Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill — Recommittal In CommitteeCWH Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTe Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill — Recommittal In CommitteeCWH Third Reading[Sitting date: 14 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10605. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language BillRecommittalHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development):Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. For fear of doing this in the wrong place I seek leave for the Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill to be recommitted for the consideration of style and grammar amendments to the Māori text of the bill. I further seek leave for the bill to be set down for the third reading forthwith on the reporting of the bill back to the House by the Committee of the whole House.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought for that course of action. Is there any objection to that course of action being followed? There appears to be none.In CommitteeCWHTe Wāhanga tahi AA to Te Wāhanga wha Parts 1AA to 4 te āpitihanga tahi o te āpitihanga waru and schedules 1 to 8 (recommitted)The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Leave has been granted to recommit Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill to the Committee of the whole House to consider style and grammar amendments to the Māori text of the bill. The question is that the amendments set out in these tabled amendments be agreed to.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development):Kia ora tātau katoa. I te mea he manuhiri kua tae mai i tēnei ahiahi ki te whaiwhai haere i tēnei pire me whai wāhi au ki te tuku i tētahi mihi poto nei ki a rātou kia hāngai tonu kia rere tonu atu te kōrero ki te pire nei. Nō reira haere mai kei aku rangatira ngā mātāpuna o tō tātau Reo ngā mea kua kawe nei i tō tātau Reo ki uta ki tai Kōhanga Reo mai Kura Kaupapa Māori mai Whare Wānanga mai ngā hapori katoa o Te Motu.I tangihia ngā mate o Te Motu i tēnei ata nō reira waiho tērā ki reira i te ekenga mai o Tauranga Moana o Ngātikahu. Ko tāku ko te whaiwahi haere i ngā poroporoaki ki a rātou me te kī atu koutou i Te Pō e moe e moe e moe!Tātau te hunga ora e aku rangatira kua tae mai i tēnei rā ngā mātanga o tō tātau Reo tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa! Ka rua ki ngā mema Māori e noho nei ka nui te mihi ki a koutou i whakawātea mai i tēnei wāhi poto nei mō tātau me te kī atu ko te tikanga o tēnei āhuatanga me poto me poto e kore au e whakaroa i ngā kōrero kia roa.Kai runga i te tēpū nei ētahi paku hapa i kitea mai ai i ngā rā tata kua hipa ake o roto i te tuhinga o Te Reo Māori ko Te Reo Māori tonu. Ēhara i te mea nui he ā he ō ērā momo āhuatanga katoa ō runga ō raro he aha rānei ērā momo kōrero! Nō reira ko tāku īnoi ki a tātau kia whakaae mai ki tēnei o ngā kaupapa kia mutu tēnei wāhanga o Te Komiti ā ka rere tonu atu ki te mea tuatoru mā reira ka taea e tātau te ruku ki te hōhonutanga o te pire nei. Nō reira ēhara i te mea nui ngā kōrero pēnei tāku e kī nei he ā he ō he ī he ō ērā momo kōrero ā nō reira kāti! Ka waiho ērā kōrero ki a koutou ēngari mēnā kāre he kōrero ka pai. Ka rere tika tonu atu ki tā tātau kaupapa kia ora tātau katoa.[Acknowledgments to us all. Because visitors have arrived here this afternoon to follow up on this bill I must accord them a brief welcome and then go directly to this bill and focus on it. Therefore welcome my esteemed ones the sources of our language the bearers of it in the hinterland and foreshore from Māori language nurseries Māori-medium language schools Māori language tertiary institutions and all communities of the country.This morning we mourned the deaths of the nation when Tauranga Moana and Ngātikahu arrived; let us leave that there. My part here is merely to follow up on the farewell tributes to them by saying those of you in the Void close your eyes rest and slumber on.To us the living—my leaders who have arrived here today the experts of our language—greetings acknowledgments and salutations to you all. Secondly to the Māori members seated here a huge appreciation to you collectively for giving leave to allow us this brief moment. Let me assure you that the purpose of this situation is very much a brief one really short and I will not allow prolonged contributions.On the table are some minor errors that were found recently in the written version of the Māori language in the Māori language version. Not significant ones more to do with ā and ō ones all those kind of things; ō above ō below or whatever those kinds of things. So my plea to us is to allow these matters to take place. When this part of the Committee stage is completed then we will go directly to the third reading. There we will be able to delve into this bill at depth. Therefore there is not much more to addand as I alluded to just minor ā and ō amendments those kinds of things so enough. I leave those comments for you to makeand if there are no contributions that is fine. We go directly to our bill with my appreciation to us all.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Tēnā koe e Te Minita tēnei e tautoko ana i tō mihi ki ngā manuwhiri kua tae mai nei ki te whakarongo ki te wāhanga tuatoru o te pire nei. E tautoko ana mātou a Reipa i ngā tīnihanga i runga i te mōhio ka noho matua Te Reo Māori i roto i tēnei pire. Nō reira koinā te take e tika ana me whakapoto tēnei wāhanga o te tau patupatu. Me whakaaetia kia haere tonu tēnei pire tēnā koe.[Thank you Minister Flavell. I support your welcome to the visitors who have arrived here to listen to the third reading of this bill. We of Labour endorse the amendments knowing that the Māori language in this bill is the primary one. So that is the reason why it is appropriate that this part of the debate be shortened. That should be approved to allow this bill to continue; thank you.]PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Chairman e tū wāhi poto pēnā i te tuahine a Nanaia mō tana Rōpū Reipa kai te tautokongia e mātou nā te mea tēnā pea wētahi o mātau kārekau kē e ‘hakaaea ana ki te pire ēngari e tika ana kia ‘hakatikatikangia ngā tuhinga i roto i te pire. Nā reira kia mōhio mai koe e Te Minita Te Heamana Te Whare hoki kei te tautokongia e mātou te hiahia o Te Minita i tēnei wā kia ora.[I stand for a short moment Mr Chairman; and like sister member Nanaia and her Labour Party we are supporting it because there maybe some of us who donot agree with the bill but it is right that what has been written in the bill must be amended. Therefore you must note Minister Mr Chairman and the House as well that we support the wish of the Minister at this moment; thank you.]The question was put that the following amendments in the name of the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell to Te Wāhanga tahi AA Te Wāhanga wha Parts 1AA to 4 te āpitihanga tahi to te āpitihanga waru and schedules 1 to 8 be agreed to:in clause 3(1)(b) insert “hoki” before “te Broadcasting Act” and delete “hoki” after “1989”;in clause 3(1)(c) delete “hoki” after “Act 2003”;in clause 3(3)(c) delete “e panoni hoki” after “Whakaata Māori”;in clause 5 and in the heading to clause 5 replace “mō” after “mana ā-ture” with “nō”;in clause 5A(1)(b) insert “hoki” before “kua whakaūngia” and delete “hoki” after “kua whakaūngia”;in clause 6(1)(b) replace “kē” with “rānei” after “taraipiunara”;in clause 6A(2)(h) replace “ki” with “i” after “Karauna”;in clause 6A(2)(k) replace “mō” with “nō” after “mana ā-ture”;replace clause 7C(2) with the following new subclause:(2)He ōrite te mana o te whakaputanga reo Māori ki te mana o te whakaputanga reo Pākehā o tēnei ture engari ki te ara ake he tohe mō te rerekē o te tikanga o ngā kōrero i roto i ngā whakaputanga e rua nō te whakaputanga reo Māori o te ture te mana o runga ake.;in paragraph (a) of the definition of “ngā iwi me ngāi Māori” in clause 8 replace “ko ētahi rānei o ngā iwi” with “ko ngā iwi rānei”;in clause 10(5)(a) add “ā” after “1987;”;in clause 10(5)(ab) delete “hoki” after “waeture”;in clause 10(6) add “ā” before “e whakatakotoria ana”;in clause 11(3)(a) add “ā” after “mahi hoko;”;in clause 11(3)(b) delete “kei a ia” after “rerenga (a)”;in clause 13(2) add “i” after “e tohutohu” add “i” before “tētahi kaiwhakapāho kē atu” and add “i” before “tētahi kaihanga hōtaka kē”;in clause 15(1)(ba) add “hoki” after “me whakaaroaro rawa”;in clause 16B(2)(c) replace “ā” before “mō ia putanga” with “pēnei”;in clause 16B(2)(c)(iii) replace “o te putanga mahi.” after “aromatawaitanga” with “o te kawenga o te putanga.”;in clause 20(1)(a) delete “o” after “māramatanga”;in clause 20A(1)(a) add “ā” after “pūtea rā;”;in clause 20A(1)(b) delete “hoki” after “te nui” and add “ā” after “$10000;”;in clause 20A(1)(c) delete “hoki” after “te wāriu katoa” and insert“ā” after “tōpūtanga;”;in clause 20A(1)(d) delete “hoki” after “ngā kōrero” and insert“ā” after “tau pūtea;”;in clause 20A(1)(e) delete “hoki” after “ngā kōrero”;in clause 20B(a) insert“ā” after “ana;”;in clause 20B(b) delete “hoki” after “whakamārama rawa” and insert“ā” after “te tau pūtea;”;in clause 20B(c) delete “hoki” after “whakauru rawa”;in clause 20B(c)(i) insert“ā” after “kirimana hoko;”;in clause 20B(c)(ii) delete “hoki” after “whakatauritetanga”;in clause 20C(2)(a) add “ā” after “whānuitia ana;”;in clause 20C(2)(b) delete “hoki” after “whakauru rawa”;in clause 20C(2)(c) delete “hoki” after “whakauru rawa”;in clause 20D(a) insert“ā” after “kei roto i ērā;”;in clause 20D(b) delete “hoki” after “whai rawa” insert“i” before “tētahi tauākī o te haepapatanga” and insert“ā” after “pūtea;”;in clause 20D(c) delete “hoki” after “whai rawa” and add “ā” after “mō taua tau pūtea;”;in clause 20D(d) delete “hoki” after “tohu rawa” and insert“i” after “tohu rawa hoki”;in clause 21(1)(a) add “ā” after “māna;”;in clause 21(1)(b) delete “hoki” after “ā-tau”;in clause 21(2)(a) add “ā” after “(1)(a);”;in clause 21(2)(b) delete “hoki” after “tuku rawa”;in clause 21A(2) replace “me whai rawa e ia te—” with “me whai rawa ia ki te—”;in clause 21A(2)(a) insert“ā” after “arotake;”;in clause 21A(2)(b) delete “hoki” after “whakaaroaro”;in clause 21B(2)(b) delete “mehemea” before “rānei”;in the cross-heading before clause 21C replace “mana” with “taumata”;in clause 24(2) insert“o Te Pūtahi Paoho” after “ngā āheinga”;in clause 27B(4)(a) insert“ā” after “wehenga;”;in clause 27B(4)(b) delete “hoki” after “kaua rawa” and insert“ā” after “kaiurungi;”;in clause 27B(4)(c) delete “hoki” after “kaua rawa” and add “ā” after “2004;”;in clause 27B(4)(d) delete “hoki” after “i te kopoutanga” and replace “me noho rawa te aronga me ngā āheinga o Te Ratonga Whakaata Māori hei ārahi i a Te Mātāwai.” with “me ārahi rawa e te aronga me ngā āheinga o Te Ratonga Whakaata Māori.”;in clause 1 of te āpitihanga 1 insert“ānō nei” before “kāore i”;in clause 5A of te āpitihanga 1 replace “i” with “o” after “tae atu ki te mutunga”;in clause 6 of te āpitihanga 1 replace “i” with “o” and replace “i” with “ki” after “te wā”.in clause 7(1) of te āpitihanga 1 add “ai” after “i whakaaetia” insert “ai” after “i waihangatia” and insert “ai” after “i tukuna atu”;in clause 8(1)(a) of te āpitihanga 1 delete “i tētahi whakaotinga o tētahi take”.in clause 2(2) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “hoki” after “me te (b)”;replace paragraph (d) of clause 2(5)of te āpitihanga 4 with the following new paragraph:(d)kaua rawa e kopou i te tangata ka tupea i raro i te wehenga 30 o te Crown Entities Act 2004 ki a Te Mātāwai.;in clause 4(b) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “te” after “te mahi a”;in clause 8(1) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “ki te” after “Te Mātāwai”;in clause 8(2) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “i” after “i te wā”;in clause 9 of te āpitihanga 4 insert comma after “i tōna tūranga” and insert “hoki” after “ka noho”;in clause 17(4) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “mahi i” after “rārangi iti (1)(b)”;in clause 19(1) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “e āhei ana” and replace “te āheinga te kawe te mana whakahaere rānei te whiu” with “te kawe i ngā āheinga te whiu rānei i te mana whakahaere”;in clause 19(1)(c) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “me” before “noho motuhake”;in clause 22(2)(a) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “ā” after “kia whai hua”;in clause 22(2)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “hoki” after “hāngai tonu” and insert “ā” after “marea;”in clause 22(2)(c) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “hoki” after “i te taha”;in clause 22(3)(b)(ii) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “ai hoki” after “kia tū”;in clause 22(5)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “rānei” after “i runga” and insert “rānei” before “i runga”;in clause 26 of te āpitihanga 4 delete “e” after “Me whakaatu rawa” and insert comma before and comma after “i a ia e mahi ana hei mema”;in clause 27(1) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “atu—” with “hāunga—”;in clause 27(1)(a) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “i” before “ngā wā”;in clause 27(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “i ngā wā rānei” with “rānei ngā wā”;in clause 27(1)(c) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “i ngā wā rānei” with “rānei ngā wā”;in clause 27(1)(d) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “i” before “ngā wā”;in clause 27(2)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “kāore rawa hoki” with “hoki kāore rawa”;in clause 28(1)(a) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “ā” after “Te Mātāwai;”;in clause 28(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “hoki” after “pānga”;in clause 28(5) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “mehemea” after “te take”;in clause 28(5)(a) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “mehemea” before “ka whiwhi”;in clause 28(5)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “mehemea rānei” before “he makau” and delete “rānei” after “he makau”;in clause 28(5)(c) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “mehemea rānei” before “ka whai” and delete “rānei” after “ā-pūtea”;in clause 28(5)(d) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “mehemea rānei” before “he hoa kōtui” and delete “rānei” after “he hoa kōtui”;in clause 28(5)(e) of te āpitihanga 4 insert “mehemea rānei” before “he tautika” and delete “rānei” after “he tautika”;in clause 32(1) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “unuhia” with “inihua”;in clause 34(1) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “Ka whai wāhi ka tika ngā mema o Te Mātāwai ki te whiwhi utu” with “E tika ana kia whiwhi utu ngā mema o Te Mātāwai”;in clause 34(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “i ngā āheinga me ngā mahi o Te Mātāwai.” with “i ngā āheinga o Te Mātāwai i āna mahi hoki.”;in clause 34(2) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “i tēnā wā i tēnā wā” with “i ōna wā”;in clause 35(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 4 replace “ōna” with “āna” before “kaimahi;”;in clause 35(3)(d)(ii) of te āpitihanga 4 delete “hoki” after “hiranga”;in clause 1(2)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 delete “i” after “reo ā-tuhi”;in clause 4(1) of te āpitihanga 5 add “reo ā-waha rānei” after “ki te whakawhiti”;in clause 4(1)(a) of te āpitihanga 5 add “ā” after “horopaki):”;in clause 4(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 delete “hoki” after “kua tika”;in clause 4(3) of te āpitihanga 5 replace “ko” with “tā” after “tā tērā rānei”;in clause 4(3) of te āpitihanga 5 replace “kē” after “taraipiunara” with “rānei”;in clause 4(4)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 replace “kāore rānei” with “rānei kāore”;in clause 5(1) of te āpitihanga 5 insert “rānei” after “i runga”;in clause 5(1)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 delete “rānei” after “kaipupuri”;in clause 5(3) of te āpitihanga 5 insert “rānei” after “ka āhei”;in clause 5(3)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 delete “rānei” after “whakatārewa”;in clause 5(4)of te āpitihanga 5 delete “a tētahi” after “ki ngā kawenga”;in clause 5 (4) of te āpitihanga 5 insert “rānei” after “ka āhei”; andin clause 5 (4)(b) of te āpitihanga 5 delete “rānei” after “whakamana”.Amendments agreed to.Te Wāhanga tahi AA to Te Wāhanga wha Parts 1AA to 4 te āpitihanga tahi o te āpitihanga waru and schedules 1 to 8 as amended agreed to.Progress reported.Report adopted.Third ReadingHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development):Kia ora tātau katoa! I move That the Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill be now read a third time. E hoa mā kātahi te rangi ātaahua ko tēnei. Kātahi te rangi whakahirahira ko tēnei! I puta te kōrero inā tatanei i te ata nei mō Ngāti Ranginui Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Pūkenga Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa ka mutu kua tukuna te kōrero mō Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. Anei tātau i tēnei ahiahi ko Te Reo Māori te kaupapa. Nō reira ka nui te mihi ki a tātau e hoa mā. Hara mai ki Te Whare Pāremata.He rā nui tēnei mō Te Reo Māori. Koinei te wā tuatahi kua eke mai tētahi pire i roto i Te Reo Māori me te reo Pākehā ēngari ko Te Reo Māori te reo ka whai mana i roto i ngā nekeneke o te wā. He mea nui tērā kia taea ai e tātau o Te Whare Pāremata te kōrero i Te Reo Māori me te mōhio anō hoki ko Te Reo Māori te reo matua i roto i ngā ture i ngā āhuatanga katoa. Tuarua ko Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori e kī ana te kōrero he reo whai mana i roto i ngā nekeneke ō roto i te ture ēngari ō roto i ngā āhuatanga katoa Ao Māori Ao Pākehā.Mēnā ka hoki tāua ki te tau 1987 i tae mai tētahi Minita ko Koro Wētere tana īngoa ko Te Minita mō ngā Take Māori i taua wā. I tae mai ia ki konei me tana kī atu he hiahia nōna ki te whakatakoto i tētahi Reo Māori ki roto i Te Whare Pāremata. Tīmata ia i tana mihi ki te pērā ēngari ā wā poto ka tū mai tētahi ki te whakahē i tērā āhuatanga. I tū mai tētahi ki te kī atu ki a koe Mr Speaker anei tana kōrero: “I wonder whether you as distinct from the rest of us know what he is saying. Do you have a translation before you so that you can rule on the content of his speech?”