing up a review agenda.We are well aware that this bill will not be the panacea for all Māori language restoration—yes we know that for sure. The language lives or dies in the home:in other words within families and communities of the nation. Royal Tangaere is right in saying that the real source of sustenance of the language is the home. Indeed the home is where the language is nurtured. So we must support what communities are doing; all schools must teach Te Reo Māori to their students—yes. But the real plus for this bill is that it establishes an infrastructure which sets down a pathway to these inspirational things. Therefore notwithstanding the concerns relating to some aspects of this bill that I and some of my colleagues have alluded to we the Green Party support this second reading.[Interruption] Good luck. Therefore greetings and acknowledgments to each of you and to all of us throughout the House. Thank you.]PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Tēnā koe e Te Kaiwhakawā Matua o Te Whare tēnā tātou ngā mema e noho nei i runga ake i te putanga mai o ngā kōrero e pā ana ki tēnei pire. Ā ki te korero: “Tiwha tiwha i te pō ka rararau i te pō. I a au i te pō tangotango ka haratautia takawiri ngā papa o Māui ka puta te here tangata ki te whei ao ki te ao mārama; ā tihei wā mauri ora!” E tika ana kia mihi hoki ki tēnā o ngā mate maha kei waenganui i a tātou o ngā hunga i ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohi i tērā atu wiki tae noa ki te rā nei nā i whakahuangia ngā ingoa ko Ranginui Walker tēnā ko Tāhuna Minhinnick tēnā ā me Roger Aranui. Nā reira e tika ana kia mihi kau ki a rātou e ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohi.Ahakoa ko rātou tata ake nei i hinga atu ēngari ka hoki ngā mahara ki tēnā o ngā tino kaikawe o te kaupapa nei kia kite mai te rere o tā tātou nei Reo Rangatira i runga i te motu nei. Nā ka hoki atu ngā whakaaro ki tēnā a Te Aniwaniwa (Hone) Rangihau me te tupuna a Tā Hēmi Hēnare tae atu ki tana tamaiti toku matua a Ērima a waihotia ngā kōrero ki a ia ēngari me te whaea a Heikōkō Mataira me ētahi atu mai i Te Rōpū ā Sid Jackson mā i kawe atu tēnei kaupapa kia whai i te tautoko o Te Karauna kia whakamana i tō tātou Reo Rangatira ā e rere nei. Nā reira e tika ana kia mihi kau ana ki ā rātou.Ka hoki mai ki a tātou i te rā nei nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.E tū ake tēnei mō Te Rōpū Aotearoa Tuatahi ahakoa i runga ake i te wā e noho tonu Te Komiti whakawhiriwhiri o ngā Take Māori ahakoa kāre kau kē i puta mai tō mātou whakahē ēngari i muri mai i tō mātou hui i nanahi ka kī mai tō mātou rōpū ki a au: “E Pita haere ki roto i Te Whare kia whakahēngia ēngari ka whakahēngia tēnei wāhanga.” Kia mahara i a tātou i muri mai i tēnei wāhanga ko te wāhanga tuatoru nā reira ko wēnā te wāhanga te mea nui mēnā e whakahē kia ahatia?Ēngari ko tetahi o ngā mea e āwangawanga i ā mātou e aha ana te take kia waihotia ki ngā iwi katoa o te motu kia tohutohu mai ko wai ngā tokowhitu e kawe atu i te kaupapa mō Te Mātāwai? Ahakoa kei a rātou Te Reo ēngari he aha te take kia tukuna atu ki a rātou kia tohetohe kei waenganui i a rātou? Ko wēnā tētahi o ngā kaupapa kāore mātou i whakaae. Ko te mea tuarua i te wā tuatahi i puta mai te pire ē ko te kaupapa kia whakakāhore Te Rōpū Te Taura Whiri. Ahakoa i roto i tēnei pire kei te tū hoki te mana o Te Taura Whiri nā reira ka mihi hoki ki a koe Te Minita. Ēngari tā mātou āwangawanga te āhua nei kua tangohia te nuinga o ngā pūtea mai Te Taura Whiri kia tukuna atu ki Te Mātāwai. Ki a au nei ki a mātou hoki o Aotearoa Tuatahi e tika ana kia whai pūtea hou mō Te Rōpū Te Mātāwai kaua e tangohia ngā pūtea a Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo. Koina te tino take i whakahē nei i a mātou i tēnei wā![Interruption] Kia aha tia? Kia aha tia? Ēngari kia mōhio mai koe e Te Minita i te wā e noho ana koe ki tērā taha kei a koe te mana! Ēngari ā te tau e tū mai ā ka whakawhiti mai koe ki tēnei taha ki a au nei te mana. Kia aha tia? He kōrero noa iho tēnā! Ēngari i te mutunga o te rā ahakoa te nuinga o ngā kōrero i roto i te pire nei ēngari koinā te take kāre mātou o Aotearoa i whakaae i tēnei wā.Kei te tautoko ngā whakaaro e pā ana ki te rua o ngā mahi: ko tētahi kia riro ki Te Karauna kia whakahaerengia tētahi anō kia riro ki te ao Māori ēngari tā mātou tino maharahara me pēhea ngā iwi Māori e tohu ko wai tā rātou kaikōrero? Ahakoa ā te wiki e tū mai nei kei te tū te hui i roto i Te Tai Tokerau kia whai kōrero e aha ana te kaupapa kia rapu tā rātou tangata wahine rānei hei kaikōrero i runga i te kaupapa o Te Mātāwai. [Interruption] Āe tika ana tika ana tēnā! Ēngari mena e mōhio ana koe te āhuatanga i a mātou o te hau kāinga kia pau kē ngā hoariri ki waho ka huri ngā pū kei roto. Nā reira ko wēnā te take i kōrero mai i a mātou i roto i a Aotearoa Tuatahi ēhara i a mātou e hiahia ana kia kite atu i tō tātou iwi e haere pēnā ana. [Interruption]Āe tēnā pea tēnā pea! Ēngari i roto i te pire nei ā koina te āhuatanga.Ēngari kei te mihi hoki ki Te Minita mō te kaupapa kia whakauru mai tēnei pire ki roto i Te Reo Māori. Ā tino hari ana au mō tēnā. Tua atu i tēnā nā Te Reo Māori tana mana kei runga i Te Reo Pākehā nā reira kei te tautoko i tēnā! Ēngari kia aha tia? Kia ahatia? E mihi hoki ki a tātou ngā mema o Te Komiti whakawhiriwhiri Māori me tēnei tāke ahakoa ētahi atu kāore i a mātou katoa i tautoko ēngari i te mutunga o te rā ka puta mai te āhuatanga o tātou Te Māori. Ahakoa ngā piki me ngā heke e pā ana ki ngā mahi tōrangapū i te mutunga o te rā he Māori tātou. [Interruption] Kāo kāo ko au te kaikōrero i tēnei wā. Koinā te mea pai te maha o mātou ngā mema o Aotearoa ngā mema o Aotearoa Tuatahi ki a kōrua o Te Pāti Māori. Kia ahatia? Ēngari ahakoa i tautokona e au nei te āhuatanga o tēnei pire ēngari te tū o Aotearoa Tuatahi kai te whakahē ki tēnei wāhanga mō tēnei wā nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai anō tātou.