Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā koe e te Māngai. Is it wrong that all I heard David talk about was the intimacy of Santa's big sack?Anyway as we prepare to rise and go off into the sunset; to unplug; get some sleep; pat our partners hug our dogs—or the other way around I'm so tired I can't remember; have mornings where we don't have to listen to each other on the news—or worse check out what Rawiri has just said on the news; first I'd like to mihi to all my colleagues and their whānau.I know you all work crazy hours and are usually committed to your communities. I see your children in here late at night—especially your newborns—your partners dropping off kai your red-eye flights being at kaupapa through the weekends and recess putting your vulnerabilities into your debates bringing your reo your whakapapa and growing your mātauranga Maori your partners scrutinised—some whose partners I even reported missing.While we can be poles apart in our policies there is no doubt I have the privilege to be in a House full of people who truly care to serve. Our subtle changes we see being made daily such as wearing Air Jordans and taonga instead of our ties. But how we dress is not just a fashion statement. People need to be able to see themselves reflected in their leaders regardless of our class or culture. And I want to give a special mihi to our Speaker Adrian Rurawhe who wears his korowai daily normalising our culture in the highest seat of Parliament showing our mokopuna that they too belong in this House. Sometimes people forget we are human that we are mothers nans fathers papas aunties uncles—all of them if you're Rawiri—and that there were times this year when we needed to look after each other and look after each other for misinformation extremism and I hope both Rawiri and I showed manaaki and aroha when it was needed most.I want to also take a moment to reflect on what made the headlines. No not bottom feeders or garages in South Auckland—although that could have been it—but New Zealand considers changing its name to Aotearoa to confront its past. The tired versus the vibe. The rise and rise of the Māori Party; kingmaking Māori Party who want to divorce the Crown—I don't quite know how that came on. Rawiri Waititi becomes Deputy Prime Minister—I made that one up.But seriously there are real headlines and I think one thing that is a privilege of being an MP that I love about this place is being reminded that politicians are not the be-all and end-all. Meditation teaches us that change starts within but actually in Parliament change comes from outside. And it must continue to come from outside because it is those people who got us here and those who must keep us focused on kaupapa.We must use these platforms to amplify the marginalised voices to bring to rise the ones who write who submit who march who protest who lobby for change. So I actually want to spend the next five to six minutes celebrating those champions of change—those who hold us accountable those who ring me at 5 a.m. 10 p.m. midnight and those who I'm sure many of you know because most of the advocates out here are people who talk to us all.So Whānau Ora. Over 30 Whānau Ora partners across 16 collectives delivered 240000 Whānau Ora packs to 138000 whānau—more than 400000 individuals—covering more than 10 percent of the North Island. This included servicing and looking after Māori and non-Māori. And hauora such as Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā who advocated for Māori communities to be supported when our public health system actually ignored them.To those that we've seen within our Patient Voice Aotearoa a small group who take on the large Goliaths—the Pharmacs—advocating for life-saving drugs for those such as we met this afternoon young Harper James Brianna those who we actually agreed with and worked really hard to make sure that we don't see our children's health declining while the world around them gets access to treatments they can't get.To justice advocates like JustSpeak to those fighting to protect our ocean to ban seabed mining Ngāti Ruanui Ngā Rauru fisheries Pacific parliamentarians Kiwis Against Seabed Mining Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Pacific Parliamentarians' Alliance on Deep Sea Mining Greenpeace Child Poverty Action Group Auckland Action Against Poverty.And to our kīngitanga to our National Iwi Chairs Forum. For those who have advisers such as the recently passed Tā Toby Curtis for those in the Resource Management Act space like Dayle Takitimu Tina Porou in the Waitangi Tribunal.To our kapa haka leaders and those that we saw in Te Matatini who continue to spearhead and advise us to fight—Kiritapu are you listening?—to increase the funding for Te Matatini. Those are all important kaupapa that come across all our thresholds.Māori musicians like Stan Walker Rob Ruha Kāhui Rangatahi group Ria Hall—all who fought to increase funding for musicians when COVID-cancelled events affected their ability to survive and thrive. To Māori artists activists creators writers orators historians the Tāme Iti who are forced to write I will not speak Māori" on the blackboard for their reo to be championed 50 years later. Hori artists the talent and grace whānau.To our tūpuna who navigated the stars for their knowledge to be recognised as a public holiday this year. To every petition that has come across the front steps like pō Ngā Tamatoa who championed our reo and mana motuhake to be recognised 50 years later. These are some of the true champions activists and politicians and I mihi to them all so that we can remember—as we go and celebrate the year that was—how we got to be here in this place.There are some things I do want to leave. I'm not going to sing a song. I really am impressed with some of the talent that I keep coming across here. But I would like to depart you all with a Christmas gift from Te Paati Māori and the greatest gift a political party can possibly receive from Te Paati Māori is a compliment.So to our Green Party thank you for being our proxy in Parliament. Thank you for casting our votes even if you didn't agree with them. Our apologies for turning down to vote when we didn't tell you that we were voting. Thank you for supporting my seabed mining bill. But most importantly thank you for being bold.To our ACT Party thank you for giving people reasons to vote for us and for amplifying our voices especially in your party's campaign to collect donations to keep us out of Parliament. But seriously thank you for your solidarity that you have shown in Oranga Tamariki and holding Pharmac to account.To National—where are you?—thank you for inspiring my TikTok content. It's actually been great to be able to have something to keep TikTok-ing to. Seriously though my last video about you Chris got me banned so I'm not quite sure if I'm going to get back in. But I also have to join in congratulating you for having the same leader for the same year. So that's a good thing for you. And also I'm happy to share parties and gift Rawiri's garage should you need to have that experience.To Labour thank you for adopting our policies—you know we're going to say this every year. Matariki Māori Health Authority just to name a few. But seriously thank you for backing kaupapa Māori to advance our cause. And the gift to our Speaker—and I think you're going to be so excited to hear this one—Rawiri has had a year of not being kicked out of the House and I cannot think of a better gift to give you.I send huge aroha to our teams and they are our teams that are upstairs. They watch TV hoping that we don't do a Willie Jackson and talk out of line. They move to the side when the school bell rings they do late nights they text furiously when they tell us that we're actually live when Rawiri's son is telling everyone he's in his undies. But I do mihi to you all that help us to be here. Like those champions of change you are just as important as everyone else. And I don't know that we ever tell you how important and valued you are.My favourite memories for the year: one of them is at the kīngitanga and the koroneihana watching that same son who told everybody that his father was in his undies ditch us to go across the ātea and sit on the lap of the Prime Minister for a photoshoot. We are not sure whose team he's in—we are on one team.But also probably the most heart-warming memory that I have for this year is sitting upstairs and watching the cross-party youth MPs in this House all mihi te reo Māori and refer to honouring Te Tiriti. That's our future.So in the āhuatanga or tā tātou tūpuna I hope you all rest up. I hope that you all get time and the gift of time to be with your whānau to be able to reflect on the year and to get ready for next year—because there's quite a high likelihood that there'll be more of Rawiri Waititi in 2023.So we look forward to working with you all the next year and I've got a surfboard with my name on it so do not get in my way—I am so out of shape. So ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.SPEAKER: Members this is a split call. I call Chris Penk—five minutes."