. Mēnā ka rongo i tērā kōrero ka rongo tonu te āhuatanga o te kawa o wētahi ki tēnei mea o te kōrero i Te Reo Māori ēngari ko te mea pai ē nō ngā tau kua hipa tērā āhuatanga! Te tikanga te tikanga! Ko te tau 1986! Kua rerekē tērā āhuatanga i tēnei wā.Nō reira nei au e tū ki te whakaiti i te mea kua riro māku tēnei kaupapa e kōkiri ki roto i Te Whare Pāremata i tēnei rā. He nui te mahi! He nui te mahi i te roanga o ngā tau. He nui ngā kōrero i kōrerohia i roto i ngā wānanga i ngā hui. Ka hoki ngā mahara ki tētahi hui mō Te Reo Māori i Pōneke nei. Ko Tā Tāmati Reedy ko Te Koingo Reedy i roto i tērā hui. I pātai rātau i te pātai mō te oranga o tō tātau Reo. Me pēhea hoki! Ā ka mutu ka puta te kōrero titiro ki te ture mō Te Reo Māori. Whakahōungia whakaora anō rā mō tēnei wā tonu nei. Kōrua tahi anei te whakatinanatanga.Nō reira he aha ngā painga ō roto o tēnei pire? Tuatahi ko ngā reo e rua pēnei i tāku e kōrero nei tuarua ko Te Reo Māori te reo whai mana te reo matua. Ka toru ko te mana o Te Reo ka whakairia ki roto i tēnei o ngā pire he reo taketake o Aotearoa he taonga o Te Iwi me Te Māori he reo e ngākaunuitia ana e te marea e Te Motu whānui tonu. Ka whā he reo whai mana i tēnei whenua. E hāngai ana tērā ko te āhuatanga o Te Whare o Te Reo Mauri Ora he rite ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi.He wāhi ki Te Karauna he wāhi ki Te Iwi Māori. Nō reira koinei taku harikoa! Ko ōna maihi ki te taha ki Te Ao Māori Maihi Māori! Ka riro māna anō rā e kōrero. Ko Te Maihi Karauna māna anō rā mā Te Karauna tonu e kōrero. Ēngari ko te mahitahi ē nā runga i te āhuatanga o te nohotahi o Te Karauna me Te Iwi Māori arā ko Te Mātāwai tērā i te tēpū kotahi ko Te Rūnanga Reo tērā māna anō rā e whakatau i ngā āhuatanga katoa mō Te Reo Māori. Ko te tūmanako mō te painga kaua mō Te Reo Māori ēngari mō ngā tamariki mokopuna e hiahia nei ki te kōrero i tō tātau Reo. Nō reira kai te harikoa ka taea e Te Maihi Māori te hanga i tōna ake rautaki. Waiho ake mā Te Karauna anō rā tōna taha e whakatika.Nā kia whai wāhi ki te kōrero mō Te Mātāwai. Ko Te Mātāwai 13 pea ngā tāngata ka noho nā i tērā o ngā kaunihera. Ko tāku īnoi ki Te Ao Māori āta titiro ki te hunga ka noho nei i Te Mātāwai. Kaua e haere tika tonu atu ki tētahi e kōrero Māori ana. Āe he painga o te kōrero Māori te matatau ki te kōrero Māori ēngari arā anō ētahi rangatahi tonu ētahi. E mōhio nei ki te whakariterite i ētahi rautaki mō Te Reo ā-iwi ā-hapori ā-marae. Nō reira kia kaua tātau e hereherea ki tētahi reanga i tōna kotahi ka mutu ki te tāne i tōna kotahi. Me whai wāhi anō rā wā tātau wāhine otirā wētahi o wā tātau rangatahi e matatau nei ki ēnei āhuatanga i roto i Te Mātāwai.Ko tētahi wāhanga i kōrerohia whānuitia i roto i te pire nei ko tētahi kupu whakaū o Te Karauna ki Te Reo Māori. Ko ētahi ka kī mai ē me tuku i tētahi kupu whakapāha. I rongo ake au i te wairua o tērā hiahia ēngari nā runga i tāku kawe i tēnei kaupapa ā kua hāngai tonu taku kōrero ki te kī atu me te whakaae mai o te katoa o Te Whare ā me tuku i tētahi kupu whakaū āe i hapa Te Karauna i hē Te Karauna i ngā tau kua hipa ake nā reira ka tau mai ngā uauatanga ki te hunga kōrero Māori. I puta te kōrero i wepua ētahi ē kua whakaaetia mai e Te Karauna ki tērā kaua ki tērā momo āhuatanga ēngari e te ture anō hoki e tika ana tāu ēngari ko tā Te Karauna e kī ana āe āe! Nāku tērā hē ā he hiahia nōku ki te whakatikatika i ngā huarahi katoa kia taea ai e te hunga taiohi otirā te hunga hiakai mō Te Reo Māori te whai i tērā huarahi. Nō reira kei te harikoa nā runga i tērā āhuatanga.Mēnā ka hoki au ki te ōrokohanga mai o tēnei o ngā pire me mihi rā ki taku tuakana ki a Pita. Ē tērā i noho nā i taku tūru i ngā tau kua hipa ake anā kua eke hei Tā ko Tā Pita Sharples tērā i kōkiri i tēnei kaupapa. Kai taku rangatira ahakoa kāre koe i konei ko koe tērā i ārahi nei i tēnei kaupapa ko tāku ko te whaiwhai haere i ō tapuwae. Kia whai wāhi au ki ētahi o ngā mema o Te Paepae Motuhake. Ko rātau te hunga i noho nei hei taringa hei mea takawaenga me kī mai i Te Minita ki te hapori. Nā i haere rātau ki Te Mata o Te Whenua. Ko Tā Tāmati Reedy tērā ko Pānia Papa Hana O’Regan Cathy Dewes Rāhora Shortland Toni Waho Pem Bird te uri o Ngāti Manawa ā tae atu ki a Te Kahautū Maxwell. Kai aku rangatira koinei te mihi o te ngākau ko koutou tērā i whakatakoto i tētahi huarahi hei whāinga mā wētahi atu.Taku ekenga hai Minita i puta te whakaaro ā kāti me toro atu au i taku ringa ki ētahi ki te āwhina i a au ki te whakatika i ētahi panonitanga i ētahi paku hapa i roto i te pire i tēnei wā. Nōku te waimarie i whakaae mai e Rāwinia Higgins kei taku tuahine ka nui te mihi ki a koe. Ko koe tērā i noho tata nei noho piri nei ki tēnei pire ka nui te mihi ki a koe Te Wharehuia ko taku pāpā kai tāwāhi koe me aro mai ō taringa ki tēnei kōrero. Ka nui te aroha ki a koe kia kaua tētahi āhuatanga māuiui nei e pā ki a koe i tāwāhi ēngari ko koe tērā e noho nei hei koroua mō tēnei rōpū. Kai te tuahine Charisma kai te kite atu i a koe i runga ake nei. Tiare ko taku taokete anō hoki a Ruakere ka nui te mihi ki a koe.I te wā poto me mihi anō rā ki te hunga whakamāori i tēnei o ngā kaupapa. E hoa mā kei te mōhio tātau arā anō ngā uauatanga ēngari i eke. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou otirā ki te Parliamentary Counsel Office ē ka nui te mihi ki te wahine i kaha nei ki te whaiwhai haere i tēnei kaupapa ki tōna taumata. Kai te tuahine tēnā koe tēnā koutou otirā ngā mea o te tari o Te Speaker. Ki ngā mema o Te Komiti Māori ka nui te mihi. I noho tata nei koutou ki tēnei kaupapa ahakoa ōna uauatanga i te tīmatanga mai i aro mai koutou i kōrero tahi tātau mō ngā painga o tō tātau pire ka nui te mihi ki a koutou otirā ki a koe Cath Nesus ko ia tētahi o ngā āpiha i kawe nei i tēnei kaupapa kua tata Cath! Kua tata! Taihoa ake nei 15 o ngā kaikōrero ā kua eke!Taku kupu whakamutunga ko te hunga e noho nei ko ētahi o rātau me kī i te tīmatanga mai o te orangatonutanga o tō tātau reo. Kai te kite atu i a Kahurangi Iritana e noho nei otirā ā ko ētahi kāre e pai kia whakahua īngoa kai mahue ake tētahi. Ēngari ko tāku ko te kī atu mei i kore koutou i kōrero Māori mei i kore ngā Reo Irirangi Māori mei i kore a Whakaata Māori ē kua āhua ngoikore te whaiwhai haere ake i tō tātau Reo. Nō reira nei te mihi o te ngākau ki a koutou otirā te hunga kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi. Kai te kōrero au mō ngā mea pēnei i a Ngoi Pēwhairangi mā Te Ātaarangi Te Heikōkō mā kua ngaro rātau! Ka tangi ake i te mea kua kore rātau e kite i tēnei pire ēngari ko ngā tamariki ko ngā mokopuna kai konei! Koinei te mihi o te ngākau e hoa mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Acknowledgments to us all! Friends what a beautiful day this is. What an important and significant day this is! This morning the debate pertaining to Ngāti Ranginui Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Pūkenga and Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa took place along with the introduction of Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. And here we are this afternoon speaking about the Māori language. And so I salute you all my friends. Welcome to Parliament.This is an important occasion for the Māori language. This is the first time a bill has been presented in boththe Māori and English languagesbutthe Māori language will take precedence. And crucially it enables members of Parliament to speak Māori with the understanding that Te Reo Māori is the primary language in all law and in all aspects of life. Secondly Te Pire mō te Reo Māori asserts that the Māori language has legitimacy in the law whether in Māori or Pākehā society.If we go back to the year 1986 Koro Wētere the Minister of Māori Affairs arrived here and stated his desire to speak Māori in Paliament. And so he began his greetings in Māori but another member quickly objected. That member rose to speak to you Mr Speaker and this is what he said: “I wonder whether you as distinct from the rest of us know what he is saying.Do you haveatranslation before you sothatyou can rule on the content of his speech?”. If you could hear those comments you would hear the distaste that some people had about the Māori language. But fortunately that was the situation in the past. It should be in the past—in 1987. It is different now.So I stand humbly because I am advancing this bill in the House today. There has been much work over many years. Much was discussed in conferences and other meetings. I remember a conference about the Māori language here in Wellington. Sir Tāmati Reedy and Lady Te Koingo Reedy were present at that conference and they posed a question regarding the survival of our language. What can be done? Furthermore a determination to consider amended legislation for the Māori language was voiced. To the two of you here is the fruition of those discussions.So what are the gains in this bill? Firstly it is in two languages one of which I am speaking. Secondly it provides primacy to the Māori language. Thirdly the mana of the language will be enshrined in law as an indigenous language of New Zealand a treasure of tribes and of the Māori people and a language that the entire country is committed to. Fourthly it provides legitimacy to the language and likens it to the house of an everlasting language similar to the Treaty of Waitangi.There is a part for the Crown and a part for Māori. So that is why I am delighted. It has two maihi strategies one the Maihi Māori pertaining to the Māori language—that is the responsibility of Māori. The Maihi Karauna is the responsibility of the Crown. However it enables cooperation between the Crown and Māori through Te Mātāwai which operates in both strategies. Hopefully it is beneficial not only for the Māori language but for children who want to speak our language. Hence the reason I am elated that the Maihi Māori can formulate its own plan. Leave the Crown to address its own side.Now I will speak about Te Mātāwai. There will be 13 members on the board of Te Mātāwai. I urge the Māori people to carefully consider the appointment of members to that board. Do not appoint someone just because they can speak Māori. There are benefits to being a fluent Māori speaker but there are others to consider such as our youth. They know how to organise strategies around the language with regard to the iwi the community and the marae. So we must not confine the appointments to only one generation or only to males. Our knowledgable women and youngsters must also be appointed to Te Mātāwai.One particular part of the bill that has been debated extensively is the Crown acknowledgment of the Māori language. Some have stated that there should be an apology. I felt the spirit of that desire. However because I am responsible for this bill I am adamant—with the consensus of the House—that an acknowledgment is delivered. Yes the Crown made mistakes and committed wrongdoings in the past that suppressed Māori language speakers. It has been said that they suffered corporal punishment. The Crown accepts that is what happened—andyes you are correct: it will be recognised in law. The Crown also accepts responsibility for its wrongdoing and has stated its intention to provide improved pathways for the youth and students of the language to pursue. And so I am delighted at that development.If I may return to the genesis of the bill I must salute my elder Sir Pita Sharples who was the previous Minister of Māori Affairsandwho was the initial sponsor of the bill. To my leader even though you are not here you lead this matter. I am only following in your footsteps. I would like to acknowledge the members of Te Paepae Motuhake advisory panel. They travelled around the country and heard submissions and served as intermediaries between the Minister and the community. Sir Tāmati Reedy Pānia Papa Hana O’Regan Cathy Dewes Rāhora Shortland Toni Waho Pem Bird of Ngāti Manawa and Te Kahautū Maxwell were some of the members of the panel. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to the esteemed panel members who provided a pathway for others to follow.When I became Minister I reached out for support to make amendments and slight corrections to the bill. To my good fortune they agreed to help. I want to thank my sister Rāwinia. You have worked closely with the bill and left your imprint. Thank you very much. My uncle Te Wharehuia is overseas and I urge him to listen to this speech. I have much empathy for you and wish you good health while you are overseas. You sat on the panel as its elder. To Charisma I can see you up in the gallery along with Charlie and my brother-in-law Ruakere. Thank you very much.I would like to take a brief moment to acknowledge the teamwhotranslated the bill. My friends we understood there were many difficulties but you accomplished the work. Thank you very much. I also want to thank the female representative of the Parliamentary Counsel Office whose efforts ensured the success of the bill. I thank you and your team. To the officials of the Speaker’s office and members of the Māori Affairs Committee much appreciation to you. You worked closely on the bill despite the difficulties encountered at the beginning you remained focused and we spoke together about the benefits of our bill. I thank you hugely for that. But now to you Cath Nesus one of the officials who bore the brunt of this policy—almost there Cath! It is close! It will not be long! There are 15 speakers to go and it is done!My final comment goes to those seated before us some of whom should I venture were at the forefront of efforts to save our language. I see Kahurangi Iritana along with others even though I know it is not polite to mention names in case someone is left out. But I do want to say to them that had you not spoken Māori had it not been for Māori radio and Māori television addressing our language would have been somewhat powerless. And so a heartfelt acknowledgment to you collectively but at the same time to those lost from view in particular Ngoi Pēwhairangi Te Ātaarangi Te Heikōkō and others. They have gone! I lament because they will not see this bill. But the children and grandchildren are here! This then is an appreciation from the bottom of the heart fellow colleagues so well done and my thanks to us all.