[Greetings to you Mr Deputy Speaker and to us members seated here in regard to the speeches emerging on this bill. And so to the saying: “The conspicuous night the auspicious night that settles down the intense dark night from whence I emerge as Māui braces twists writhes and trembles and behold the strands of humanity emerge into the natural and enlightened world; it is the breath of life.” It is appropriate indeed to acknowledge those many deaths in our midst and lost from sight last week to this day. Names like Ranginui Walker Tāhuna Minhinnick and Roger Aranui were mentioned today; it is timely therefore that a tribute is accorded to those the recently departed who are no longer seen.But we reflect on those earlier ones who advocated that our chiefly language be heard and spoken throughout the nation: those such asTe Aniwaniwa (Hone)Rangihau; elder Sir Hēmi Hēnare including his son and my uncleĒrima; tributes to him I put to one side as I pay tribute to HeikōkōMataira the matriarch and others from Sid Jackson’s group. All of those people picked up this matter and relentlessly lobbied the Crown to officially recognise our chiefly language that flourishes today. So it is fitting that we recognise them. I come back to us today to acknowledge commend and applaud you collectively.I rise on behalf of New Zealand First. Despite the fact that we did not oppose anything during the Māori Affairs Committee debate following our caucus meeting yesterday I was told: “Pita go into the House and oppose it but only this part.” We must not forget that after this reading the third one will follow so that is the vital one. Therefore what must be done to avoid it being opposed? What?One thing that concerns us is why leave it to all the tribes throughout the country to say who the seven should be to carry out the functions of the Te Mātāwai entity? Even though they have the ability to speak Māori why leave it to them to debate and argue the issue among themselves? That is one matter that we oppose. The second one refers to the first time the bill was introduced and in particular the proposal that the MāoriLanguage Commission be disestablished. Howeverwe note in this bill that the status of the Māori Language Commission has been restored and confirmed so we acknowledge you for thattheMinisterfor Māori Development. But our concern is that it seems that most of the funding for the Māori Language Commission has been taken and transferred to Te Mātāwai. To me and to us of New Zealand First the new entity Te Mātāwai should be funded as of right and not have funding taken from the Māori Language Commission. That isthe reason why we oppose it at this point in time.[Interruption] So what can you do about it? What exactly? But you must understand Minister at this moment you are sitting on that side and have the mandate. But next year you might cross over to this side and the mandate will be with me. So what will be done about it? However that is just pure postulation. At the end of the day and despite the majority of what is in this bill that is the reason why we of New Zealand First oppose it at this time.We do however support the idea of having a dual strategic approach: one for the Crown to be responsible for and the other by Māoridom but our main criticism is about how Māori tribes are to appoint a representative for them. Despite the fact that there is a consultation meeting next week in Northland for tribes what is the selection criteria when choosing a male or female representative to meet the requirements of Te Mātāwai?[Interruption]Yes indeed quite true. But if you understand our situation back home—until all the opponents have been ejected from within then the guns will be turned inwards. That is the issue we discussed amongst ourselves in New Zealand First; we donot want our people going down that track.[Interruption] Yes I agree; I totally agree with that. But that seems to be the situation in this bill.However I acknowledge the Minister with regard to the Māori language being included in this bill. I am really pleased about thatandfurthermorethat the Māori version has precedence over the English. I really endorse that. But so what? What indeed? I also applaud us members of the Māori Affairs Committee in regard to this matter despite the fact that we were not unanimous. At the end of the day we resolved this as our Māori side came to the fore; despite the political ups and downs at the end of the day we are Māori.[Interruption] Not all not at all. I am the representative at this point in time. The great thing is that there are many of us in the New Zealand First Party as opposed to you two in the Māori Party. So what about that? Even though I support what this bill is about the New Zealand First Party opposes this part at this point in time. And so I acknowledge and commend you collectively and thank us all once again.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Kia ora Mr Deputy Speaker.Kei hea taku reo karanga ki ōku tipuna?Hoki mai hoki mai e taku reo rangatira.Ko wai rā hei arahia tātou eNgā kohikohinga ngā uri o te motu e?Ā tēnā koutou. Harerūia harerūia! Kua tae te pire ki Te Whare. Tēnei rangi whakahirahira kua tae tēnei pire ki mua i te aroaro o tēnei whare Te Whare Mīere. He rangi whakahirahira tēnei. He aha ai? Ā i roto i te hītori o tēnei whenua kāre anō kua tū tētahi pire pēnei mā Te Reo Māori te mana Te Reo Māori whaimana kei roto i te pire kei roto i te ture o te whenua nā reira harerūia harerūia nāku e mihi kau atu ki tēnei pire ki tēnei rangi.Anō nā ka tāpirihia ngā mihi ki a rātou kuamene atu ki te pō te hunga wairua. I tēnei wiki ko Roger Aranui tēnā i tērā wiki ko Ranginui Walker tēnā. E hika! Maha kē atu ngā kaumātua ngā mate kei runga i a tātou i tēnei tau. E tika ka mihi ki a rātou. Engari ka huri anō ki a tātou te hunga ora ko tātou te hunga tūtuki i ō rātou nei wawata; nā reira tēnā tātou tēnā tātou kia ora mai tātou Te Whare.Ngā kupu kei roto i taua waiata e whakararu nei i ahau engari nā Whirimako taua waiata. E whakanuia te āhuatanga ō tō tātou reo. Kei roto i te ngākau o te tangata. Koia nei te reo te wairua o tēnei reo i tēnei pire. Nā reira kei te tū whakahīhī au ki te whakaaetia ki tēnei pire; tēnei rangi kua whaimana tō tātou reo.Tuatahi me huri ano ngā whakaaro ki ngā tau kua pahure ake. I aua tau rā ae kei te hinga haere tō tāua reo i runga i te whenua. I patupatu haere Te Reo Māori te reo tauiwi me ngā kōrero taupatupatu i runga i te whenua. Heoi anō rā he maha kē atu ngā take e tautokohia tēnei pire. I roto i tō tātou kōti ko ngā tiāti tēnā i ngā tau kei te heke mai. Mehemea he raru ki tā te pire nei ko rātou tēnā me whakawā me pēhea te huarahi whakatikahia engari ko Te Reo Māori te reo whakahaere i ō rātou na whakaaro. Nā reira kei te tautoko ai i te kōrero o tērā o ngā tuahine a Māmari Stevens ki tā te reo tauiwi i kī nei: “Māori has been reduced to a language of describing Western law”.