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I move that the Health and Safety (Pike River Implementation) Bill be now read a first time.

I nominate the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee to consider the Bill and, at the appropriate time, I intend to move that the Bill be reported to the House by 30 October 2013.

I’d like to welcome all the conference participants especially those who travelled from outside Wellington. I am very aware of the efforts you made to take time out from your busy work schedules and family lives to be here. Good morning everyone.

Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my pleasure and honour to be here today and it is timely for me as Minister of Immigration to be addressing your conference, so thank you Peter and Geoff for inviting me.

E nga matawaka e tau mai nei i tenei ata ki Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa, tena koutou katoa.

Nga mihi o te Tau Hou Maori ki a tatou katoa.

I am pleased and proud to be here today to launch the Maori and Pasifika@Massey University strategies.

I move that the Resource Management Reform Bill 2012 now be read a second time.

I would first like to thank the chair and members of the Local Government and Environment Select Committee for their work on this Bill.

I would also like to thank everyone who took the time to make a submission to the Committee. The Committee received 234 submissions to the Bill, and heard 147 oral submissions in hearings in both Wellington and Auckland.

Thank you to the organisers of the National Sustainability Showcase for the invitation to say a few words this evening. 

Thanks to the Trust’s efforts, the farm environment awards have grown steadily in recent years.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you at this conference for the seventh time.

Every other time I’ve joined you here in Rotorua – first in Opposition and then in Government – there was always a hearty welcome from the late Dr Peter Foley. And I’d like to begin my comments today by acknowledging the tremendous leadership he gave New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA).

Delivered on behalf by Tim Macindoe, MP for Hamilton West.

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

Thank you for inviting me to be part of this wonderful event. I am delighted to be here to speak briefly about the value of the volunteer community to New Zealand and to assist in presenting this evening’s awards.

Delivered on behalf by Hon Todd McClay, Associate Minister of Health.

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou

Good afternoon everyone. Thank you, Jan [Adams], for your kind introduction. It gives me great pleasure to be in Hamilton today at the opening of the new Older Persons and Rehabilitation building.

I’d like to thank you for inviting me to join you today.

As the Member for Rotorua and the Minister of Revenue, it is especially appropriate that my first speech to a conference in my new portfolio is to you today.

While the portfolio is new to me, I am no stranger to the world of tax, having served on Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure committee (known in Wellington as the FEC).

Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa (Greetings to you, greetings to you all).

Mr President, fellow delegates. I’m very pleased to be able to address this plenary session on behalf of the New Zealand Government.

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa.  Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

I am very pleased to be here with you all this morning.

Before I begin I would like to thank Barry Foster and the Executive Council of the National Beekeepers Association for the opportunity to speak at this year’s conference. I would also like to take the time to thank the hosts and organisers, the Canterbury branch of the NBA, and Conference Secretary Linda Bray.

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Taloha ni, Bula vinaka and Namaste.

Thank you, Susana, for your warm welcome and for inviting me to share two very important events with you – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the Launch of the first Pacific SeniorNet. 

Firstly, I would like to acknowledge your General Manager Malia Hamani, the board, staff and members of TOA Pacific.  It has been one year since my last visit and once again I am struck by the vibrancy and passion of your organisation. 

Thank you Grant (Grant Dodson – CEO City Forests Limited) for the kind welcome and for the invitation to speak to you this evening.

Tonight’s graduation ceremony is a joint initiative between the Southern Wood Council and Competenz and I would like to acknowledge the Competenz National Business Manager for Forestry, Marc Borland, and the industry representatives present.
I would like to begin by offering my congratulations to all the trainees for all their hard work and commitment.

This arresting phrase – ‘Agriculture: New Zealand’s Silicon Valley’ – is not mine. It is Sir Graeme Harrison’s and I can’t improve on it. Sir Graeme, you will recall, is the founder and Chairman of ANZCO Foods, one of New Zealand’s largest exporters.