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Tēnā koe tēnā tātau e Te Minita tēnei te mihi atu ki a koe. He rangi whakapiki wairua tēnei e tika ana. Ahakoa kāre i konei tō mātau nei kaikōrero mō tēnei pire a Peeni e tika ana me whakatakoto ō mātau nei whakaaro mō ngā momo āhuatanga e pā ana ki ngā wāhanga katoa o te pire nei. Ka nui te mihi atu ki ngā kaikawe i Te Reo Māori rātau katoa rātau i haria mai te petihana ki mua i te aroaro o Te Pāremata. Rātau i tīmata i ngā kōhanga reo aua kaupapa ngā kura kaupapa ngā wharekura. Rātau i tīmata i Te Ātaarangi me ngā wānanga Māori ō tātau nei koroheke kuia rūruhi. Rātau i kawea tērā tino hiahia he oranga i roto i tō tātau nei Reo Māori me ōna tikanga! Nō reira ka nui te hoki o ngā mahara ki a rātau katoa. Kāre au e tino hiahia ki te whakahuahua i ngā īngoa katoa kei waihotia tētehi ki waho!Ko tāku nei me tūpato tātau ki te peke ki runga inā ka nuku atu te tūāpapa o te hiahia o tēnei pire. Me mataara tātau! He roa te wā ka tae ki tēnei wā kia kite i tētehi pire i Te Reo Māori. E koa ana te ngākau! Ka hoki ngā mahara ki te wā i tae mai taku tupuna a Mahuta ki tēnei wāhi. I aua wā ā ahakoa kua mōhio pai ia he wāhi mō te whakature i ngā āhuatanga mō Te Motu he roa te wā ka tatari ia mō te whakapākehā me te whakamāoritia o ngā mahi o tēnei wāhi ka haria atu ki waenganui i a mātau o Te Iwi. Nō reira he rangi whakahirahira he rangi whakapiki wairua tēnei!Ka hoki ngā whakaaro ki ētehi pou o tēnei pire. Tuatahi e ū tonu au me whakapāha Te Karauna e ū tonu au ki tērā i roto i tēnei pire. Ka hara mai a Tauranga Moana me ō rātau nei take katoa i mua i te aroaro o Te Pāremata ēngari karekau he wāhanga e pā ana ki Te Reo Māori. Koinei te wāhi tika! Ko tēnei pire te wāhi tika hei whakapāha mā Te Karauna ki ngā Iwi Māori katoa puta noa i Te Motu mō ngā mahi i mahitia e ō tātau nei kura. Ka hoki ngā whakaaro ki ngā momo kōrero a ngā kaumātua me ō rātau mamae ki ngā āhuatanga o ngā kura i ō rātau nei wā. Nō reira e ū tonu au ka tae ki te wā kia kite i tētehi whakapāha a Te Karauna i tēnei pire.Tuarua e pā ana ki te whare. I pātai au i te pātai he aha te hanga o tēnei whare? He whare Māori he whare Pākehā rānei? Ko te whakautu a Te Minita he whare hou! Ko Te Maihi Karauna arā Te Maihi Māori me te tāhuhu o Te Mātāwai. He whare hou hei whakaora ai i ngā hiahia e pā ana ki tō tātau nei Reo Māori ā ka tika! E tino hiahia ana te kite i te tutukitanga o te hiahia.I pātai au hoki i ngā wāhanga e pā ana ki ngā whiriwhiri o ngā rautaki Māori ki ngā rautaki o Te Karauna me kaua e waiho mā te kotahi kia haere noa atu. Tāria te wā ka kite tātau mēnā ka taea te titiro te tuitui i ngā hiahia o ngā rautaki e rua ēngari ū tonu au. Kua whakaaetia a Waikato ki te whakatū i tētehi rautaki ā-iwi. Ko tāku nei ka pai tērā! Atu i te tau 2025 ko tō mātau hiahia kia kite e 80 paihēneti ngā tāngata e kōrero i Te Reo Māori Te Reo o Waikato. Me taku mōhio anō mei kore tātau e aro atu ki ngā kura auraki ngā kura katoa kei waenganui i ā mātau nei rohe kāre e taea. Koinā te take he pātai tonu ki ngā āhuatanga o Te Mātāwai me Te Reo Tukutuku.Kua kite i ngā wāhanga e whā me ngā rōpū i whakarōpūtia e Te Minita. Kei te tū tonu te whakaaro me whakamanatia aua rōpū kia āhei ai kia tutuki ai ō tātau nei hiahia kia ora ai Te Reo pērā ki ngā kōhanga reo ngā kura kaupapa ngā wharekura Te Ātaarangi ngā wānanga. Mēnā ka mahi ngātahi aua rōpū ki ngā mahi o te iwi ka tutuki pai ngā hiahia. Nō reira mōhio pai koe ki ērā o ngā kōrero!Ko te mea whakamutunga pea e pā ana ki te taha o Te Karauna ngā Maihi o Te Karauna. I tukuna mai te whakaaro ki waenganui i tō mātau komiti whiriwhiri me aro atu Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga ki ngā āhuatanga o te pire nei. Tēnā pea he wāhanga kia kuhuna ā rātau nei mahi kia haere ngātahi. Ko te whakautu kei waho tonu te nuinga o ngā mahi mō Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga. Kei te pai tērā kei konei Te Minita hei whakautu i ērā o ngā hiahia ēngari ki taku mōhio ko ngā mahi nunui kei waenganui i ā tātau nei kura hei whakamāmātia hei whakapai ake i ō tātau nei ake hiahia kia whakawhānui ake Te Reo Māori mō tātau katoa. Ēhara mō Te Māori anake ēngari mō tātau katoa. Ko ngā mahi kei waenganui i a tātau ngā kura ngā mahi nunui kāre au e tino hiahia ki te whakatoimaha rawa i tērā tā te wā tēnā pea nā Reipa te mahi nunui.Nō reira i tino mihi rawa atu i tino mihi rawa atu ki tō rōpū whāiti tō rōpū tohutohu me ā rātau mahi nunui ki te haere ki waenganui ō tātau nei iwi arā kei waenganui i ngā hapori ki te kohikohi i ngā kōrero ki te rapu i ētehi o ngā whakaaro kia whakahokia mai ki roto i tēnei pire. Ko te mea pai ki a au he tino rerekē te hanga o te whakautu i tērā hiahia ka pēwhea ai tātau e whakaora ai i Te Reo Māori? Anā he whakautu hou tēnei he whakautu hou!Nō reira i roto i tērā o ngā hiahia ka tino tautoko mātau a Reipa ahakoa i pātai i ngā pātai i wero i ngā wero i whakatakoto i ō mātau nei ake whakaaro. Ko te mea nunui kia haere tonu tēnei pire kia whakaturengia hei tauira hei tauira! Tēnā pea mēnā ka tutuki pai ngā āhuatanga katoa i roto i te pire nei tā te wā ka tīnihia anōtia ki te whakapakari ake. He tīmata tēnei i runga i tētehi huarahi pai kia mahi ngātahi Te Iwi Māori arā ki te taha o Te Kāwanatanga Te Karauna. Nō reira i roto i tērā me hoki mai au ki te tino wairua o te rangi nei me te tino mōhio i waenganui i a mātau ngā mema Māori kei te ora Te Reo Māori i roto i te whatu manawa o te tangata i waenganui i ngā hapū i ngā whānau arā i ngā iwi. Mēnā kei reira tonu te hiahia ka taea e tātau kia ora.[Thank you thank you everyone and thank you Minister Flavell. This day uplifts the spirit and it is indeed appropriate. Although Peeni our spokesperson for this bill is not here it is fitting that we outline our views on aspects relating to all parts of this bill. Much appreciation to all those who played a part in the Māori language—all of them: those who brought the petition before Parliament; those who started the kōhanga reo who were involved in those schemes and Māori-medium primary and secondary schools; those who began Te Ātaarangi teaching method and Māori tertiary educational institutions our esteemed male and female elders; and those who carried that passionate desire in terms of the well-being of this Māori language of ours and its cultural aspects. So there is a huge recollection of memories about them all. I do not really want to mention all their names lest someone is left out!I think we must exercise caution when leaping aboard in case the fundamental desire of this bill shifts. We must be vigilant! It has taken a long time to arrive at this moment to see a Māori language bill. I am greatly overjoyed within.My thoughts go back to the time when my grandfather Mahuta arrived here at this place. In those times and although he fully understood it was a place where legislation of national significance was created to deal with matters that affected the nation he waited a long time for the Māori translation of business here in English for distribution among us of Māoridom. Therefore this is an inspirational and spiritual uplifting day indeed!I reflect on some of the pillars of this bill. Firstly I am committed to the view that there be an apology by the Crown in this bill. Tauranga Moana came before Parliament with all their matters but there was not a provision at all about the Māori language. This is the right place forit.This bill is the proper place for the Crown to make an apology to all Māori tribes throughout the nation for actions by our schools. My thoughts reflect on the kinds of stories the old people related and their hurt due to situations they experienced in schools in their time. And so I maintain I have yet to see an apology by the Crown in this bill.Secondly and in relation to the house I ask the question: what kind of house is this? A Māori house or a Pākehā one? The Minister’s response was a new house with Crown and Māori bargeboards—the Maihi Karauna and the Maihi Māori—and a Te Mātāwai ridgepole. A new house to revitalise aspirations for this Māori language of ours—how appropriate! I long to see that aspiration achieved.I also asked about provisions concerning negotiations relating to Māori and Crown strategies and not leaving it for one to merely go along to it. Only time will tell whether we can examine or knit the needs of the two strategies together but I remain committed. Waikato has agreed to establish a tribal strategy. For me personally that is wonderful.From the year 2025 and onwards we want to see 80 percent of Waikato Māori speaking in the Waikato dialect. I am also aware that without engagement of mainstream schools and all the schools in our regions it will not be successful. This is why I have been diligent in questioning Te Mātāwai and Te Reo Tukutuku entities.I have seen the four clusters and groups proposed by the Minister. The view remains steadfast that those groups be empowered to enable them to fulfil our desire for the Māori language to survive and similarly kōhanga reo primary and secondary Māori-medium schools Te Ātaarangi and Māori tertiary institutions. If those groups work collaboratively with tribal-aligned activities the aspirations will be met. So as far as the other stories are concerned you are aware of them!Perhaps the last point relates to the Crown’s part in terms of the Crown strategy the Maihi Karauna. One suggestion was left among us the Māori Affairs Committee that the Ministry of Education should give due consideration to aspects of this bill. Perhaps there should be a provision in its role to work collaboratively. The response was that the majority of the Ministry of Education’s functions fall outside the scope. That is fine—the Minister is here to respond to those aspirations—but my understanding is that its primary functions are actually in our schools easing and improving our aspirations for the Māori language and broadening its accessibility for all of us;not just for Māori alone but for all of us. What with the work amongst us schoolsand those of huge significance I do not really wish to burden us even further with that; perhaps Labour might alleviate that in due course.Therefore I truly appreciate your group of experts the advisory group and the important role it played when it undertook the task of travelling among our tribes—in other words among communities—gathering information and seeking out views to bring back to be reflected in the bill. What I found most appealing was the innovative response to that aspiration: “What must we do to revitalise the Māori language?”. So there you are this is an innovative response—a novel one.Therefore within that desire of all desires we of Labour do strongly support this despite the questions posed the challenges issued as we expressed our views. The important thing is that this bill continuesto move forward to beenacted as an example a model.Perhaps in time when all aspects within this bill are fulfilled further amendments might be made and the bill strengthened. This is a beginning of a wonderful procedure for Māoridom to work collaboratively with the Government and the Crown in other words. Therefore on the basis of thatI must go back to the very spirituality of this day knowing full well that the Māori language within us Māori members of Parliament is alive as it is in the heart of the person and among the hapū families and namely the iwi. If the desire is there we will achieve it. Thank you.]Hon HEKIA PARATA (Minister of Education):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakahaere otirā tātau huri noa i tō tātau Whare i tēnei ahiahi. Ko Hikurangi me Aorangi aku maunga ko Waiapu me Waitaki aku awa. Ko Porourangi me Tahu Pōtiki me tō rāua wahine a Hamoterangi aku tīpuna tēnei au he uri whakaheke o rātau mā e mihi ki a tātau i tēnei ahiahi tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa!Ā kei te tika ngā kōrero kua kōrerohia e pā ana ki tēnei pire he taonga Te Reo! He taonga te reo me ngā tikanga e pā ana ki tō tātau Reo kāo! Me ngā tikanga e pā ana ki ō tātau Reo. Kei tēnā kei tēnā kei tēnā o ngā iwi katoa ngā rerekētanga ngā ātaahuatanga ngā mita o ngā iwi katoa o Aotearoa nei. E tautoko ana ngā mihi ki a koe e Te Minita nāhau tēnei mahi e hari e kawe e waha mō tēnei wā roa; kōrua ko tō rangatira i tō taha ki a koe hoki Mārama! Ko kōrua ngā kanohi o Te Pāti Māori i tēnei wā ā me Tā Pita me Kahurangi Tariana hoki i ō rāua wā! Hoi anō ki ngā kaikawe katoa ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa!I ahau e tipu ana i te kāinga ki te wā kāinga o Ruātōrea ko Te Reo anake ki taku mōhio e rere ana i ahau e tipu ana ko Te Reo o Ngāti Porou. Kāre ko Te Reo Māori ko Te Reo o Ngāti Porou ā me Te Reo o tēnā hapū o tēnā hapū o tēnā hapū o tēnā whānau hoki. Nā reira ka ako ahau i Te Reo i mua i taku haerenga ki te kura ahakoa ngā kōrero mō te whakakorehia Te Reo e Te Kāwanatanga o tērā wā. I waenganui i ngā kāinga ko taku kōkā tētahi i tērā whakatipuranga.Ko taku pāpā i hara mai mai i Te Wai Pounamu. Kāre Te Reo o Ngāi Tahu i taea a ia te kōrero ēngari ko tōna whakahīhī mō tōna taha Ngāi Tahu i waenganui o Ngāti Porou. Nā ka rongo ahau i Te Reo ēngari ka ako ahau i Te Reo i ahau e haere ana ki te kura. Kei konei ētahi o ōku kōkā ētahi o aku pāpā e whakarongo ana ki ēnei kōrero i tēnei ahiahi. Nā i haere ahau ki te Kāreti o Ngata tērā kāreti whakamaumahara mō Tā Apirana i reira i ako ahau i roto i Te Reo.Ā ka haere au ki Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato i reira katoa ko ngā kaiako nō Tūhoe nō Waikato hoki. Ā kei a rātau ō rātau reo ātaahua hoki! I ahau i reira ka tuhituhi ahau i taku kōrero roa mō te tohu Masters i roto i Te Reo o Te Whare Wānanga. I tēnei wā ka pānui ahau aku tuhituhi kāre rawa atu ahau ka mōhio he aha te tikanga o ēnei kōrero! Ēngari i tērā wā ko taku tino hiahia kia whakaatu atu ki Te Ao āe he mana tō Te Reo Māori. Nā reira ahau ka tuhituhi i roto i Te Reo! Āhakoa kei te rongo tonu tātau ka tapepe taku kōrero ka hauā i ētahi wā hoi anō koirā te tino wero ki a tātau! Kāre ko tēnei pire ēngari me kōrero tātau i Te Reo! Ahakoa piki ahakoa heke ahakoa pai ahakoa he aha! Ēngari me kōrero tātau i Te Reo! Mehemea kāre e taea tērā ka mataku katoa tātau ki te kōrero i tēnei Reo ahakoa kua whakamanahia e te ture nē? Koirā te tino wero ki a tātau katoa!Me tāku e kī ana hoki mō te ture kāre tēnei Reo o tātau e whai mana i roto i Te Ture. He mana anō tō Te Reo ēngari he ture mō roto i tēnei Whare mō te hapori whānui. Ka noho āwangawanga ahau mō tēnei āhuatanga te kōkiri ā kia whai mana ngā tikanga ngā mana whakahaere o ō tātau tikanga Te Reo i roto i ngā ture nei! Ka noho āwangawanga ahau mō tērā! Nō te mea kei waho i tēnei Whare ka rongo tātau katoa: “Oh ko te mahi o Te Kāwanatanga o Te Karauna! Ka patu i a tātau i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei ēngari ka hara mai anō tātau ki roto i tēnei Whare te whai haere i tēnei ture kia whakamanahia ō tātau tikanga!”. Hoi anō rā kei te pai tērā. He ao hōu mō tātau katoa.Nā mō tēnei āhuatanga ki Te Reo. Kua kōrerohia kēngia e te mema a Nanaia te pātai pea: he Reo tēnei mō tātau anake? Ngā iwi Te Iwi Māori? Mō tātau katoa rānei? Mehemea ka tino whakapono tātau he reo taketake o Tēnei Ao nō konei katoa tātau ahakoa Māori mā ahakoa Pākehā? Ēhara te iwi Pākehā nō tētahi atu whenua! Nō konei tonu nē? Mehemea ko te tino hiahia kia rongo tātau i tō tātau Reo ō tātau Reo kei te taha o ngā mahi tākaro kei roto i ngā kura kei roto i ngā wāhi mahi kei whea ake rānei ko tāku ki a tātau me kōrero katoa tātau i tēnei Reo kia pakari ai i roto i tēnei whenua kia pakari hoki ai te whakapāoho atu ki te ao whānui. Koirā tētahi o ngā tino wero ki a tātau!Nā mōku i roto i tēnei tūranga Te Minitatanga mō Te Mātauranga anei! Āe tino tautoko ahau kia akonatia tēnei Reo ki roto i ngā kura katoa o Aotearoa; me ngā rawa hei whakapakari i Te Reo ēngari anō ko te wero ki a tātau ka taea e ngā kaiako katoa te noho ki roto i ngā kura? He uaua te mahi he uaua te mahi! I tēnei wā ka mihi ahau ki ngā Kōhanga. Kei roto i ngā Kōhanga te pūtake o te ako i Te Reo mā ō tātau kōhungahunga ō tātau pēpi. Ka tonoa atu aku pēpi ki ngā kōhanga. Ka tīmata au i tōku ake kōhanga nō te mea ki a au he tino kaupapa tēnei. Ka īnoi atu ki taku kōkā me taku tipuna kia hara mai mā rāua aku tamariki e ako e whakatō ki roto i aku tamariki te tino aroha mō Te Reo nei.Nā reira kua tangi te pere! Me mihi au ki Te Kōhanga ki ngā kura ngā kura kaupapa Māori ngā kura ā-iwi ngā kura auraki e kawe nei Te Reo. Ka mihi hoki ahau ki ngā Wānanga ko rātau e kawe ana hoki i tēnei Reo. Ēngari mehemea kāre e puta atu ki te rāngai mātauranga ki waenganui i a tātau katoa he Reo mō te mātauranga kāre mō tātau katoa. Nā reira anei anō tāku me akiaki me whakahau tātau kia kōrerohia tēnei Reo ahakoa he aha. Nā ahakoa ka wareware Te Minita ki te paku mihi ki tēnei rōpū tōrangapū e tautoko ana i ngā mahi kia whai mana ai tēnei pire. Kei te tautoko hoki Te Pāti Nāhinara tēnei mahi nā reira ka taea ki roto i tēnei Whare. Nō reira huri noa ki a koutou katoa e mahitahi ana mō tēnei kaupapa ātaahua. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa![Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker but at the same time acknowledgments to us throughout our House this afternoon. Hikurangi and Aorangi are my mountains. Waiapu and Waitaki are my rivers Porourangi and Tahu Pōtiki who married Hamoterangi are my ancestors and I am a descendant of theirs; greetings salutations and welcome to you all!The sentiments expressed about the Māori language in regard to this bill are correct. The language and its protocols are a treasure—correction—the protocols that relate to our Māori languages. Each and all of our Māori tribes here in New Zealand have their own variations attractive aspectsand dialects;the different languages of all peoples here in New Zealand. I endorse the tributes accorded to you the Minister for Māori Development. This responsibility was borne by you for this lengthy period; by you two and your co-leader and you as well Mārama! You two are the faces of the Māori Party at this point in time and Sir Pita and Dame Tariana in their time. And so to all of you who bore this responsibility my huge compliments to you all.When I was growing up back home back in Ruātōrea Māori was the only language that flowed as I was growing up. And to my understanding it was the Māori of Ngāti Porou. It was not the Māori language; it was the Māori language of Ngāti Porou; and the Māori language of that hapū that hapū and that whānau as well. So I learnt Māori before I went to school despite statements made that Māori was banned by the Government of that era and amongst the homes was my mother of that generation.My father came from the South Island. He was not able to speak the Ngāi Tahu Māori but he was very proud of his Ngāi Tahu side in the midst of Ngāti Porou. Consequently I heard Māori while I was at school. Some of my aunties and uncles are here this afternoon listening to these contributions. So I went to Ngata College that college which commemorates Sir Apirana Ngata; it was there I was educated in the Māori language.I then went on to Waikato University. All the tutors there were from Tūhoe and also from Waikato—each of them showcasing the beauty of their dialects! While I was there I wrote my thesis for my Masters in University Māori. When I read my writings now I have absolutely no idea what these statements are saying. But at that time I really wanted to show the world that by crikey yes the Māori language has a status. That is why I wrote it in Māori! Even though we—us here—continue to hear that my delivery in Māori is not too flash or inarticulate at times so what; that is my challenge to us.It is not about this bill but rather that we must speak Māori. Regardless of the ups the downs or whatever it is imperative that we speak this language. If we do not do that it will not happen! We will continue to be afraid to speak this Māori language even though it has been enacted by law—right? That is the real challenge for us all.In regard to the bill as well I will say it will not enact this language of ours. The Māori language has its own place in the bill but it is a must-have in this House and in the wider community. I remain uneasy about the speed at which our protocols and the Māori language are being enacted into these laws. I am concerned about that because outside of this House we are all hearing: “Oh the Government and the Crown are doing it! They punished us in past years but we come back into this House once again tofollow up on this bill and to enact our protocols!”. However that is fine. This is a new world for all of us.Now in regard to the Māori language perhaps the member Nanaia addressed the question: is this a language for us only for tribes for Māoridom or is it for all of us? If we truly believe Te Reo is the indigenous language of this country we are all from here be it Māori or Pākehā who are from another country—they belong here do they not? If you genuinely want to hear our language and theirs as well alongside our sport in our schools and in our workplaces or wherever I say to us all let us speak this language all of us to strengthen it in this country and broadcast it worldwide. That to me is going to be one of the biggest challenges for us.Now in regard to this role of mine in the Ministry of Education. Yes I am very much in favour of the Māori language being taught in all New Zealand schools with the resources to strengthen the language—but the challenge once again for us is whether all teachers will remain in the schools? It is a hard one to work through; it is really difficult. At this point I pay tribute to the Māori language nurseries. Learning the Māori language by our wee ones our babies is the root of what goes on in Māori language nurseries. I sent my babies to kōhanga by starting my own one because I considered this a matter worth pursuing. I begged my aunt and grandfather to come. I got those two to teach and instil into my children a real empathy for this Māori language.And there goes the bell! I salute the Māori language nurseries the primary and secondary Māori-medium schools the tribal and the mainstream schools teaching the Māori language. I also acknowledge Māori and mainstream universities and those teaching the Māori language too. But if it does not extend beyond the education sector and reach us all it will become a language for academics and not for all of us. Therefore I must reiterate we must encourage and exhort ourselves to speak the Māori language regardless of the consequences. Despite the fact that the Minister overlooked a small acknowledgment to this political party it endorses the actions taken to enact this bill. The National Party supports this and consequently makes it possible in this House. Therefore to all of you throughout who worked together on this beautiful initiative well done and congratulations to you collectively. My appreciation to us all.]KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau):I tipu ake ahau i roto i tētahi whare reo kotahi kore e taea tōku pāpā rāua ko tōku māmā ki te kōrero i Te Reo Māori nā reira waimarie ana mātou ko ōku tuākana taku tuahine i whai mātou tētahi kaiako tino rangatira tino tohunga rawa ko Charles Berryman tōna ingoa te teina o Mānu Paul nāna mātou i whakaakongia ki te kōrero i tō tātou Reo. I tīmata mātou i te tīmatanga o te haikura reo kotahi e 5 tau kua pahure ake nei kotahi te mahi i pahurengia ahau i roto i te seventh form arā ko Te Reo Māori. Ahakoa te 51 paihēneti taku tatau i roto i te whakamātautau kua pāhorengiakētia ahau. Koia te mea nui!Nā reira kei te mōhio ahau ngā piki me ngā heke o tēnei mea te ako i Te Reo Māori. E mōhio ana ahau i te whakamā ki te eke ki runga i tō mātou marae me te kore mōhio he aha ngā kōrero e whakahaerengia ki runga i te marae. I rongo hoki ahau te whakamā o tōku pāpā e eke ana i te marae kore i te mōhio me pēhea ia. Ko te mea tino nui rawa atu pouri rawa atu ko ōna mātua tōku koroua rāua ko taku kuia tino matatau rawa rāua ki Te Reo. Ko rāua ētahi i pōhēhē ko Te Reo Pākehā te reo mō te ao ēngari waimarie ana ahau kia whiwhi i tētahi mōhioranga i āianei ki te kōrero i tō tātou Reo.I te tīmatanga o te pānuitanga tuarua i tīmata a Marama Fox me āna kupu “Hareruia hareruia!” mō tēnei pire. Nāku i mea atu ka whakataihoa ake ahau i aku hareruia kia kite rā anō i ngā hua o tēnei pire. Kua mutu te wāhanga māmā noa iho arā ko te tuhinga o tēnei pire. I nāianei ko ngā mahi pakeke ngā mahi uaua kia whai hua tēnei pire mā o tātou tamariki kōhungahunga rangatahi me ngā hapori Māori me kī ēhara mō ngā hapori Māori anahē ēngari mō ngā hapori whānui kei roto i Aotearoa ahakoa Māori Pākehā a wai atu rānei. Mehemea ka ora tō tātou Reo me kōrero te katoa.Mehemea kei roto i tēnei pire ngā kupu “He taonga Te Reo Māori” he taonga mō Te Motu whānui. Ko tātou ngā kaitiaki kāre e kore ēngari mō tātou katoa o Te Motu tēnei taonga Te Reo Māori i te mea nā Te Minita a Hekia i mea mai “Me kōrero Te Reo ahakoa kei hea ahakoa ki a wai!”. E pai ana tēnā kōrero ēngari mēnā e hiahia ana ahau te haere ki roto i te toa kei roto o Kaitāia ki te hokohoko āku mea mēnā kore e taea e te tangata kei tua o te counter ki te kōrero Māori mai ki ahau e kore e taea e au te kōrero i Te Reo i ngā wāhi katoa. Nā reira koia tāku e akiaki ana i Te Motu whānui kia tautokongia tēnei pire.E tika ana he mea pai kua tuhia te pire ki roto i ngā reo e rua Te Reo Māori me Te Pākehā ā he mana tō Te Reo Māori ki runga ake i tō Te Reo Pākehā mehemea he raru i waenganui i te whakapākehātanga. E pai ana tēnā! He mea tika ēngari koia tāku i kī ai e pai ana wēnā āhuatanga ēngari ki te kore tātou e kite wētahi hua kei roto i ngā tau e tū mai nei he maumau taima! He maumau taima te tuhia tēnei ki roto i Te Reo Māori mehemea i roto i te 30 tau e kore e taea e ō tātou tamariki te pānuihia tēnei ture.E tautoko ana ahau i ngā kōrero o te tuahine nei a Nanaia e pā ana ki te whakapāhatanga. Tētahi o ngā kōrero a Te Karauna mō te kore whakapāha ki te iwi Māori mō te wēputanga ō ō tātou tamariki kei roto i ngā kura ko ngā pire Tiriti ka kāhorengia. Kei roto i aua pire he whakapāhatanga ēngari i te ata nei e toru ngā pire Tiriti tā Tauranga Moana tā Ngāti Pūkenga tā Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. I roto i aua pire e toru ngā whakapāhatanga mō te muru whenua te raupatu whenua wērā āhuatanga katoa ēngari horekau he whakapāhatanga kei roto i aua pire mo te wēputanga o ngā tamariki kei roto i ngā kura me te raruraru kua pā nei ki tō tātou Reo. Nā reira koia tāku e kī ana mehemea e pai ana ki te whakaae i wēpuhia ngā tamariki i roto i ngā kura e pai ana ki te whakapāha mō aua hara o ngā kaiako o te ture. Nā te ture i whakamanahia. I pai kia wēpuhia ngā tamariki e kōrero Māori ana.[I grew up in a monolingual household. Neither my father nor my mother could speak Māori; however my older brothers my sister and I were fortunate to have an excellent teacher an absolute expert by the name of Charles Berryman the younger brother of Mānu Paul who taught us to speak our language. We began monolingual at the start of high school; 5 years later the only subject I passed in the seventh form was Māori language. Although I got only 51 percent in the exam I passed it. That was the main thing!So I am aware of the ups and downs in regard to learning the Māori language. I know about being embarrassed when I go on to our marae and do not know what is being said in the talk during the proceedings. I also felt the embarrassment of my father in that situation in terms of not knowing and not knowing how to deal with it. The most significant and saddest thing about it was that his parents—my grandfather and grandmother—both of themwere absolutely fluent and native speakers of the language. They were two of those who mistakenly thought the English language was the language of the world but I was lucky to get some understanding now about speaking our language.At the start of the second reading Marama Fox began with the words “Hallelujah hallelujah!” in regard to this bill. I said to her that I would be cautious about my hallelujah until I see what the outcomes of this bill are. The easy part is done—in other words writing the bill. The more onerous and more arduous task now is to ensure that this bill realises outcomes for our children preschoolers youth and Māori communities—let us say not just for Māori communities either but for the wider communities in New Zealand be they Māori Pākehā or whoever!If our language is to survive everyone must speak it. If the words “The Māori language is a treasure” are in this bill then it is a treasure for the nation at large. Without a doubt we are the guardians; however this treasurethe Māori languageis for all of us the nation because Minister Hekia said to us “Speak the language regardless oftheplace and to whomever!”. It is fine to say that but if I want to go into a shop in Kaitāia to purchase things for me and the person on the other side of the counter cannot speak Māori to me then I am unable to speak the language everywhere. So that is why I am urging the nation to support this bill.It is a good thing indeed that the bill has been written in two languages Māori and English and that the Māori language version is above the English version should there be any discrepancies in the translation. That is fine! That is appropriate. However as I keep harping on those situations are all right but if we do not see any benefits in the coming years ahead it would be a waste of time! Writing this in the Māori language if in 30 years’ time our children are unable to read this bill willhave been a sheer waste of time.I support the contributions by this sister colleague Nanaia relating to the apology. One of the statements the Crown made as to why there was no apology to Māoridom for the corporal punishment administered to our children in schools was that the Treaty claims bills that have been passed already have an apology in them. But this morning there were three Treaty bills belonging to Tauranga Moana Ngāti Pūkenga and Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. In each of those three bills were apologies for land confiscation land taken by force all those kinds of things; however there was no apology in those bills about corporal punishment administered to children in schools and the problem concerning our language. So that is why I have been saying that it is fine to admit that children were punished in schools for speaking Māori and to apologise for sins committed by the teachers and the law. The law enacted it. It wasacceptedthat children wereto bepunished for speaking Māori.]I will just translate some of the things I have said because I really want to make myself clear. It is great that this bill is reaching its final stages. In the second reading Marama Fox started off her speech with: “Hallelujah hallelujah! It’s about time this has happened.” I agree. The big thing is that I am going to hold off my hallelujahs until I start to see the results of this bill because every 3 years the number of speakers declines by 1 percent. So in the next 3 years—so by 2019—we do not just expect to reverse that 1 percent decline; we actually want to see a 1 percent growth. In fact we want to see more than 1 percent growth in the number of speakers of Te Reo Māori.During the select committee process and the Committee stage also I spoke about the purpose of the bill not being explicit enough because I joined the Māori Affairs Committee right at the end of this process and the thing that jumped out at me from the bill was that it did not have the purpose of the bill being that we would increase the number of speakers of Te Reo Māori and that we would increase their fluency. I believe that should have been front and centre in the purpose of this bill. It was added. It is about the third clause down in the purpose clause and under a couple of other subclauses—clause 3(3)(b). I think that that should be right front and centre because if we are not going to grow the number of Māori speakers and if we are not going to increase the fluency of Māori speakers then what is this bill going to achieve? If we are going to see a 1 percent decline every 3 years in the number of Māori speakers then in 30 years’ time we are basically going to have nobody left who can understand and read this bill and that to me is more important than it actually being written in Māori.There is a lot of work to do. The easy part has been completed. We have got this bill and now we have to move on into the future. We are going to have the Maihi Māori and the Maihi Karauna. I say that the Maihi Māori must increase the number of contexts within communities where Te Reo Māori can be spoken. It needs to be able to support homes. Yes schools—we have got to be careful that we do not put the burden or the onus of ensuring the survival of Te Reo Māori on schools. I think that is really unfair. I think that this is something that all corners of our community all people in our communities need to support us with because if I want to walk into a shop in Kaitāia to buy something and the person over the counter there cannot speak Māori then I cannot use Māori in all the contexts that I could use English in.I think I said it before in a debate on this bill that people take for granted that we can just speak English wherever and whenever we want but for the Māori who wants to speak Māori we cannot actually do that. We do not have the numbers of contexts any more in our communities where we can speak Māori to whomever whenever. We need communities to get in behind and we need Pākehā to get in behind us because in this bill it does say that Te Reo Māori is a taonga. It is a taonga for the whole country not just for us. We are the kaitiaki but it is a taonga for everybody.Just one last story: when I was in Cardiff I remember standing on the train station and looking up. There was this sign written in Welsh. It said “Platform 9” in English underneath and in Welsh it said something that looked like “Cwllcllcwll”—the Welsh language is all “C”s and “L”s. I just thought: “Well is that not wonderful? Here in Wales just on the train station this is just a little sign and it is bilingual. Why do we not have that sort of thing in New Zealand?”