[Where is my language that calls to my ancestors?Return to me my chiefly language.Who will guide usThe assembled the descendants of this land?Greetings to each and every one. Hallelujah; rejoice!The bill is before Parliament.It is indeed an auspicious daythe presentation of this bill to the House. Why is today so auspicious? This is an historic occasion for our nation with the first bill of its kind where the status oftheMāori language is enhanced andtheMāori language is officially incorporated into thebilland the legislative process. Hallelujah hallelujah;I commend this bill here today.I also join in acknowledging the recently departedand indeed all those gone before us. I would like to make special mention of Roger Aranuiwho passed away this week and also Ranginui Walkerwho passed away last week. Alas too many elders and loved ones have left us this year alone. It is only appropriate we acknowledge them and in so doing we also acknowledge the living—we the living are now left behind to continue the legacy and fulfil theaspirations of those before us;therefore to each and every one greetings and warm wishes throughout the House.The words in that song tripped me up while singing themdue mainly to the fact that it was composed by Whirimako.It celebrates the phenomenon of our language;that isthe heart of the person. This indeed is the voice the spirit of this languagein this bill.So I stand proud to authorise this bill;our language hasa right to be validated.First of all we must cast our minds back to the years that have gone by. In those times yes our language was slipping back across the landandthe English language continued to overcome the Māori languageplus it was being called into question and being debated across the nation. Be that as it maythere are many many other reasons for this bill being endorsed. In our courtsaccording to this if there is an issue in terms of this bill the judges will make a rulingand theywill do this in the Māori language. SoI endorse the statement bythe sisterMāmari Stevenswho said in English:“Māori has been reduced to a language of describing Western law”.]She goes on to say not only Western law—we have been reduced to commenting on it protesting on it and we express suffering under it. But this bill takes a significant step forward so that in our lifetime—rather than Te Reo Māori really being a language of making law within our general legal system it shows that it has the capacity to be a fully functional legal language in the legal system of our country. Nō reira e te tuahine Māmari mena kai te whakarongo koe kei te tautoko pai nei au i tō kōrero he rangi whakahirahira tēnei mō Te Reo Māori i roto i te ture.Ā ka huri anō ki tērā o ngā tangata rongonuia Tā Pita Sharples. Ko ia tēnā i te 2014 i whakatau i tēnei pire ki runga i Te Whare kai mua i te aroaro o tātou. Ā koia tēnā i hiahia kia whakahokia tō tāua Reo ki roto i te ringa o te mana whenua ki roto i te ringa o Te Iwi. Nā reira e tika me mihi atu ki a ia me te wairua o taua whakaaro. Ēngari kāre tēnei pire i te utu mō ngā take katoa o te ao ēngari he tīmatanga. Tika rā te kōrero a Nanaia e kī nei he tīmatanga tēnei hei whakatikahia te whatu te wepu o tō tāua Reo i roto i ngā kura nā Te Karauna tēnā i whakarite i ō rātou pire native schools i te tau 1867. Ko taku whaea tētahi kua wepuatia nei e tōna kaiako i a ia e kōrero Māori ki ngā hoa i roto i tana kura.Nā reira ka huri ano ki tēnei wā tēnei wā kai te mihi atu ki ngā iwi e hiahia nei te whakahouhia tō tātou reo: ā ko Ngāti Raukawa tēnā Taranaki Ngāti Kahungunu Tūhoe Ngāi Tahu ā i tēnei wiki kua pahore ake nei ko Tainui anō tētahi whakarite nei i tō rātou rautaki Reo Māori. Nā reira e tika me mihi atu ki a rātou. Ā kai te hiahia rātou kia tō mai Te Reo ki roto i te ngākau o te tamaiti te mokopuna o te motu.Ā ko Ngāti Raukawa tēnā atu i ō rātou ake uri ka purua Te Reo ka whakatō Te Reo ki roto i te ngākau o te tini me te mano e tae atu ki Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Nā reira kai te mihi kai te mihi atu ki a rātou.Ā ētahi e taupatupatu nei i te ao tōrangapū nei mō te pire. Māku e kī atu ki a rātau ā kua tau ki Te Whare waiho te ao tōrangapū ki te ao tōrangapū ēngari anō kia hoki atu ki Ngāti Hine ki Ngāpuhi ki ngā iwi—[Interruption]—kia ora—o te motu.Hai aha te whakatōrangapū i te kōrero i waenganui i a rātou kia rapua tētahi Māngai mō Te Reo kia uru atu ki Te Mātāwai. Ā koirā te kōrero o Ruakere i ngā rangi kua pahore ake nei i te hui whakanui i Te Ātārangi i te wikene nei. Toru tekau tau rātou i whakahoutia tō tātou Reo ki roto i Te Wairoa ā Te Ātārangi tēnā Te Kōhanga Reo tēnā Te Kura Kaupapa Māori tēnā e tautoko pai nei i tō tātou Reo hoi anō me mihi me mihi ki a rātou.