Tirikatene RinoMāori Other Populations and Cultural SectorRINO TIRIKATENE (Chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to lead off this section of the annual review debate as the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee. I would like to acknowledge the members of our committee and our staff and all of those who are involved with the annual reviews that we conducted. Unlike other committees Māori Affairs is somewhat niche. We have three standard entities that get referred to our committee and they are Te Puni Kōkiri the Ministry of Māori Development; Te Māngai Pāho which is the Māori broadcasting funding agency; and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori that's the Māori Language Commission. So we have substantial public funds that go through these entities through Vote Māori Development primarily through Te Puni Kōkiri and through Te Puni Kōkiri that vote gets dispersed to our Māori language entities that I've also referred to. We really enjoyed our exercise of inviting in the chairs and the CEOs respectively of our Māori entities that were conducting their annual reviews. Starting with Te Puni Kōkiri I'd like to acknowledge Michelle Hippolite the chief executive. Te Puni Kōkiri is the Ministry of Māori Development. It has quite a breadth of role. It not only is a policy ministry you could say with also a regional presence with some 17 offices around the country but it also administers a lot of significant amounts actually of investment funds which it puts into Whānau Ora and also into Māori language revitalisation and a whole host of other non-departmental appropriations.So by and large Te Puni Kōkiri in terms of its audit results came through very very well—very good ratings from the Office of the Auditor-General and that was reflected in basically its results. It had continued to make very good progress not only on its departmental side but also in its ensuring that outcomes are delivered through the likes of Whānau Ora. Can I acknowledge at this point the Ministers who are in charge of these entities—the Hon Nanaia Mahuta for the Ministry of Māori Development the Hon Peeni Henare the Minister responsible for Whānau Ora—because under their leadership we had great confidence in the presentations that we were given by Te Puni Kōkiri and likewise their reporting on the results that have been coming through from the Whānau Ora appropriations which are administered by the three commissioning agencies which look after Whānau Ora.In fact I think if there was one word that was coming through from our annual reviews it is collaboration". We have seen that with Te Puni Kōkiri and their collaboration with whānau hapū iwi in terms of their Māori lands and papakainga. Likewise through Whānau Ora a lot of collaboration between Whānau Ora the Ministry of Social Development and the Department of Corrections—just in the recent pathways for announcements there. But that also spans into other significant collaborative ventures—Well Child / Tamariki Ora. So it's collaborative arrangements which are getting very good results. That also spans into Te Reo Māori revitalisation space. As I mentioned there are not only the two entities that we conducted annual reviews on but under those two entities sit pretty much the language industry of Māori Television Māori radio Māori media and all of it is about revitalising the Māori language which is a Treaty responsibility on the Crown. I want to commend those agencies. Te Māngai Pāho—it's a challenging environment. We all know that technologies are ever-accelerating; different platforms are required to reach out to connect with audiences. Likewise the content that is produced has to be fit for purpose and be able to be transmitted across these new media platforms. So it's a really dynamic space but I'm really pleased it can be summed up in Te Whare o te Reo Mauriora; we can now celebrate the house of the revitalising of our Māori language now stands. We have te Maihi Karauna te Maihi Māori represented by our various entities and some fantastic leadership which is now leading it through into the future under our Government and with this administration. Nō reira kia ora tātou."