.That is what we need. That is the sort of thing that this bill needs to ensure that we can see Māori everywhere we can hear Māori everywhere and we can speak Māori anywhere and to anyone at any time. Thank you.NUK KORAKO (National):Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā ā huri noa i Te Whare nei. E ngā tohuka o Te Reo Māori tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. E Te Mana Whakawā kua tae tonu te Pire mō Te Reo Māori ki tōna whakamanataka. Ēhara i te huarahi māmā te haere o tēnei pire kia tae ki te pānuitaka tuatoru ēhara hoki i te mahi māmā mō Te Minita Te Hōnore Te Ururoa Flavell ki te arataki mai i te pire ki konei. Me mihi au ki Te Minita mō te mutuka pai mai o te pire nei mō ngā whitiwhitinga kōrero mō te pai hoki o tā tātau mahitahi kia eke ai te pire.Ka mihi au ki a Tā Pita Sharples koinei tana pire mutuka i mua i tōna wehenga i Te Whare nei. Ahakoa ngā panonitaka ki te pire mai i tōna kuhunga tuatahi mai ka mihi tonu ki a Tā Pita Sharples mō tēnei āwhina nui mō te oranga o Te Reo Māori.Me mihi rā ki ngā āpiha mō ngā āwhina mai i te komiti whiriwhiri i ngā take Māori. Kia ora Tīmoti kia ora Ben mō tēnā tae rawa atu ki ngā āwhina oTe Tari Ture o Te Pāremata Briar Tīpene/Stephen tēnā kōrua.Kia huri ki tēnei pire te pire tuatahi kei roto katoa i Te Reo Māori me te reo Ingarihi kia mara ake i te taha oTe Reo Māori te tuakana. Kāore e mutu aku mihi ki ngā kaiwhakamārama reo ā-waha mō ngā āwhina ki te komiti whiriwhiri i ngā take Māori. E Te Mana Whakawā i kapi te taha mō ngā take o te pire e te komiti. He rā nui whakaharahara mō Te Reo Māori tēnei rā i te whakamanataka o te pire nei. E whakapono ana au ka haruru te rongo i te pire whakaora reo pēnei ki tēnei whakatupuraka.I mua i te otinga o aku kōrero me mihi au ki Te Hōnore Nanaia Mahuta mō tēnei tāpiritaka nāna i whakatakoto. E Te Mana Whakawā kāore mātau o tēnei taha i tautoko i te tāpaetaka nā reira kāore e whai wāhi ki te pire nei. Hoi ka mihi ahau ki te mema me tōna hiahia kia whānui atu ki te whakaaetaka me te whakapāhaaTe Karauna me tana wāhi mō patunga i Te Reo Māori. Kino kino rawa atu ngā mahi a Te Karauna ki Te Reo Māori kia mārama pai ki tērā. Hoi kei roto i ngā whakataunga kerēme kei waenganui i Te Karauna me tēnā iwi me tēnā iwi he whakaaetaka a Te Karauna mō āna mahi ki Te Reo Māori. Ko te mea pai ki a au he whakaaetaka ka hāngai ki tēnā ake iwi ki tēnā ake iwi. He rerekē te oro o Te Reo i tēnā rohe i tēnā rohe. He rerekē hoki ngā whiunga a Te Karauna ki Te Reo i tēnā rohe i tēnā rohe.I Te Wai Pounamu tērā te wā i tata mate Te Reo Māori. E kore e mutu ngā mihi ki ngā tāngata o Te Ika-ā-Māui e moemoe ki roto i a Kāi Tahu. E mau te aroha mō Te Reo ki a mātau. I ngā tau tata nei ka pau te kaha o ngā mea pērā i a Hana O’Regan i a Tahu Pōtiki i a Rev. Maurice Manawaroa Grey i a Eru Tārena nā ki te whakaora i Te Reo Māori ki roto o Kāi Tahu. Kia mahara tātauēhara nā ngā mahi aTe Karauna anake i pāheke ai tō tātau Reo.Kei wareware tātau ki ngā rakatira whai mana pērā i a Tā Apirana Ngata i kaha ki te tautoko kia reo Ingarihi ngā kaupapa ako i ngā tamariki. Ko te titiro a ngā rakatira nei ka ngāwari ake te kuhu a Te Māori ki te ao tāwhitiwhiti a te Pākehā mēnā e mōhio rātau ki te kōrero Pākehā. Hoi i te kuhunga ki te ao Pākehā kātahi ka hē rawa atu tō tātau Reo. E Te Mana Whakawā ko te whakaaetaka me te whakapāhaaTe Karauna me te patu i tō tātau Reo tētahi mea tino nui rawa atu. Ahakoa tērā kāore i te tika kia whānui rawa taua whakapāha.Kei te rongo ake i te aroha i roto i te hiahia o Te Hōnore Nanaia Mahuta kia pērā te horapa o te whakapāha i runga tonu o ētahi ngā takahitanga i ngā tau ki mua. Hoi ko te huarahi kua takoto e Te Minita kua whai wāhanga ki tēnei pire koirā pea te whakapāha tika ake.Kei roto i tā Te Minita whakapāha e rārangi ana ngā tūkinotaka i rongo ai e Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi tae atu ki ngā whakaaetaka a Te Karauna kei roto i ngā whakataunga o ngā kerēme a tēnā iwi a tēnā iwi tata noa ki tēnei rā. Kei konei te pūmautaka aTe Karauna kia mahitahi mō ngā iwi me ngā Māori ki te whakaora ki te tiaki i tō tātau Reo ā ngā rā kei te tū.He hōnore ki ahau te noho hei heamana mō te komiti whiriwhiri take Māori i te wā o te pire nei. Whakapono ai au he pire nui tēnei mō te whakaora i tō tātau Reo. E Te Mana Whakawā ka tāpae au i te pire ki Te Whare. Nō reira tēnā koutou e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and everyone throughout the House. I acknowledge you the experts of the Māori language; greetings and acknowledgments to you all. The Māori Language Bill is nearly at the end of its journey. This bill’s journey to its third reading has not been an easy one; neither has the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell’s task in guiding it here been easy. I acknowledge the Minister for Māori Development for finishing off this bill well for undertaking the negotiations and how well we have worked together to get the bill here.I pay a tribute to Sir Pita Sharplesas this was his final bill before he left Parliament. Despite the amendments to the bill when it was first introduced I acknowledge him still for this massive assistance in terms of the revitalisation of the Māori language. I must acknowledge the officials for the assistance they provided to the Māori AffairsCommittee. Thank you Tīmoti and Ben for that as well as the assistance by the Parliamentary Counsel Office notably Briar and Tīpene/Stephen—yes youtwo.And so I turn to this bill the first one that is totally in the Maorilanguagewhich takes precedence over the English version alongside it. My acknowledgmentsremain boundlessto the interpreters and translators in terms of the assistance they provide to the Māori Affairs Committee.The purpose in regard to this bill has been covered. Today is a significant and great day for the Māori language when this bill is enacted. I believe the fame of the revitalisation of the language bill like to this generationwillreverberate.Before I conclude my contribution I acknowledge theSupplementaryOrderPaper165that the Hon Nanaia Mahuta submitted. We on this side do not support the submissionand as a consequence there isnoplace for it in this bill. However I do acknowledge the member in her desire to expand the Crown’s acknowledgment and apology and the part it played in the punishment of the Māori language. The Crown’sactions upon the Māori language werereally terrible and despicable; let us be clear about that.However there is a Crown acknowledgmentbetween the Crown and each triberelating to its actions against the Māori language. What I like about it is that it is tribe specific. The dialectin that region and that region differs;Crown regional punishments vary.The problem in the South Island was that the Māori language had all but disappeared at the time.We are ever grateful to the people from the North Island who married into Ngāi Tahu. We caught the passion for the Māori language from them.Much energy was expended in recent years by people like Hana O’Regan Tahu Pōtiki Rev.Maurice Manawaroa Greyand Eru Tārena to restore the Māori language within Ngāi Tahu. We must remember that the decline of our language was not due to Crown action.We must never forget noble leaders like Sir Apirana Ngatawho pushed hard for English to be the main language for educational purposes. The viewpoint taken by these leaders was that it would be easier for Māori to maketheirway through a Pākehā world ifthey wereproficient in English. But this proficiency in English impacted badly on our language.There isanacknowledgmentthatthe punishment of our languagewasareally significant factor in the demise of the Māori language and for that we have an apology from the Crown.Regardless of that a blanket apology is not the right way to go.I feel the empathy in the desire by the Hon Nanaia Mahuta that the apology be a broad one over the injustices of years past. But there is provision in this bill for the pathway presented by the Minister. Thatapology is perhaps the more appropriate one. It refers backto the injustices thatwere heard by the Waitangi Tribunal and the acknowledgmentsthatthe Crown has made inTreaty settlements to date. It also goes on to reiterate the Crown’s commitment to working with tribes and Māoridom to revitalise and protect our language in the future.I deem it an honour to be the chairman of the Māori Affairs Committee during the period of this bill. I believe this is a significant bill to revitalise our language and soI submit the bill to the House. My appreciation and thanks toyou collectively and to us all.]MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green):Tēnā koe eTe Māngai huri noa ki a tātau i tēnei Whare tēnā koutou katoa. Āe ka tū au he mokopuna tēnei nō ngā iwi o Te Tai Tokerau ā nō reira nō Ngāpuhi nō Te Rarawa hoki; whakawhiti atu ki Te Tai Rāwhiti he uri tēnei nō Ngāti Porou. Tēnā koutou katoa. Ā ka pōti whakaae ana Te Rōpū Kākāriki i Te Pire Reo Māori nei. Nō reira ko te tuatahii rongo au i tō kōrero e Te Minita Hēkia Parata me te wero ahakoa te aha me tū mātau ki te kōrero i Te Reo i ngā wā katoa. I mua i tōku tū i noho ahau e whakaaro ana: “Mmm ka pīrangi au ki te tuku kōrero pai ā me tū au ki te kōrero i te reo pihikete—te reo Ingarihi. Ō pai tēnā āe.” I tuhi au i ngā tau kua pahure i tēnei kōrero e pā ana ki te haerenga o taku Reo:“English slides from my lips like silk and makes rough the sandpaper utterance that is currently my mother tongue.”Ēngari ahakoa tērā i rongo au i tō whakaaro rangatira mēnā ka noho mataku mātau ka noho wahangū mātau ngā ihu hūpē ki ngā take Reo Māori katoa ā ka noho mataku mātau ngā ihu hūpē ki ngā take reo Māori katoa. Nō reira auē ka tū au ki te kōrero mō tēnei kōrero katoa i roto i Te Reo Māori. Kaua e pōhēhē ko ngā kupu Māori tēnei pepa ko ngā kupu Ingarihi anake. Auē! I titiro au; āe he pai tēnei pepa he pai hei tautoko hou māku ki te tuku kōrero hōhonu āe!Ēngari i roto i te reo Ingarihi anake.Ā nō reira tērā pea ka karawhiua aku taringa e kaimahi ā muri i tēnei—kāo kāo! Nāku tēnei pepa i hanga hei pou tautoko ēngari kei hea ngā kupu Māori? Horekau? Horekau ngā kupu Māori ki tēnei pepa. He pepa e pā ana ki te pire āe ēngari i roto i te reo Ingarihi anake. Nō reira nōku te hōnore ka tū au ki te kite i a koutou ngā tohunga reo ngā kaiako reo ngā kaitautoko ngā kaimahi hoki o tēnei pire he mihi hōhonu ki a koutou katoa. Tēnā koutou.Ā ko te tīmatanga o taku kōrero ko te huarahi o tēnei pire. Ō tuatahi tērā pea me mihi ahau ki a koe e Te Tohunga e Te Taniwha hoki Tīmoti Kāretu tērā pea me whakakapi ō taringa ki ōku hapa—kāo kāo; a haere tonu ahakoa te aha. Mihi atu ki a Tā Pita Sharples mō tana mahi i te tīmatanga ahakoa ki a mātau ngā Kākāriki ahakoa ō mātau āwangawanga i tērā pire hukihuki hoi anō i aua raru kua puta mai tēnei pire pai ake. Nō reira mihi atu ki Te Minita Te Ururoa Flavell me Te Rōpū Tohutohu Reo Māori mō te mahi whakapaipai—kia ora kia ora!I ngā wā katoa i ngā kōrero mō te huarahi reo mō tātau o Aotearoa tika ana ka hoki aku mahara ki ngā piki me ngā heke o te huarahi o Te Reo. Nō reira ka huri au ki a rātau kua whakamanahia tō tātau Reo Haerenga mai rā anō ki tēnei wā. Nō reira mihi aroha mihi hōhonu ki a koutou—pērā ki tōku kuia nō Hokianga a Patricia Charlotte Grace Broughton kia ora!OK. Hā! Hei tā mātau o ngā Kākāriki e rua ngā rautaki—Te Maihi Māori me Te Maihi Karauna. Ki a mātau ko te mea nui ka pupuri tonu Te Karauna ki te mahi whakamana i Te Reo. Ki a mātau ko tērā te mea nui o ngā kaupapa e rua; e mahi ngātahi ana Te Maihi Karauna me Te Maihi Māori he pai tēnā. Pai ki a mātau hoki ka noho kaha tonu Te Taurā Whiri me Te Māngai Pāoho ki te tautoko ki te hiki i te mahi o Te Karauna mō Te Reo Māori; pai ki a mātau hoki. Ka tirotiro mātau i te mahi te haere o te mahi a Te Mātāwai. Pēhea te mahi whiriwhiri i ngā tāngata mō te poari? Pēhea te mahi tuku pūtea mō te mahi whakakaha i Te Reo? Ka noho mātau o ngā Kākāriki ka āta tirotiro e pēhea ana tēnā ngā hua ka aha rānei? Anō hoki ō kāo. Kua kōrero kē mō tēnā.I tautoko mātau o ngā Kākāriki i ngā pepa tautoko ngā pepa whakatika e toru pea: ko te pepa whakapāha tuku whakapāha te pepa tono māTe Karauna ki te tuku whakapāha. Nō reira he mihi atu ki tōku tuakana a Nanaia Mahuta. Āe he whakaae tonu kei roto i te pire āe he tika tēnā ēngari i tautoko mātau ngā Kākāriki ki te tuku whakapāha kē. I tautoko hoki mātau i te pepa whakatikatika mō ngā rangatahi me ngā wāhine mō te poari o Te Mātāwai. Ka tautoko mātau i tēnā. Anō hoki ka tautoko mātau ngā Kākāriki i tāku pepa whakatikatika ki te hanga arotake motuhake. Āe kai te mōhio ahau he arotake tonu kei roto i tēnei pire ēngari he arotake iTe Karauna kē. Ki ahau ki a mātau i kaha rawa atu te arotake mana motuhake i tēnei arotake Karauna. Auē! Āe āe!Kai te mōhio mātau ko tēnei te tīmatanga noa iho. Āe kua tuku kōrero pērā ki te whakaaro ko tēnei te tīmatanga noa iho. Kāore tēnei te mutunga o Te Reo. Kāore tēnei te katoa o te haerenga mō te mahi whakakaha i Te Reo—ānō reira hoki mai ki ahau. I nāianei ka taea e aku tamariki katoa—tokoono āe āe āe!Ki ō karu āe e tamariki tonu ana ahau āe! Ngā tamariki tokoono ka taea e rātau te mātakitaki te rongo i tō rātau māmā te tū ki roto i tēnei Whare e kōrero ana i tō rātau Reo Tūpuna ahakoa taku wiriwiri ahakoa ngā hapa katoa.