 katoa. katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa. katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa. katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa, katoa te rengā o ngā wako o ngā tupuna mātu, wai ngenuia kouto o kouto iwi o Aotearoa. He hure atu ki te moana o te Waitemata, i tako to nei ki te pinawa o kahu, o kahu mata moimuai. O kahu mata moimuai ki raro nei ki te iwi o te Pūru o Tāmaki, ia tātatu marae, te hapu o ngā oho, te tāu o ringatū, ka putumai te mana o Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei ki raro nei o tātatu te whenua. Hāramai te kāwana tanga ki te wai waiana mo kouto whānau hapū. Ka putumai ki rungarawa o Takaparapao, etu ake nei, te marae nei, iko nei, tumu tumu whenua, tenei nga mana ka eke ka eke, haumi e hui e, ta eki e. E ngā iwi e ngā mana e ngā mātā waka, tenei te mihi ana ki a koe ki koutu. Nau mai, haire mai, haire mai, wakatau mai rau. Haire mai i roto o tātu tenei pare o tenei te kaupapa o te rā, te kaupapa, te arafata o tātu te hinengaro o te ora, o re rato te tatanga tā. E tika pai ko tēnei kaupapa, ka kaha mai o tātu kumiti, ka kaha mai ki o koutu tangata, ka kaha, ka maia, ka mana whenu te arafaka koutu, a tena koutu. Tena koutu. Wondring what I am saying. A reform, maybe, is what this is about. But as my fire has said here today, the waidua of our ancestors be upon us all. My ancestors, your ancestors. And as Arangatira said in his prayer this morning, for us to be able to unite in the discussions that we are about to take place. In the well-being for mankind, in my kōrero Māori, it was about welcoming us all here to Tāmaki Makaurau, Tāmaki Hene o Ngā Waka. I refer to, pay respect to the mountains. I pay respect to the hour of the boundary line for Ngāti Pātua o Ōrākei. And I also pay respect to that wonderful pathway outside there called the Waitemata Harbour, which is global for us here in Auckland, where we all share that one thing together. The beauty of our harbour, the beauty of our place here. And so I say to you all, welcome that we share that common denominator of us being here in Tāmaki. I also welcome all those who have travelled from overseas or from even within our own Aotearoa. All of those of you who are the guests to Auckland, can I say haere mai, haere mai, wakato mai da. I've also mentioned too that the reason why we are here, pathway to reform and Māori arafata, which is the pathway to reform in many different ways of use of Māori, that I mentioned, the heningaro, the wedua of the mind, the ora, the wellbeing of the body, the tinana, which is the body. So it's a pathway to reform. And I also mentioned that today may your journey be here today, be fruitful for the benefit of others. And while we are here discussing that together, can I say be strong, go hard out and let's do it in the passion that we know as people, and that's one, as one people that we come together like this. I do a lot of mihi's to a lot of our politicians and I tell them that Ngāti Whātua and the government are always like this. That's us on the top. But today we are like this because we are looking for a pathway to reform. So on behalf of our people, Ngāti Whātua, can I say to you, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Tēnā koutou, koutou a te po рtē po. Te po rtē po rtē po. Tēnā koutou, koutou koutou, tē po rtē po. tē po watae rtē po. And as I farewell our ancestors who have passed, as I farewell your ancestors who have passed in that loving memory that we come together, hapiti hono tatae hono rata lunga matia rata, hapiti hono tatae hono rata te engohora ti engohora, kia kauta katoa, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, ākiori i mainatata.