Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): Ki tōku whaea a Temuranga June me tōku matua kēkē a Moana me koe hoki a Wira. Kei te noho mokemoke ahau kei te noho rawakore Te Ao Māori i ā koutou wehenga atu. Kei tua i te ārai koutou ki te taha a taku pāpā a Bob ki taku matua kēkē anō a Syd mā nā rātou anō rā i whakatakoto i te ara hei hīkoinga mā tātou ko ngā uri ināianei ko koutou tērā nō reira moe mai moe mai me hoki wairua mai.[To my mother Temuranga June and my uncle Moana as well as to you Wira. I am lonely and the Māori World is destitute following your passing. You are now beyond the veil by the side of my father Bob and my uncle Syd and others they who have laid down the path for us the living descendants to follow that is who you are may you rest in peace.]Can I just start off first by thanking the House—the whole House—who supported the motion to my old friend and relation to my wife Wira Gardiner; to my beloved mother; and to my uncle Moana Jackson. It really was appreciated and I want to mihi to the whole House.I want to mihi also to everyone who supported mum during the tangi and all the parties showed up—apart from one. So I want to thank our party of course and our Prime Minister the Māori caucus. I want to thank the National Party very much for turning up—Shane and Harete Hipango and for all the good wishes that came from the National Party—thank you for giving my mother a damehood; she always reminded me of that that the National Party gave her a damehood! So thanks to National thanks to the Greens and thanks to my mates in the Māori Party. The only party that didn't turn up was ACT so can I say that ACT would have been very welcome if they had turned up. But I thank you for supporting the motions. So it was a real honour and I'm really humbled by the support of the House.That's all the niceties. I'll come now to my other kōrero about ACT. And I really do feel sorry for their leader David Seymour—sorry because he's so desperate to reclaim the National Party vote at the moment. He's prepared to play the cheapest hand in New Zealand politics—that the Mao-ries" have too much political stunt which is sad you see because Mr Seymour doesn't want a referendum on co-governance. In my view he wants to dog-whistle up the Ōrewa speech and pretend that it's a debate.What's so miserable about Mr Seymour's sudden concern with co-governance is that it was his party with the National Party who began the co-management and co-governance framework that he is now denouncing. His supporters are insinuating a "hidden Mao-rie agenda" that the "Mao-ries are going to take over and try and own everything and want everything". Mr Seymour that's the Māori Party—that's not the Labour Party. My mates don't want to own everything; we just want a share in things. This Government is brazenly open—and good on them you know—but it doesn't quite work when you've got to work with the partner. This Government is brazenly open about our agenda for Māori—and that's living up to the promise of the Treaty. There's nothing hidden about the Labour Party and this Government's agenda.Chris Finlayson hardly a card-carrying member of the Labour Party was the architect of the co-governance model. He came out on Radio New Zealand last week and denounced Mr Seymour's use of a referendum because he says it will bring out the worst kind of people. That's on you David Seymour.Co-governance is already happening. Your party ACT helped build it with National. I can't help it that Rodney Hide feels he was forced to sign a paper with regards to the Māori statutory board—I can't help that Rodney Hide. But the ACT Party along with National helped sign up the Urewera Settlement with Tūhoe; the Waikato River settlement; the co-governance framework to look after Te Waihora the largest lake in Canterbury; the Waitomo Caves co-management plan—those are living examples of co-governance and co-management. And it hasn't heralded the end of the Westminster system; this country is not collapsing.I just can't wait to debate with Mr Seymour on Q+A; I am so looking forward to this—"Mr Clever" "Mr Brilliant Seymour". We'll see how clever he is this weekend. I welcome the debate because I think good Kiwis everywhere Mr Speaker sir including yourself and the good people of Wainuiōmata are not blind to history; Kiwis are fair-minded. They know that we just want to play a part in this. We want to be good partners. My only sadness is that my uncle Moana Jackson is not here to participate in the debate because I feel confident he'd make David Seymour rue the day he learnt the word "ethno-State" and tried to use it in a debate against him. It's a sad indictment on Mr Seymour and the ACT Party. I look forward to the kōrero and the debate. Kia ora anō tātou."