Ā nō reira he pai ki ahau tēnei mahi aTe Minita. He pai ki ahau tēnei wāhanga ka tū mātau katoa i tēnei Whare Pāremata ki te kōrero i roto i Te Reo ki te tautoko i tēnei pire. He rā whakahirahira tēnei nō reira. Tēnā tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to you all throughout this House. Yes I am this grandchild who belongs to the tribes of the North and therefore of Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa too; and across to the East Coast this one is a descendant of Ngāti Porou. I therefore rise and acknowledge you all! The Green Party votes in favour of this Māori Language Bill. In the first instance I heard your statement Minister Hēkia Parata and the challenge in that regardless of the situation we must express ourselves in the Māori language at all times. Before I got up I was wondering: “Mmm I want to say something nice so it might be better if I say it in biscuit talk—in English. Of course yes I must do that.” Years ago I wrote in an essay about how my Māori was progressing: “English slides from my lips like silk and makes rough the sandpaper utterance that is currently my mother tongue.”That aside I heard your profound message in that if we choose to live in fear we the novices in all matters pertaining to the Māori language will remain silent forever. So I stand with some trepidation to deliver my entire contribution in Māori. No worries this paper is about Māori words but it has English words only! Heck! I have had a look—yes this paper is fine it will be a good one to help me deliver something of deep significance—great—but it is all in English. In that case my ears might get slapped afterwards by the office staff—no no not true! I put these notes together to help me but where are the Māori words? Nothing? The Māori bits are not on this paper. It was a paper relating to this bill yes but it was solely in English. Therefore it is my honour indeed to stand here and to see you experts tutorsand supporters of the Māori language and the officials as well of this bill. My profound acknowledgments to you. I salute you.My address will commence on the bill’s procedure. Oh but perhapsin the first instance I need to take cognisance of your presence the expert of all experts the deity of all deities Tīmoti Kāretu and seek that you might cover your ears please to any grammatical blunders I make during my delivery in Māori—no no only joking; regardless of what happens I forge on. I acknowledge Sir Pita Sharples’ contribution in the beginning despite the concerns of the Green Party with that first draft but out of those issues has emerged this very much improved bill. So I commend the Ministerfor Māori DevelopmentTe Ururoa Flavelland the Māori Language Advisory Group for the improvements—thank you and well done!In all the times and discussions about the procedure of the Māori language for we of New Zealand it is fitting that thoughts go back to the ups and downs of the Māori language procedure. Therefore I turn to those who enacted our Reo Haerenga from way back to the present time. So an affectionate and deep-hearted love to you collectively—like my revered elder nanny from Hokianga Patricia Charlotte Grace Broughton thank you!Now then we of the Green Party note that there are two strategies—theMaihiMāori one and the Crown one. The vital thing to us about the Crown strategy is that it maintains the power to enact the Māori language. Of the two strategies that is the most important one to us; the Crown and Māori stategies work to collaborate and that is good. We are also pleased that the Māori Language Commission and the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency will continue to work hard to support and lift the performance of the Crown where the Māori language is concerned; we like that as well. We will continue to monitor the performance and operations of Te Mātāwai. How does the selection process for the board work? How does funding to assist activities that revitalise Māori language recovery work? We of the Green Party will sit down to critically discern how those outcomes are doing what is happening to them or determine whether they be reviewed or not.That has been accounted for.We of the Green Party have endorsed the three Supplementary Order Papers: the apology one the submitting the apology one and the one seeking the Crown apology. In that regard I acknowledge our elder colleague Nanaia Mahuta. Yes it is confirmed that there is an apology. That is correct but we in the Green Party wanted to submit a separate apology of our own. We also supported an amendment that sought seats on Te Mātāwai board for youth and women. We support that. The Green Party also supported my own Supplementary Order Paper167to create a special review framework. Yes I am aware there is a provision for a review in this but it reviews the Crown instead. Ithink we consider that the review of the Crown should be a more robust and an independent one than the one proposed here. Heck yes even more so!But we do concede that this is merely a beginning. Yes we have submitted a statement like that with the suggestion that this is only a starting point. This is not the end as far as the Māori language is concerned. This is not all of the trips to seek an apology for the Māori language—and so I come back to me personally. It is possible now for all my children all six of them—yes yes yes! Yes to your eye I am still one quite so! It is possible for the six of them to watch and hear their mum as she stands in this House speaking in their ancestral language despite my nervousness plus all my grammatical errors. And what the Minister has done appeals to me. All of us standing up here in this House speaking Māori resonates with me. I enjoy this part where we speak Māori to support this bill. This is a significant day so I therefore acknowledge us all. Thank you.]PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker tēnā hoki tātou tēnā hoki ngā kaimahi o Te Minita e noho nei i waenganui i Te ‘hare nei. Ki a koutou hoki karekau kē au i kite atu i a koutou ēngari koutou mai i waho o Te ‘hare i kawe atu i tēnei kaupapa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Ā i maranga au i te ata nei ‘hakaaro ana au i te urunga mai o te pire nei mō te wāhanga mutunga hiahia ana au kia kōrero i roto o tō tātau reo Pākehā nā te mea tōku hiahia kia mārama mai te katoa o te āhuatanga o aku kōrero ēngari tae mai au ki konei ‘hakarongo ki ngā kōrero i puta mai i Te Minita i tēnā o ngā kaikōrero i tū ake i mua i a au ‘hakaaro ana au ā tēnā pea e tika ana kia kōrero i roto o tō tātou Reo Rangatira. Ēngari kia mōhio mai koutou ēhara mā tēnei pire e tohu mai ki a au kia kōrero Māori. Nā reira he tohu tēnā kia mōhio mai kua tae kē te kanohi mangū o Tāmati e pā ana ki te pire nei kia ahatia? Ngā mihi ki Te Minita ka mihi hoki ki ngā mema o te komiti ‘hakawhiriwhiri i ngā take Māori kia kawea mai te pire ki tēnei wāhanga.Kei konei ētahi o ngā mea māharahara kei a mātou i roto o Aotearoa Tuatahi. I roto o tō mātou ‘hakaaro ēhara tēnei i te pire kia tino ‘hakaorangia tō tātou Reo Rangatira nā te mea kei konei ētahi o ngā huarahi i wātea ki a tātou i āianei nā. Mēnā ka titiro atu mātou te kaupapa a te Kāwanatanga i roto i ngā Kōhanga Reo ngā Kura Kaupapa ngā Reo Rua ā me ngā Whare Wānanga hoki. Ahakoa kei reira ngā huarahi ēngari kei te taka haere ngā kaikōrero o tō tātou Reo Rangatira. Māku e mea atu ko te rongoā kia ‘hakakahangia e te Kāwanatanga ngā pūtea o ēnei rōpū. Ēngari i roto te pire nei horekau he kōrero mō te pūtea. Kāo! Koinā te mate kei taihoa mātou mō tēnā. E aha ana te take kia taihoa mātou? Koinā te mate. Nā reira i a au nei i kōrero ki te āhuatanga o te pire i āianei nā.Tuarua ka kite atu i ngā rōpū ā-rohe e kī nei regional clusters of iwi. Ahakoa horekau e mōhio ana he aha nā ngā whakaaro o tēnā o ngā rōpū i waho o Te Tai Tokerau ēngari tēnei tū ka kōrerohia te āhuatanga o te rōpū mō Te Tai Tokerau. Pai atu kia ‘hakarārangi ngā iwi o te kāinga—ēngari aro ana au ko Te Kawerau-ā-Maki ko Ngāti Rehua ko Ngāti Manuhiri ko Ngāti Whatua-ō-Kaipara ā ko Ngāti Whātua-ō-Ōrākei nō waho o Te Tai Tokerau aua iwi. Nā reira koinā te take i tū tetahi hui ki roto o Te Tai Tokerau kia ‘hakawhiriwhiringia te kaupapa nei. Ka kī mai tetahi rōpū he rōpū tino nui rawa atu o te kāinga ēngari ki a au o te ao—Ko Ngāti Hine tēnā—ka mea atu ki wā rātou kaikōrero kia muku atu ngā īngoa kia ‘hakarārangitia te rohe waihotia ki reira nā te mea i raro i tā rātou kaupapa e korekau e tika ana kia tukuna atu tetahi iwi hei kaikōrero mō rātou. Nā reira wēnā te take i tono atu ki a rātou ki taua hui ēngari karekau kē i tau tēnā whakaaro.Ēngari te mea e kata ana au ko ia tetahi o ngā rōpū i roto i Te Tai Tokerau e tū kaha ana ki te kawe atu i tēnei kaupapa ēngari ko te nuinga o ngā iwi o te hau kāinga horekau he kaupapa pēnei. Tua atu i tēnā mēnā ka kite ana i ā tātou te āhuatanga o te rōpū nei Te Mātāwai; he rōpū kaikōkiri i te kaupapa kia whakaorangia tō tātou Reo mō Te Iwi Māori ā me Te Māori hoki. Wēnā ngā kupu i roto te pire nei. Mēnā e kite ana tātou ki Te Iwi o Kahungunu Ngāi Tahu me Tainui kua riro kē i a rātou i āianei nā. Kāre rātou i tatari mai kia ‘hakamana i te pire nei. Nā reira e hakaaro ana mēnā kei a rātou te kaupapa nei kia whakaorangia tō tātou Reo i roto i wā rātou rohe he aha ana te take kia whai pire? He aha ana te take kia hangangia te rōpū Te Mātāwai ki te tohutohu ki a rātou? Nā reira koinā te take e mea atu ki Te ‘hare nei kei roto te rongoā whakaorangia i tō tātou Reo Rangatira i wō tātou ringaringa.Mēnā e hiahia ana tātou ki te noho tonu kua kore tātou e kite atu i te maha o ngā kaikōrero o tō tātou Reo rangatira e piki ana i roto o Aotearoa. I rongo au i te kōrero o te tuahine a Hēkia i tana pātai ko wai tēnei pire mō wai? Mō te iwi Māori nahe? Mō te iwi whānui o Aotearoa rānei? Nā te mea taku kitenga i tēnei wā ā ko te iwi whānui e tū kaha ana e hiahia ana ki te ako i tō tātou Reo Rangatira i tēnei wā. Inapō ka kite au i tētahi tauira Pākehā tū kaha ana ki te kōrero Māori i runga te pouaka whakaata. Nā reira māku e mea atu ki a tātou o Te Ao Māori kia tūpato—kua riro te kaha ki te kōrero i tō tātou Reo Rangatira i ngā Pākehā! Ahau nei nā horekau he raru ki tēnā ēngari karekau kē e hiahia ana tātou o Te Ao Māori kia amuamu anō.Tua atu i tēnā ka kite ana au i tētahi rārangi schedule 3A “Organisations comprising Te Reo Tukutuku”. Mēnā e kite ana i a tātou te pire nei kei konei tetahi rōpū karekau kē e hiahia ana kia noho ki roto te rōpū nei. Horekau mōhio ana he aha te tino take e hiahia ana rātou i tēnā. Ēngari ko te rōpū Ngā Kaiwhakapūmau i Te Reo Māori nā rātou i tono atu ki Te Minita kia mukua atu tā rātou rōpū mai i tēnei pire. Ki a au nei koinā tetahi o ngā mea e māharahara ana au—he aha ana te take?Ka mutu ka huri taku whakaaro ki te ‘hakapāha i uru mai i Te Minita. Mōhio ana au mēnā karekau kē tā mātou tangata i roto o Te Tai Tokerau a Dover Samuels i puta mai i wana kōrero auē kārekau i tēnā pea. E tika ana kia tono atu ki Te Karauna kia hakapāha mai ki a tātou o Te Ao Māori i te wā i wepua rātou mō te haere ki te kura ki te kōrero Māori; nā reira koinā te take ki a au nei e kite ana tātou i te ‘hakapāha i tuhia atu e Te Minita i roto o Te Whare nei. Ahakoa kei te tautoko wēnā whakaaro a Te Rōpū Reipa kia ahatia. Ēngari i tae atu ki te mutunga o taku mihi taku kōrero kārekau mātou e kite atu i tēnei pire he pire rongoā hei ‘hakaora tonu i tō tātou Reo Rangatira. Nā reira tēnā koe tēnā tātou katoa![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.Acknowledgments to us all to the Minister’s officials seated in our midst here in this House and to those of you whom we are unable to see but are out there away from this House and this debate that is being broadcast to you; salutations greetings acknowledgments to you collectively. When I got up this morning and thought about the arrival of this bill before us for its final stage I was intending to deliver my speech in our English language because I wanted to ensure that every aspect of my contribution would be covered and understood. But when I got here and listened to the Minister for Māori Development and to the others who preceded me I reconsidered and decided it might be more fitting perhaps if I spoke in our esteemed language. But you must understand that the mind change was not due to this bill compelling me to speak Māori in actual fact it is signalling that Tāmati’s face—of darkened complexion as far as this bill is concerned—is speaking to it. Acknowledgments to the Minister and also to the Māori Affairs Committee who progressed the bill to this point.There are some concerns here for we in New Zealand First. It is our view that this bill will not assist the revitalisation of our noble language because there are procedures that are readily available to us at this very moment. Let us consider the Government’s policy in regard to kōhanga reo Māori-medium schools bilingual schools and Māori-medium at tertiary level as well. Although systems are there thenumber of fluent speakers of our esteemed language continues to fall. I assert that to remedy this decline the Government needs to make more funding available to these institutions. However there is no funding provided in this bill. That is the problem; we cannot hang on for that. Why must we wait and see what happens— hanging on is the problem. That is an aspect of this bill as I am talkingaboutright now.Secondly I note the regional groupings are as per regional clusters of iwi. Even though I do not know what the situation is in regions outside Northland I can stand here and talk about the situation as it relates to us in the North. Grouping ourselves back home as a tribal cluster is finebut as far as Kawerau-ā-Maki Ngāti Rehua Ngāti Manuhiri Ngāti Whatua-ō-Kaiparaand Ngāti Whātua-ō-Ōrākei are concerned those ones are deemed to be outside of Te Tai Tokerau. And that was the reason a meeting to negotiate this matter was held in Te Tai Tokerau. A rather prominent and sizeable group at home but to me in the world—I refer to Ngāti Hine—asked their representatives to delete the list of iwi and replace it with a regional mapand leave it at that because according to their policy it is not right for some other representative to speak for them. That is the reason why they were invited to that meeting but the matter was not resolved.But what amuses me is that Ngāti Hine is one of the clans in the North who is a strong supporter of language revitalisation. Most of the other iwi clans back home have not progressed their Māori language programmes to the point that Ngati Hine is at today. Furthermore if we look at what this Te Mātāwai group is about it is one that has been established to revitalise the Māori language for the Māori people and Māoridom as well. Those are the words in this bill. If we look at what the tribes of Ngāti Kahungunu Ngāi Tahuand Tainui have done they have already instigated initiatives to restore their language. They have not waited for this bill to be enacted. So I am wondering if they have found a way to restore our language in their regionswhy is there a need to havethisbill? Why set up a Te Mātāwai group to advise them? That is what I have to say to this House—the remedy to restore our noblelanguageis in our very own hands.If we do nothing we will never see the growth of Māori language speakers in Aotearoa. I heard the tenor of my sister colleague Hēkia’s sentiments when she asked who this billisfor.For Maori only? Or for the people of New Zealand at large? Because as far as I can see at this point in time the general population’s support is strong and they are really wanting to learn our noble language. Last night I saw an example of a Pākehā talking fluently in Māori on television. My warning to us of Māoridom is to be careful—or the ability to speak our esteemed language fluently will become dominantly Pākehā! For me personally I do not have a problem with that but I do not want us in Māoridom to moan about that as well.Further to that I refer to the line schedule 3A “Organisations comprising Te Reo Tukutuku”. If we havealook at this billthere is a group herewhodo not want to be in this panel. I do not really know the real reason why they do not wish to be a part of that. However the Ngā Kaiwhakapūmau i Te Reo asked the Minister to delete their group from this bill. That is a somewhat perplexing situation to me—what is the reason?Finally my thinking turnsnow to the apology the Minister introduced. I know for a factthat if our man from the North Dover Samuels had not come out with his passionate comments about it heck there would not have been an apology. How apt indeed that an apology be sought from the Crown to those of us of in Māoridom for the time it punished us for going to school to talk Māori; to me that is the reason why we are seeing an apology in this House. And at the same time we endorse those sentiments by the Labour Party regardless. And so I have reached the end of my congratulatory statements and address. We really do not see this bill as a long-term remedy in therevitalisation of our noble language. So acknowledgments to you and my appreciation to us all.]JOANNE HAYES (National):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā i mua i te tīmata ki taku kōrero e hiahia ana ahau he kōrero e pā ana ki te karanga waea i tōku mokopuna i te pō.