Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): E tū ake ana au i tēnei wiki o tō mātou reo rangatira whakamana i tō tātou nei reo. Heoi kei te wiriwiri au i roto i ōku nei hū. He tino pēpi noa iho ahau i roto i tō tātou nei reo heoi anō ko tēnei te wiki ki te karawhiua ki te whāia te ara o tō tātou nei reo. Heoi anō kei konei ahau.Kei te tautoko au te kōrero o tēnei hoa tēnei Minita te Hōnore Kelvin Davis. Ka huri atu au ōku whakaaro ki te tuahine ki te tuakana a Willow-Jean i tēnei wā taumaha otirā ki tōna kāinga; ko Season-Mary taku tino hoa mai i te mahi o te ture ki a rāua māmā ko Adrienne ā Nandy. I tēnei wā taumaha tino taumaha ki a rātou heoi anō kei a koe te pāpā e Barry e takoto moe mai rā.Heoi anō ka huri ahau i tēnei taupatupatu he kaupapa tino whakahirahira ki ahau ki te whakamana ngā kui mā ngā koroua mā i ngā wā i mua i te whakarauoratanga a tō tātou nei reo i ngā kura i ngā kōhanga reo i ngā marae i ngā wāhi katoa otira kei muri i tēnei Whare. Kei te haramai ngā iwi mai i ngā hapū mai i ngā iwi katoa ki te haere ki tēnei Whare ki te pātai atu ki ngā mema o tēnei Pāremata ki te kite a rātou reo ki te whakamana i te ture a mātou nei reo. Heoi anō ka titiro atu ki ngā hua o ā rātou nei mahi ā kua kite au i taku tamāhine kōtahi tau ia ko Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. I roto i tana haerenga i tēnei ao kei te whakakoa mai kei te whakapuāwai kei te hīkoi tonu i ngā reo e rua te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā. Ā koinā te mahi o ngā tāngata tino maha kua haere i mua i te whawhai mō tēnei take o tō tātou reo. Kei te titiro ki ngā kura. Tino maha ngā tamariki kei roto i ngā kura. Kei te titiro ki ngā taupatupatu o te Manu Kōrero i ngā kura kei roto i Aotearoa. Tino maha ngā tamariki tino maha ngā rangatahi ngā taiohi kei te haere mai ki ngā kura katoa. E tino kaha rātou i tā mātou nei reo. Heoi anō ka tahuri au ki ngā pūwaha ki ngā pūwhaikaha i te reo mai rā anō ā nā rātou te reo i manaaki i tiaki hei taonga tuku iho ki a Ngāi Tātou o Aotearoa whānui. Heoi anō ko wai ēnei rangatira? Kāore e ārikarika ngā amorangi e tū i Te Reo i roto i ngā tau kua tuhia ki te rae o mātou te hunga ako. Engari e tika me mihi mamona ki a rātou e whakahua i te reo i te kura i ngā tau o mua ahakoa he kino he pai ake ā ki a rātou e whawhai kia tū Te Reo Māori hei reo ōkawa o Aotearoa ki ngā kuia ngā koroua rātou i kaha whakatinana i ā mātou tikanga i runga i ngā marae hei tauira kei ngā kairaho kaiako i ngā kura katoa. He aha te kai o ēnei rangatira. He kōrero he kōrero. Nō reira ki tēnei Whare ki te whakamana ko tāku nei reo kei a koe Mārama tēnei te mihi nō reira kei a koe e te Māna Whakawā tēnā koe.[I stand today during this week to celebrate and acknowledge our beautiful language. However I am shaking in my shoes. I am still a baby within our language however this is the week to let it fly to follow the path of our language so here I am.I support the words of this friend of this Minister the Hon Kelvin Davis. I turn my thoughts to the sister Willow-Jean and her household during this difficult time; Season-Mary my good friend from my legal work through to their mother Adrienne to Nandy. It is a very difficult time for them and I say to you sir Barry may you rest in peace.I turn the focus of my debate to a subject that is very important to me to pay respect to the elderly women and elderly men who supported the language before the move to revitalisation at schools at pre-school on marae everywhere behind this House.Tribes and subtribes from throughout come here to this House to ask questions of the members of this Parliament to see their language to support the law for our language.If we look at the fruits of their work I think of my daughter; she is one year old her name is Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. In her experiences of the world she smiles she grows she walks with two languages the Māori language and the English language. That is a result of the work of the many who came before us who fought for our language.I look at schools. There are many children in school. I look at the debates at Manu Kōrero in schools throughout the country. There are many children many teenagers many young people who come from schools throughout. They are very strong exponents of our language.I now turn to the language stalwarts from the years gone by they who protected the language who fostered the language as a treasure for wider New Zealand. So who are these stalwarts? The leaders who stood proud for the language are numerous but they are inscribed in the memories of us their students. However it is only right to acknowledge those who used the language at school in the earlier years—despite the difficulty it was good—and to those who fight for official recognition of the Māori language to the elderly women to the elderly men who embodied our customs on the marae to set an example to the teachers of all schools. What is the nourishment of these leaders? It is discourse it is discourse.Therefore to this House to support my language Marama I acknowledge you thank you Mr Speaker thank you.]