Ā kai roto i te pire kai te pīrangi au ki te mihi atu ki te rōpū whakahou nei i tō tāua Reo nā te whakaaro nui o Te Minita nei me tōna kaha me tōna whakaaro nui ā me tōna tirohanga whakamua i hoki anō ki te mana o ēnei e whakapau kaha ki te whakatikatika i tēnei pire. Ā koTe Reo Tukutuku tētahi o ngā wāhanga e rārangi nei i ngā rōpū Māori hai rapu i ētahi māngai mō Te Mātāwai tautoko i ngā mahi o Te Iwi. Ā kai roto i Te Whare o Te Reo Mauriora ka kite mātau i te tirohanga whakamua.Nā reira kai te pīrangi au ki te mihi atu ki ērā kua whakapau kaha. I ngā tau kua pahore akei tae mai ki Te Pāremata nei me tā rātau petihanaa Tamatoa a Koro Dewes Cathy Dewes Hannah Te Hēmara Rāwiri Paratene Lee Smith Sid Jackson Joe Te Rito me Rāwiri Rangitauira e tika me mihi atu ki a rātou. I tēnei wā ka hoki anō tō tāua Reo ki roto i te ringa o terōpū o Te Minita nei a Rāwinia Higgins tēnā ka mihi ki Ruakere Hond Te Wharehuia Milroy Charisma Rangiponga Charlie Tepana i whakapau kaha ki te tutuki i ngā hiahia o tātau katoa kia whakahouhia tō tātau Reo.Nā ko taku kōrero whakamutunga nei mai i tērā o ngā koroua a Te Wharehuia: “The Māori language is seriously threatened and at danger of being lost. When I say that a language becomes endangered I am actually referring to when the speakers’ conditions around them have altered. … Whānau hapū and iwi play a critical role in ensuring that young ones are exposed and engaged regularly with the language so that it is relevant and a living language. But this cannot be done in isolation. We also need to have some material and moral support from the Crown in order for some of these things to take place. This forms the basis of the proposed Te Whare o Te Reo Mauriora” ki roto i tana pūrongo ā ko taku mihi whakamutunga ki roto i ngā kupu o Te Kooti: “Āe e hoa mā ka pai tō koutou whare oti anō te raruraru e titiro ake nei ahau kai te whawhai tētahi o ngā pakitara ki tētahi o ngā pakitara te whatitoka ki te tuarongo te teina ki te tuakana te tamaiti ki te matua ā titiro ake hoki ahau ki ngā kai o te whare nei he kōhatu he kirikiri he tātaramoa ēngari te one matua!” Nā reira tēnā koutou tenā koutou! Tautokohia nei tēnei rangi harerūia harerūia ngā mihi.[If you are listening sister Māmari I truly endorse your statement. This is a great day for the Māori language in law.I turn now to one of those prominent peopletoSirPita Sharpleswho placed this bill before the House in 2014. It was his specific desire that our language be returned into the hands of mandated tribes and Māoridom. As a consequenceit is apt that he and the spiritofthat gesture be acknowledged. But this bill is not the solution for all worldly matters; it is but a beginning.The statement by Nanaia is right; she saidthis is the start to addressing the harm and hidings incurred in schoolssincethe Crownintroducedthe Native Schools Act 1867. My mother received corporal punishment from her teacher for speaking in Māori to her friends at school.So I come back to the present. I acknowledge the tribes today wanting to revitalise our language:Ngāti Raukawa Taranaki Ngāti Kahungunu Tūhoe Ngāi Tahuand Tainuiwho have just considered their Māori language strategy inthe week just past. It is only appropriate that I acknowledge them. Their desire is to draw out the language from within the heart of the child and grandchild of the nation.Ngāti Raukawa is an example of one who does that with their own kin in terms of revitalising and drawing out the language. They do that withthe vast numbers that attend Te Wānanga o Raukawa. And so I commend and acknowledge them.In regardto some engaged in any political dissension over this bill I say tothem thatthe bill has landed in Parliament so leave those political dissensions to be addressed there. But I do want to go back to NgātiHine Ngāpuhi and the tribes—[Interruption]thank you—of the country. Donot politicise the discussions amongst you when seeking a representative on Te Mātāwai. That is what Ruakere said in the past days at a weekend conference to celebrate Te Ātaarangi. They have been revitalising their Māori language for 30 years in Te Wairoaand Te ĀtaarangiKōhanga Reo and Māori-mediumschools in the area have supported our language. I cannot thank them enough.In regardto the bill I want to acknowledge the language advisory group brought together through the foresight tenacity and vision of the Minister here. He went back to the integrity of these ones in this group who were working hard on modifications to this bill. Te Reo Tukutuku was a cluster going through Māori organisations to seek out representatives for Te Mātāwai whoareto support the work of Māoridom. We saw the vision going forward in the House of Te Reo Mauriora framework.I would also like to acknowledge those who worked hard over the years and arrived finally at Parliament with their Tamatoa:Koro Dewes Cathy Dewes Hannah Te Hēmara Rāwiri Paratene Lee Smith Sid Jackson Joe Te Rito and Rāwiri Rangitauira. It is apt that they be acknowledged. At this pointour language is in the hands of this Minister’s advisory group:Rāwinia Higgins Ruakere Hond Te Wharehuia Milroy Charisma Rangiponga and Charlie Tepanawho worked tirelessly to meet all our aspirations to revitalise our language.My concluding statement comes from that one of our esteemed elders Te Wharehuia:“The Māori language is seriously threatened and at danger of being lost. When I say that a language becomes endangered I am actually referring to when the speakers’ conditions around them have altered. … Whānau hapū and iwi play a critical role in ensuring that young ones are exposed and engaged regularly with the language so that it is relevant and a living language. But this cannot be done in isolation. We also need to have some material and moral support from the Crown in order for some of these things to take place. This forms the basis of the proposed Te Whare o Te Reo Mauriora”in his report.My absolute final comment is contained in Te Kooti’s words:“Yesfriends what a beautiful house you havebut the only problem as I look up at it is that one wall is fighting against another wall the door is fighting the back wall the junior is fighting the senior siblingand the child the parent. And so I look at what isinside and see stones sand brambles and primarily earth.”Therefore greetings acknowledgments and salutations. I endorse this day;hallelujahglory and glad tidings.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: A 5-minute call on behalf of the Green Party—Denise Roche.DENISE ROCHE (Green):Kia tau te rangimārie o Te Rangi ki runga i tēnei a Papatuānuku e takoto nei me te taiao e awhi nei i runga i a tātou; tīhei mauri ora! E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe huri noa ki a koutou katoa i Te Whare tēnā koutou. He hōnore nui mōku ki te kōrero i te pānuitanga tuarua o Te Pire Reo Māori mō ngā Kākāriki tēnā koutou katoa.