“Ring ring! Nanny J! Nanny J! Kei te ako au he Reo Māori i taku kura!”“Aw! Ka pai mokopuna! He kura Pākehā?”“Āe Nanny J he kura Pākehā!”“Kei te aha koe i ngā kupu e mōhio ana e mokopuna?”Ā he kōrero ia he kōrero ia he kōrero ia. Kei te tū au ki te mutunga o te waea nā te mea ka kōrero ia i te pō e roa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Before I start my address I want to relate a telephone conversation with my grandchild last night.“Ring ring! Nanny J! Nanny J! I am learning some Māori at my school!”“Aw! Well done grandchild! A Pākehā school?”“Yes Nanny J a Pākehā school!”“What are you doing with the words that you know grandchild?”He talks and talks and talks and I stand up to end the telephone conversation because he will talk long into the night.]What I was just saying there is that my mokopuna is learning Te Reo Māori at his playgroup. I am really proud that he is doing that because I have not had a chance to teach him anything in Te Reo Māori. So when he rang me last night and told me that I posted it on Facebook and a whole lot of my friends came on and said: “E kuia you’d better hurry up yourself so you can have good kōrero with him.”Kei te mihi au ki ngā kaimahi a Te Minita mō ō rātou mahi mō tēnei pire ā tēnā koutou. Ki te whānau tautoko i tēnei pire ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.Ā tīmata i te pire e rua ngā mea i whakakore ia Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 1987 me te Wāhanga 4A o Te Ture Pāpāho 1989. Ka whakatū te rōpū Te Mātāwai whakaū ēnei huringa Reo Māori hei taonga o Te Iwi me Te Māori. Whakahē ana te iwi ririki kei te ako i Te Reo me Te Māori hei Reo e pā ana mō Aotearoa (i) he (a). Te whakatū Te Mātāwai hei hinonga ture motuhake ki te whakarato i te ārahitanga mō ō whakahaere reo iwi me Te Māori i roto i tō tūranga hei kaitiaki o Te Reo Māori he rārangi 19(1)(e) i roto e tautoko o taua tūranga. Whakarato hoki i te hokohoko o Te Taurā Whiri i Te Reo Māori me Te Reo Whakapuaki Irirangi rite ki te hinonga Karauna motuhake.Kua riro nui te mahi ki tēnei pire tika ki runga ki tēnei rā me te pīrangi meinga tātau hohoro. Nā reira ka mutu taku kōrero he kōrero iti ki te whakataukī i te rangatira wahine nō Tainui ia ko Te Pūea Hērangi: “Ko te pūāwaitanga o ngā moemoeā me whakamahi.”[I acknowledge the officials of the Minister for Māori Development for their efforts on this bill and so I commend you. A huge acknowledgment to all of you who supported this bill.I commence with the billand there are two things:the repealed Māori Language Act 1987 andPart 4A of the Broadcasting Act 1989. Te Mātāwai is established to affirm these changes of the Māori language as a treasure that belongsto the tribe and Māoridom.Aminority teaching the language with Māoridom oppose the Māori language as a language for New Zealand in (i) and (a). Te Mātāwai is established as an independent entity to provide leadership in terms of your administration of tribal dialect and Māori in your position as a guardian ofthe Māori language. There is a clause19(1)(e) in it supporting that role. It also markets the Māori Language Commission and the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency likeindependent Crown entities.Mucheffort has gone into this bill;letusfocus directly upon this day in the hopethat we get on with it quickly.Therefore I end my address with a few words from that proverb by that noble lady from TainuiTe Pūea Hērangi:“Implement that whichwillcome to fruition through dreams.”]Dreams become reality when we take action and today we will take action on this bill. Kia ora.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The call is a split call. Marama Fox—5 minutes. Tēnā koe.MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Harerūia harerūia harerūia e Te Whare kua tae mai ki tēnei rangi! Ēhara i te mea ko te pire nei tēnā hai whakatika i tō tātou Reo kārekau! Ēngari anō he huarahi tēnei he huarahi hōu! Mai rā anō mātau kua whawhai kua hīkoi kua porotēhi i runga i te huarahi mō Te Reo te rangatiratanga ngā take whenua katoa. Hōmai te pūtea ki a mātou e Te Kāwanatanga mā mātou tēnā e kawe! Koirā te karanga koirā te take e hīkoikoi ai tātau Te Iwi Māori ki runga i te whenua. I nāianei kua riro i a tātau te pūtea me te mana i roto i Te Mātāwai! E hika kai hea atu i te iwi te tiaki pai i tō tātau Reo?Mai rā anō tātau kua whawhai mō tēnei kaupapa kua wero i Te Kāwanatanga i nāianei kua whai mana Te Reo i roto i Te Ture kua whai mana tō tātau iwi hai kawe i tēnei kaupapa te kaupapa whakaora ai i tō tāua Reo! Koirā te take e harerūia atu ana! Me kōrero tātau i te kāinga ka tika! Ko tō tātau tupuna tēnā a Paora Pōtangaroa nāna te kī i roto i tana ōhākī “ka ngaro Te Reo o Wairarapa ēngari mā ngā tamariki Te Reo e whakahokia mai” ka tika ka tika! Kua mate mate haere ngā kaumātua i te kāinga kāre mātau i te mōhio ki tō tātau Reo ēngari anō kai Te Whare Pukapuka o Aotearoa nei e 120 ngā pukapuka i Te Reo Māori nā ō mātau ake tūpuna i tito ngā kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga ngā kōrero mō Mohi Mātorohanga mō Nēpia Kōhūhū.Nā Te Whatahoro tēnā nā Kumeroa Āporo tēnā ngā kaitito kai roto i Te Whare Wānanga. Ēngari anō mō Te Wairarapa ake kāre e paku mōhio te whānui mō aua pukapuka i ngā tau kua hipa atu. Kai roto i ngā Whare Wānanga aua kōrero e rere haere ana kāre tonu mātou i te kāinga e paku mōhio ki aua kōrero kua ngaro kē Te Reo! Ēngari harerūia harerūia mō ngā kuia i whakatū ai i ngā Kōhanga Reo kai taku ngākau te mahi o Te Kōhanga Reo e Te Kahurangi Iritana kai te mihi atu ki a koe me tō kaupapa. Ēhara i te mea ko koe anake mōhio pai au ki ngā kuia kai roto i ō rātou whare ō rātou whare rau e akiaki ana i tō tāua Reo. Kararaina ko koe anō tēnā e tautoko ana i Te Kahurangi i tēnei wā ēngari anō mō te kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo. Kātahi ka whai atu ki te whakatinana i Te Aho Matua hei kaupapa mā Te Kura Kaupapa Māori. Kai konei aua ngā kura Ngā Mokopuna tēnā koutou!Kanapū tēnā koe i kawea mai ō tamariki mai i Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Mokopuna. Te Kura Māori o Porirua kai konei koutou. Kai te mihi atu ki a koutou me ō koutou kaiako! Mel kei te tika tēnā nō te mea kei roto i te ringa o ngā tamariki mokopuna tō tāua Reo. Koinei taku wero atu ki ngā iwi ngā māngai i runga i Te Mātāwai tukua āe tukua ki te hunga rangatahi. Tukua ngā tūru ki te hunga rangatahi wāhine mā tāne mā! Kāre au i te āwangawanga mō Te Mātāwai. Kai te mōhio au mehemea ka tukua ki ngā tangata tika ka ora tonu ai tō tāua Reo. Kai roto i ō koutou nā ringaringa tamariki mā mokopuna mā rangatahi mā mō ngā rangi kai te heke mai. Kāre Te Ture i te oranga o Te Reo ko te tangata kē! Kai roto i te ringa o te tangata!Paku mihi whakamutunga ki a koutou o Te Taura Whiri o Te Māngai Pāoho he mahi kai te haere i roto i Te Kāwanatanga hei whakaora ai i tō tāua Reo. Nā reira kai te mihi ki a koutou! Tāngia Te Reo whakatōhia mai te kākano i roto i te ngākau kia puāwai ai tō tāua Reo i runga i te whenua mō tātau katoa tēnā koutou e Te Mana Whakawā![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in the House; this day has arrived. It is not as though this bill will fix up our Māori language; not at all.Rather it is a pathway and an innovative one. We have been fighting marching protesting for some time now on the road for the Māori language for sovereignty and for all issues pertaining to the land. Oh Government give us the funding; we can administer it. That has been the call. That is why we of Māoridom marched throughout the country.Who else but iwi will do a better job at taking care of our Māori language?We have been fighting for this for a long time. We havebeen challengingtheGovernment and now the Māori language hasstatus through the Act. Ourpeople have the authority and responsibility to advance this matter in terms of revitalising our Māori language. And thathasgiven cause to exclaim“Hallelujah!”.Of courseit is imperative that we speak it at home.It was that ancestor of ours Paora Pōtangaroa who uttered in his dying speech:“The Māori language of Wairarapa will be lost but it will be our children who will bring it back.”How true how right.The elderswho usedthe Māori languageback homehave all gone nowand wedo notknow our Māori language. However in theNationalLibrary there are 120 books in the Māori language that our ancestors wrote fortheirrecords—aboutMohi Mātorohanga and Nēpia Kōhūhū.It wasTe Whatahoro and Kumeroa Āporo who were scribes in theuniversity. But for us born and bred in Te Wairarapa we were totally unaware of those books as the years went by.Those stories are flying around in theuniversitiesbut we back home were totally ignorant of those stories because we had lost the Māori language.And so hallelujah hallelujahand hallelujah for the kuia who set up the Māorilanguagenurseries.The work of thekōhangareo is quite dear to my heart.I salute youDame Iritanaand your scheme.It wasnotas though you were alone in that scheme.I am very aware of the many other kuia who were in their homes in hundreds of homesencouraging the use of our language. Kararaina youtoo are one of those whosupported DameIritanaat the time of the Māorilanguagenurseries scheme and then you went on to develop Te Aho Matua philosophy as one for Māori-mediumschools.Such schools are here today.Ngā Mokopunagreetings to you all.To Kanapu my thanks to you for bringing the children of Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Mokopuna and Te Kura Māori o Porirua are all here as well. I pay tribute to you and your teachers. Melit is correct is it not that ourlanguage is in the hands of our children now. And this is my challenge to the tribes and to the representatives of Te Mātāwai:let it be passed on. Release itto the younger generations. Give up the seats to the young people—theyoung women and young men. I have no concerns for Te Mātāwai. I know thatif the right people are appointed our language will indeed survive. So the future is now in your handschildren and grandchildrenand all the young people. It is not the law that will bring back our Māori language;it is people. It isin the hands of people.In conclusiona brief acknowledgment to you of the Māori Language Commission andtheMāori BroadcastingFunding Agency—there isstill work to be done bythe Government in reviving our language and so I compliment you all. Create the Māori language and plant the seed in the heart so that it will flourish upon the country for us all. I commend you collectively.]DENISE ROCHE (Green):Ka tangi te kākā ka tangi te tītī ka tangi ko ahau tihei mauri ora![The kākā laments the muttonbird laments and so do I. Behold the breath of life!]I rise to take this call for the third and final reading of Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill which I feel is truly historic. Ko tōku nei wawata ka taea e tātou katoa e nohonoho nei ki a Aotearoa te tuku i Te Reo Māori Te Reo o ōku rangatira Te Reo taketake o Aotearoa kia rere ai.[My real wish is that all of us living here in New Zealand can unshackle the Māori language the language of my esteemed ones and the indigenous language of New Zealand and let it flow.]All New Zealanders—all of us—should be able to speak our indigenous language. Some of us struggle with it and we will continue. I see that if we learn this language then we strengthen our nationhood. Of our total population only 3.73 percent can hold a conversation in Te Reo Māori and I am one of those 3.73 percent.Language is not just about how we communicate; language forms us. Language—our language—expresses who we are and where we are from and language dictates how we think. Twenty one percent of Māori speak Te Reo and it is slowly declining. The statistics show that there are more speakers of Te Reo Māori in the over-60-year-olds and that kind of explains why there is that slow decline. As people get older and we are not bringing the others through the reo starts to decline.My hope—and I am sure it is the hope of this entire House—is that this bill and the revitalisation strategies within it will reverse that decline. The benefit of Te Reo is that we know where we are from. We know who our people are. We know who we are. Essentially we know our place in the world. And to be without that knowledge is to be dislocated from an essential part of the story about ourselves. It is all too common among Māori across this country and that plays out in the woeful statistics that we see in health outcomes in the early death rates around our low educational achievements in employment and even in our pay rates. Te Reo is a taonga and it is the Government’s duty and the duty of all people in this country to protect it and work on it becoming the flourishing and beautiful language that it should be and that we should all have access to.The story of the decline of Te Reo in this country is the story of colonisation and the true story of colonisation is not known by most New Zealanders because it is not taught in schools. We do not commemorate those who died in the Land Wars in the Waikato for example or have the mainstream understand that the true meaning of 5 November is not Guy Fawkes. The true meaning of 5 November is when 1600 volunteers and armed constabulary invaded the peaceful settlement of Parihaka and arrested Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi.Without that understanding of who we are where we have come from and the history of this land then our nationhood is fractured and the sad histories that are outlined in every Treaty bill—the sad histories of iwi and hapū—are unknown to many New Zealanders . It is so so terrible that most mainstream non-Māori New Zealanders do not even get to understand or get an inkling of what happened.I have heard of kids my daughter’s age talk about the fact that they do not learn anything about the Treaty of Waitangi anything about the true history of this land until they are at university. That is a sad indictment on all of us and on all of us here in this Parliament where we should be making laws to ensure that all our kids have access to the true history of this land and access to Te Reo Māori as a core subject in schools. We have got a long way to go but this is a beginning. It is a continuation but it is also a beginning and the Greens are committed to getting there.Dr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. E rau rangatira mā e ngā iwi katoa tēnā koutou. Ko Ngāti Maniapoto rāua ko Ngāti Wai ōku iwi nō reira kia ora mai tātou. E hikohiko ana ki te kōrero e pā ana tēnei mahi hirahira i tēnei rā. Mō ngā iwi katoa Te Reo he taonga. Mō ngā iwi katoa tēnei pire e kaha Te Reo mō te wā e heke mai nei. Nā te mea i tēnei tāima e tū ana ahau i roto i te aroaro o whaikōrero whakamiharo ka mahi te kupu nā ā ka huri ki te reo tuarua.[Greetings Mr Assistant Speaker. To esteemed ones and to all tribes I acknowledge you collectively. My tribes are Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Wai so greetings. I am enthused to make a contribution today on this significant matter. The Māori language is for all tribes and it is a treasure. This bill is for everyone and the language must be resolute in future times. At this moment I am standing before an audience of eloquent speech-makers in Māori who use it well; because of that I turn to the second language.]In the presence of such beautiful Māori language speakers my humble offering pales. None the less I want to commend this bill for how it embodies and preserves Te Reo in New Zealand culture. Clause 6A(2)(e) in Part 1 of this bill talks about how “knowledge and use of the Māori language enhance the lives of iwi and Māori:”. I believe this to be true and I believe it to be true for all New Zealanders.Educational organisations recognise that being bilingual conveys definite benefits to students. They are more creative in their thinking they have greater awareness of the syntax of language they are more sensitive to the nuances of communication and they are better able to detect hidden patterns and figures. In the learning context I did enjoy Minister Parata’s description in the Committee of the whole House of learning Te Reo and coming home and being corrected by her whānau.There are many paths to learning Te Reo. My path was different. I had been in and out of night courses over the years and could not quite get to the next level. For me the tipping point actually came in my early 40s. For my path I had been running a free marae-based medical clinic west of Whangarei for 10 years. We reached our 10-year celebration and the local people said: “Shane you do everything for us. What can we do for you?”