Tisch Lindsay: Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill — Recommittal In CommitteeCWH Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill — Recommittal In CommitteeCWH Third Reading[Sitting date: 14 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10631. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The call is a split call. Marama Fox—5 minutes. Tēnā koe.MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Harerūia harerūia harerūia e Te Whare kua tae mai ki tēnei rangi! Ēhara i te mea ko te pire nei tēnā hai whakatika i tō tātou Reo kārekau! Ēngari anō he huarahi tēnei he huarahi hōu! Mai rā anō mātau kua whawhai kua hīkoi kua porotēhi i runga i te huarahi mō Te Reo te rangatiratanga ngā take whenua katoa. Hōmai te pūtea ki a mātou e Te Kāwanatanga mā mātou tēnā e kawe! Koirā te karanga koirā te take e hīkoikoi ai tātau Te Iwi Māori ki runga i te whenua. I nāianei kua riro i a tātau te pūtea me te mana i roto i Te Mātāwai! E hika kai hea atu i te iwi te tiaki pai i tō tātau Reo?Mai rā anō tātau kua whawhai mō tēnei kaupapa kua wero i Te Kāwanatanga i nāianei kua whai mana Te Reo i roto i Te Ture kua whai mana tō tātau iwi hai kawe i tēnei kaupapa te kaupapa whakaora ai i tō tāua Reo! Koirā te take e harerūia atu ana! Me kōrero tātau i te kāinga ka tika! Ko tō tātau tupuna tēnā a Paora Pōtangaroa nāna te kī i roto i tana ōhākī “ka ngaro Te Reo o Wairarapa ēngari mā ngā tamariki Te Reo e whakahokia mai” ka tika ka tika! Kua mate mate haere ngā kaumātua i te kāinga kāre mātau i te mōhio ki tō tātau Reo ēngari anō kai Te Whare Pukapuka o Aotearoa nei e 120 ngā pukapuka i Te Reo Māori nā ō mātau ake tūpuna i tito ngā kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga ngā kōrero mō Mohi Mātorohanga mō Nēpia Kōhūhū.Nā Te Whatahoro tēnā nā Kumeroa Āporo tēnā ngā kaitito kai roto i Te Whare Wānanga. Ēngari anō mō Te Wairarapa ake kāre e paku mōhio te whānui mō aua pukapuka i ngā tau kua hipa atu. Kai roto i ngā Whare Wānanga aua kōrero e rere haere ana kāre tonu mātou i te kāinga e paku mōhio ki aua kōrero kua ngaro kē Te Reo! Ēngari harerūia harerūia mō ngā kuia i whakatū ai i ngā Kōhanga Reo kai taku ngākau te mahi o Te Kōhanga Reo e Te Kahurangi Iritana kai te mihi atu ki a koe me tō kaupapa. Ēhara i te mea ko koe anake mōhio pai au ki ngā kuia kai roto i ō rātou whare ō rātou whare rau e akiaki ana i tō tāua Reo. Kararaina ko koe anō tēnā e tautoko ana i Te Kahurangi i tēnei wā ēngari anō mō te kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo. Kātahi ka whai atu ki te whakatinana i Te Aho Matua hei kaupapa mā Te Kura Kaupapa Māori. Kai konei aua ngā kura Ngā Mokopuna tēnā koutou!Kanapū tēnā koe i kawea mai ō tamariki mai i Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Mokopuna. Te Kura Māori o Porirua kai konei koutou. Kai te mihi atu ki a koutou me ō koutou kaiako! Mel kei te tika tēnā nō te mea kei roto i te ringa o ngā tamariki mokopuna tō tāua Reo. Koinei taku wero atu ki ngā iwi ngā māngai i runga i Te Mātāwai tukua āe tukua ki te hunga rangatahi. Tukua ngā tūru ki te hunga rangatahi wāhine mā tāne mā! Kāre au i te āwangawanga mō Te Mātāwai. Kai te mōhio au mehemea ka tukua ki ngā tangata tika ka ora tonu ai tō tāua Reo. Kai roto i ō koutou nā ringaringa tamariki mā mokopuna mā rangatahi mā mō ngā rangi kai te heke mai. Kāre Te Ture i te oranga o Te Reo ko te tangata kē! Kai roto i te ringa o te tangata!Paku mihi whakamutunga ki a koutou o Te Taura Whiri o Te Māngai Pāoho he mahi kai te haere i roto i Te Kāwanatanga hei whakaora ai i tō tāua Reo. Nā reira kai te mihi ki a koutou! Tāngia Te Reo whakatōhia mai te kākano i roto i te ngākau kia puāwai ai tō tāua Reo i runga i te whenua mō tātau katoa tēnā koutou e Te Mana Whakawā![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in the House; this day has arrived. It is not as though this bill will fix up our Māori language; not at all.Rather it is a pathway and an innovative one. We have been fighting marching protesting for some time now on the road for the Māori language for sovereignty and for all issues pertaining to the land. Oh Government give us the funding; we can administer it. That has been the call. That is why we of Māoridom marched throughout the country.Who else but iwi will do a better job at taking care of our Māori language?We have been fighting for this for a long time. We havebeen challengingtheGovernment and now the Māori language hasstatus through the Act. Ourpeople have the authority and responsibility to advance this matter in terms of revitalising our Māori language. And thathasgiven cause to exclaim“Hallelujah!”.Of courseit is imperative that we speak it at home.It was that ancestor of ours Paora Pōtangaroa who uttered in his dying speech:“The Māori language of Wairarapa will be lost but it will be our children who will bring it back.”How true how right.The elderswho usedthe Māori languageback homehave all gone nowand wedo notknow our Māori language. However in theNationalLibrary there are 120 books in the Māori language that our ancestors wrote fortheirrecords—aboutMohi Mātorohanga and Nēpia Kōhūhū.It wasTe Whatahoro and Kumeroa Āporo who were scribes in theuniversity. But for us born and bred in Te Wairarapa we were totally unaware of those books as the years went by.Those stories are flying around in theuniversitiesbut we back home were totally ignorant of those stories because we had lost the Māori language.And so hallelujah hallelujahand hallelujah for the kuia who set up the Māorilanguagenurseries.The work of thekōhangareo is quite dear to my heart.I salute youDame Iritanaand your scheme.It wasnotas though you were alone in that scheme.I am very aware of the many other kuia who were in their homes in hundreds of homesencouraging the use of our language. Kararaina youtoo are one of those whosupported DameIritanaat the time of the Māorilanguagenurseries scheme and then you went on to develop Te Aho Matua philosophy as one for Māori-mediumschools.Such schools are here today.Ngā Mokopunagreetings to you all.To Kanapu my thanks to you for bringing the children of Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Mokopuna and Te Kura Māori o Porirua are all here as well. I pay tribute to you and your teachers. Melit is correct is it not that ourlanguage is in the hands of our children now. And this is my challenge to the tribes and to the representatives of Te Mātāwai:let it be passed on. Release itto the younger generations. Give up the seats to the young people—theyoung women and young men. I have no concerns for Te Mātāwai. I know thatif the right people are appointed our language will indeed survive. So the future is now in your handschildren and grandchildrenand all the young people. It is not the law that will bring back our Māori language;it is people. It isin the hands of people.In conclusiona brief acknowledgment to you of the Māori Language Commission andtheMāori BroadcastingFunding Agency—there isstill work to be done bythe Government in reviving our language and so I compliment you all. Create the Māori language and plant the seed in the heart so that it will flourish upon the country for us all. I commend you collectively.]