[May the peace of the Sky Father alight upon Mother Earth lying here and upon the environment that embraces us; behold the breath of life. I acknowledge you Mr Deputy Speaker; and to you all throughout the House greetings. It is a great honour for me to speak in the second reading of the Māori Language Bill on behalf of the Greens; my appreciation to you all.]It is an honour indeed to speak on this the second reading of the bill. It was my honour to speak for the Greens in the first reading but the lead on that has now been taken by our Māori affairs spokesperson Marama Davidson.We initially voted against the bill and our objections to some extent have been addressed through the select committee process but I want to just go through what they were because they have been raised by others in this House. They were concerns about the limited scope of the consultation before the bill was introduced—and there were particular concerns from hapū up north—concerns about loss of the independent Crown entity status for Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and Te Māngai Pāho and concerns about methods of funding and how it is not tied to need or based on what the research suggests but based on negotiation. We were very concerned about that.The reason though that we are changing our position and will be voting for the bill in the second reading is that there has been a more robust consultation that the Minister for Māori Development has undertaken it is being led by experts in the field and there is more willingness on the behalf of the Minister to work with the community and that has also been the result of the Māori Affairs Committee pressuring for that. We are now aware that there will be two revitalisation strategies one led by the Government and the other led by Te Mātāwai on behalf of Māori. This is of course in addition to the work that iwi katoa are already doing. Te Taura Whiri and Te Māngai Pāho will no longer lose independent Crown entity status and will remain autonomous and that was of major concern. These changes help ensure that the Crown does not abdicate its responsibilities to protect Te Reo as a taonga.Te Mātāwai’s representation has also been changed slightly to include one extra Te Reo Tukutuku member to represent urban Māori and this was a direct result of the select committee submissions that came from that group. We do remain concerned about the sidelining of some hapū and iwi voices due to Te Mātāwai’s iwi representation consisting of only one member from each of the seven geographical areas but we know that what they have come up with so far does sort of reflect the different dialects.This is the second dual language bill in modern politics. Te Reo Māori and English texts will hold equal status and if there is an issue then it is the Te Reo version that will take precedence. And we all know what happens when you get stuck with translations—it happened in 1840. The revitalisation of the language is essential to improve the health and well-being and the standing and the mana of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand and the strategies are crucial to this.I want to acknowledge like others before me the passing of the many kaumātua who have gone beyond the veil. I am particularly thinking about Dr Ranginui Walker whose tangihanga I was at on Friday. I took my daughter to that and the reason I took her to that was not only to honour this wonderful man and his amazing achievements but also so she could hear her Reo around her. My daughter is the only student in year 13 at her high school learning Te Reo Māori—the only senior student.Hon Te Ururoa Flavell: Which school?DENISE ROCHE: At Waiheke High School. She has 1 hour of face-to-face contact per week.I also want to acknowledge that Metiria Turei spoke for the second time in Te Reo in public in a speech and I was so proud of her. She said the words “Too many of us have grown up and still live in the crack—the crack between Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pāhekā. It is hard and it is confusing never quite being anything enough in a racist society” and she thanked Dr Ranginui Walker for giving Māori the language to speak truth to power.I want to finish with a whakataukī: “Ko taku reo taku ohooho ko taku reo taku māpihi maurea.” Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[“My language is my awakening; my language is the object of my affection.”Greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you all.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: A 5-minute call on behalf of the Labour Party.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker ā tēnā koutou ngā mema o Te Whare Pāremata. E tū taukoto ana ahau i tēnei pire mō Te Reo Māori kia whakahouhia ake te kaupapa mō Te Reo Māori. “Āpiti hono tātai hono rātou te hunga mate ki a rātou āpiti hono tātai hono tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou” tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ā tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to you members of the House of Parliament. I stand in support of this Māori language and the renewal of the policy relating to the Māori language. “The lines are joined they the dead to the dead and we the living to ourselves.” so greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all.]I am delighted to be able to speak in support of this very landmark piece of legislation that is having its second reading right now. We have heard in the House tonight “E Te Māngai” [Mr Speaker] and I have heard “harerūia harerūia” [hallelujah hallelujah] and I thought I was in a whakamoemiti Rātana Church service. But certainly it is worth celebrating thus far that we have come to this point to have the second reading of this bill.It has had a long passage. There has been a lot of work that has