Kuriger Barbara; Ferris TākutaDEPUTY SPEAKER: Just to remind members you need to call so I know that you're—TĀKUTA FERRIS (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tonga): Oh kia ora kia ora. Aroha mai.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Tēnā tātou e te Whare tēnā rā koe e te māreikura e te Pīka. Ka nui nei te mihi ki a tātou i roto i tēnei rā i a tātou e whakaaro ana mō te tirohanga whānui o ngā mokopuna i roto o Aotearoa. Ka hāngai pū taku titiro ki ngā whakatipuranga o te iwi Māori otirā ki ngā āheinga i roto i te iwi Māori hei painga mō te katoa. Tērā ētahi kua kōrerotia i roto i tēnei Whare i roto i ngā rangi tata nei. Ko tāku he whakawherawhera i ērā āhuatanga hei whakarongo mā tātou i tēnei rā. Nō reira ka huri au ki te reo tuarua e mārama pū ai aku kōrero ki a tātou e noho nei i roto i tō tātou Whare i tēnei rangi. [Thank you thank you. Apologies. Greetings to all of us of this House. Thank you Madam Speaker. Many greetings to us today as we consider the broad perspective of the grandchildren within New Zealand. My perspective will focus on the generations of the Māori people indeed the capabilities within the Māori people for the benefit of everyone. Some of them have been spoken about in this House in recent days. What I will do is expand on those things for all of us to listen to today. So I will turn to the second language so that my comments are absolutely clear to us who sit here in our House today.]Tēnā koe Madam Speaker and thank you for the call. I stand on behalf of Te Pāti Māori to give some consideration to He Tirohanga Mokopuna 2021. He tirohanga mokopuna" is a phrase from the Māori language and it basically invites us to think forward as far as we can for the benefit of our grandchildren and our grandchildren's grandchildren. Te Iwi Māori has been on a long curve of rediscovery of reclamation of redevelopment of growing things from a time in this country's history where our people struggled to maintain their position not only in society but in many aspects of life in Aotearoa. Today the Māori population is pushing on a million people so "he tirohanga mokopuna Māori" is a very very poignant statement and title when we're considering what the future looks like. Māori babies Māori mokopuna are an unequivocally important piece of the future of our country. They will comprise along with their Moana nui a Kiwa cousins one third of the country's labour workforce as we advance over the next two decades.One of the key things that must happen is that we must begin to create systems laws processes places of work and places of education in our country that support those mokopuna to develop and become productive in an economy that we all rely on. The need to do this is ever pressing because the young population of Māori and Pacific Island peoples and other people who come from cultured backgrounds is already alive and kicking today. As they come through the developmental phases of life and enter into a workforce they need to arrive as skilled people so that they can contribute to the same degree as the people who have gone before them. We should all be aware that at the same time the baby boomer generation is exiting that labour workforce and taking with them a lot of the intellectual capital that has underpinned it. So it is vitally important that we strike the right settings that see he tirohanga mokopuna develop into the productive and leadership models that we need to maintain our country into the future.The Māori economy is the second piece of that—the Māori economy. Every time the Māori economy is measured—and it's currently ticking over $70 to $80 billion. But every time it's measured it's generally $10 billion behind. So before too long definitely before 2030 the Māori economy will be worth more than $100 billion to this country. And all of that activity is driven on the basis of he tirohanga mokopuna by the people in control of that economy those resources. However they have come back to te Iwi Māori they are being used and managed in a way that will support everybody going forward. Me pēhea rā tātou? Me pēhea rā tātou te whai whakaaro nui ki ngā ara e ora ai te mokopuna? [What should we do? How are we to consider the big picture regarding the approaches for the wellbeing of the grandchildren?] How do we approach creating the pathways doing the things that seize long-term prosperity and development for mokopuna—not only mokopuna Māori but all mokopuna of this country? That is indeed the intention of the report and its findings.Nō reira ko tāku ki a tātou he akiaki. [So what I'd like to do is encourage us all.] So my words to us all e hika mā you know friends colleagues in this House ko tāku he akiaki—mine is to encourage us all to consider: what are the pathways? What are the pathways that actually bring to life he tirohanga mokopuna that bring to life he oranga tāngata that bring to life he oranga whenua? He oranga tāngata he oranga whenua—when the land is healthy the people will be healthy with it. Nō reira tēnā tātou."