Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Ki a koutou katoa o Parihaka. E ai ki a Matua Ruakere ko tēnei te mutunga o te tīmatanga nō reira he mihi aroha. Kua kīkī tēnei Whare i ngā uri. E te hapori o Parihaka nau mai haere mai. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Kia ora mai tātou katoa.[To those of you representing Parihaka. According to Matua Ruakere this is the end of the beginning; therefore I give heartfelt acknowledgments. This House is filled with descendants. To the community of Parihaka welcome welcome. Greetings greetings. Greetings one and all.]This morning at the whakatau which can I be honest and say intimidated every single member of Parliament that was present it was because we were reminded once again kanohi kitea as to the responsibility of shepherding and seeing this final reading of this Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka / Parihaka Reconciliation Bill through the House today. It was intimidating as it should be because this is an historic day. This is again the end of the beginning—the end of the beginning—and it's been a long beginning to this point. It's been a long beginning and now we need to live up to the words in this apology from the Crown. We need to live up to the deed that the Crown has a responsibility to uphold Te Kawenata ō Rongo. We need to truly walk what partnership means that the vision of Parihaka was to always have a self-determining and self-sufficient community that welcomed everybody that connected peoples to each other that held respite for peoples to come and visit and that connected us back to our land to our taiao and to our mātauranga. That is the vision we should have for Te Ao Māori. That is the vision we should have for Aotearoa. That is indeed the vision that we should have for the world. The undermining of the very vision that Te Toko Rua stood for has led us to the big problems that the world is facing today. If only we had listened to Parihaka.So I'm very very proud to be able to stand here and support your mahi that never stopped that continues to happen today. I'm standing here in particular. I have the face of Auntie Aggie right in front of me; her beautiful calm strong generous loving face in front of me the epitome of everything that is Parihaka. She always welcomed us into that whare Te Hapū o Rongo. I've had the privilege of lying in that whare in that place being immersed in the peoples and the manaaki. It's such a privilege that I will never ever take for granted even though a couple of times and I want to acknowledge your uri Jack McDonald who I am very much bringing with me here to this kōrero today and who sends his aroha that he can't be here with all of you of Parihaka. Even though Jack and I often used to get growled in that whare for talking too loud I will always know that I have a home and a bed in that whare.Of course that's where I have to acknowledge Whaea Maata. Whaea Maata of course discharged herself because she had to come today—of course though of course you have to be here today Whaea Maata. I would have done exactly the same thing—I would have done exactly the same thing. There is no Parihaka without your purpleness present. Ha ha! Even better that she has her beautiful mokopuna in lockdown so to speak by her side and that to me is everything of Parihaka. It is the transference and the intergenerational connection: our beautiful little mokopuna who amplified Matua Ruakere when he was doing his mihi—it was Rein I think. He was doing his mihi this morning and was having his kōrero amplified up in the back by the mokopuna and that is exactly what Parihaka has to do. The generations coming through will amplify the kōrero of our paepae and will amplify the mātauranga that is being passed on especially in your monthly hui that you have on the 18th and 19th which again is just an example of how you have continued to uphold that vision of wānanga and tautohetohe and waiata and mihi and reo and intergenerational hononga to stay alive.You've always been alive. Te Pire Haeata is simply to strengthen what you have always continued to do in the face of the extreme violence from the Crown. Your generosity your resilience your determination and your courage in the face of that violence over many many years over generations in many forms of violence through all of that you have thrived and you will thrive even more now that the Crown has written accountability to work with you on those visions on those moemoeā.Oh I haven't even been looking at the clock jeepers. I like all of my colleagues—because you can stand here and just pull on the vision the ngākau the mahana of what Parihaka means and I have been privileged to have been a little bit of a part of that. There is no speech preparation that can do that; it's simply pulling on the essence of what Parihaka represents.I cannot go past acknowledging further—along with my colleagues—of course Chris Finlayson who was really clear about everything that had to be included in the apology from the Crown. He was staunch. He knew that we don't beat around the bush here. We confront and face what the Crown did. We apologise and we seek an ongoing relationship to correct that harm. And Te Ururoa who I saw today who was our leadership in this House to also help bring that to light. The Parihaka Papakāinga Trust and Te Kawe Tūtaki—it was good to see you today Puna it was good to see you Ngahina even though I haven't been able to hongi our ihu yet but I remember you bringing me to remember Te Miringa whose face is also in front of me.Puna Amokura and Tina Ruakere of course Tariana and Jim—Ruakere Hond and Jim Bolger photobombed Whaea Maata and me today in the House. It was one of the most high-profile koroua photobombs I have ever had. I will treasure that photo but the massive efforts of the Parihaka Papakāinga Trust and Te Kawe Tūtaki to bring your people together because the approach of the Crown has wedged our people apart: whānau to whānau brother to brother—has wedged our people apart. That has been how they have operated and so then our leadership has to come in and fix up all that wehenga and fix up all that mess. You've done it and you're still doing that mahi and that mahi never stops. So I acknowledge the incredible vision and pathways you already have the plans you have in place the work the big mahi you are dreaming of and have already put in place and it is lifelong mahi to see Parihaka grow and grow and grow and to become a self-determining and self-sufficient community that it once was and will be again.I am pleased that we made an announcement here of the importance of having history in our schools. So may more of our children learn about the story of Parihaka. Nō reira he mihi aroha he mihi hōhonu ki a koutou katoa te ātaahuatanga o Parihaka. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Furthermore I give deep and heartfelt acknowledgments to you all the beauty of Parihaka. Greetings greetings. Greetings one and all.]