. I said: “I really need to get to the next level of Te Reo. That’s my goal. I’ve been in and out of it but I haven’t got there. Can you help me with that?”. What they said to me was: “Yeah sure Shane. Here’s what we’ll do. First of all everyone who comes to the clinic from now on who speaks Māori ka kōrero i Te Reo anake—they will only speak Māori to you.” The second thing they said was: “Kura kaupapa is not an environment for adults to learn Māori but the principal of the local kura kaupapa is of this area. If we speak with him and he agrees here’s the deal: one morning every week you will go to the kura kaupapa and you will take a 20-minute health message and teach it to the children there.”So around about 2005 for the first term every Thursday morning if you looked at my appointment book you would see it struck out with “home visit”. No I was not on a home visit; I was sitting on a children’s chair at the kura kaupapa immersed in Māori learning Māori with the children. Children were forgiving—they forgave me my poor pronunciation. But what that immersion did do was tip me into that level of confidence and to the next level of speaking. For that I am very grateful. I am grateful to the community and I am certainly grateful for the people at the kura kaupapa.This was my path to Te Reo but many paths can arrive at the same destination. What is important is that we start the path and keep moving. In that spirit then and in the short call that I have here I would like to commend the Minister for Māori Development I would like to commend officials and I would like to commend the Māori Affairs Committee led very ably by my friend and colleague Nuk Korako. In conclusion I commend this bill to the House.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call of 5 minutes—Adrian Rurawhe.ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Tēnā koe Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā ko Pāraikaretu Te Maunga ko Whangaehu Te Awa ko Whangaehu Te Marae ko Rangitāuaua Te Whare ko Ngātirangiwa’o te ‘apū ko Ngāti Apa te iwi ā tihei mauri ora!Ā tino hari koa ahau kia tū ake ki te tautoko i tēnei pire Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori. I te wā o te wāhanga komiti o Te Whare ka tuku ahau i tēnei kōrero: “ ‘Kia mau ki tō Reo e te iwi. Ka nui te ngaro haere o tēnei ā’uatanga. Nā tō Reo oki ka mō’iotia ai he Māori. Ka kūare koe ki tō Reo ka meinga koe nō ngā whenua noa atu.’ ” Koinā te kōrero o tōku tipuna i te tau rua tekau mā whā o tērā rau tau ā e tū tonu ana taua kōrero.I te wā e haere ana āku mātua tūpuna ki te kura ka patua rātou e ngā māhita i te wā ka kōrerotia e rātou Te Reo Māori. I te wā e haere ana ōku mātua ki te kura ka kōrero Pākehā anakē rātou. Otirā ko ōku mātua tūpuna e kōrero ana ki a rātou i Te Reo Māori ā ka whakahoki rātou i te reo Pākehā. Ā i te wā i tipu ake au ka tipu ake au i roto i te reo Pākehā anakē. Otirā i ngā wā ka haere au ki te whakamoemiti i te Rātapu ka rongo au i Te Reo ka tukuna atu rātou i ngā karakia whakamoemiti i Te Reo Māori anakē. I pātai atu au ki taku whaea ki roto i Te Reo Pākehā: “He aha ai ka kōrero Māori rātou anakē? Kāore au e mārama ki ā rātou kōrero!”. Nāna i kī mai ki ahau: “Koinā te reo reka ki a Ihowā!”. Ā ka whakamārama hoki a ia i taua kōrero ki a au i roto i te reo Pākehā. Nō reira e tautoko ana ahau i te korōria harerūia ka tukuna atu e Marama i tēnei rā.Nō reira ka whakapiri atu whakamoemiti atu ki a rātou mā i roto i Te Reo reka ki a Ihowā me pēnei ai: “E Te Māngai me ngā anahera pono e te tokotoru tapu anei ahau e tuku whakamoemiti atu ki a koutou kia hōmai ki a mātou te kaha kia tautokohia Te Reo Māori i roto i tēnei āhuatanga. Ka tono atu ahau ki a koutou kia whakapiki ake te tokomaha o te hunga e ako ana i Te Reo Māori ā kā kōrero hoki i Te Reo Māori. Koinā taku tono atu ki a koutou i roto i te korōriatanga o ngā mano Matua Tama Wairua Tapu Ngā Anahera Pono mā Te Māngai e tautoko mai aia nei ake nei āe.”Nō reira e Te Māngai o Te Whare ēhara au i te māngai o ngā ‘āhi! Tēnei taku hiahia kia whai mana ake Te Maihi Māori ki Te Maihi Karauna otirā taku hiahia mā Te Maihi Karauna e tautoko ana e whakakaha ana Te Maihi Māori. Nō reira koina tāku whakaaro mō tēnei pānuitanga tuatoru o te pire nei. Nō reira kāore e roa tēnei tū e tika ana kia tuku mihi atu ki a tātou katoa. Nō reira kia ora mai tātou![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. But at the same time Pāraikaretu is the mountain Whangaehu is the river Whangaehu is the marae Rangitāuaua is the house Ngāti Rāngiwa’o is the hapū and Ngāti Apa is the tribe; behold the breath of life!I am very pleased to rise and support this bill the Māori Language Bill. At theCommittee stage of the House I made this statement:“‘People hold fast to your language; this loss is huge.It is through your language that you will be recognised as being a Māori. If you become ignorant of your language you will be regarded as being a foreigner from somewhere else.’ ”That is what my ancestors said in 1924 and that statement still stands today.When my elders went to school they were punished by teachers because they spoke Māori. When my parents went to school they spoke only in English. But at the same time my grandparents would speak to them in Māori and they would respond in English. When I was growing up I grew up speaking solely in English. When I went to thanksgiving on Sunday I heard Māori; all the prayers of thanks were totally in Māori. I asked my mother in English: “Why are they speaking only in Māori? I can’t understand what they are saying!”.She said to me: “That’s the sweetest language to Jehovah!”. And then she proceeded to explain in English. And so I support the glory and hallelujah that Marama issued today.Thus I add my thanks to all of them in the language that is sweet to Jehovah in this manner: “To you the Mouthpiece the Faithful Angels and the Holy Trinity I hereby offer my gratitude to you three and plead that you give us the strength to support the Māori language in this situation. I seek that the number of people learning and speaking Māori increases. Thosethenare my urgings in the glory of the innumerablethousands the Father Son and Holy Spirit the Faithful Angels and for the Mouthpiece to endorse here now and forever yes!”So Mr Assistant Speaker I am not thespeakerforthe churches! My wish is reallythat the mandate of the Maihi Māori should be greater than that of the Maihi Karauna but at the same time I want the Maihi Karauna to support and strengthen the Maihi Māori. This then is my contribution for this third reading of this bill. This call has not been a long one but it is fitting that I acknowledge us all. So my appreciation to us!]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Louisa Wall—5 minutes.LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Last week a few of us—Jo Hayes Poto Williams and I—were in Samoa. One of the issues that we discussed over there actually was the use of Samoan in the Samoan Parliament and whether or not bills could be and should be written in Samoan. The reality for that Parliament is that at the moment the members write only in English. We had a member of the Fijian Parliament with us and they are not allowed to speak Fijian in their Parliament—they can speak only English.While the bill was being debated over here and we were having that kōrero over there it was actually a time for celebration because we today have a bill that is in English and Te Reo. Most of the debate today has been in Te Reo and actually it speaks a lot about our society our Government and our progression in terms of Te Reo and our use of Te Reo here in Parliament.I really want to speak to a couple of Supplementary Order Papers and I have to because one of them was in my name and I was not here. So I want to acknowledge that the Minister for Māori Development said on Te Karere that the members of Te Mātāwai should be those who are knowledgable and most experienced at managing language programmes in the community and they have to be fluent.I just want to highlight that the reason I put in Supplementary Order Paper 166 to ask the Minister to make sure that there are women on Te Mātāwai is that I hope that of those seven iwi representatives there will be a woman and of the four clusters there will be a woman. If there is not because we have processes that for whatever reason do not allow Māori women to be on that board the Minister has two appointees.So I just wanted to put it out there that if we are looking at who has managed those language programmes in our community it is Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust. I want to take the opportunity to mihi to whaea Druis Barett and her whānau in Waitomo. I was at the tangi of her husband Jim on Monday with members of Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora. It was a very sad time but it was also a wonderful opportunity for us to be together and to hear all the reo and to hear how much love there was for matua Jim.The other Supplementary Order Paper I want to highlight is Supplementary Order Paper 165 in the name of my colleague the Hon Nanaia Mahuta. I think the apology that she proposed really was an opportunity for the Government to say sorry—because actually that is what it is all about. If you look at the reference that Nanaia made to suppression by the Crown and our inability to use Te Reo we really need to look at the Waitangi Tribunal hearing in 1985 that basically stated that Māori who spoke Te Reo were punished. So the Crown failed to uphold Treaty of Waitangi obligations to protect the language.In response we have an acknowledgment in the bill that the Crown supressed Te Reo Māori. What does that actually mean? Well it actually means that the Crown by its authority abolished and stopped our ability to use Te Reo at school—because we were talking about the Native Schools Act. We were not allowed to use Te Reo. Every one of us in our whānau has got stories about that. In my case it was about my father and my uncles being strapped. They were not allowed to use Te Reo. We did not use Te Reo at home. Some of my uncles did but in our particular whānau my father just said: “You’ve got to get an education. Forget about the Reo—get an education.”I think the acknowledgment of suppression actually puts a huge onus on the Crown because if our inability to use our language was because of the Native Schools Act then actually the solution lies in making sure that every single Māori kid at school has an opportunity to learn Te Reo. So if this piece of legislation takes us to a place where every Māori kid gets to learn Te Reo in school then that will be an amazing day. And it will be a day to say hallelujah which is my middle name by the way Marama Fox—Hareruia. So that is what I hope for this piece of legislation. That is what we all hope for this legislation. Nō reiratēnā tātou katoa.JONO NAYLOR (National):Tuatahi he mihi ki Te Atua nāna nei ngā mea katoa. Ngā mihi ki ngā manuhiri o Te Whare Pāremata kua tae mai nei i tēnei wā tēnā koutou katoa. Ngā mihi ki a koutou ki ngā hoa o Te Whare Pāremata ā tēnā koutou. Tuarua e hiahia ana ahau ki te tautoko i Te Minita e kōkiri haere ana i Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori. Tuatoru e mihi atu ana ahau ki a Nuk Korako i te komiti mō ō rātou mahi ki te whakarite mai i Te Reo Māori mō ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa. E whakamōwai ana ahau mō ngā kōrero i tautoko mai i taku kōrero i te pānuitanga tuatahi o te pire nei.[Firstly a tribute to God; it was he who provided everything. Acknowledgments to the visitors to Parliament House who have arrived here today I salute you all. Salutations to you collectively fellow colleagues of Parliament; hello there. Secondly I want to endorse the Minister for Māori Development who is driving the Māori Language Bill along. Thirdly I congratulate Nuk Korako and the Māori Affairs Committee for their work in preparing the Māori language for all of New Zealand. I am put at ease by the supportive comments to my contribution in the first reading of this bill.]I am humbled by the response that I got to my speech in the second reading of this bill not simply because the post from Facebook went to over a million people or that the video was viewed by over 100000 people because I am not humbled by that at all—I am just showing off. I am humbled because of the responses that I got from both Māori and non-Māori in response to that. I do not think they responded because of my witty repartee or my good looks or otherwise; I think they responded because they heard of something in my journey that touched their hearts. They heard something in the story of my whānau and my whānau’s journey with Te Reo Māori that meant something to them. Because it came from someone who was non-Māori they were touched because here was a middle-class middle-aged white guy from the National Government talking about the importance of Te Reo Māori.Some of the things they said included this: “E Jono tenei te mihi i to mihi tautoko......o Te reo Maori tenei te mihi tenei te mihi MAURI ORA!!!!!!!! thank you for your wonderful speech”. “Thanks for your support in recognising our well-being.”Marty Toto said: “I remember my Dad saying he got caned for speaking te reo at school growing up [and I] wish he was alive to hear this”. People spoke to me about the support for their language their Reo and how it was important to them. So I am humbled to stand in this House as a non-Māori one of the few non-Māori speakers to this bill because I think it is incredibly important for us if we are going to follow through on that phrase that is contained within this bill that I think is incredibly important which is “reo hoki ka kaingākautia e te motu”—this language is valued by our nation.I am encouraged by what I see as the Māorification of New Zealand English. When I grew up in west Auckland in the 1970s the only Māori words that we ever used were the words for which there was no English word. So we knew what a hāngī was and we knew what a hongi was but we did not know words like whānau and kaupapa and kai—those were not words that we used. We are now growing up in a New Zealand where some of those words are starting to take a place. But if we are going to see New Zealand English develop to incorporate and envelop more Te Reo Māori then Te Reo Māori must not continue to decline; it must continue to grow. It must continue to grow because of what this House is doing and the example that it is setting. It must continue to grow because our Government reflects the importance of Te Reo Māori right through our Government departments and otherwise. As a culture of New Zealanders we continue to embrace this language because as this language grows we as New Zealanders will grow and this country will be a better place.I was reminded today by my colleague Peeni Henare that I should finish this speech in the same way that I finished my maiden speech which was to quote his grandfather Sir James Hēnare: “Kua tawhiti kē te haerenga mai kia kore e haere tonu kua tino nui rawa ōu mahi kia kore e mahi tonu.” [“You have travelled a great distance to get here so you will not have to carry on; your workload has been excessively huge so you will not have to work.”]—we have come too far not to go further. I commend this bill to the House.A party vote was called for on the question That the Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill be now read a third time.Ayes 104New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 28; Green Party 13; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 11New Zealand First 11.Bill read a third time.Waiata