I like the phrase for three complementary reasons:

Good morning.

I welcome the opportunity to be here today to speak at this Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee workshop – the first of two such days hosted by the Health Quality and Safety Commission.

I would like to thank Professor Cindy Farquhar for her welcome but most importantly her dedication to ensuring maternity quality and safety in New Zealand.

Good evening; I am very pleased to welcome you all to the beautiful Trentham Racecourse here in Upper Hutt.  I know that having this ‘Biz’ event will inspire you to greater things in your business.

Upper Hutt has a fine reputation of innovative SMEs in high value goods manufacturing and exporting, thanks to firms such as TenderRest and VenTech Systems.
The speakers that have agreed to present at these events are inspirational and I would like to acknowledge Tenby Powell, convenor of the Government’s Small Business Development Group.  

My parliamentary colleagues; Paul Gibson our Disability Commissioner; Riripeti Paine, the Chair of Parents of Vision Impaired; Paul Manning, your Executive Officer; family, friends and tamariki/mokopuna.

Once upon a time…those magical words have captivated our children and given joy to both storyteller and listener for ever and a day.

Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak at the Cardiac Society’s 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting. 

We find ourselves in a time that, from a health services perspective, presents both great opportunities and great challenges. 

Today my comments are in three parts: Budget 2013, the great progress we are making in improving heart health and care in New Zealand, and finally the challenges that lay ahead.

May it please the Court:

This is the kind of address one never wants to make. The premature and unexpected death of any person is a tragedy. It inevitably brings with it thoughts of what might have been and especially so in the case of the person whom we gather here today to honour, whose memory we cherish, and whose contribution to New Zealand we salute.

Matariki 2013 Celebration Hosted by the Quit-line

At home, we have a saying that signals the onset of Puanga  - the beginning of our new year.

Matai ki te rangi tera ko Puanga
Ko te tohu mo te tau hou

As one gazes to the heavens it is Puanga and the new year.

It is a statement of aspiration; a sentence which encourages us to lift our vision skywards.  In a literal sense, Puanga – or as some iwi know it – Matariki – starts with the new moon of the first month of the cold season.

Ko Ōtawa te maunga
Ko Te Rapa-rapa-a-hoe te awa
Ko Hei te tupuna
Ko Takakopiri te tangata
Ko Te Arawa te waka
Ko Waitaha te Iwi.

Mr Speaker, I am honoured to welcome the children of Hei, the people of Waitaha to New Zealand’s House of Representatives.  Descendents of Hei of the great Te Arawa waka.
Nau Mai, Haere Mai.

The story of Waitaha is hugely significant: an iwi whose members have never yielded to the Crown.

Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara, ngā tamariki mokopuna o Haranui, Reweti, Kakanui, Araparera me Puatahi marae. Tēnā koutou.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to nga uri o Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara who have travelled here to join us on this important day.

I would like to acknowledge all those who made claims on behalf of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and began this journey.

Today we turn south from Te Whanganui ā Tara.
We look across Raukawa Moana.
Past the resting place of Te Wheke a Muturangi.
To the lands of Te Tau Ihu O Te Waka a Māui.
The prow of the great canoe of Māui Tikitiki a Taranga.

It is my honour to welcome to this house the sons and daughters of:

Tuhoe whenua

Tuhoe mana
Tuhoe iwi

Nau mai, haere mai!

Kua tatu, kua tatu, kua tatu tenei wahanga o nga mahi
Na koutou te kaha
Na koutou te maia
Na koutou te manawanui i roto i nga tau

Kei te rangatira, Tamati
Tena koe te kaiarahi o tenei mahi nui
Nau nga kaupapa i hora
Nau nga take i kokiri
Ko koe te ringa ngawari, te ngakau mahaki
Kei te mihi, kei te mihi, kei te mihi te Karauna me te motu ki a koe me to iwi.

Nau mai, haere mai!

Tuhoe land
Tuhoe mana
Tuhoe people