Coffey TamatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Tēnei te mihi nui ki a koe e te Mana Whakawā otirā ki ngā mema katoa o tēnei Pāremata ngā mema hou hoki. He mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.[Warm greetings to you Madam Speaker indeed I extend greetings to all the members of this Parliament including the new ones. Kind greetings to you all.]Kia ora Madam Speaker. Can I congratulate you on your ascension to the big seat in the House and wish you the best of luck. I look forward to working with you proactively over the next few years and also to our new members of Parliament as well; this is my acknowledgment to all of you.The Hon James Shaw said not long after the election in an interview It's a new Parliament; it's a new day." Actually I found it quite refreshing to hear that. As I look around the Parliament and I see new members inside this debating chamber it makes me realise it is a new Parliament; it is a new day. But actually what we are celebrating over on this side of the House is a pretty stunning election win. We managed to secure many new MPs. It's an overwhelming endorsement of the leadership of our Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern.I want to thank all of those people that put their faith in us to be able to guide the country over the next few years. Although the deckchairs have been shuffled although there are new people in this Chamber the kaupapa remains the same as it did just before the election which is all about keeping New Zealanders safe from COVID making sure that we're managing the borders so that we're keeping any COVID right there in managed isolation facilities. The kaupapa is still the same about accelerating our economic recovery because I know—as somebody that lives in the geothermal paradise of Rotorua—that actually our tourism industry has taken a hit our hospitality industry has taken a hit and our retail sector has taken a hit. There are jobs that are at stake. There are businesses that continue to hibernate until we get back on our feet. So making sure that it's a directive of this Government over the next few years to make sure that we're accelerating our economic recovery is a priority and making sure that we're laying the foundations for a better future.Underpinning all of those priorities is a commitment to Māori because during the election we got an overwhelming endorsement in terms of our party vote across all of our Māori electorates in the 2020 election which means that we must truly value and support Māori across the country who have shown their support for us by voting our Government in. We now are proud to say that we have 15 MPs in our Labour Māori caucus. The experience and the advocacy that they will bring will be crucial to the Government in issues such as Resource Management Act reform in issues such as water and the many other issues that we face as a country. We now have eight Māori MPs in the executive including our sister from the Green Party. Six Labour Ministers five Cabinet Ministers—collectively we sit across 24 portfolios—but that brings both responsibility and opportunity: opportunity to tackle the big issues and the responsibility to deliver those real results to iwi Māori and to everyone across Aotearoa.We will continue to strengthen that Māori Crown relationship to ensure that the Crown can grow to be a better Treaty partner and to work in true partnership with Māori and obviously the work of the Hon Kelvin Davis will be testament to that and we will work alongside him to deliver on those results. We will continue to work to settle historical Treaty of Waitangi claims as well as the need to protect the taonga that is te reo Māori. We are also going to celebrate Te Ao Māori and how it defines us as a nation by making Matariki a public holiday—that's right. It was launched in Rotorua and proudly so alongside one of the people that we consider to be at the forefront of this: Dr Rangi Mātāmua. Waitangi Day is our only indigenous holiday as you will but it's fraught. So Matariki will provide a positive more enlightened more indigenous aspect to a public holiday that we will hopefully have not too far away.We've got huge work to do in terms of Oranga Tamariki—making sure that we partner with iwi with hapū and with Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions. I was proud to go to the launch of Te Pūtōrino a Raukatauri which is a partnership of the different iwi in the eastern Bay of Plenty—Ngāti Awa Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau Ngāi Tūhoe and Te Whakatōhea—to make sure that they're part of the solution when it comes to the oranga the wellbeing of our children in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Strengthening Māori housing outcomes is going to be a priority of mine and you will hear me relentlessly talk about it in this House. Thank you Madam Speaker."