Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka otirā tēnā tātou. Well it's been an eventful morning. Geez I didn't really start the morning that excited but the two bills that have just gone—and especially this one here—I'm really excited about.I'm really excited about the ability to be able to protect the whakapapa of the very name of the person that this scholarship is named after and the award is named after. And that's why I'm always a little bit—I have concerns when we use our tīpuna's names in this House because people don't know how to look after or cherish the names like Ngārimu who has strong whakapapa not just to Ngāti Porou but also to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui through his mother's side. And so being Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou myself I get a little bit tetchy when people are dragging names of tīpuna through this House like it's just a piece of legislation and it's just an amendment.I just want to acknowledge that I'm also privileged enough to sit on that particular board and this has been driven by those who are not members of this House but have asked the members of this House to ensure that we protect the whakapapa and the legacy of the 28th Māori Battalion.I just want to focus on that first of all. Those who gave their lives for this country and for their uri those who've paid the ultimate price for citizenship—those are the things that we've got to remember when we're looking at these particular amendments: is that we're dealing with actual people. We're dealing with actual whakapapa. And we're dealing with actual relationships that iwi have amongst themselves and with themselves in terms of the Ngārimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship.I wear this hat in recognition of those people that went there and my grandfather who went and fought in those wars in the very places that surround the walls of this House. They have represented us there and this is about ensuring that their legacy has been protected under law.You know the legacy of the 28th Māori Battalion—we want to create that new national Māori representative position on the board. If you don't know it in context these are the things you need to know. We've got one 28th Māori Battalion member left—one—Sir Bom Gillies. So I want to acknowledge him who is the living face of the thousands of Māori and the thousands of people—and our Pacific whānau—that went over to fight in those wars; wars that actually didn't belong to tangata whenua or tangata moana or tangata Tiriti. Those were not our wars but we were sent there.We're going to support this bill. I don't see anything controversial in it. Like others in this House I don't see anything controversial in it. It doesn't make sense to find something controversial in it.The Pacific Education Foundation Act—I just want to acknowledge our tangata moana whānau and their contribution also not only to the wars but to Aotearoa. And so I acknowledge the whakapapa there. Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu—just in the name Te Moananui-a-Kiwa is the connection that tangata whenua have with tangata moana. So this is about ensuring that tangata moana and tangata whenua are protected in this bill in terms of the ambitions that they have for themselves.Also tangata Tiriti—I want to acknowledge Gerry Brownlee who is the head of that group the tangata Tiriti o Aotearoa who advocate for tangata Tiriti who ensure that there will be a more harmonious equitable equal society when it comes to the unification of tangata whenua tangata moana and tangata Tiriti to build an Aotearoa hōu [the people of the land the people of the ocean and the people of the Treaty to build a new Aotearoa].So just in closing e hika mā kei te mihi atu rā ki te hunga kua riro atu ki te pō. Nā ko rātou Te Hokowhitu a Tū he nui ngā waiata kua waiatahia he nui ngā haka kua hakangia e rātou. Nō reira kei te mihi atu ki a rātou kei te mihi atu anō hoki ki ngā whanaunga a te moana ō tātou tāngata moana. Kei te mihi atu rā anō hoki ki ngā tāngata Tiriti kei roto i tō tātou Whare kei waho hoki i tō tātou Whare e ngākaunui ana e koroingo ana e tūmanako ana kia waihanga he Aotearoa hou kia ngāwari ake tā tātou noho ki runga i tō tātou whenua. Nō reira e te Pīka e te Whare kei te mihi atu rā ki a tātou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [So just in closing friends I acknowledge those who have passed on into the night. They are the Māori Battalion a lot of songs have been sung and lot of haka have been performed by them. So I acknowledge them and I also acknowledge our relatives from the ocean our people of the ocean. I also acknowledge the people who are here under the auspices of the Treaty both those inside our House and those outside our House who are committed desire and hope to build a new Aotearoa so that our lives in our country are simpler. So Madam Speaker and the House I acknowledge all of us greetings and thanks to everyone.]