gone into getting it to this stage. I have only got a short call but I do want to acknowledge the Minister and the ministerial advisory group the members of the Māori Affairs Committee and in particular my whanaunga from the lofty southern mountain Aoraki there Tūtehounuku Karako who led our committee. I was on the committee but only intermittently so I was able to sit in and hear certain aspects as this bill progressed but I know the good work that was put in by the committee as well to ensure the passage of this bill.Can I also acknowledge the specialist translators who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to give a full Te Reo Māori translation to this bill. It is of extra significance as has been mentioned that this is a dual language piece of legislation. If there ever is any raru or doubt or conflict between what translation will prevail Te Reo Māori will prevail. That is very significant. It is only the second piece of legislation in the history of Aotearoa Niu Tīreni that we have had a Te Reo Māori piece of legislation. I support this bill because I support our Reo Māori.Sure there are aspects that were of concern when we did the first reading and I could go into the details but ultimately I think a big issue was around the nexus between the Crown’s relationship—it is the Crown’s obligation to protect our taonga and to promote the Crown’s obligations versus empowering te iwi Māori to champion and to foster and to grow our Reo Māori me ōna tikanga [Māori language and its conventions].So I think that the changes that have been made have improved and clarified that relationship. We have got certain new bodies and strategies that have been set up. I think ultimately this legislation like any new creation takes time to bed in. I think we will ultimately see the hua—the fruits—of this legislation by giving it time. We need to give it time. We need to let Te Mātāwai assemble the old guard and the new for all of them to come together to do their important mahi. We need to let the Crown strategies and all of the aspects of its role and who will be doing that—we need all of that to be teased out. But ultimately we do support this bill and it lays a very good foundation for the next chapter of the fostering of our Reo Māori.Ultimately that is what it is all about. We want this legislation to really be a huge boost to the amount of Māori that is spoken among Māori whānau and right across our whole country. So I do tautoko this piece of legislation I do acknowledge all of the work that has gone into it before and I am looking forward to progressing it through the further stages that we have left in the House. I commend it to the House. Kia ora tātou.DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): E Te Mana Whakawā tēnā koe e ngā mema o Te Pāremata ka mihi ki a koutou e te iwi noa e Te Whare nei tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to you to members of Parliament to the tribes in general to this House and to us all.]You will have to forgive the accent. I am not on the Māori Affairs Committee but it gives me great pleasure to speak on behalf of the Government in regard to the Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill and to acknowledge our coalition partners who have done such fine work especially the Minister for Māori Development in making this bill happen. Over many years the Māori Party has delivered for the Māori communities of our country and for our wider community as well and I think that is shown through the practical things that have come through in legislation like this today—I am getting a photo! I would like to congratulate and thank all members of this House. I think that the way everybody has spoken has been a credit to this Parliament and to the traditions of this House.As a European I never learnt Māori. In the 1970s and 1980s we were never taught it at school and I think that is a great disservice to our people of all backgrounds. We do not feel as comfortable as we should in the Māori communities because we do not know the language. We should know the language a lot more. Every New Zealander Māori or European or Asian or Pasifika should know more Māori than they do know. That is something that this Parliament should do something about because our generation missed out. Hopefully future generations do not have that problem and they will actually grow up in a community where they can actually partake in it as full members of the community understanding the language because language is so vital to any community.The stories of the past I think are tragic and should never have happened. That shows ignorance and misunderstanding and I am sure all members of this House are very sorry for anything that has happened to the language in the past.But I want to take a step forward looking forward to the language in say 100 years’ time. If you look in this House in 100 years’ time it will not be the same people in here necessarily representing the same demographics. You will have a much bigger population from an Asian base. You will have a much bigger population of mixed European and Māori heritage who maybe do not have the opportunity or have not had the opportunity to learn the language that they should have. I think we need to look at the Māori language in the future because in 100 years’ time we will look back at the Māori language as one of the defining parts of being a New Zealander. If we do not have that in all aspects of our society then we will be a lot poorer as a country and will lose the language—in essence preventing it being what it should be which is a treasure for all people not just a treasure for Māoridom.I think this bill is a great step in that process. I wish all the best to those who will be involved in making the language a reality. It is something that is important not only for Māori but also for all parts of our community to make sure the Māori language is treasured and also enhanced so that we have a better understanding going forward. Thank you.KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau):Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. E tautokongia ana ahau i ngā mihi kua mihia ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia ngā tini mate o te wiki kua pahore i te mārama. Rātou ki a rātou te hunga wairua ko tātou ngā kanohi ora tātou ki a tātou anō.Tuatahi māku e mea atu ki a koe Mārama horekau anō ahau kia harirūia i a āe mō tēnei pire i te mea ka taihoa ake ahau kia kite ai i ngā hua te whakatutukitanga o ngā moemoeā ngā wawata o tēnei pire hei mua i taku harerūiatanga o tēnei pire. Mehemea ka kite ahau i te tutukitanga o aua hua ko ahau te mea ka arataki i a tātou katoa ka piki ake i ngā puke ngā hiwi ngā maunga kia harerūia i a ia! Nā reira taihoa ake rā mō taua wā i te mea i nāianei he kupu noa iho kei roto i wēnei pepa o tēnei pire he kupu noa iho![Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. I endorse the tributes accorded to those who have been immortalised as a star; the many of the week in the month just past. Let the dead remain there with themselves the dead; and we the living among ourselves as well.Firstly I say to you Mārama that I will not sing a hallelujah for this bill yet because I want to wait and see if the outcomes fulfil the aspirations and dreams of this bill before I rejoice in it. If those outcomes are achieved then I will lead us all and climb the knolls hills and mountains and hallelujah it. Therefore let us wait up a bit for that moment because this bill is just mere words on paper—nothing but words.]I just said that I will wait until I sing hallelujah in regard to this bill—the reason being that at the moment these are just words in a bill. But when the dreams and aspirations that are inside this bill are actually realised I will be the first person to lead anybody up the nearest hill the nearest mountain and sing hallelujah.This bill is very important. Labour will support it. We did have reservations but we will support it. The reason I will support it is that I love Te Reo Māori. I grew up in a monolingual house. We spoke only English. David Bennett said that he did not learn Te Reo Māori at school—he did not have those opportunities. Imagine what it is for a Māori child to grow up and not have those opportunities to speak Te Reo Māori—to go on to your marae and know absolutely nothing about what is going on on that marae feeling totally inadequate and seeing your father feeling totally inadequate as well. Imagine the shame that we felt. That is one of the reasons why when I hit the third form I took Te Reo Māori. I was lucky to have a fantastic teacher by the name of Charles Berryman who started me on the path. For some reason his method of teaching clicked with me. Going from somebody who at the age of 13 was entering high school and barely able to say kia ora to getting only one Bursary subject and that was Māori 5 years later is a testament to the fact that it can happen—that we can go from being monolingual to bilingual.We do want to see Te Reo Māori thrive and prosper. Te Reo Māori is as unique to New Zealand as the kiwi as TāneMāhuta as Prince Tui Teka and as green pāua. We want to see this taonga of ours grow and thrive.I came late to the Māori Affairs Committee. I was brought on to it right at the very end of the deliberations on this bill. The first thing I noticed was that there was not an apology. I believe that is something we need to change in the Committee stage. There needs to be an apology for the fact that our aunties uncles and grandparents were caned and beaten for speaking Te Reo Māori. I have to say that my father to my knowledge was never caned for speaking Te Reo Māori because he just could not speak it. It was especially tragic because both of his parents were fluent Māori speakers. In fact I am told that my grandmother’s Māori was better than her English and yet their five sons my father being the youngest—not one of them could throw a sentence together in Te Reo Māori.Another criticism I had coming into the select committee was the purpose of the bill. I looked at it and I thought: “The purpose of this bill must be that we are going to increase the number of Te Reo Māori speakers and increase their fluency. That must be front and centre.” and it was not. The purpose of this bill was mainly may I say administrative. It was about structures like Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and Te Māngai Pāho—all those Government structures. I thought yes when the Minister for Māori Development goes to review this bill in 3 years’ time he can tick things off—“Yep Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori has had whatever happened to it.”—and everything else.But really I want to know: are there more Māori speakers in New Zealand and has their fluency increased? That is what I want to know.The other thing I want to know is whether Māori is being spoken in more contexts throughout New Zealand communities than it is now. At the moment Te Reo Māori is spoken mainly on the marae and on ceremonial occasions. We are lucky up north that we get a number of people who still speak Māori in the street and it is beautiful to hear. But non-Māori speakers take for granted the fact that they can walk into any shop any supermarket any dairy or any post office and they can conduct their business in the English language. They take it for granted. But has anyone ever thought that as a Māori speaker I cannot walk into Pak ’N Save the Caltex station or the post office and conduct my business in Te Reo Māori?I believe that that is a Treaty right and until we hear our language spoken everywhere in all contexts our Treaty right is not being lived up to. We cannot legislate for Pak ’N Save to go and employ somebody on the counter so that if I choose to I can go up and do my transaction in Te Reo Māori. But certainly the Maihi Karauna strategy or the Maihi Māori strategy could work with businesses and encourage them to have Māori speakers. We need to not just to be able to speak our language; we need to be able to hear our language we need to be able to see our language we need to be able to read our language and we need to be able to write our language. We need to have our communities immersed in the language if we are actually going to make a difference to Te Reo Māori.Up until now we have relied on traditional methods of language transfer: the marae talking to our kaumātua and kuia and school I guess. Just while I remember Denise Roche’s daughter is the only student studying Māori in her class. Will this bill change that? That is something we really really have to ask ourselves. We need to be able to read write and see our language all around our communities. We cannot rely on the traditional methods of language transfer any more. We actually have to look at non-traditional methods and it is going to seem really strange. It is going to feel really awkward at times. On my marae the time we mainly hear Te Reo Māori is when we welcome manuhiri on to our marae. We are going to have to look at things such as holding a Trivial Pursuit night in Te Reo Māori where we conjure up these contexts where we can have a lot of fun and games speaking in Te Reo Māori. We need to hope that every newspaper maybe once a week has all the news stories on one page dedicated to Te Reo Māori and magazines such as Woman’s Day Woman’s Weekly the Listener or whatever—just one page a week. These are the things that we need to see and we need to ask for in order for our language to actually just become normal again. Let us remember that the word “Māori” actually means normal.Louisa Wall: Ordinary.KELVIN DAVIS: Ordinary. So we just need to make our language ordinary and normal. Actually we should be careful about making it tapu because then it scares people. It should just be so natural and normal that we do not blink when we hear it or when we see it.We support this bill. We believe it can be improved but at the end of the day if it lives up to the promise that is in it then as David Bennett said this country is going to benefit. It is just going to be the greatest thing for all of New Zealand and all New Zealanders. So we support it. We want to improve it. We want to make it live up to all the potential that is in it so that it is not just a bill words on a sheet of paper; it is actually the future here for Te Reo Māori. Kia ora.JONO NAYLOR (National): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā ā huri noa i Te Whare nei tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to us all throughout this House.]I just purposefully asked my colleague to step aside for a second because I just came down to the House to find somebody realised that this was the conversation that was going on and wanted to participate. I think this is a vitally important bill for the future of Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Reo Māori has been in the back seatfor too long being ignored by many people—and I guess too many people—for such a long time.My journey with Te Reo Māori started when I was at intermediate school. It did not start at primary school because no one ever spoke it but at Hiona Intermediate School in Masterton I was one of the two skinny white boys who were a part of what was known as the Māori Club because that is what it was called back in 1978. We learnt a few tunes and a few dances and a few whatevers and it was kind of a fun thing to be a part of.But actually as I grew older I realised that this language was an important thing so I disciplined myself along the way by practising looking at road signs as I went past and practising and teaching myself with the “AEIOU” wondering how this word would be pronounced in order for me to be able to at least pronounce Te Reo Māori as well as I possibly could—because I felt that was the least that I could do. Then when I was doing my social work degree I had the opportunity to study Te Reo Māori for 1 year. The frustrating thing about that is that I do not remember everything I learnt and so there are a lot of things to go back and relearn.A couple of years ago my wife came home one day and said: “You know what? I think I’d like to learn some Te Reo Māori.” She said this to my daughter who had been going out with someone who is now her husband. She had been going out with him for about a month or so. My wife said “You know I’m thinking of learning Te Reo Māori.” and my daughter turned around and said to her “Well you’d better Mum because your mokos are going to speak it.” which was a little bit frightening. But it is OK. She married him and I have no doubt that my mokos—my grandchildren—will grow up to be bilingual because that is important to their father and actually it is going to be important to their mother and it is going to be important to me. Not that there is any hurry if you are listening guys! They have been married for only a year. But it is going to be important and suddenly this language is going to be a part of our family. So I think it is beholden on many of us to be able to do that.I guess what I want to say is that this bill is really important. It is really important for what is contained in it but it is really important for the message that it sends to everybody in Aotearoa New Zealand: that Te Reo Māori is an important part of who we are as a nation. It is a treasure for us to make sure that we continue with going forward.I want to acknowledge the Minister for Māori Development for the great work that he has done with this bill and I want to acknowledge the work of the Māori Affairs Committee for bringing it to this House. This is an important thing. It is an important thing for all of Aotearoa New Zealand and I consider it a great privilege to be a part of this Parliament in bringing it forward. I look forward to seeing it progress through further stages in the House.A party vote was called for on the question That the Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill be now read a second time.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Bill read a second time.Name changed to Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill.