"\u003C!DOCTYPE html\u003E\u003Chtml xmlns:xlink=\u0022http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\u0022 xmlns:xsi=\u0022http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance\u0022 xmlns:mml=\u0022http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Chead\u003E\n    \u003CMETA http-equiv=\u0022Content-Type\u0022 content=\u0022text/html; charset=utf-16\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cmeta name=\u0022viewport\u0022 content=\u0022width=device-width, initial-scale=1\u0022\u003E\n  \u003C/head\u003E\n  \u003Cbody style=\u0022font-family:sans-serif; font-size:100%;\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022b47d2d9fa8ed49e385f91528e8052b3f\u0022\u003ETuesday, 7 May 2013\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000003\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00229bb9458e6799448b89f2d331ad887875\u0022\u003ETuesday, 7 May 2013\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000002\u0022\u003EMr Speaker took the Chair at 2 p.m.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000004\u0022\u003EPrayers.\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000005\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00226d2e4b4fc82f44deb08ccb2e1baf3605\u0022\u003EObituaries\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000006\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00228c7da97a2c164c9abd311990d39226bd\u0022\u003EHon Parekura Horomia\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022 data-id=\u00220f11c1fa12314f06adf389008faf9cca\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000007\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220f11c1fa12314f06adf389008faf9cca\u0022\u003ERt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the House place on record its high sense of the devoted and distinguished service rendered to his people and New Zealand by the late Hon Parekura Horomia, a member of this House representing Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti from 1999 and holding the M\u0101ori Affairs portfolio from 2000 to 2008, who died on 29 April 2013; and respectfully tender to his wh\u0101nau its sincerest sympathy in their tragic bereavement; and that as a mark of respect to the memory of the late member, the House do now adjourn.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000008\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003ET\u0101tou katoa e huihui nei, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000009\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003E[To all of us gathered here, salutations to you all.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000010\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003EParekura Horomia was a man of immense mana who worked tirelessly for his people, and he was taken from us far too soon. It is extremely rare for New Zealand to lose a member of Parliament, and in my 11 years in this House Parekura is just the third member to pass away. Although today is a time for us to pay tribute to Parekura, it is also a time to reflect on the loss of Rod Donald and Allan Peachey, and to reflect on the other former members of this House who have passed away in recent years. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000011\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003EOver the past week we have all heard stories of Parekura\u2019s achievements. There has been an endless supply of amusing stories about Parekura from iwi, community groups, non-governmental organisations, and sports clubs. He was elected to this House as the member for Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti in 1999. I am told that he made it his mission to travel the length and breadth of this extensive electorate, and he did just that. This was no mean feat, as Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti covers the size of seven general electorates, stretching from just north of Wellington all the way up the East Coast. Before entering this House, Parekura had a varied career, and much of his time was spent on the land. He spent time working as a fencer, scrub-cutter, and farmer. He also did a stint as a shearer, and I note, Mr Speaker, that you yourself said that perhaps you could have given him a run for his money in the shearing sheds. Parekura also spent time working in the local Gisborne Herald offices, before moving on to a career with the Department of Labour, both locally in Gisborne and here in Wellington. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000012\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003EWe can all acknowledge Parekura as a man of his people. To Parliament he brought an unfailing connection with his community and the ability to bridge between leaders and ordinary Kiwis. As a nation we have come together over the past week to share in the grief of losing a colleague and a friend to many. Parekura had the rare ability of bridging the parliamentary divide. The spirit of bipartisanship within which Parekura operated is very powerful, very special, and very rare to find. He became the person able to bring all M\u0101ori MPs together from across the House. As a senior M\u0101ori member and former Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs, his experience and mana were often drawn upon, and in many respects Parekura was Parliament\u2019s kaum\u0101tua figure. On any marae in the country, and especially amongst his own people, he was in his element. I myself remember a number of occasions when he came up when I was on the marae to ensure that I was comfortable and aware of the protocols and procedures. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000013\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003EThe respect he commanded was born from his tireless work for his people\u2014the people from Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti and all of M\u0101oridom. I heard a touching story last week from my cultural adviser Lewis Moeau, who spent 4 years working for Parekura during his time as Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs. Lewis tells me it was not unusual for Parekura to arrive at a tangi as late as midnight, which is not traditionally the done thing, but in at least three cases that was the earliest he could get there. He knew how important it was to pay his respects in this way. The thousands of New Zealanders from all walks of life who made the journey to Hauiti Marae over the course of Parekura\u2019s tangi last week are testament to the many lives that he touched. Parekura\u2019s family and his iwi, Ngati Porou, have shared him with all of New Zealand for the past 14 years. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000014\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003ELast week the people of Gisborne and, particularly, Hauiti Marae opened their gates to allow us all to share in their grief and to pay our respects to Parekura Horomia. As Prime Minister I thank you for the warm welcome you gave me and those accompanying me. Your welcome did not distinguish between the mourners, and the hospitality you showed all of us was widely appreciated. I say thank you for pulling together to host us all at a time of great personal sorrow. I am told that over the course of the week Hauiti Marae and the small community of 800 hosted 12,500 visitors, which is an impressive feat, and I know this put immense pressure on your resources, so thank you. Let us all share in your grief, after years of sharing your father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend. Now Parekura has been returned to you, his family, for his final rest. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000015\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220083bcaa-f44d-4b70-97de-d091a209b88c\u0022\u003EDespite our political differences, and because of our shared love of making up words, I have always had enormous respect for Parekura and his command of the English language. He never forgot where he came from and why he was here in Parliament. Parekura played an extremely important role in building the strong and positive relationship that currently exists between M\u0101ori and the Crown, and I hope his family are as proud of his achievements in this area as in every other. Parekura was staunchly loyal to his Prime Minister, to his party, and, most important, to his people. Through some of the most difficult times he took counsel from the people he was elected to serve. Through everything he championed a better deal for M\u0101ori. He did so across party lines, and he was not afraid to fight for what he believed in. I will remember his presence in this Chamber, his big smile, and his warm heart. E te rangatira Parekura, haere r\u0101. To the chief Parekura, farewell. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022 data-id=\u00220ea55b6a24fa4384a58c2b2710417c45\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000016\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220ea55b6a24fa4384a58c2b2710417c45\u0022\u003EDAVID SHEARER (Leader of the Opposition):\u003C/span\u003E E te rangatira nui a Parekura, e moe i te okioki mutunga. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou o Te Tai R\u0101whiti. E te wh\u0101nau o Parekura, haere mai. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000017\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003E[Parekura, the great leader, slumber there in the place of eternal rest. I have much admiration for you collectively of the East Coast. To the family of Parekura, welcome to you all.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000018\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EWe come here today to mourn the loss of a friend, a colleague, and the matua of our party, te R\u014Dp\u016B Reipa. Parekura touched the lives of so many of us here today. They say that grief is the price we pay for love. At the tangi that we were all at we saw exactly just how much Parekura was loved, how much he was respected, how much people thought of him, and the grief, the love, and the laughter\u2014because wherever Parekura went, there was always laughter that went with his presence as well. I want to say, before I go on, a big thankyou to the people who are here today from Hauiti Marae, who welcomed us on, who showed so much aroha and manaakitanga in hosting us when we were there. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000019\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EWe mourn the loss of Parekura, but we also celebrate his life. He started from humble beginnings as a labourer, as a shearer, and as a printer\u2014a qualified printer. He went on to become a community development worker in the Department of Labour and Te Puni K\u014Dkiri as well, before becoming a Minister. But he never forgot where he came from. He never forgot his people. I think that is the thing that all of us will remember more than anything else. He never became a big fish head in shiny pants, as he called it. He maintained those connections. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000020\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EI remember more than once in our caucus meetings when we were talking about high-level sorts of issues on policy and getting rather hypothetical about things, it would be Parekura who would bring us down to earth, talking about the family he met when he was travelling up that day, and talking about that family whom he met, those people whom he met, and asking what they would get out of that particular policy that we were pushing out in front of us. Often when I would ring him he would be on the road, because he was on the road an enormous amount. You would get this road noise in the background, while trying to understand Parekura as he was travelling up and down the country. As somebody was saying to us today, on his last trip from Wellington back to his home marae he stopped off, despite being in pain and despite having to take morphine, at many of the Labour branches and communities as he went up the road, to say goodbye to people. That was the measure of the man. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000021\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EBut I do not want to say that he did not talk about policy and that he did not talk about those things, because under his time as Minister he introduced iwi radio, he introduced M\u0101ori Television, 67 percent more M\u0101ori went on to tertiary education, and M\u0101ori unemployment halved\u2014during his time. He made a huge contribution to not only his people but the people of New Zealand. When I often spoke to him about his time as a Minister, he would often not talk so much about being a Minister but would refer back to his days when he was working for the Department of Labour and Te Puni K\u014Dkiri. He would talk about how many people he was able to get into employment, how many people he was able to push through and get into schools, and how many of his people came out the other end. Those are the things that he was most proud of. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EHe was a wise counsel to me not only on the marae\u2014as the Prime Minister said, when you were sitting beside Parekura he was always the person who made you feel reassured just by his presence sitting beside you\u2014but by the way he came to you. I remember he would often come into my room in the last few months and say \u201CKia ora, chief.\u201D, as he walked in through the door. He always called everybody chief. It was not just because I was the leader of the Labour Party\u2014everybody was known as chief. He would say \u201CKia ora, chief.\u201D, and he would plant himself down on the sofa in my room. My staff would say: \u201CLook, we\u2019ve got people waiting outside ready to come in.\u201D I would have to say: \u201CLook, Parekura has arrived. He\u2019s going to be here for a couple of minutes, so they are just going to have to wait for a little while.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000023\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EParekura would get whatever he wanted to say off his chest, tell me what he thought, and then he would say \u201CKapai, chief.\u201D, and he would be out the door. I would be left sometimes knowing exactly what he was talking about, and sometimes with a kind of a feeling that I knew what he was talking about, but had not necessarily got it anchored down, but more often than not it would come to me during the course of the day, and I would go \u201COf course, that\u2019s what he meant.\u201D He had that sort of elliptical way of talking and discussing, but a way that actually, I think, ended up making more impact on you because you had to fight to understand what it all meant. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000024\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EHis last communication to me was over a text. I was overseas and he texted me about 4 days or 5 days before he passed away. It started off with \u201CKia ora, chief.\u201D, and he went through a long list of the people whom he had met on his most recent travels. As he finished he said: \u201CI\u2019m having a bit of trouble typing here because of this new iPhone that I have got.\u201D Sure enough the predictive text on the iPhone has made his elliptical way of speaking much more complicated. I have this on my phone now and I look at it from time to time and it is like a puzzle to me. I keep looking at it. I wrote back to him and said: \u201CThank you for your message. Kapai, chief. And by the way, you need to work on your typing.\u201D He wrote back and said: \u201CKapai, chief. Happy travels. Safe travels.\u201D I have that with me. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000025\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EHis way of speaking extended to the debating chamber as well. There is a well-known, famous story\u2014a question, I think, by Winston Peters to Parekura when he was Minister: \u201CJust exactly how many additional M\u0101ori are now in employment?\u201D. Parekura jumped up and said: \u201CHeaps.\u201D It was not an exact figure, but everybody knew exactly what he meant.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000026\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003E As I said, he gave his life to his people and I am, and we are, so grateful to you\u2014to those people who are sitting here today, his family, his iwi\u2014who gave up so much of him so that we could have him with us and leading us to where we were going. We appreciate that and I want to say thank you. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000027\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003EIn Parekura\u2019s maiden speech, he talked about a school bus, and about him walking to school 5 kilometres there and back with his seven brothers and sisters, while the school bus that was often full of P\u0101keh\u0101 kids was driving by him, going to school, and then driving back past him as they were walking home. He said in his maiden speech, as he became Minister: \u201Cnow, as an Associate Minister of Education, responsible for school transport \u2026 I am helping to drive the bus\u201D. And he said that as one of the drivers, you could be damn sure he was going to stop the bus and pick up as many M\u0101ori as possible. He did that all his life, and he picked up a whole lot of P\u0101keh\u0101 along the way as well. E moe, e moe, e Pare. Haere atu r\u0101, t\u014Dku hoa, t\u014Dku matua. E Te Ao M\u0101ori, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000028\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003E[Pare, rest, sleep on. Goodbye, my friend, my fatherly figure. I salute you, M\u0101oridom, and thank you.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000029\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dfa851f0-ef7b-4834-bc41-1b3b645a3495\u0022\u003ERest in peace, Parekura. Kia ora, chief.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022 data-id=\u0022bbd615a46bc541a1a7c12690582223e1\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000030\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022bbd615a46bc541a1a7c12690582223e1\u0022\u003EMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader\u2014Green):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Mr Speaker. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou e te Whare. I te tuatahi, moe mai r\u0101 Nanny Ani Denham o te marae \u0100raiteuru i \u014Ctepoti, moe mai r\u0101, moe mai r\u0101. Kua hinga he uri o \u016Aawanui a Ruamatua, te whatukura o Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, te m\u0101ngai o Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti. Kua haere t\u014D t\u0101tou hoa kei tua o te \u0101rai. Ki a koe e te rangatira, Parekura, moe mai r\u0101. Moe mai r\u0101 i te whenua o Kohim\u0101rama, i te taha o t\u014D whaea. Moe mai r\u0101 i t\u014D moenga roa. M\u0101 t\u014D mana nui koe e kawe ki ng\u0101 ringaringa o \u014D m\u0101tua t\u016Bpuna. Ki ng\u0101 uri o Te Kani-a-Takirau, ki ng\u0101 kaitiaki o te ahik\u0101 o Hauiti, ng\u0101 mihi aroha ki a koutou m\u014D t\u014D koutou manaaki rangatira ki a t\u0101tou i t\u0113r\u0101 wiki. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000031\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003E[Thank you, Mr Speaker. Greetings to the House. First of all, to you Nanny Ani Denham of \u0100raiteuru courtyard in Dunedin, rest and slumber there. Ruamatua, a descendant of \u016Aawanui, a noble of Hauiti and the representative of Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti has fallen. Our colleague has gone beyond the divide. To you the leader, Parekura, sleep and rest there at Kohim\u0101rama, beside your mother. Sleep the long sleep of no awakening. Let your huge influence deliver you to your ancestors. Fond regards to you, the descendants of Te Kani-a-Takirau, and those of Hauiti who keep the home fires burning. Thank you for the wonderful way you looked after us last week.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000032\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003ESo what of the man whose tangi brings more than 12,000 people from across the country who travel many, many hours and many hundreds of kilometres to pay their respects to him at his death? There are two views of Parekura Horomia\u2014views that epitomise, I think, the cultural gap in Aotearoa New Zealand. One was a very stereotypical view of a working-class M\u0101ori man, assumed, perhaps, to be above his station. It was a very unflattering view, and one often perpetuated in the media. The other view was of a member of Parliament\u2014a M\u0101ori member of Parliament\u2014who was loved and supported because he was genuinely a man of his people, a man who understood that he lost nothing by supporting and encouraging others. It is clear to us now how much he gained by his generosity and his lack of ego. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000033\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003EHe was not always the greatest combatant in this fighting Chamber, although he certainly could be the funniest. He was often more shield than sword. But this arena is only one measure\u2014and, many believe, a poor measure\u2014of what it means to be a good member of Parliament and a good representative. The other measure is whether he achieved for his people and how he treated others in making those achievements. I talked with Russel about this yesterday, and he told me that Parekura had been incredibly supportive and encouraging when Russel spoke at Te Tii Marae at Waitangi for the first time on our behalf. He was certainly very supportive of me personally as a young and somewhat politically clumsy MP during the foreshore and seabed debates, when we were on opposite sides of the issue. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000034\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003EOver the last week we have heard story after story of his major achievements, but, more important, story after story of the many small, significant things he did to support his people. Most of those achievements, the ones that mattered the most to the people who depended on him the most, have gone unnoticed by mainstream New Zealand. He was harshly judged at times by criteria that were culturally bound and, therefore, missed the true measure of Parekura Horomia. Parekura was not an arrogant man. He never held himself above other people; he carried them on his shoulders\u2014a true rangatira. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000035\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003EN\u014D reira, e ai ki te whakatauk\u012B: \u201CToit\u016B te whenua, whatu ngarongaro te tangata\u201D. Ko t\u0113nei te w\u0101 whakaata m\u014D Parekura \u0113ngari, haere tonu \u0101na mahi, \u014D t\u0101tou katoa m\u014D te hauora o \u014D t\u0101tou wh\u0101nau, tamariki me te taiao e wh\u0101ngai nei i a t\u0101tou. N\u014D reira, huri noa i t\u0113nei Whare M\u012Bere, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000036\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022fc8ab326-1806-41d3-8c41-cd58c95dcb45\u0022\u003E[So, according to the proverb: \u201CLand remains while people disappear\u201D. This is rest time for Parekura, but his work, as with all of our work, goes on for the health of our families, children, and the environment that nourishes us. Therefore, I acknowledge, salute, and thank you all throughout the Beehive.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022 data-id=\u00225a387888f576447b972bea427bae0f89\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000037\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225a387888f576447b972bea427bae0f89\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader\u2014NZ First):\u003C/span\u003E E ng\u0101 reo, e ng\u0101 mana, e ng\u0101 waka, e ng\u0101 p\u016B k\u014Drero o ng\u0101 hau e wh\u0101, e rau rangatira m\u0101, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000038\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E[To the voices, authorities, mediums, orators of the four winds, and to the leaders of a hundredfold, salutations, greetings, and acknowledgments to us all.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000039\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003EThis is a time of mourning, yet also a time of celebration, of Parekura Horomia\u2019s life and work. Parekura, as we all know, was the subject of much criticism\u2014mostly unjustified\u2014which in time, with perseverance and great humour, he turned into respect throughout this country, not perhaps in some sectors but where it mattered, and particularly in this Parliament. He was loyal to his family and to his people and to his country, and he had values that reflected his background and his childhood. In other words, Parekura knew what poverty and hard times looked like, smelt like, and felt like, and he never ever forgot that background in his views on policies in this Parliament. He never did put aside the interests of his people and he was no stranger to hard manual work and sacrifice, and it may astonish some people here to know that he played about 100 games of rugby for the East Coast. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000040\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003EHe had learnt a trade, he had worked for the Department of Labour, and he was a highly successful manager of work schemes on the East Coast, in Poverty Bay, and in the Hawke\u2019s Bay. Parekura was a former M\u0101ori warden in an organisation that has been seriously revived in the last few years, and he was a great contributor to that revival. He was on the M\u0101ori Council executive locally and a chairperson of the Ngati Porou Te K\u014Dhanga Reo Trust Training Board. Parekura had a very, very full life. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000041\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003EPolitics for the committed is a tough business, and there is no doubt that it affected Parekura\u2019s health. Now he has gone. He has had no time for a well-earned retirement, no time just for himself, and, above all, no time to spend with his three sons and his wider family any more. One hopes that people in this country sometimes reflect upon that when they are talking about parliamentary pensions, because Parekura will not get to see even one day of it. On these occasions it is usual for all manner of people to rise to their feet and be laudatory and to praise someone like this, but on this particular occasion we know that our words have a particular and special significance. It is sad to say that maybe we are all guilty of not sending Parekura home earlier and to leave him to keep on working at a time when maybe his health could have been in recovery. That is also something for people to reflect upon, and when they do, I hope that they are unstinting in their gratitude for the time and effort he put into what was for him at the beginning a difficult political career, but which in the end he was seriously triumphant in fulfilling. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000042\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003EAt the end of the day, we are terribly sad to see him go and very sad not to have the son of Ngati Porou here with us, as we for so long have taken him for granted on every day when he was sitting in this House. I am grateful that his people, and others around the country, have come down to Parliament to see him off. That is a fitting tribute. To use the old biblical phrase, we can all say: \u201CWell done, ye good and faithful servant.\u201D Kia ora t\u0101tou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022 data-id=\u0022721b6c9426b340ccbb53766b873f4b60\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000043\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022721b6c9426b340ccbb53766b873f4b60\u0022\u003EHon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Co-Leader\u2014M\u0101ori Party):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Mr Speaker. \u0100, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, koutou kua haere manuhiri mai i t\u0113nei ata, te mau nei i \u014D koutou mate ki r\u014D Whare kia mihia r\u0101tou. E kore e mutu ng\u0101 korero ki a r\u0101tou, ki a Parekura, ki ng\u0101 mate e t\u012Braha tonu i ng\u0101 marae maha o te motu. N\u0101 reira koutou, haere, haere atu r\u0101, okioki. Ahakoa kua pau aku poroporoaki ki a Parekura i Hauiti, ka t\u016B an\u014D au ki te tautoko i ng\u0101 mihi o \u0113nei ki a koutou kua hara mai nei i t\u0113nei r\u0101. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, e whakat\u016B t\u0113n\u0101 tangihanga kua kitea e te motu. Kua k\u014Drerohia kei roto i ng\u0101 niupepa, ng\u0101 pouaka whakaata e p\u0101 ana ki \u014D koutou manaaki ki ng\u0101 manuhiri i haere tawhiti ake, ki a koutou, \u0101, kia taea e r\u0101tou te utaina ng\u0101 k\u014Drero me ng\u0101 h\u016Bp\u0113 ki runga i a ia i \u014D r\u0101tou poroporoaki. N\u0101 reira, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000044\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003EKua kite te ao o Aotearoa nei ki t\u0113nei \u0101huatanga o ng\u0101i t\u0101ua, ar\u0101, te h\u014Dhonutanga o te tangihanga, n\u0101 t\u0101 koutou aroha, manaaki i t\u0113nei \u014D koutou, \u014D t\u0101tou, ar\u0101, ki a Parekura. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, Hauiti marae, Ngati Porou, Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, ng\u0101 k\u0101rangarangatanga maha; koutou kua hara mai nei i t\u0113nei r\u0101 hoki, \u0101, ki te tautoko i t\u0113nei \u0101huatanga, ki te takahia i t\u014Dna whare me \u0113r\u0101 \u0101huatanga kia oti pai, t\u0101na noho i roto i te Whare P\u0101remata nei i t\u0113nei r\u0101. Ka nui ng\u0101 mihi ki a koutou. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000045\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003E[Thank you, Mr Speaker. Welcome to you who have arrived here this morning to bring your deaths into the House to be acknowledged. The tributes to those, and, indeed, to Parekura, who continue to lie in state on the many courtyards of the country will never cease. And so, I say unto you the dead, farewell and rest there. Although my farewells to Parekura at Hauiti are spent, I rise again to endorse those you have brought with you today. Thank you for that mourning ceremony you held for the nation to view. The generosity you extended towards the visitors who came from afar made it possible for them to heap upon him what they wanted to say to him in their farewell tributes, as well as express their emotions, and that has been reported in newspapers and on television. And so, thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000046\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003ENew Zealand at large witnessed this situation of ours in terms of the depth of a mourning ceremony, because of your love for this one of yours and ours and the way you looked after Parekura. I acknowledge you, Hauiti courtyard, Ngati Porou, Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu and the many callings, as well as those of you who came here today to endorse this situation and to render his residence and those sorts of things of his goodness again, so that his term in Parliament House is free again of impediments. My thanks to you are enormous. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000047\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003EI would like to talk \u201Cextempor-or-raneously\u201D about my people, locked in the matrix of dysfunctionality, or words to that effect. If you do not understand them, pretend that you do. Parekura was a man of the people and a man of this House. When I first got into Parliament he was a Minister. He invited my wife and me to dinner in a Chinese restaurant, here in Wellington, and then he laid down the \u201Cdo\u2019s and the don\u2019ts\u201D in Parliament, amongst the people here. I particularly remember: \u201CDon\u2019t accept favours from anybody, because they will hold you up to something else later on. When they take you to dinner, don\u2019t let them pay. That\u2019s a common trick. Ask Winston.\u201D He said: \u201CBecause if they pay, then later on they will come and collect.\u201D He gave us all this good advice at dinner. Immediately after dinner, he got up and paid for the dinner. But that was the man. He told fibs. Fancy saying Mangatuna\u2019s eels are bigger than Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu\u2019s eels! I find that one really hard to believe. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000048\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003EBut what a man. He united us. All sorts of people were united at that tangihanga. It was good to see all the parties present, hear the speeches given, and all united in a common cause. But more important was how many tribes came to that funeral. They came from all over New Zealand\u2014all over\u2014and in large numbers. And so it is a compliment to the hosts, the marae of Hauiti, Ngati Porou wh\u0101nui, and everybody else who participated in that tangi. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000049\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003EI would like to acknowledge the army. It turns out when we ask it to help in tangihanga. Sometimes it is a very small tangi in a very small marae in a remote area\u2014invaluable. Other times it is like this, when thousands and thousands come and it is so needed to help, with its cooking machinery and so on. Its dedication to the task is enormous. It is a time to thank wardens. They are at every tangihanga, they are out on the streets, they are out on their duty, and this was part of his army that he had following him. I would like to acknowledge Te Puni K\u014Dkiri, which worked with Parekura for 8 years as a team, and even there the host people were acknowledging particular Te Puni K\u014Dkiri workers in his last hours. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000050\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003ESo that is all I would like to say. He united us. I hope that we can unite more on other things, remembering why we got here and why we came here, and that we can laugh, too, like we laughed with Parekura. N\u0101 reira kei te rangatira, okioki tonu i Te Kaihanga hei wh\u0101riki m\u014D m\u0101tou. Haere, haere atu r\u0101. T\u0113n\u0101 koe.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000051\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002219767ece-60f1-4014-9855-74afaa34e699\u0022\u003E[And so, to you the leader, continue to rest there with the Creator as a mat for us. Depart, farewell. Thank you.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022 data-id=\u002203adb9f4826d43029c4864354b415824\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000052\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002203adb9f4826d43029c4864354b415824\u0022\u003EHONE HARAWIRA (Leader\u2014Mana):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Mr Speaker. \u0100, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa e te Whare. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou e te wh\u0101nau i haere tawhiti mai kia rongohia ng\u0101 poroporoaki m\u014D t\u014D t\u0101tou nei tangata a Parekura.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000053\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003E[Thank you, Mr Speaker. And greetings to us all across the House. Salutations to the family that came from afar to hear the farewell speeches for this man of ours, Parekura.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000054\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EI feel a bit funny standing up in front of him with him at my back, but he always said he had my back, so he is still there. I was thinking of some of the k\u014Drero up at the tangi\u2014some wonderful k\u014Drero, particularly during the service from David Ruru and Wira Gardiner. There was some wonderful k\u014Drero. I noted that Wira made mention of the fact that although Hekia is a Minister in the National Government, she voted every 3 years for Parekura. But, to make the Prime Minister not feel so bad, I think David Shearer already knows that Shane Jones has been voting for me ever since I got into Parliament as well. I was also listening to somebody talking about how Parekura used to get Hekia to write speeches for him and then never used to read them. So just before I came to the House I ran across to Hekia\u2019s office and said: \u201CLook, can you send me across a few notes that I could use in my k\u014Drero today?\u201D. She sent me a few\u2014and this thick bundle is kind of why Parekura never bothered to use any of it, because this is the kind of stuff that Hekia sends across. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000055\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EOut on the road, which is where most of us knew him\u2014not in here; out on the road\u2014Parekura was a wonderful speaker. Not your true orator in the M\u0101ori sense. We had wonderful orators at the tangi. We had some of the best from all around the country, and Parekura was not like any of those guys. He was a natural chap, he was a funny guy, and all of his stories were real stories. I think, more than anything, that is what most of us are going to miss about Parekura. When you saw Parekura, you just saw a mate. He did not get overly fussed about the politics. He was for a while there, when Tariana came marching up on to Parliament here with 50,000 people to oppose the foreshore and seabed legislation, but apart from that he was easy to get on with. So I am going to miss seeing him waddle around the House here. I am not going to miss him telling me what to do, though. I used to say to him: \u201CParekura, you\u2019re not even in the same party as me. You can\u2019t tell me what to do.\u201D He would say \u201COh, I know that.\u201D, and then he would still tell me what to do. I am going to miss all of that, and I think a lot of us are. Yes, he was a good man. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000056\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003ESo to all of you, to Hauiti, and to all of Ngati Porou, on behalf of all of us I just want to say thank you very much for how well you looked after us when we came up to the mate. The singing was superb\u2014absolutely superb. The speeches of welcome were fabulous\u2014just the warmth was excellent. The kai\u2014I was telling my wife about it when we had gone home, because she loves her kai moana. I said that the tables were so full that they actually had to stack the kai moana on top of each other. So me mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. I mean, with most of us, as most of you will know, we do not often remember the things that are said, but we certainly remember what we had for kai. So, you know, an honour to Hauiti\u2014that you took so much good care of all of us is something that I do not think any of us will ever forget. It was a wonderful occasion. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EJust all of the nice things that have been said about Parekura\u2014one of the kuia just outside here actually asked me whether I could get up and say the same k\u014Drero here that I said at the tangi. I had to apologise and say: \u201CNo, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re allowed to swear in Parliament.\u201D But those of you who knew Parekura knew that he could swear like a trooper, eh\u2014he was terrible. When he could bail us up in a room, when there were not too many other people listening, he used to say some things to us that probably cannot be repeated in here. But right afterwards he would take us for a kai\u2014and, unlike what Pete said, he would make us pay. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000058\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EMe mihi atu ki t\u014D t\u0101tou hoa, t\u014D t\u0101tou rangatira, a Parekura, kua ngaro atu i a t\u0101tou i t\u0113nei w\u0101, i roto i t\u0113nei Whare, i roto i \u014D koutou ake whare kei roto o Hauiti. I t\u0113nei w\u0101, me mihi an\u014D hoki au ki t\u0113tahi \u014D \u014Dku kuia k\u0101tahi an\u014D ka mate. I nehu atu i te r\u0101 o Parekura. Kei roto i a m\u0101tou i Te Kao a Kui M\u0101tiu. He tino kuia i roto i a m\u0101tou, 96 \u014Dna tau. I t\u0113nei w\u0101 kua ngaro an\u014D hoki.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000059\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003E[I pay a tribute to our colleague and leader, Parekura, who is lost from us at this point in time and from your own homes in Hauiti. I acknowledge one of my elderly women who passed away recently, too, and was buried on the same day as Parekura. The elderly lady, Kui M\u0101tiu, lived among us at Te Kao. She was a prominent aged woman of ours and was 96 years old.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000060\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EI was just thinking about some of the old people who have died up home in just the last couple of weeks: Kui M\u0101tiu, Cinderella, H\u016Bria Subritzky, Rata Harrison, and, of course, Parekura. So I am quite sure that he will catch up with them on the journey and share a few stories about his life, his life amongst us in the North, and how proud he was\u2014I have to say this\u2014that his mokopuna was a Ng\u0101puhi. Hoi an\u014D, ka nui t\u0113r\u0101 m\u0101ku, me mihi atu ki a koutou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000061\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003E [So that is enough from me and I acknowledge you collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000062\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227883c85e-a5bb-4a12-9962-80df55af0ecd\u0022\u003EOh, and one final thing\u2014one final thing: when Shane Jones gets up to speak afterwards, none of what he has to say will be true. Kia ora t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022 data-id=\u0022dd8fccfe30d84bd4aa60b55015240d32\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000063\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022dd8fccfe30d84bd4aa60b55015240d32\u0022\u003EHon JOHN BANKS (Leader\u2014ACT):\u003C/span\u003E On behalf of the ACT Party I rise to pay my respects to the late Hon Parekura Horomia. It was clear to anyone who attended his tangi or watched or read about it in the news that this was a man who was held in great respect not only by his own family, his own people, and his own community but by iwi and communities from every corner of our country. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000064\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EWhat a memorable occasion it was at his marae last week, last Thursday. It is a truly beautiful place in a wonderful but isolated part of Earth. If you had to move on from this world, Tolaga Bay would be a great stepping stone. What struck me most about that day visit to Tolaga Bay was the generous spirit of Parekura\u2019s family and his wider wh\u0101nau. The welcome for the Prime Minister\u2019s party was something I will never forget. It is a long time since little kids have asked me for an autograph. I must go back again next year! \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000065\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003ELife is like a pile of sand\u2014some of us are given more than others\u2014from which we sprinkle a little each day. Parekura sprinkled the last of his sand early last week. And we know, do we not, that the tears at the tomb of Nazareth were not tears of despair but tears of joy. There was much joy and celebration last week across this country of a life well lived.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000066\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003E When I came back to this place, after a third reincarnation, I stopped him in the corridor one day, and I resisted the temptation of saying: \u201CYou know who I am, don\u2019t you?\u201D. I said to him: \u201CI\u2019m Banksie. I thought I should meet you.\u201D He stood there for about 5 minutes, shaking my hand, and he said quite a lot. I still do not remember exactly what he said, but he was very, very friendly. He was a very friendly man. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000067\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EWhen I reflect on the great members of Parliament whom I have known in this place over 10 Parliaments\u2014the wonderful Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, Koro W\u0113tere, and Peter Tapsell, just to name a few\u2014I see that they had a common thread through them, these M\u0101ori role-model leaders, and that was that they went about their work in a very dignified way. They had their say and did not make too many enemies, but they did make a difference. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000068\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EM\u0101oridom has lost a significant figure in Parekura\u2019s passing. His constituents have lost a leader and an advocate for them in this House, and since his death, many have remarked on just how tirelessly he worked for his community. I was sitting here 2 weeks ago, looking across the House, and he did not look well at all. I thought: \u201CWow, he is still working. His heart and soul is in this business.\u201D At the end of the day, as I saw when I was at the marae last week, the only thing that really matters is that your family loves you\u2014and Parekura\u2019s family loved him. It was a great farewell from the family for a father, for the wonderful person he was. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000069\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EParekura worked his way from the bottom up, holding jobs as a manual labourer, a printer, a fencer, a worker, and many careers in between before he became a member of Parliament and a Minister of the Crown. Today it seems that many of our young people want a short cut to the top. When they find how much hard work has to be done and how much is needed to get there, they often give up before they begin. Parekura was living proof that no matter what your background is, if you put your mind to it and are prepared to put in the hard work, you can achieve anything. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000070\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EAt 62, Parekura Horomia was still a relatively young man, and although his health struggles have not been secret, his death still comes as a surprise to all of us. I offer my sincerest condolences today to his wh\u0101nau, friends, and colleagues in this House. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000071\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b53f8451-a5f8-4e92-851f-9ca381f19343\u0022\u003EYour waka travels in a direction in which you will not return, Parekura, but may God cherish and look after you on this journey.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022 data-id=\u002282128fe06e744de08abe83c0d4445973\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000072\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002282128fe06e744de08abe83c0d4445973\u0022\u003EHon PETER DUNNE (Leader\u2014United Future):\u003C/span\u003E M\u0101 wai r\u0101 e taurima te marae, te w\u0101hi nei? M\u0101 te tika, m\u0101 te pono, m\u0101 te aroha e. Those words are the chorus from a traditional Ngati Porou lament, which translate as: \u201CWho will take responsibility on the marae now? There can be justice and truth only if there is love.\u201D I think they are particularly apposite to the life and achievements of the Hon Parekura Horomia. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000073\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003ESome people come to this place and assert their leadership by the power of their oratory, the bulk of their size, or the range of spectacular achievements. Others, like Parekura, assert their leadership and authority by their absolutely genuine nature, and the love that they show for the job that they do, for the people whom they represent, and for the task ahead of them every day they are in this place. That is where the justice and the truth comes from. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000074\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EI think one of the great examples that Parekura has left us is of a form of leadership that is not about self but about others. It is about putting oneself out for the good of others. It is about achieving and caring for, at all times, the well-being of others, and always doing it with a sense of humour, light-heartedness, and warmth that made the recipients of his great interest and his aroha feel particularly proud and wanted. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000075\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EWe have all recalled stories about Parekura, over the last few days, that sum up the essence of the man. My instance relates to an event a couple of years ago. I went up to Gisborne to open a new dental clinic at a very large intermediate school. By coincidence at the airport I ran into Parekura. \u201CWhat are you doing here?\u201D, he said. I told him what I was doing. He said: \u201COh, that\u2019s in my electorate. I\u2019d better come. Have you got a car?\u201D. I said: \u201CI\u2019ve got a driver waiting.\u201D \u201COK. I\u2019ll come too.\u201D, he said. So he piled into the car, which lurched considerably to the right as we drove off to the school. The moment we arrived, he took over. I was ushered on to the marae. He was my translator, my minder, and the person who pushed me forward and made me do all the things that I was expected to do, and he did it with aplomb. He was the star of the show. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000076\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EWhen the time came to leave, he said: \u201CWhere are you going now?\u201D. I said I was going on to a meeting at the hospital. \u201COh, I\u2019d better come too.\u201D, he said. So he tagged along, and we went through the same procedure, and it was the same procedure at the third appointment. Then it was time for me to go back to the airport, so he came back to the airport with me, and as the driver dropped me off, Parekura said: \u201COh, just one thing\u2014is it OK for him to run me up the coast now and run me home?\u201D. I could hardly say no. The driver then completed the occasion by saying: \u201CWell, I should, actually, take you home because the last time I drove past your place, a couple of weeks ago, the lawns hadn\u2019t been mowed.\u201D So Parekura was going home to sort it out. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000077\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EI thought of that experience a lot during the tangi when we were there on Friday. I agree with my colleague to my left, the Hon John Banks, about the awesome occasion that the people of Hauiti Marae provided. The sorrow, the leadership, the humour, the food, and the surroundings were sublime, but I thought then of Parekura coming home to check that the lawn had been mowed and everything had been tidied up and put in its place. I could just see it all occurring and I could see it being done in a way where none of that great bulk was being thrown around, but the power of his presence and his whole style and tone would have ensured that everything got done as it should have been. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000078\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EThere are some people who spend a period of time in this House and who go and are not remembered. Parekura will not be one of those. He was a unique member of Parliament. We have heard stories being told of his extraordinary dedication to the task and of his wiliness on occasions\u2014there are one or two stories I have heard about his pursuit of fish and chips and his use of various means to acquire those, even when he should not have because of his doctor\u2019s advice. We have heard stories about his commitment to his constituents. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000079\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EI suspect that every member in the House today would secretly hope that when their time comes they are remembered in a similar way\u2014that they are remembered as Parekura Horomia will be, as a person who sought to help others; as a person who sought to use his gifts, his talents, and his political commitment to ensuring that every waking moment of his day was devoted to the cause of others; and, sadly, as a person who, at the end, probably sacrificed himself to that very cause. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000080\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EThis place will in due course elect a new member to fill that seat, but, with the greatest of respect, that new member will not fill those shoes, because Parekura has left shoes that are very big to fill. There is a gap in this House today. There is a gap in the lives of his colleagues, his friends, his wh\u0101nau, his family, and a gap in the lives of all of us that will not be easily filled. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000081\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f555a23a-d230-4f03-80ba-a44e6ec8bd29\u0022\u003EI am sure that for a long time to come we will cherish the memory of that smile, that big presence, that shuffling gait, and that incomprehensible language that was at the same time endearing, and we will know of the power of his achievements, the affection of his people, and the regard in which he was held. Haere r\u0101, Parekura. May you rest in peace. The journey you have embarked upon is at an end for now. You deserve your peace. You deserve your quiet. Reflect on your achievements. Go well into the future.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022 data-id=\u00225ccff1f83cd5415e91e26287f91edbcc\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000082\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225ccff1f83cd5415e91e26287f91edbcc\u0022\u003EHon SHANE JONES (Labour):\u003C/span\u003E Tuatahi m\u0101ku taku waiata e tuku ki a Parekura.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000083\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E[First, I will sing my lament to Parekura.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000084\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EKo te \u016Branga o te r\u0101,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000085\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETerenga waka t\u014Drangap\u016B. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000086\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EHe waihoe tuku iho,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000087\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EKo Apirana kei te ihu,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EKo Parekura kei te rapa e-e.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000089\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EE Hina i te p\u014D h\u016Btea \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000090\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EE tama te p\u0101inaina\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000091\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EHei i a wai te hoe a Pare?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000092\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EHaup\u016B ng\u0101 moehewa \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000093\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETere ana ki te pae wai\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000094\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EHe waka \u016Btanga kait\u0101 e-e.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000095\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EE ahu ki te pae o te rangi \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000096\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EM\u0101 te tai a Paikea Ariki \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000097\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETe Matau-\u0101-M\u0101ui Tikitiki\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000098\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETe Upoko o te Ika, \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000099\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETe ripo o te k\u0101wanatanga e-e.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000100\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EN\u0101na te \u014Dhak\u012B whakarere, \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000101\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EWh\u0101ngaia a p\u012Bp\u012B p\u0101tere,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000102\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EKia ngata, kia m\u0101puap\u016Ba\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000103\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EE Pare, t\u0113nei koe e whakawairua kau iho e-e.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000104\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E[Under a glaring sun,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000105\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EBehold a political canoe.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000106\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EPaddlers of yesteryear working in unison,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000107\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EApirana at the bow,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000108\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EAnd Parekura at the sternpost, alas.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000109\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EMoon goddess of pale light,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000110\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ESun god we feel your heat.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000111\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EWho has Pare\u2019s paddle?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000112\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EDriven by great dreams,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000113\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EDrifting to the water\u2019s edge,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000114\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EA canoe with a massive cargo, alas.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000115\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EFix your course on the horizon,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000116\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EBy the tides of the High Chief Paikea,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000117\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EPast the fish-hook of M\u0101ui Tikitiki-\u0101-Taranga,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000118\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ETo the head of the fish,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000119\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EWhere government swirls, alas.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000120\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EHe leaves the legacy,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000121\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EFeed the little ones,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000122\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003ESo they may grow and flourish.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000123\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EPare, you enjoin us spiritually.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000124\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EE te iwi kua tau nei ki Te Upoko o te Ika, ki te whakatutuki i te kaupapa m\u014D te m\u0101rohirohi o te Ao M\u0101ori, n\u0101na t\u0113nei Whare i whakak\u014Drero, n\u0101na ng\u0101 marae o ng\u0101 iwi katoa i whakamanuhiri. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000125\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E[To the people who came here to Wellington to conclude this matter about M\u0101ori tenacity, he was the one who made this House talk and visited the courtyards of every tribe. I acknowledge, salute, and thank you all collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000126\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EI come from the far north, and the best way to memorialise someone, in our upbringing, was to compose a waiata. Unfortunately, I have sung that waiata in front of the cultural aristocrats of Ngati Porou. But take it as a heartfelt expression for my closest friend in the political world. Take it as an expression from those of the M\u0101ori MPs who often would say to each other: \u201CLet\u2019s construct a perfect M\u0101ori parliamentarian. Let that person be possessed of acuity of analysis, clarity of thought, lucidity of expression, athletic prowess, nimbleness in the media.\u201D And then we would say: \u201CWe ended up with Parekura.\u201D\u2014without a doubt a person of our time who will prove to be the most popular parliamentarian to the M\u0101ori people. To the family, and to the visitors of Te Tai R\u0101whiti, your thoughts, no doubt, will go to his replacement, but know this: his impact, and the affection with which he was held during his political journey, crossed boundaries.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000127\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E I must acknowledge the presence of all the parliamentarians at that tangi. Partisanship aside, to the senior team of the Crown, the Government of the day, I have no doubt that the M\u0101ori of the East Coast felt proud that the Government of the day decided to grace that marae and honour Parekura with such a presentation of power and personality from the Government of the day. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000128\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EIn terms of Parekura\u2019s children, know this. Parekura was a person who said: \u201CYou know, e hoa Shane, people will forget what you say, people will often forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.\u201D That was the genius of your father, this parliamentarian. Sure, we talk about his elliptical kinds of expressions, and we talk in jest about his style of operation, but he knew that if you want to connect with your community, understand how they feel. He was a person who brought feeling to this House. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000129\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003EJust before I wind up, when David Shearer had his by-election, Parekura, Kelvin Davis, and Shane Jones were dispatched to the rather grimy streets of Avondale to doorknock. Parekura, being the senior, dispatched Kelvin Davis. He said: \u201CHere, boy, here\u2019s some pamphlets. Go and stand on the other side of the street. Go up there, down there.\u201D He said: \u201CShane, hei noho mai koe ki konei. Chief, you stay with me. You stay with me. We\u2019ll go up the other end of the street.\u201D, which we did. Then, getting outside a house, Parekura said to me: \u201CNow, boy, you take these pamphlets. I\u2019ll guard our waka. Just go and knock on that door.\u201D I proceeded to knock on the door, only to be greeted by the largest angry dog in John Tamihere\u2019s neighbourhood. And as the dog barked at me, Parekura called out: \u201CE hoa, pussy, pussy, pussy.\u201D A M\u0101ori came out of that house. He looked at me and said: \u201CYeah, what do you want?\u201D. I said: \u201CBy-election, e hoa\u2014pamphlets.\u201D, as the dog barked. He looked past me and he saw Parekura. Parekura hopped out of the car. He said: \u201COh, kia ora, uncle.\u201D as he went into that house. As Parekura sensed the fish heads cooking, he became positively athletic. Kelvin Davis, meanwhile, was wandering around in circles. The moral of the story is the randomness of politics. Parekura, you are in Hawaiki; Kelvin Davis, you are unemployed; Shane Jones, you have been in the crap; and David Shearer is our leader. Kia ora t\u0101tou. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022 data-id=\u0022e499a708c330453bab498faa049b0bc5\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000130\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e499a708c330453bab498faa049b0bc5\u0022\u003EHon PHIL GOFF (Labour\u2014Mt Roskill):\u003C/span\u003E E te iwi o Parekura, e ng\u0101 hau e wh\u0101, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa. E Parekura, haere, haere, haere atu r\u0101.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000131\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003E[To Parekura\u2019s people and to the four winds, greetings, salutations, and acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000132\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EThis is our final farewell to a good friend, to a person whose mana, whose passion, whose warmth, and whose good humour we will greatly miss in this place. I extend my welcome to the wh\u0101nau and the supporters who have come from all parts of the country, and, in particular, those who have come from Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti, to farewell Parekura in this, our place. Can I thank you, the people of Hauiti Marae, for the love and the respect with which you farewelled our friend last week. It was a hugely moving occasion, and we thank you for your hospitality, and we thank you for your inclusiveness. Parekura\u2019s life on the marae was celebrated with tears and laughter, and with stories. I thought, as we shovelled the soil to cover his coffin, that we had farewelled our friend with the respect and the honour that he so richly deserved. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000133\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EI first met Parekura when I was Minister of Labour back in the 1980s. Parekura was in charge of a group called the Group Employment Liaison Scheme. The first time he came in he said: \u201CG\u2019day, chief.\u201D I was momentarily impressed, thinking my status in life had been recognised, and then I realised that that was what he said to everybody. But I remember him as a person who was larger than life in that job. He was passionate about what he was doing. He was honest, and that gave him his influence. He was a strong advocate for his people, and he was a particularly strong advocate for those who had been dealt a rough hand in life. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000134\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EHe not only impressed the Labour Ministers but also, apparently, impressed one of the people in this House who was the hardest to impress, a guy called Bill Birch. Bill Birch was known to have called in the Ministry of Education and the Department of Labour people, and for half an hour he grilled the Ministry of Education people. He gave them an incredibly hard time, and then at the end of it he turned to Parekura and said: \u201CAll OK, Parekura? Fine, that\u2019s OK then.\u201D I think that speaks volumes for how he was regarded and the confidence that Ministers had in him. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000135\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EParekura had a huge commitment to basic Labour principles of fairness and of equity. He hated disadvantage. He hated the injustice that was meted out to people. He was 100 percent loyal to Labour and its leadership. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000136\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EHis networks around the country were amazing. I had the privilege of travelling with him extensively over the 3 years I was Leader of the Opposition. Kelvin Davis reminded me this morning of a story. We were up in Kait\u0101ia. Parekura said: \u201CHey, chief, I need to get some money out of the money machine.\u201D He hopped out and was getting his money out. There was a car driving by. It slammed on its brakes and went into reverse, the window wound open, and a voice from inside called out \u201CUncle Pare!\u201D. That was the sort of thing that actually happened to Pare all over the country. He was respected by M\u0101ori royalty and iwi leaders, but he was loved by the grassroots. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003EHe worked so hard. Every 28th M\u0101ori Battalion reunion, he attended. Every Matatini, he went to. In fact, I found him there one time working in the ticket office. He said this was the best way to see everybody who came in. It was a good trick. We can all learn from that. Every koroneihana, the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League, he was always there. He was granted the honour\u2014strange for a male\u2014of being made a life member; he was probably the only male life member that the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League has ever had, but that was deserved as well. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000138\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003E Pare\u2019s health was not great, but he persevered. I remember the story he told me. He told me it a couple of times. He said: \u201CPhil, I was told by a doctor 12 years ago that if I didn\u2019t lose weight I only had 6 months to live. Hey, Phil, you know that doctor? He\u2019s dead.\u201D, he said triumphantly. In his final hours Parekura said to my colleague Shane: \u201CThat is it. Now it is time to rest.\u201D So rest now, Pare. Your work is done. Moe mai e te rangatira, moe mai e te hoa. Haere, haere, haere atu r\u0101.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000139\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c699e7c6-53b9-470c-a14a-378cb6fc8a04\u0022\u003E[Rest there, the esteemed leader and friend, slumber on. Depart, leave, alas goodbye.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022 data-id=\u0022dc481719ca744e2b91ce6b35bc657aa6\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000140\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022dc481719ca744e2b91ce6b35bc657aa6\u0022\u003EHon GERRY BROWNLEE (Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery):\u003C/span\u003E First, to the family and the wider iwi of Parekura, welcome to this place and thank you for dignifying this tribute to Parekura from us by your presence. Thank you also for the great generosity you showed us when we came to pay our tribute and respects to Parekura on the marae last week. It was one of those occasions that will live forever, certainly in my memory and, I think, in the memories of the others who were part of that party. Your generosity was quite outstanding. I felt guilty, when I had heard on the Wednesday night that you had so far consumed 400 crayfish at the tangi, for thinking that if that was the case perhaps I had better be there. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000141\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EThe truth is that I held Pare in the highest of regard and with the greatest of respect. I did not know him as many of you did, as the father, the grandfather, the brother, the family member, and part of your closer iwi community. I only knew him for his time here in Parliament. During that time, I think, all of the comments that have been made about him and about his personality I would have to agree with. He was one of those very warm people who could articulate an argument in his favour without being in any way vindictive, without any degree of vehemence, but simply with a desire to stick to the issues and to respect individuals for their own beliefs. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000142\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EMany people have over the last few days talked about Pare\u2019s particular style of speaking and his use of the language, both Te Reo and English, and I have to say we experienced that here quite a lot. His way of answering questions when he was a Minister was truly unique. You heard a little bit of that when the circumstances were repeated of his answering a question from the Rt Hon Winston Peters. The truth is that there were many times when he gave answers that no one could take a point of order on, because no one had a clue what he had said. It was only for fear that you might be made to look foolish that you stayed quiet. So it was quite a successful tactic. He also spent most of his time here as a Minister\u2014quite a unique thing as well. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000143\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EFor many years I was sitting in one of those seats over there and he was over here. He had this habit of during the prayer holding his hands like so, his head down, with one eye shut and the other eye roving round the House. If you happened to see this activity, he would send you a note to say: \u201CI noticed you didn\u2019t have your eyes closed during the prayer. That\u2019s most disrespectful.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000144\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EHe had this wonderful way also of quite often sending notes across the House to me and Simon Power\u2014we shared a bench on either side of the House for about 8 years. There was a particular occasion during the very heated debate around the foreshore and seabed. It was the second bill that we promoted when we came into Government. Pare was very passionate about those things, and he had fought very hard for his party and for the position. No one could doubt his genuine belief in what he was committed to, and he was obviously opposed to what we were doing. During the debate one of the colleagues on this side of the House gave an impassioned speech in which he said words to the effect that the almighty God had created the foreshore and seabed for the enjoyment of all New Zealanders. Pare saw Simon and me sitting here and sent us over a note very, very quickly that said: \u201CGerry, Simon, tell that fool God\u2019s a woman and she is giving it all to the M\u0101ori.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000145\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EI think the other point I would just like to say is that when you spoke with Pare, he was always a person who just made you feel very comfortable in his presence. That is an interesting thing. He did not have any airs and graces and he did not accept any airs and graces. I think that is what will be missed most about him from my perspective. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000146\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003EI first met him when I was a brand new MP back in about 1997, I think, at a select committee where he was presenting at a financial review as the person who was in charge of the Community Employment Group. Anyone who knows how that works\u2014people come in and they sit at the end of the table, they are generally invited to make a few opening comments, and then there is a series of questions. Well, Pare\u2019s comments went on for quite some time. I had been warned before that this man was somewhat of a jargonaut. His speech and comments were filled with macros, micros, matrixes, analyses, synergies, and paradigms. It was a wonderful story, and beautifully articulated, but it left you somewhat perplexed as to what exactly it was about. So I very boldly asked him. I said: \u201CThat\u2019s very well, Mr Horomia, but what does it mean?\u201D. And he said: \u201COh, well, chief, it means we\u2019ve done a good job.\u201D On that note can I simply say: Pare, you have done a good job.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022 data-id=\u00223d6b9478bca047558a41f724540544bf\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000147\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223d6b9478bca047558a41f724540544bf\u0022\u003ECATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green):\u003C/span\u003E He mihi nui ki te tangata whenua o Mangatuna, o Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, me ng\u0101 iwi katoa o Te Tai R\u0101whiti, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000148\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003E[The locals of Mangatuna, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, and all the tribes of the East Coast are greatly appreciated. Well done.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000149\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EI would just like to stand and acknowledge all who have come from Te Tai R\u0101whiti. I had the privilege of living and working in your rohe for some time. I acknowledge your loss and your contribution by giving us one of your favourite sons. There is a whakatauk\u012B: \u201CHe aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.\u201D\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000150\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003E[What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000151\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EParekura certainly was a great man in many ways. He was great in size, great in appetite, great in rhetoric, and great as a leader who showed us what leadership can mean. I did not know him as well as many of you, but living on the Coast and working in the rohe you could not avoid the reputation and the experience of seeing him everywhere.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000152\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003E I will always remember one morning at 7 a.m. I was driving down from \u016Aawa to the coast, and there he was fencing. He was the Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs at the time and he was fencing with a couple of other people, just getting out there, doing stuff before he started his day\u2019s work. I think that is the kind of MP we need, along with everybody else. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000153\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EI would like to acknowledge the fact that he was a shearer, because I also spent 10 years in a shearing gang, and one thing you learn in that environment\u2014sometimes it is more relaxing than Parliament\u2014is how to avoid wool-gathering. You know when people are wool-gathering, you know how to identify wool-gathering, and you also have to work with some real dags, which I think was good practice for the new careers that both Parekura and I took up\u2014there was certainly plenty of that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000154\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EBut I would also like to acknowledge that, as the Prime Minister said, we have lost a few MPs in our time. I would like to thank him for bringing Rod Donald into the room. I acknowledge that for Labour it is different. All of us will feel the loss\u2014all of his friends, the M\u0101ori caucus in particular across Parliament\u2014but for you it is different, because you have to carry on every day. The party has to carry on every day. We know what that feels like, and we appreciate the rawness of his absence. It is going to be felt every day by your party. We lived through that and we had a lot of support, for which we are grateful, but when somebody goes before we thought they would go, it is hard on the people closest. So I just want to acknowledge that\u2014both the wh\u0101nau and the colleagues who worked particularly closely with him. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000155\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EI would just also like to briefly say that I was involved with the Community Employment Group when Parekura was the leader, and he was spoken about in reverent tones because no one really knew what he did, but they knew he was making things happen. One of the things I would like to honour is that from Moerewa to Wairoa, Parekura really got the funding to places where it needed to be and he really understood what community economic development was. In his own unique way, he made a big difference to those of us who were community workers at the time. And I just want to acknowledge that. It should never be forgotten. It was an awesome organisation and he was a real rangatira. He really led and he really made sure that the resources were there with the people who needed them. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000156\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EI would like to also acknowledge the tangi\u2014what an incredible moment. The karanga just brought all my own grief back to the surface, like it does for all of us, in the most wonderful way and made me feel so honoured to be there. The paepae was just extraordinary. You know, you saw this line of incredible rangatira, and their speeches were fantastic. The kitchen was pumping, and all of the rangatahi of \u016Aawa were out there doing their thing and directing traffic, and Maryan was out there directing traffic, and there were the bosses. It was a fantastic experience to come to the tangihanga, but always there was sadness in the knowledge that we were saying goodbye. I reckon that if Parekura had looked down, he would have thought: \u201CWhat is going on there? What are they doing there? I better get there.\u201D, because it was such a big tangi and he would never have expected that for himself, and that is leadership in another way. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000157\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220ee528dc-7870-4553-95ed-5ec0cab60f07\u0022\u003EI would finally just like to say that the concept of public service is not always acknowledged in the 21st century. This man was a true public servant, and, as someone else has pointed out, he was very unwell, and we took him for granted\u2014we thought he would always carry on. Those of us who were working with him from more of a distance did not realise; we did not know. But he did give his life in public service, and that is the measure of a true rangatira. Moe moe, e rangatira. T\u0113n\u0101 koe.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022 data-id=\u0022eebbdfc0a71444398b69a34bab67e531\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000158\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022eebbdfc0a71444398b69a34bab67e531\u0022\u003EDENISE ROCHE (Green):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Mr Speaker. Ki te Whare, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa. Ki ng\u0101 iwi r\u0101, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa. He h\u014Dnore, he kor\u014Dria ki Te Atua, he maungarongo ki te whenua, he whakaaro pai ki ng\u0101 t\u0101ngata katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000159\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003E[Greetings to you, Mr Speaker, and to you all across the House. To the tribes there, I acknowledge and extend greetings and salutations to each and every one of you collectively. Honour and glory to God, peace upon the nation, and goodwill to all mankind.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000160\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003EI rise to add my condolences and my aroha to the k\u014Drero about this rangatira, Parekura Horomia. Firstly, I acknowledge the loss that matua Parekura\u2019s passing has to his wh\u0101nau, to his hap\u016B, to his iwi, to his constituents\u2014his people throughout Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti\u2014and to his Labour Party colleagues as well. His loss is felt also across the country. In the days while he was lying at Hauiti, I was travelling around the country doing meetings. At every single meeting, his death was acknowledged and he was mourned for the loss of the contribution that he had made to this Parliament and to Aotearoa. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000161\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003EI have the industrial relations portfolio, and the last time I spent with matua Parekura was in Whakat\u0101ne at a hui there a few weeks back for the R\u016Bnanga Kaimahi\u2014the Council of Trade Unions. He was really, really respected. He did not look very well and he was cared for, but he was hugely respected for the support that he has given to M\u0101ori and to M\u0101ori workers throughout his long decades of work himself in every area that he has worked in, and particularly as a parliamentarian. He was well known for supporting workers, and particularly M\u0101ori workers, to have a collective voice through their unions. So it was appropriate for me that when I came to Hauiti for his tangi last week, with my colleague Catherine, we came on with those workers from the R\u016Bnanga Kaimahi\u2014the Council of Trade Unions. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000162\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003EParekura was extremely well known for the work that he did in promoting M\u0101ori into education and into good, strong jobs\u2014decent jobs. His support was unfailing. He was also an incredibly strong supporter of the third sector, especially in employment development\u2014things like social enterprises, through his work with the Community Employment Group. I hold the portfolios also for the community and voluntary sector and for gambling issues, and matua Parekura was very well known for his strong support for reform for the gambling sector, because he knew too well the damage that pokies have done in his electorate and he wanted to reduce that harm to his people. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000163\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003EMy experience of Parekura was that he was very kind and generous, and he never ever spoke down to anybody. But listening to the Prime Minister and also to David Shearer, I understand that he never spoke up to anybody either. He was very encouraging. He came up to me in the House one day after I had delivered a speech that I was feeling quite shaky about, on one of the Treaty bills. He just came up to me, he patted me on the shoulder, and he said: \u201CYou did all right, girl.\u201D It was really comforting, and then it was afterwards that I realised: \u201CWoo, nobody\u2019s called me \u2018girl\u2019 for ages.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000164\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003EIn the days and the weeks and the years ahead we will continue to feel his loss, and for his family, for his wh\u0101nau, I join with the many others who have thanked you for loaning your father, your grandfather, your husband, your uncle to the public service of this country. He devoted his life to that service, and your sacrifice is to be acknowledged. Moe mai e te rangatira. Haere r\u0101, haere r\u0101, haere atu r\u0101.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000165\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00222df33ee5-23d6-441c-a9ba-6495aa69f9fd\u0022\u003E[Sleep on, the leader. Depart, journey on, farewell.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022 data-id=\u00222125627e1b914511827c5f0c3cc4fb12\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000166\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00222125627e1b914511827c5f0c3cc4fb12\u0022\u003EBRENDAN HORAN (Independent):\u003C/span\u003E He h\u014Dnore, he kor\u014Dria ki Te Atua, he maungarongo ki runga i te whenua. \u0100mine. E mihi ana ki a r\u0101tou m\u0101 kua ngaro atu ki te p\u014D, ki te p\u014D uriuri ki te p\u014D tangotango. Moe mai, moe mai, moe mai, tihei mauri ora. He mihi tonu atu ki a koe e te matua Parekura, te tangata mana, te tangata h\u016Bmarie, te tangata tautoko. He tangata rangatira.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000167\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003E [Honour and glory to God, peace upon the nation, and goodwill to all mankind. Amen. I acknowledge those who have gone to the place where the dead assemble, to the dark and holding void. Sleep, slumber, and repose there, behold the breath of life. A huge appreciation to you, the fatherly figure Parekura, the man of integrity, with a pleasant disposition, and who was supportive. He was a leader of the highest order.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000168\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EHe was a man of mana, he was a man of great humility, and he was a man of sincere and awesome leadership for his people. Much has been said about that leadership and his work ethic and his presence. Only 2\u00BD weeks ago we had the Pacific Parliamentary and Political Leaders Forum and he was in Parliament here, welcoming MPs from all over the Pacific. For many of those MPs, they met him just the once, and yet that presence resonated throughout the Pacific. I would like to share some of these tributes from some of those Pacific MPs. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000169\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EThis tribute is from the Hon Archie Soliai from American Samoa: \u201CThis is sad news for the people of New Zealand and the Pacific as well, as he was a M\u0101ori icon. Please accept my deepest condolences for the loss of such a great leader.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000170\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EThis one is from Arnold Prasad from the Republic of Vanuatu: \u201CIt is with great sadness that I have been informed about the sudden passing of MP Parekura Horomia. He did an excellent job as the orator leading the p\u014Dwhiri that opened the forum at Parliament of which I was a delegate. The many activities and achievements done on behalf of M\u0101ori will always be remembered by the M\u0101ori people in New Zealand. Please pass our sincere condolences to MP Horomia\u2019s family.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000171\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EAnd this one is from the Hon Martin Moreti, MP from Kiribati: \u201CI, with my family and fellow Kiribati people working in New Zealand and here in Kiribati, offer our great honour to convey words of sadness to Parekura Horomia\u2019s family for the mystery of life. We know on our daily life and the moment of taking away our beloved one and our brother and sister, as we are Pacific parliamentarians. I pray to our God to welcome MP Parekura Horomia to everlasting life. May God bless him and his family.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000172\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EThis is one from an MP in Fiji: \u201CIt is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of the Hon Parekura Horomia. I was part of the group of five Fijians selected to be part of this historic event in your Parliament. The welcome and words of kindness by Hon Parekura continues to resonate in my mind, and hopefully one day, when we do return to parliamentary democracy in Fiji, that we will reciprocate the love of our M\u0101ori and New Zealand brothers and never forget the seed sown at the inaugural forum. Farewell, Hon Parekura Horomia. The Almighty give you rest and blessings to your family.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000173\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EAnd here is another one from another Pacific Island: \u201CI am deeply saddened at the news of the passing away of the Mighty T\u014Dtara. I can still vividly recall the powerful and moving p\u014Dwhiri ceremony, in which he played a key role. His authority at that momentous ceremony was no doubt a measure of his immense contributions to the M\u0101ori community and the nation of New Zealand. I understand that it will be a difficult thing for the MPs and his constituents to farewell him this Saturday, when he will be laid to rest. I must offer my deep condolences to his family members. I pray with all of you in New Zealand that may his soul rest in peace and his family and friends gather the courage to perform his last rites as per his wishes.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000174\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EAnd although there were many, I would just mention this last one. It is: \u201COn behalf of the Legislative Assembly of the Kingdom of Tonga, I would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Parekura Horomia on his untimely passing. His dedication, hard work, and leadership as a parliamentarian will not be forgotten. With deepest sympathy, Lord Fakafanua, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga.\u201D For many of those MPs, that was from just hearing Parekura and meeting him just once, such was his mighty presence. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000175\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003EI would like to acknowledge, on behalf of Tainui, the very special relationship that Tainui have with the East Coast, cemented by M\u0101hinarangi. Parekura continued with that support for the people of Tainui. His support of K\u012Bngitanga and his continued presence at T\u016Brangawaewae throughout his tenure garnered so much respect from Maniapoto and Tainui to all members of the East Coast. On behalf of Tainui, thank you, thank you, thank you. To everyone who has travelled here, kia ora. It is great to see so many people here, and it has been difficult for many of you to get here, and yet all of us here represent so many thousands of people\u2014Kiwis\u2014all over who cannot be here today. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000176\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003E I would like to share a little moment, and again it is from 2\u00BD weeks ago, because for all the M\u0101ori MPs in here Parekura was also a kaitiaki. He took it upon himself to look after all the M\u0101ori MPs and the new MPs who came. But last week after the p\u014Dwhiri we sat outside on the bench, waiting for his car to arrive, and it started raining. I went to get an umbrella, but he said: \u201CNo, no.\u201D He said \u201CThe old people knew.\u201D We sat there\u2014and it was great\u2014because he just wanted to feel the wind in his hair and the rain on his face. So we sat there and we got wet, but he loved it. It was a measure of the man, because he faced everything and he stood tall and proud. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000177\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002243684a4d-fb40-469a-8e63-cdd1e354b387\u0022\u003ETo Desmond, Wallace, T\u016Brei, and the grandchildren, although we here in Parliament have lost a colleague and a friend, you have lost a father, and we thank you for sharing him with us. Although he probably would have said: \u201CLook at all this hoo-ha.\u201D, stand tall and proud as we here are all proud to have been able to call him our friend. To Parekura: your work is done. Rest in peace.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022 data-id=\u00222cd0ff3b6b024aa7b81c12f2385913b4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000178\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00222cd0ff3b6b024aa7b81c12f2385913b4\u0022\u003EHon ANNETTE KING (Labour\u2014Rongotai):\u003C/span\u003E Kia ora t\u0101tou. Nau mai, haere mai. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa. I too want to acknowledge those who have travelled so far for this tribute to Parekura today. I know that since 5 a.m. this morning you have followed Parekura\u2019s long trek on the road to Wellington, the trek that he followed week in, week out from 1999 until a few weeks ago\u201414 years. He knew every curve, every corner in the road, every town, and the people who needed his help along the way, and he would sit back there in the car, driven by one of his stable of drivers, working his cellphone. He could be mightily frustrating when you wanted to ring him, because he was always engaged on that phone. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000179\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003ESo much has been said over the last week. What is left to say? We have heard about his connection to the community, his knowledge of what was going on in people\u2019s lives, their issues, their concerns, their hopes, their aspirations, but also his empathy for those issues and concerns. We have heard how he never got too big for his boots, that he never thought he was better than those around him. We learnt of his capacity for long hours, for long drives, and for hard work. We heard that he was hard to understand at times. I do not know whether my friend Shane Jones remembers this, but one year I went to R\u0101tana, as we did year in, year out. Parekura never missed it. I was seated behind Shane Jones and Dover Samuels. Parekura got up and he was speaking. I leaned forward and I said to Shane and Dover: \u201CWhat\u2019s he saying?\u201D. They said: \u201CWe haven\u2019t got a clue.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000180\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EWe heard that people told him he should go home. He would not go home from this place, this place he loved. This is the place where he did his magic. This is the place where he wanted to be for as long as he could. He wanted to die in the job, and that is what he did. But I want to say that his work was made possible by the support of so many people, by his wh\u0101nau, his friends, his supporters, and his parliamentary staff. But today I want to particularly acknowledge the women in Pare\u2019s life. I am not talking about his love interests. I know nothing of that matter. I want to acknowledge the women who organised things for him, who looked after him, who nagged him to slow down, who fed him, who drove him, and who would do anything for him. He was surrounded by wonderful women. I used to tease him and call them his harem. He would laugh and he would nod. I want to thank all those wonderful women who made Pare\u2019s hectic, chaotic, and hard-out life more bearable and more successful. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000181\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EThere were other women in Pare\u2019s life as well. You heard from Phil Goff of Pare\u2019s love for the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League. I went along with him, when I was a Minister, to one of its annual conferences. I have never walked so slowly through a crowd. He was stopped by everybody. He was hugged, he was kissed, he was cajoled, and he was acknowledged. He never pushed himself forward. He knew his place. He was always respectful at those conferences. His contribution to the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League was acknowledged with life membership. I have to tell you, he was so proud of that honour. I loved that cartoon by Tom Scott that was in the paper last week. And what was Pare wearing in that cartoon? His life membership of the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League. I am not sure how many times he went to its conferences. Sometimes it was 42, sometimes it was 44; it could have been 46. But he went for decades, such was his commitment. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000182\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EThere was another woman in Pare\u2019s life, and that was the former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Her words were read out at his tangi. He was her rock, and he was our rock. He was our constant in all things M\u0101ori. Helen relied upon him, but she worried about him. Everyone knows that Pare had a weight problem. I became Minister of Health; therefore, I was supposed to know something about health. I was sent along to talk to Pare about his weight. I went into his office and I said: \u201CPare, you\u2019ve got to lose weight. You\u2019re going to join Weight Watchers.\u201D He looked at me for a while and he said: \u201COK.\u201D He then wrote out a cheque for Weight Watchers and became a weight-watcher by correspondence. It was a mission impossible. I am so glad that Pare\u2019s cardiologist did not know that I was his health mentor; otherwise, he might not have got such good service, because I was the person who backed into Mr Abernathy\u2019s new Jaguar. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000183\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EI first met Parekura in 1989 when I was Minister of Employment. In fact, I was the Minister who set up the community employment development unit, which was its name before it was changed by the next Government to the Community Employment Group. We have heard about it today. It was set up to think outside the square and to look at grassroots, community-based economic development and job creation. It was set up by a small group of amazing people. It was led by people like Garry Moore, who went on to become the Mayor of Christchurch. But there were also Wally Stone, Jay Sepie, Hilary Allison, Richard Brooking, John Bishara, David Wilson\u2014to name a few. It was cutting-edge stuff in terms of economic development. It scared the daylights out of the then Secretary of Labour, Jas McKenzie. It needed a director, a person who understood the community, who understood economic development and regional development, who knew what was possible, where the resources were, who the movers and shakers were in the community, and who had been there and done that. As they say, you know what the end of the story was: Parekura was the person who was chosen for the job, because, as Garry Moore said to me, no one understood people with their backside out of their trousers like Parekura did. His commitment to local economic development was total. Only a few weeks ago he would say in the corridor: \u201CHey, we\u2019ve got to get back on to that local economic development. That is what this community needs.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000184\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EHe was never the stereotypical bureaucrat. In fact, Garry Moore said that he was called into Pare\u2019s office when he was the director and Pare said: \u201CI\u2019ve got to go to see the new National Minister.\u201D Garry was not sure what he was meant to do, but Pare said: \u201CTeach me how to put on a tie.\u201D In fact, Pare did not know how to tie a tie until Garry Moore taught him, and I give him 2 out of 10\u2014it was hopeless from then on. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000185\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002209a5b71a-ca7e-4e7c-9e09-f9e63f18aa12\u0022\u003EParekura did what he loved doing. He did it, as Phil Goff said, with passion, with warmth, with humour, and\u2014I would add another word\u2014with naughtiness. Pare was naughty. You need only to ask our whips: the leave that was asked for that was never taken; the leave that was taken that was never asked for. We loved Pare. We will always remember him. He was an incredibly special person. Shane, he has passed the baton on to you, and I know that you will honour his memory and the work that he did. Kia ora t\u0101tou. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022 data-id=\u0022e308cd54565c49f9bbb09e2b83075711\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000186\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e308cd54565c49f9bbb09e2b83075711\u0022\u003ESu\u2019a WILLIAM SIO (Labour\u2014M\u0101ngere):\u003C/span\u003E It is my privilege to join with the rest of the House here to pay our tributes and final farewell to Parekura Horomia. I want to, firstly, acknowledge the presence of so many tribal leaders from Ngati Porou and other iwi who are present, as well as the members of Parekura Horomia\u2019s family. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000187\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EThe last time I saw Parekura was when, as Brendan said, he conducted and led a p\u014Dwhiri on behalf of all Parliament to welcome to this House the parliamentary leaders from the Pacific. I know that Tau Henare had asked him to do this, and that morning he asked me what time he needed to be there. I could hear in his voice that he was weak. In fact, we had seen him earlier in the week and you could see life ebbing away from his body. So I said to him: \u201CYou don\u2019t have to do it, Pare. You can stay home.\u201D But no, no, he insisted. He insisted on coming. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000188\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EMost of the House will not know that when Pare was a Minister he was elected by the Ministers of Education of the Pacific Islands Forum to chair that forum. In fact, he said to me that Trevor did not like it, but he did not know about it. So, even when we lost Government, even when Labour was out of Government, for some reason or other the Ministers of Education from the Pacific Islands Forum continued to ask him to chair those forums. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000189\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EWhen he died that week, members of the Pacific community from across the nation called up. Former colleagues of his and many others wanted to pay tribute, wanted to offer something on behalf of the Pacific community. I was reluctant at first, because of the cultures that I practise, but also not fully understanding how Hauiti Marae, Ngati Porou, would receive it, and for all the range of political reasons. But in the end my colleagues from Auckland came up and we were privileged\u2014and I want to acknowledge Hauiti Marae and the elders there for receiving us\u2014to acknowledge Parekura as a chief by presenting to the marae and to his wh\u0101nau a Samoan fine mat, a tapa from Tonga called the pulupulu, and a basket of food that did not have any food. I suppose in the end we decided not to include the food because when Parekura was alive he was on a diet and we felt instead that that basket would symbolise the love and appreciation of members of the Pacific community who knew Parekura even before he became a member of Parliament. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000190\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EThose of us who were privileged to be part of the tangi and the final days and final hours with the family and Ngati Porou felt that that was perhaps our finest hour, that Parekura brought together people from all walks of life, from the four corners of Aotearoa New Zealand, that he was not just a politician, that he was a father, he was a koro, he was an uncle, and, indeed, he was a friend to many of us here in this House. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000191\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EWhen we reflected at a meeting last night in M\u0101ngere upon what had occurred in the life of Parekura, one of the Tongan leaders said to me that this Tongan proverb best reflects how things occurred at the tangi, and it goes like this: \u2018\u014Cku \u2018ilonga hoto \u2018ulungaanga, \u2018i he\u2019ete mate. The translation is: the reputation or mana of a person is revealed for all to see when they die. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000192\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003E I suppose we were all captivated by the way New Zealand as a whole, from K\u012Bngi Tuheitia, from the Prime Minister, from the Speaker, from the Ministers, from politicians from both sides of the House, from chief executive officers of business, from farmers, from students, from rugby players\u2014it did not matter what they were but they all felt that Parekura had touched them throughout their lives, and they came to pay their respects, offer their condolences, and convey their genuine and sincere love for the man called Parekura. I think that reflects, in my personal opinion, our finest hour of what is possible for a place called Aotearoa New Zealand. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000193\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EMany of us reflect on Parekura\u2019s role with the Community Employment Group, how he was a staunch advocate for communities, for local solutions, and how he was a staunch advocate for the young people, our youth. I share with him the belief that we have a role to play in preparing our youth, M\u0101ori and Pacific in particular, to take up leadership roles in whatever forum in this country of ours. There is a M\u0101ori proverb that I think sums up his desire for young people: \u201CWh\u0101ia te iti kahuranga ki te t\u016Bohu koe me he maunga teitei\u201D\u2014aim for the highest cloud so that if you miss it, you will hit a lofty mountain. I am not sure whether Parekura shared that with me, but certainly in our conversations he was a staunch, staunch advocate of our young people. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000194\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003EAs I conclude, I think, above all, Parekura knew more than most of us his role in this House, and that is, at the end of the day, when all has been done and said, the question will be asked: \u201CWhat was your purpose here?\u201D, and his answer would be: \u201CIt was about people, it was about people, it was about people.\u201D I agree with the minister at the funeral service, when he said Pare\u2019s legacy was to feed the people, to feed the children. I hope, as others here in the House have expressed, that there are times in this House that we take on board what Pare\u2019s life means for all of us, and that is that we need to forget about the politics and do the right thing because it is the right thing for the people. Fa\u2019auma atu se m\u0101tou fa\u2019amatalaga. Ia vave taape le ao pouliuli ua ufitia ai Ngati Porou ma le aiga fa\u2019anoanoa o Parekura. May the dark clouds that hover over Ngati Porou and the bereaved family of Parekura quickly dissipate. Ia manuia lau malaga, Parekura; safe journey.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022 data-id=\u00224692044dfefc4a4b99c40e887036b26c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000195\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224692044dfefc4a4b99c40e887036b26c\u0022\u003ETE URUROA FLAVELL (M\u0101ori Party\u2014Waiariki):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Mr Speaker. Kia ora t\u0101tou katoa e te Whare. E Para, hoki wairua mai ki t\u014D Whare. Taihoa ake nei ka hoki mai ki a koe \u0113ngari, me mihi ki t\u014D rahi i haere tawhiti mai kia eke ki roto i te Whare P\u0101remata. Taihoa ki a koe. T\u012Btoko o te rangi tau \u0101rai o te p\u014D i te urunga mai o Tama-nui-te-r\u0101, me mihi r\u0101 ka tika ki ng\u0101 tai o Te R\u0101whiti i pakaru mai nei ki runga i Te Upoko o te Ika, te Whare P\u0101remata, te Whare o ng\u0101 Raiona, te Whare o te Raiona o Mangatuna kua moe. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000196\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003ET\u0113n\u0101 koutou, haere mai, haere mai, haere mai. E te rohe o te maunga neke kore ki T\u012Bt\u012Brangi, ki ng\u0101 awa e karekare mai r\u0101 i \u016Aawa i t\u014Dna reo wait\u012B, he reo wait\u0101, he wainene te reo pekerangi, te reo koha mai a ng\u0101 atua e t\u0101kirikiri ana i ng\u0101 tauwharewharenga o te ng\u0101kau; haere mai, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000197\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EE Pare, kua rongo koe i ng\u0101 k\u014Drero \u0113ngari me mihi r\u0101 ki t\u014D iwi n\u0101 r\u0101tou an\u014D te motu i tiaki i ng\u0101 r\u0101 tata kua hipa ake. I whakatuwhera nei i te matapihi o Te Ao M\u0101ori ki te motu, ki te ao n\u0101 runga i ng\u0101 rauemi o t\u0113nei w\u0101 te rorohiko, ahakoa t\u014D koretake ki te mahi i te rorohiko \u0113ngari, kite mai ai ng\u0101 t\u014Dpito katoa o te ao i te \u0101huatanga manaaki o t\u014D iwi i te motu. Me mihi ki a r\u0101tou ka tika ng\u0101 ringa raup\u0101 \u014D-mua, \u014D-muri, \u0101, e k\u014Drerohia ake nei e ng\u0101 kaik\u014Drero i mua i a au. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000198\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EKo t\u0101ku he tautoko ake i ng\u0101 mihi ki a r\u0101tou katoa o Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, o Ngati Porou wh\u0101nui tonu, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou katoa. T\u0113n\u0101, Parekura, hoki wairua mai kia k\u014Drero t\u0101ua ki te tangata nei. Waiho ng\u0101 k\u014Drero kua k\u014Drerohia \u0113ngari he take t\u0101ku, he take nui, whakaharahara. He take nui i k\u014Drerohia e te M\u0101ori nei i te w\u0101 i a ia. E ai ki a ia, o te motu wh\u0101nui tonu kotahi anake te t\u012Bma whutup\u014Dro i kawe nei i Te Reo M\u0101ori ki ng\u0101 t\u014Dpito, ki ng\u0101 wh\u012Bra katoa o te motu. Ko wai t\u0113r\u0101? Ko Ngati Porou - East Coast. N\u014D reira, ko t\u0101ku he whakatakoto i t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero ki roto i te Whare P\u0101remata kia tuhia ki roto i ng\u0101 pukapuka a Hansard kia t\u0101ea ai e t\u0101ua e Para te k\u012B atu, \u0101, kua tuhia ki roto i ng\u0101 pukapuka a te Whare P\u0101remata. \u0100e, ko East Coast - Ngati Porou, ko Ngati Porou - East Coast r\u0101nei. Kua tuhia he ingoa tonu o t\u0113tahi t\u012Bma whutup\u014Dro, he ingoa M\u0101ori, he whakapapa t\u014Dna. Me waiho t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero ki reira. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000199\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EE hoa, kua raruraru tonu t\u0101ua i w\u0113tahi w\u0101 i roto i te Whare, i te komiti whiriwhiri take M\u0101ori. I \u0113tahi w\u0101, e hoa, k\u0101re au e tino whai tonu i te \u0101huatanga o \u014D k\u014Drero i te mea, i te k\u014Drero m\u0101tou m\u014D t\u0113tahi kaupapa h\u014Dhonu nei, te mutunga mai o te h\u014Dhonu, in\u0101 k\u0113 \u014Dna toronga, h\u0101, k\u0101tahi koe ka whakaputa noa, kotahi anake te t\u012Bma e kawe nei i te ingoa M\u0101ori, ko Ngati Porou. Ka p\u0101tai au ki a au an\u014D, \u0101 t\u0113n\u0101, he aha te tikanga o t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero ki t\u0113nei kaupapa? \u0112ngari, k\u0101ore koe e whakautu ka whakatakoto noa i t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero hei mea whakakatakata, he mea whakang\u0101hau m\u014D m\u0101tou. \u0112ngari e kore au e wareware i te \u0101huatanga o t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero. Ko koe t\u0113r\u0101 i tuitui nei i a m\u0101tou katoa o te Whare P\u0101remata. I k\u014Drerohia t\u0113r\u0101 i ng\u0101 r\u0101 kua hipa. Anei t\u014D hoariri, anei t\u014D hoariri, au\u0113 taihoa. Anei t\u014D hoariri, m\u0101tou o t\u0113nei taha e tuohu nei te m\u0101hunga ki a koe n\u0101 runga i te \u0101huatanga o t\u014D ng\u0101kau nui ki te tangata\u2014nui te tangata, nui te ng\u0101kau. N\u014D reira ko koe t\u0113r\u0101. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000200\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EKua rongo i ng\u0101 k\u014Drero a te Pirimia i a ia e k\u014Drero ana. E Para, e whitu ng\u0101 t\u016Bru P\u0101keh\u0101 kei roto i t\u014D rohe, e whitu ng\u0101 t\u016Bru P\u0101keh\u0101 kei roto i t\u014D rohe. E hoa m\u0101, me \u0101ta whakaaro t\u0101tou m\u014D t\u0113r\u0101. E whitu ng\u0101 t\u016Bru P\u0101keh\u0101 i roto i te mea kotahi M\u0101ori nei. Koinei pea koe i mate ai? N\u0101 t\u014D kaha, n\u0101 t\u014D pukumahi ki te whaiwhai haere i ng\u0101 kaupapa o Te Ao M\u0101ori. E aroha atu ana ki a t\u0101ua, e aroha atu ana ki a t\u0101tou ng\u0101 mema M\u0101ori o t\u0113nei Whare P\u0101remata i te mea. Koinei te \u0101huatanga o ng\u0101 t\u016Bru M\u0101ori. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000201\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EE aroha atu ana ki te k\u014Drero a Te Winitana Pita nei i a ia e k\u014Drero ana, i haere mai te M\u0101ori nei ki roto i t\u0113nei Whare P\u0101remata, i hoki mate nei koe ki t\u014D iwi. Koinei te whakam\u0101, koinei te whakam\u0101 e Pare. K\u0101re m\u0101tou i \u0101ta tiaki i a koe i te w\u0101 e takat\u016B ana koe i te mata o te whenua. M\u0101m\u0101 noa iho te k\u014Drero me te k\u012B atu, e hoki ki t\u014D k\u0101inga. Ko te mate k\u0113 k\u0101ore m\u0101tou i tiki i a koe, i tuku i a koe ki roto motok\u0101 me te k\u012B atu, me hoki t\u0101ua ki t\u014D maunga. N\u014D reira, waiho t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero ki a t\u0101ua. E ohorere an\u014D a au ki t\u0113r\u0101 k\u014Drero \u0113ngari, e tika ana t\u0101 Te Winitana Pita, \u0113, kia t\u016Bpato, kia t\u016Bpato t\u0101tou i a t\u0101tou e noho nei i te mata o te whenua. \u0112, kia kaua e whai i te huarahi i oti i a koe i te w\u0101 i a koe e takat\u016B ana i te mata o te whenua. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000202\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EHe kupu whakamutunga ki a koe e hoa. Kua raruraru katoa m\u0101tou ng\u0101 mema P\u0101remata i n\u0101ianei. I te mutunga mai o t\u014D tangihanga, n\u0101 mema o Te R\u014Dp\u016B W\u0101hine M\u0101ori Toko i te Ora, i kangakanga mai ki a m\u0101tou me te k\u012B mai, me tae mai koe ki te hui o te iwi, ki te koroneihana, ki R\u0101tana, ki Waitangi, ki ng\u0101 hui katoa, he aha ai? Ko koe t\u0113r\u0101 i whakarite nei i t\u0113r\u0101 huarahi, t\u0113r\u0101 tauira m\u014D m\u0101tou. He uaua te whaiwhai haere i t\u0113r\u0101 \u0101huatanga \u0113ngari, koinei te mihi o te ng\u0101kau ki a koe. Ko koe t\u0113r\u0101 i whakarite nei i te taumata o te k\u014Drero, o te mahi, o te pukumahi \u0113ngari i t\u014Dna mutunga, te taumata o te manaaki tangata ahakoa ko wai, e moe, e moe, e moe. E hoki ki t\u014D hoa rangatira e tatari mai n\u0101 ki a koe. Takoto mai. Kia ora t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000203\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003E[Thank you, Mr Speaker. Salutations to us all across the House. Para, return in spirit to your House. I will come back to you shortly, as I must acknowledge the very vast number of yours who have descended upon Parliament House from afar. I will come back to you shortly. Prop of the heavens and barrier of the void, as when the sun enters, it is right that I welcome the tides from the East Coast that have flowed into Wellington, to Parliament House, House of the Lions, and House of the Lion from Mangatuna, at rest now. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000204\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EGreetings to you collectively, welcome, welcome, welcome. To the region of the mountain that never moves, to T\u012Bt\u012Brangi as well, to the rippling waters there at Tolaga Bay with its sweet, melodious, and beautiful voice gifted from the gods, which tugs at the heart strings; welcome, salutations, greetings, and acknowledgments to you collectively. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000205\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EPare, you have heard what has been stated, but I must commend your tribe, who really looked after the nation in the past days. They opened up the window of M\u0101oridom to the country and to the world through the resources of these times, the computer even if your computer skills were quite hopeless, but, nevertheless, aspects on how your tribe looked after the nation were viewed from all ends of the world. Without a doubt we must commend them, the busy people up front and at the back, whom previous speakers before me alluded to. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000206\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EMy part is merely to endorse the accolades to all of them of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and  Ngati Porou at large, so congratulations to you all. So, Parekura, return in spirit so that you and I can talk to this man. Leave what has been stated already to one side, as I have an important and an extraordinary matter to bring up. It was a matter of huge significance that this M\u0101ori alluded to in his time. According to him, there was only one team in the entire country that took the M\u0101ori language to every nook and cranny and to every rugby field of the country. And who was that? It was the Ngati Porou - East Coast team, of course. My part was to merely make that statement in the House to have it recorded in the volumes of Hansard so that you and I, Pare, are able to say that it has been written into the official records of Parliament House. Yes, it is East Coast - Ngati Porou, or Ngati Porou - East Coast. An actual name of a rugby team is on record; it is a M\u0101ori name with its genesis. Let us leave that conversation there. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000207\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EMy friend, there have been times when you and I have had difficulties in the House and in a M\u0101ori Affairs Committee hearing. At times, fellow colleague, I have not been able to follow the gist of your statements because we, not you, would be discussing a matter at great depth, unbelievably great depth, and its branches were just that much, when all of a sudden you would say that, however, there is only one team that has a M\u0101ori name. It is Ngati Porou. So I ask myself again what the meaning of this postulation is. But you do not respond and merely put that statement out there as something for us to laugh and amuse ourselves over. But that sort of contribution will never be forgotten. Nevertheless, I will never forget the nature of that kind of statement. It was you who united all of us across the House. That part of you was referred to in days just passed. Here is your opposition standing here, here is your rival, oh, hang on, here is your opposition, we of this side of the House, standing before you with heads bowed saluting you because of your commitment to people\u2014a big man with a big heart. And that is you to the letter.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000208\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EI heard the words of the Prime Minister during his speech. Para, there are seven general seats in your electorate. There are seven general seats in your electorate. Fellow colleagues, we need to actually consider that. There are seven general seats in the one M\u0101ori electorate. Perhaps this is the reason why you died? Perhaps it was due to the fact that your efforts were robust and that you worked hard to follow up matters that affected M\u0101oridom. I pity us two and all of us M\u0101ori members of this House, because we are who we are. This is the nature of M\u0101ori seats. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000209\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EI empathise with what Winston Peters said during his address, when he stated that this M\u0101ori here came into this Parliament House alive, but he went home sick to his tribe. This is the shame and embarrassment, Pare. We did not look after you enough while you were up and about the country. Telling someone to go home is an easy thing to do. The problem was that we didn\u2019t get you in the car and say to you, let us go back to your mountain. So I leave that conversation there between us. I am alarmed at those words, but what the Rt Hon Winston Peters said is quite true. We need to take care of ourselves properly as we go up and about the country doing our business. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000210\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ec266512-9fe8-47da-883e-48f046ee5059\u0022\u003EA final tribute to you, my colleague, and that is that all of us M\u0101ori members of Parliament are in a bit of a fix now. When your funeral was over, we were berated by members of the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League. They said to us, you must come to the tribal conference, to the coronation, to R\u0101tana, to Waitangi. You must get to all the meetings. Why? It was you who set that down as an example for us to follow. It is going to be a hard act to follow and it is the reason why I tip my hat to you. It was you who was considered the standard for communicating, working, and performing, and, at the end of it all, the standard for looking after a person whoever she or he was. Slumber and rest on. Return to your wife, who awaits you. Lie there. Thank you to us all.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022 data-id=\u0022e458bcef033d4bf4b7d4a596badd7bef\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000211\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e458bcef033d4bf4b7d4a596badd7bef\u0022\u003EHon HEKIA PARATA (National):\u003C/span\u003E Ko Hikurangi me Aoraki aku maunga, ko Waiap\u016B me Waitaki ng\u0101 awa, ko Ngati Porou me Ng\u0101i Tahu ng\u0101 iwi, koinei t\u0101ua. Haere atu r\u0101, e te Minita, haere atu r\u0101 e te mema P\u0101remata, haere atu r\u0101 e te whanaunga hoa, haere atu r\u0101 e te kaimahi, haere atu r\u0101 e te t\u016Bngane. Hoki mai ki a t\u0101tou, n\u0101 hunga ora, ng\u0101 kanohi o r\u0101tou kua mene atu ki te p\u014D. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou e whakawh\u0101iti nei i roto i t\u0113nei Whare o t\u0101tou o Aotearoa nei. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, T\u016Brei, koutou ko \u014D k\u014Dk\u0101, o p\u0101p\u0101, o t\u012Bpuna o te wh\u0101nau pani, i hara mai i t\u0113nei r\u0101, i te taha o Ngati Porou, o Kahungunu, o ng\u0101 ropu katoa e tautoko ana koutou i t\u0113nei ahiahi, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000212\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EHauiti koutou kei te k\u0101inga e m\u0101takitaki mai nei, e whakarongo ana, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. N\u0101 koutou i waha te tangihanga te poroporoaki m\u014D ta t\u0101tou tangata, i takatu ki muri, i takatu ki roto \u0101, i k\u014Drero ki mua. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou. Kia koutou, kia t\u0101tou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, kia ora t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000213\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003E[My mountains are Hikurangi and Aoraki. The rivers are Waiap\u016B and Waitaki. Ngati Porou and Ng\u0101i Tahu are the tribes. This is us two. Farewell to the Minister, the member of Parliament, my fellow relative, worker, and brother. Let us come back to us, the ones who are alive, and the faces of those who have assembled in the abode of the dead. Well done to you crammed into this House of ours here in New Zealand. Hello there, T\u016Brei, to you and your aunties, uncles, and grandparents of the bereaved family who came today with Ngati Porou, Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, and all the other groups. You are playing a supportive role this afternoon. Good stuff. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000214\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003ETo you, Hauiti, back there at home, watching and listening, congratulations. You took care of the funeral and eulogies for our man, and you did the preparations at the back, inside, and up the front in terms of the speeches and calls of welcome; it was wonderful. I acknowledge and congratulate us all collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000215\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EWe have been farewelling Parekura Horomia for the past 10 days, I think, and all of those at home and those here, and many, many more from all around the country have been a part of that process, and it has been fitting. As all of the speakers previous to me have noted, he reached out and touched so many people, so many lives, so many hearts. It has been totally fitting. Over the time that Parekura was laid at, first, Hinemaurea, and then at Hauiti, people came from all over. I think that he would have been happy with his tangi. I think that ensuring that all who came were manaaki, they felt the generosity of the hau k\u0101inga of Hauiti, bolstered and supported by Ngati Porou wh\u0101nui, ng\u0101 iwi o Turanganui-a-Kiwa, o Kahungunu, o ng\u0101 iwi katoa [the tribe of Porou at large, the ones of Gisborne, Kahungunu, and all the tribes]. Ng\u0101i Tahu came up from Te Wai Pounamu, t\u0113r\u0101 taha t\u014Dna [that side of his]. Everyone came from all parts of Aotearoa to pay their respects, to make their tributes, to tell their jokes, and to repeat their anecdotes and to colonise them as their own and repeat them on other occasions. It was truly a mourning of his passing, but a celebration of his life as well, and that is as it should have been and should be. Parekura and I, kua oti k\u0113 taku k\u014Drero \u0101-whanau i te p\u014D whakamutunga, n\u0113 r\u0101, n\u0101 reira i t\u0113nei w\u0101 kei te k\u014Drero au m\u014Dna i roto i a T\u016Branga, i a Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, me ng\u0101 mahi i mahia e ia.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000216\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003E[I already covered the stories about him and the family at that night of final accolades, did I not? So, this time I am going to talk about him in Wellington and what he achieved here.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000217\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EParekura and I came from the same little marae out at the mouth of the Waiap\u016B. As do many of us, we have many sides to us. We come from different parts of our rohe and we share whakapapa. But the first time we worked together officially was in 1985\u2014was that when the Hui Taumata was, I ask the official historian sitting up in the gallery\u2014when both he and I spoke at the Hui Taumata, which had been organised by the Hon Koro W\u0113tere. It drew together in a very historic\u2014and, as it happens, appropriately herstoric\u2014way, men and women, young and old, throughout the country to talk together about what the challenges were that faced us as M\u0101ori and that faced us as New Zealanders and as participants in, contributors to, and shapers of our own destinies, and in so doing contributing to the strength of our country, Aotearoa New Zealand. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000218\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EI went on to work with Parekura as a public servant\u2014he in the Department of Labour, I in a range of Government departments. We did not always disclose our affiliation or whanaungatanga, as we worked different sides of the kaupapa. In many instances in that time we set about trying to design M\u0101ori affairs policies that would deliver better than those we had experienced or seen ourselves. I worked for him as Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs\u2014again working on how we could better develop policy that would support M\u0101ori to be successful. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000219\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EIt has been mentioned already that Parekura was a true public servant. He served many publics, and he came from a tribe and a community that honoured public service and commitment to community. One of the things that I think I will always remember him for and honour him for\u2014well, actually, a collection of things\u2014is that all of his work was based on belief, understanding, respect, and the wish to showcase what was right about being M\u0101ori, not what was wrong; what was powerful and positive about being M\u0101ori, not what was a problem and deficit; what was normal and wonderful and beautiful about being M\u0101ori, not what it was to fix it up to make it look better. He started truly using policy analysis terms for a proficiency analysis. He believed in what was possible, what the potential was here, and how it might be realised. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000220\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EHe may not have expressed it that way. Many have commented on his \u201Cmikirapu-ness\u201D, to use a Ngati Porou term, on how he used words. At home people just called that \u201CPara-phrasing\u201D, because, of course, as all of you who came to the coast will know, although Parekura was known as Parekura here, or Parry, or Pare, at home he was always known as Para or Uncle Para. So, yes, it was just a question that he was \u201CPara-phrasing\u201D, and he would always return to \u201CPara-dise\u201D. That is what he has done in Hauiti. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000221\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EHe was truly a member of the House of Representatives, which all of us who sit in today worked so hard to get to and participate in. He brought the diversity, and the richness, and the authenticity that is so important to a true representative democracy. He did spend a lot of time on the road, up and down the communities of this country, reaching out and touching people. There are stories that are told about him all the time about him pulling up to houses. Shane Jones has already mentioned that, in terms of a by-election he was a part of\u2014in terms of a by-election I was a part of. I know how much campaigning my cousin did against me\u2014this much. I know where the election pamphlets to oppose me went to\u2014certainly into an opening, but not a letterbox. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000222\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EI know that Parekura was loved and respected in little communities and big communities, and in small organisations and big organisations. I worked with Parekura and for Parekura, and I saw him operate successfully and effectively no matter which Government was in power, because he went with authenticity for what he was trying to achieve. I think that he was very effective, and I think it is important that in a democracy like ours and in a House of Representatives like this we always welcome and value that rich diversity that he personified, not only in what he did but in the way he did it and the way that he was warm and generous. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000223\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EIt has already been said that he was a big man with a big heart\u2014he absolutely was. He worked extremely hard. I totally agree with Annette King, I think it was, who said he wanted to die doing what he loved doing. The idea that he anointed successors I just do not believe. He did flirt with the idea now and again, and you would have heard that in the eulogies at Hauiti over the weekend, but he wanted to do what he was doing. Actually, I think this is a very fitting way for him to have left from all the work, the mahi, that he did, which he loved doing, and which he was respected for doing. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000224\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EWe both come from a community where Apirana Ngata stood tall. Many know him as the guy on the $50 note. Where we grew up he walked tall in our community. Songs were, and are, sung about him. It was many years before I discovered he had actually passed away, because all of the stories spoke of him as if he was very much alive. One of the things that he wrote before he passed away, which has been quoted many times in this House, in its shortened version was: \u201CE tipu e rea m\u014D ng\u0101 r\u0101 o t\u014D ao.\u201D Grow up and serve the needs of your generation. That is what Parekura has done. He has served the needs of his generation and he has honoured that whakatauk\u012B, that poroporoaki, of his tipuna of Apirana Ngata. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000225\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003ESo I would like to share in thanking him for the contributions that he made both personally and professionally, the contributions that he made in terms of politics and policy. Many on the other side of the House will not know\u2014they may have suspected\u2014that he gave me constant feedback on how I was doing here in this House. All of you here and certainly all of our whanaunga will notice that messengers operate in this House. You do not know where a message has come from. I would often get one from my tung\u0101ne on the other side of the Chamber. I will not be sharing what they were, but I really appreciated them and I will miss looking across the House to see him speak so expressively with his eyes and his eyebrows, which he held many conversations through as we sat opposite each other in this House. Haere, oki atu r\u0101 e te t\u016Bngane.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000226\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003E[Farewell and rest up, brother.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000227\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226e1ead03-bf7f-496a-a02f-ce52859c58c1\u0022\u003EOur rambling, shambling man, thank you for so much that you gave to all of us. You will be remembered. Wh\u0101ia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuoho koe, me he maunga teitei\u2014strive for the ultimate, and if you must bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain. Katahi an\u014D a ia ka t\u016B nui\u2014finally, he has bowed his head. Kia ora. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022 data-id=\u0022fa884436b3c84aa4a02926882278bcf6\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000228\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022fa884436b3c84aa4a02926882278bcf6\u0022\u003EMOANA MACKEY (Labour):\u003C/span\u003E Ko Hikurangi te maunga, ko Waiap\u016B te awa, ko Ngati Porou te iwi. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000229\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003E[Hikurangi is the mountain, Waiap\u016B is the river, and Ngati Porou is the tribe. Salutations, greetings, and acknowledgments to you and to us all collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000230\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EI have had the privilege of working with Parekura on the East Coast over the last decade. I saw how hard he worked, the long distances he had to travel, the sacrifices that his wh\u0101nau made. The M\u0101ori seats are not like the general seats at all. The distances and the expectations are so much bigger. Engagement is done kanohi ki te kanohi, not by teleconference. It is about the personal relationships, not just the professional. I want to thank his wh\u0101nau and his community for sharing him with us for so long, and all his staff who worked tirelessly to help him carry out a very difficult job. We know that he did not do it alone, as he so often pointed out. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000231\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EParekura was a good Labour man and a strong supporter of women\u2014within our party, within his electorate, and across the country\u2014as evidenced by his life membership of the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League. When I first entered Parliament, he called me into his office and he said: \u201CDon\u2019t you let those men push you around. You stand up for yourself.\u201D It is not always easy being the whitest M\u0101ori in the room, and I always appreciated how he looked out for me and supported me. Despite always telling me to shut up, he had my back. Thank you, Pare. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000232\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EOthers have spoken of his many accomplishments, but I want to talk about his home. I cannot even begin to imagine the East Coast without Parekura. He worked tirelessly for his electorate. He hated seeing young people\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000233\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00225d11e0a1c09d4f50b2a26c96a9e40455\u0022\u003EHon Member\u003C/span\u003E: Shut up, Moana!\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000234\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022694d625e223c4792b7bc1b397ed7fb08\u0022\u003EMOANA MACKEY\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014shut up, Moana\u2014leaving the Coast in droves because of the lack of opportunities. As a Minister he took his experience from the Coast and passionately advocated for regional economic development. He knew that a one-size-fits-all approach would never work for places like Tai R\u0101whiti, and that unless you have experienced the sheer isolation of many of these communities you could not fully understand the barriers they face\u2014like not having a rail line. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000235\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EI think that one of the most extraordinary things about Parekura and one of the reasons he was so popular was that Parliament did not change him. This place changes everyone, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Even the most strident activists who come in promising to change the system end up being changed by it, but not Pare. Despite the most intense pressure from the media and others to change the way he spoke or the way he looked, Parekura stayed true to who he was. He knew what he was talking about, even if others did not. But I can tell you that for every person in the beltway who said that they could not understand what he said, I could find two people up the Coast who would say: \u201CHe\u2019s the only one of you buggers who makes any sense.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000236\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EParekura was a mentor and a friend to me. I suspect that, to him, I was first and foremost a somewhat reluctant co-conspirator in his elaborate plots to avoid having to come to Wellington each week. It was my job to back him up. I remember him phoning me after he had told the whips that his flight from Gisborne to Wellington had been diverted. He said that they did not believe him, so I said: \u201CWell, where did you tell them it had been diverted to?\u201D. He said: \u201CAuckland.\u201D I asked him why he did not say Napier or Palmerston North or indeed any other place actually on the way to Wellington instead of 500 kilometres in the opposite direction, to which he simply replied: \u201CShut up, Moana.\u201D I also remember the day Air New Zealand announced that it was increasing the number of flights between Gisborne and Wellington\u2014a dark day for Parekura. I also remember the ensuing phone call instructing me in very colourful language to keep my mouth shut and to not tell the whips about the extra flights. I will miss the phone calls, I will miss him shouting questions to me from the other end of the plane on our flights home, and I would give anything to hear him say \u201CShut up, Moana.\u201D one last time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000237\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EI think it is only appropriate that his recipe for bully beef stew with spaghetti and mussels goes with him to his grave. Anyone who says Pare never had a bad word to say about anyone obviously never told him to take a break or to take better care of his health, which would always invoke a string of expletives. You quickly learnt that the best you could do was to support him and to try to share some of the load, and his family and staff did just that. The loyalty he engendered in his staff was amazing. There was not anything they would not do for him, through the good times and bad, right down to having to negotiate him out of a tractor he bought on TradeMe for his farm in Mangatuna, when he had not realised that the pick-up was in Central Otago. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000238\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EParekura was the son of a manual labourer who made it to the highest levels of Government. You do not get there without passion and smarts, and he had both. Some have expressed astonishment at the enormous numbers who came to mourn him, from prime ministers and kings to the guy who washes windows down the street, but those of us who worked with him on an everyday basis were not surprised us all. I think it is fair to say, Pare, that you know you have had an impact on people\u2019s lives when your tangi has an information stand and Radio New Zealand is reporting traffic updates for Auckland, Wellington, and Tolaga Bay. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000239\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003ETo the wonderful \u016Aawa community and the people of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, thank you for your hospitality last week and for sharing your paradise with the people of New Zealand. For my part, I choose to remember him wandering up and down the sidelines at \u016Aawa rugby matches dressed in his polar fleece, his gumboots, and his suit pants, telling the ref loudly and frequently to get some eyes. Moe mai r\u0101 e te rangatira, Parekura.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000240\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003E[Rest indeed, Parekura, the leader.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000241\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002270dd644d-8bcf-40dc-998a-887d62d24a76\u0022\u003EYou will be missed more than you know.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022 data-id=\u0022f25d20c664b74daa8d204e14f44a88c2\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000242\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f25d20c664b74daa8d204e14f44a88c2\u0022\u003ELOUISA WALL (Labour\u2014Manurewa):\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000243\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EMoe mai, e Pare, i roto i te aroha,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000244\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003ETakoto mai i runga i t\u014D atamira.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000245\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EKa heke i aku kamo, \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000246\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003ENg\u0101 wai roimata.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000247\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EAu\u0113 e Pare, e tuohu atu nei.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000248\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003ENg\u0101 mihi aroha e ng\u0101 wh\u0101nau o Parekura, Desmond, Wallace, T\u016Brei, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, Ngati Porou, Ng\u0101i Tahu. Rau rangatira m\u0101, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000249\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003E[Sleep the loving sleep, Pare,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000250\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003ELie there upon your stage.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000251\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EFalling from eyes,\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000252\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EAre the tears.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000253\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EAlas Pare, I stand with my head bowed before you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000254\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EFond regards to you the families of Parekura, Desmond, Wallace, T\u016Brei, descendants of Hauiti, and tribes of Kahungunu, Porou, and Tahu. To you, the leaders of a hundredfold, I salute, acknowledge, and greet you and us all collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000255\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003E Feed the wh\u0101nau; feed the children. I was at the marae on Tuesday night, and they were the instructions. They were the instructions that Wayne Ngata and the wh\u0101nau there were given by Parekura Horomia. I want to say to the wh\u0101nau that he would be so proud, because you fed the wh\u0101nau and you fed the children. So we want to say thank you for your hospitality; thank you for the crayfish and the paua, and all that beautiful food that where I come from, Waitahanui, is our h\u0101kari food, but we had that for every meal. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000256\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EI was really privileged in this term to sit next to Pare at caucus. Parekura ended up being a mentor for me in many ways. Rather than telling me to shut up, like he did to Moana Mackey, he would just grab my arm and tell me to calm down. I also sat next to Parekura at the M\u0101ori Affairs Committee. I want to mihi to Tau Henare, who is the chair of our M\u0101ori Affairs Committee, but, in fact, Pare was the chief. That was the reality. Any manuhiri who came into our select committee, it was Pare who did the mihi. Not only did Pare boss Hone Harawira around, but Rino Tirikatene always had to do the karakia, and Te Ururoa Flavell got bossed around. Basically he was the rangatira of that group who made us all safe. It did not matter where we went, Parekura steered our waka in a very straight direction, and we all knew what the kawa was, what the protocols were. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000257\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EWe went over to Australia as a select committee at the end of last year. We went over to find out from the Aussies how we could better help our indigenous people. The irony of that is that what we found out from our experience in Australia was that, in fact, the best way we can help our wh\u0101nau here is to make sure our babies, our tamariki, our mokopuna, speak the Reo, and know our tikanga. So when I think about Parekura, actually, I think about a man whose policies, in fact, are going to ensure that our M\u0101ori identity mai r\u0101n\u014D, will continue for ever and ever. That is the legacy that I see in Parekura in establishing M\u0101ori Television and iwi radio. It actually was about fundamentally ingraining into our babies the opportunity to be M\u0101ori. So the \u201CFeed the wh\u0101nau; feed the children.\u201D instruction was actually to house the children, clothe the children, make sure our children can get to the doctor. I think that the M\u0101ori Affairs Committee and the inquiry it is doing is going to be Pare\u2019s legacy. So it is a challenge to this House how we do that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000258\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EParekura for me was also a kaitohe mana wahine. P\u0101keh\u0101s would call it a feminist. He was a feminist. At the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League hui last year in Blenheim, Parekura spoke. He spoke about being proud to be part of the league. For me, the highlight of his k\u014Drero in terms of recounting about all these beautiful M\u0101ori women who had been part of his life was also saying that M\u0101ori women should be able to speak on the marae. I thought that was pretty brave and bold of Pare, but, actually, for him it was all about the Reo and it was all about the tikanga. So if our w\u0101hine have the Reo and they have the tikanga, then why should they not? That is one of the challenges I think he has left for M\u0101oridom. I think that is the legacy that Parekura, again, has created for all of us. Parekura loved Hukarere Girls\u2019 College. I think one of the last legacies that we all have to now fulfil is about the chapel. It was spoken about a lot during his tangi that that was one of the things he did not achieve. I think for us here in the House, the question is how we can help that reality come to fruition. I know that for Parekura it burned in him, the responsibility he had to help shape young women, leaders of the future. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000259\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EParekura was our matua, but, more than that, he was our kaitiaki. For me, Parekura was the balance. He was the balance within te R\u014Dp\u016B Reipa. He was the balance within caucus. Parekura and his leadership\u2014the fact that he could go on to any marae in the country. I was privileged last year, with Trevor Mallard, actually, to go to Waim\u0101rama Taum\u0101unu\u2019s mother\u2019s tangi. We were part of a crew who turned up outside of the hours where you normally take manuhiri, but with Pare we could go anywhere at any time. So we went on, we paid our respects. We got back to the hotel at midnight. We were up at 6. We were there in the kitchen. It was a real insight into the work that Parekura did, and he did it because, for him, wh\u0101nau was so important. That is why he was the tangi man. He made it back to every tangi because, for him, that is why he was here. That was why he was here. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000260\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003EI just want to highlight what the Rev. Hirini Kaa said when he spoke about Parekura. He talked about him being a pononga\u2014a pononga, a true servant of the people. You do not get politicians like Parekura today. Most of us go to events so we can get in the paper. Most of us go to events so that people know what we are doing. Parekura did not want that recognition. He did not need that recognition. His recognition was in his wh\u0101nau knowing that he was there for them, with them, at all times. That is something that I wanted to bring into my political career. It was about relationships. It was about whanaungatanga, about knowing why you are in this place, and not becoming disconnected from the people you are here to serve. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000261\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003ESo I pay tribute to Parekura, who is a mentor for me. He is somebody whom I will carry in my heart for my entire political career, and he is somebody whom I think, from what we have heard today and what we heard over the last week on the marae, we are so proud of, whom we love so much. I think that is the enduring legacy of Parekura: his love and the love that we all had for him. I guess the challenge is how we translate that into the work that we do. It is something that I know I am thinking about, it is something that my colleagues are thinking about, and it is something that provides some guidance into the future. Moe mai e te rangatira, Parekura. Moe mai, moe mai, moe mai. Kia ora.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000262\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b4a597dd-ed8b-42b8-975b-40c6e0cdaee1\u0022\u003E[Rest there, Parekura, the leader. Sleep, sleep, and slumber there. Thank you.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022 data-id=\u0022e0fe6c8254a84346a6277c3faa90be2b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000263\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e0fe6c8254a84346a6277c3faa90be2b\u0022\u003EHon TAU HENARE (National):\u003C/span\u003E E Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, e Ngati Porou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou i haere mai nei i t\u0113nei r\u0101, ki te poroporoaki i t\u014D koutou tamaiti. N\u014D reira, e mihi kau atu au i a koutou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000264\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003E[Greetings to you collectively of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and Ngati Porou who have arrived here today to farewell your son. And so I acknowledge you all indeed.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000265\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EYou know, over the past week or so we have heard of Parekura\u2019s prowess in tribal links\u2014\u016Aawa, Ng\u0101ti Hauiti, Ngati Porou\u2014his prowess as a rugby player, and his prowess as a fisherman of some note. The Horomia family is an old and respected wh\u0101nau from Te Araroa, on my wife\u2019s side. My wife and Parekura are very closely related, from K\u014Dpuapounamu, where his father, Willow, is buried, te wh\u0101nau a T\u016Bwhakairiora, so much so that when I first started going out with my wife\u2014well, she was going out with me\u2014one of the things that my brother-in-law Tuku Morgan and I used to do every Christmas was make this pilgrimage to Te Araroa. If any of you have ever been there, you will know that it is the most idyllic spot. If it was in America you just could not afford to live there\u2014actually, you can afford to live there. There is a place called Matakaoa Point, which juts out, basically, into the Pacific Ocean. The next piece of land you would bump into is South America. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000266\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EI want to relate a fishing story about my brother, who would interrupt his holidays and come for a holiday with Tuku and me. If people know Matakaoa Point, they will know that you actually have to get there in a four-wheel drive. You have to walk about a mile or so down to the bottom, where you can fish. I am sure you all know that whenever more than two M\u0101ori men get together there is a competition about something. It is either a competition about what is happening then or a competition that happened 200 or 300 years before, between Ngati Porou and some other people, which I will get to soon. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000267\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EMy lasting memory of one of those pilgrimages is that there were three grown men who could not fish to save themselves, including me, my brother-in-law Tuku, and Parekura. On the first time that we went out, while Tuku and I were after the big kingie off the shore\u2014and we could actually see kingies jumping out of the water, waving at us as if to say: \u201CGet me, get me.\u201D; it was the most idyllic day of one\u2019s life, with beautiful sun, plenty of fish in the sea\u2014we looked around and Parekura was up on the hill trying to undo his birds\u2019 nest and also having lunch. He had prepared this picnic for us. He came all the way from Mangatuna early in the morning\u2014very early in the morning\u2014and he had prepared this feast of roast chicken, of r\u0113wena, of spuds, of k\u016Bmara, and no green stuff\u2014absolutely none. We had the most wonderful day talking about all sorts of things. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000268\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EIt was not long after I had become Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs and my brother-in-law was involved in some TV\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000269\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f44431ef-b505-4e94-9f57-a60b0a569bf7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022261f90f7a4fc4ebb812e6e860d516a3f\u0022\u003EHon Shane Jones\u003C/span\u003E: Episode.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000270\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220e723ae36b6f46f6b39d1ee7bc23f7ea\u0022\u003EHon TAU HENARE\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014episode. I tell you what, during that episode, apart from my leader, Winston, not one M\u0101ori in the community stood up for us two apart from Parekura. Uncle Pita bagged us from here to eternity. Trevor Mallard normally bags anybody from here to eternity. But Parekura, he was not even in the place. He always gave us support. When I was Minister, he was always up in my office, giving us support and giving us advice. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000271\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EYou know, when I came back into Parliament, the first thing that Parekura said to me was: \u201CWhat\u2019s those P\u0101keh\u0101s like, bro? What are those P\u0101keh\u0101s like\u2014your P\u0101keh\u0101s?\u201D, and I got it. I was quite honoured to have this bunch of P\u0101keh\u0101s with me and be in charge of these P\u0101keh\u0101s, but that was Parekura. Parekura sort of knew what question to ask and how to ask it.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000272\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022277f2f31022047e4b4033737aee2b449\u0022\u003ERt Hon Winston Peters\u003C/span\u003E: What did you say?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000273\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229413fc5b298b41c29b78d5049b233e05\u0022\u003EHon TAU HENARE\u003C/span\u003E: You will have to ask Parekura. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000274\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EThey said his politics were clean, but sure, over the last 10 days or so, I have asked about his rugby. On the day of the p\u014Dwhiri for the Pacific Island community leaders and politicians I went over to him. He was sitting where David Parker is now, and I asked him how he was. He rubbed his leg and he said: \u201CYou know, bro, my rugby injury\u2019s been playing up.\u201D Then he proceeded to blame my wife\u2019s mother\u2019s brother, Uncle EB. Now EB has been dead for 2 or 3 years, and everywhere I have been with Parekura, especially up on the Coast, he has always got up and said EB was a dirty player. He used to show us his finger\u2014even at the funeral Parekura had a sore finger\u2014because EB had bitten his finger. This is what we were brought up with, until I met a colleague of Parekura\u2019s who played rugby with him on the same team, and he said that Parekura was the dirtiest player you could ever have played against.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000275\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c4066027cb3c472688fea1d933e5f4cc\u0022\u003EHon Trevor Mallard\u003C/span\u003E: Or even with.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000276\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002215692c64ee4d4c9285b9f22f8f9002d5\u0022\u003EHon TAU HENARE\u003C/span\u003E: Or with. I want to say, you know, there have been lots of nice words slung about this House today about Parekura. He was kind, he was jovial, he was friendly, he was humble. Yes, he was\u2014he was all of that. But on the rugby field, no, he was not. He was a thug, which sort of says to me that he gave as good as he got, and that was in the House as well. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000277\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EWhen I got the news from my brother-in-law that my mate had passed away, I was, and I will always be, devastated by that news. At 62 years of age, I think we robbed him of some of his better years, and he robbed us of some of those years that we could have had, and should have had, with him. My heart does go out to the wh\u0101nau, to the sons. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000278\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EBut at least he told me once\u2014and this is one of those myths that I am about to explode\u2014and I am sorry, Ngati Porou, but he has a Ng\u0101puhi connection, like most people do. That Ng\u0101puhi connection was through a battle. His tupuna was taken to the north, but eventually he came back to the Coast, and he brought Christianity with him. He was one of those people who brought Christianity to the Coast. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000279\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002251dfea20-2244-4fc7-bd7d-ebf7a98580e1\u0022\u003EMy family, my wife, and my kids loved that man so much that this place is going to be the worse for his leaving. Kia ora.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022 data-id=\u00220d1a1ef003364909b3992e930437401d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000280\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220d1a1ef003364909b3992e930437401d\u0022\u003ERINO TIRIKATENE (Labour\u2014Te Tai Tonga):\u003C/span\u003E Tihei mauri ora. Parekura, hoki wairua mai. Hoki wairua mai ki te Whare P\u0101remata o Niu T\u012Breni. Ko te Whare t\u0113nei i nohoa ai e koe, 14 ng\u0101 tau. Hoki wairua mai ki te Whare i nohoa ai e t\u014D tupuna a T\u0101 Apirana Ngata. N\u014D reira e te matua Parekura, moe mai, moe mai, moe mai i roto i Te Ariki. \u0100piti hono, t\u0101tai hono, ko te hunga mate ki te hunga mate; \u0101piti hono, t\u0101tai hono, ko te hunga ora ki te hunga ora. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000281\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003EE ng\u0101 iwi o Te Tai R\u0101whiti, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. T\u0113n\u0101 koutou te haere mai nei ki te Whare P\u0101remata ki te whakatutuki i t\u014D t\u0101tou kaupapa i t\u012Bmataria i Hauiti i te wiki kua taha. Haere mai, haere mai, haere mai koutou o Te Tai R\u0101whiti. N\u014D reira, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou. E aku rangatira huri noa i te Whare, t\u0113n\u0101 koutou, t\u0113n\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000282\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003E [Behold the breath of life. Return here spiritually, Parekura. Come back to Parliament House New Zealand, to this House where you lived for 14 years. Return here in spirit to the House that your ancestor Sir Apirana Ngata occupied. And so sleep, the fatherly figure, Parekura. Slumber on within the Lord. The lines are joined; allow the dead to remain with the dead. The lines are joined; allow the living to remain with the living. So salutations, greetings, and acknowledgments to you and to us all collectively. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000283\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003ETo you the tribes of the East Coast, I acknowledge you. Thank you for coming to Parliament House to finish off our matter, which began in Hauiti last week. Welcome, welcome, and welcome to you of the East Coast. I salute you. To my esteemed leaders throughout the House, acknowledgments to you and to all of us.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000284\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003EIt is a great honour for me to speak and pay tribute to Parekura. So much has been said over the past week and, indeed, this afternoon. There is really not much more I can add. It has been a sad week, a very sad week, but it has also been a very great, great week. It has been momentous in the depth and in the breadth of M\u0101oritanga that has been displayed. It was there on display up there in the house of Hauiti on the marae, and it was shown by the people of \u016Aawa, Tolaga Bay, and the Ngati Porou wh\u0101nui. The sheer size of the tangi for Parekura was testament to the mana of the man, and the mana of his hap\u016B, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and Porourangi.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000285\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003E All the appropriate tohu availed themselves upon us for those 4 days. The marae smiled in warm sunshine and cried when the heavens opened. We have heard the great oratory on the marae. They managed to keep Shane Jones contained for 4 days as he sat on the pae there. We heard the wonderful oratory, the wonderful tributes. We even had the Prime Minister fly in by helicopter. To see the front bench of the Government\u2014te K\u0101wanatanga\u2014pay tribute to our chief, Parekura, was really one of those moments of parliamentary unity that made me proud to be an MP\u2014all in honour of our chief. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000286\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003EWe have heard about Parekura the shearer. Tau talked about his prowess as a fisherman. We have heard about him as a senior civil servant, as a Minister of the Crown, as a member\u2014a hard-working member\u2014for Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti. We have heard about him as a family man and as a great orator, as he was in his own way. I would like to say that Parekura was also another: he was a weaver. I say \u201CParekura, the weaver\u201D because he was a real rangatira. To adopt a \u201CParekura-ism\u201D, the etymology, or the root word, of \u201Crangatira\u201D consists of \u201Cranga\u201D, to weave, and \u201Ctira\u201D, the people. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000287\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003EAs we have heard over this past week from all people, from all backgrounds, that is what Parekura was to us here and also to everyone in this Parliament and to all the people whom he touched and whom he worked with so closely over many years. He had that ability to bring everyone from all backgrounds, from all socio-economic backgrounds, whether it be the Speaker of the House of Parliament, or Ministers, or kings, through to the wh\u0101nau, the fishermen, and the freezing workers, he was able to bring all cultures together. That was appropriately paid tribute to by my colleague Su\u2019a when the Pacific peoples paid honour to Parekura on the marae. The giving of those gifts of those fine mats on the marae was something that was very moving. It was testament to the mana of the man. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000288\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003ESo much has been said. Parekura took me under his wing as a new MP, and one of the things he used to do to me was give me a bit of a nudge when I was going on for too long. He would always say to me afterwards: \u201CIt was good, but, you know, you don\u2019t need to raise so many points. Just make your points and ka nui t\u0113n\u0101.\u201D\u2014leave it at that. So I will be following his instructions, just as they will be carried with me throughout my, hopefully, long career. I honour our chief and just carry his memory with me, as I know we all do. Moe mai r\u0101 e te rangatira. Haere ki te torona o \u012Ahowa, haere ki te Kaiwhakaora. Kia ora mai an\u014D t\u0101tou.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000289\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002281825190-fd5d-4ed0-bb80-f12f3c93e653\u0022\u003E [I say unto you the leader, sleep on. Go forth to the throne of the Lord and to the Redeemer. Acknowledgments once again to us collectively.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022 data-id=\u00220bee892a54a9415fb12eeca232068c2b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000290\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220bee892a54a9415fb12eeca232068c2b\u0022\u003EHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour\u2014Hauraki-Waikato):\u003C/span\u003E Kua rehu te r\u0101 ki t\u014Dna rua, ka tau ake an\u014D te hinap\u014Duri ki runga i te motu. Parekura, o te tini, Parekura o te mano, Parekura o te marea kua parekuratia te motu i t\u014D ngaronga. Haere e Pare kia kata pai ng\u0101 t\u016Bpuna i te p\u014D. Parekura, n\u0101u i rata ng\u0101 wharekai, n\u0101u i whakahoahoa ng\u0101 t\u0101ngata ahakoa ko wai, ahakoa n\u014D whea. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000291\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EKa tika te haere mai o ng\u0101 iwi tinitini ki runga o Hauiti, ki runga o Te Tai R\u0101whiti, m\u014Du te take. Ko t\u0113nei rangi ka muia te tini ki roto i t\u014D w\u0101hi mahi, te Whare P\u0101remata, m\u014Du tonu te take. Haere e hoa ki te urunga t\u0113 taka, ki te moenga t\u0113 whakaarahia, te p\u014D ki a koe. E te hoa, e te rangatira, e moe, haere, haere atu r\u0101.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000292\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E [The sun has disappeared into its chasms and darkness settles once more upon the country. Parekura, of the very many, the thousands, the public, the nation, is in a calamity at your loss. Depart, Pare, so that the ancestors in the void will be humoured well. Parekura, you made the dining halls take a shine to you; the people, regardless of who they were and where they were from, befriended you. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EIt is fitting, indeed, that a multitude of tribes descended upon Hauiti and the East Coast. You were responsible for that. Today, your workplace, Parliament House, is swarming with the multitude. You caused that. Depart, friend, to the place where the pillow does not fall, where one cannot be roused from the bed. The void is yours. To the colleague and leader, sleep, depart, farewell.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000294\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EI offer my condolences to the wh\u0101nau pani, the people of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, the people of Te Tai R\u0101whiti, of Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, and all the constituents of Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti. Parekura was a regular presence amongst the people of Waikato. He had a close and special affinity with the late Dame Te Ata and my late father, extending to his close relationship with Tuheitia. His kin connections to the K\u012Bngitanga were well known, and there was always a place to stay or kai on the table should he ever drop in, and he dropped in often. I started making cups of tea for Parekura when I was 15. It never stopped! I kind of closed my eyes as people were talking today, thinking that if I could have visualised Parekura sitting on that great paepae in heaven, what he would be looking like. He would have a big, broad smile, with his eyes closed because he was grinning from ear to ear, and he would be saying: \u201CQuick, quick, get up. They\u2019re making me a saint. Get up and say something.\u201D That is kind of how he was. He could always inject the right amount of humour into an occasion at the right time for the right reason. People loved Parekura for who he was. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000295\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura consolidated the relationships that he had, no matter where he worked. His time leading the Community Employment Group gave him godlike qualities. People who worked for and with him and those who benefited from the Community Employment Group grants would go out of their way to support Parekura, and I saw that mostly during campaign time, on the campaign trail. He always seemed to know and keep tabs on the people who worked for them, and he knew that no matter where they sat on the political spectrum, he always had one up on them. He would say to us: \u201CDon\u2019t worry about such and such. They used to work for me.\u201D\u2014eh, Hone? He always referred to Hone Harawira when he made those types of comments. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000296\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura had very much a grassroots personality. He enjoyed rugby, as people have mentioned. He loved the endeavours of young people. He supported the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League in all manner of ways. In fact, he was godlike, like Winston is, to the M\u0101ori Women\u2019s Welfare League\u2014when he walks through the sea of women, they part. He always had an ear to the ground when it came to the New Zealand M\u0101ori Council. I can remember just recently, when te kaunihera had a M\u0101ori hui in Rotorua and the New Zealand M\u0101ori Council was choosing its chairs\u2014it was supposed to be chairs; then it ended up being co-chairs\u2014Parekura said to our hui: \u201CI\u2019ve got to go. I\u2019ve got to find out what they\u2019re doing and I\u2019ve got to make sure they select the right person.\u201D Well, when he came back and said that it had selected co-chairs, we thought: \u201COh, I wonder whether he had any influence over that one.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000297\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EBut he regularly attended all our key events in M\u0101oridom\u2014koroneihana, R\u0101tana, Waitangi\u2014and people knew him for the person he was outside Parliament, and he never changed on coming into Parliament. You see, Parekura had small-town values, which he never lost when he moved to the big city lights. He understood that the heartbeat of M\u0101ori communities were the women\u2014are the women. He was raised by his nannies and aunties, and he often, often talked about them and remembered them fondly. He was always surrounded by the aunties, the cuzzies, and the ladies when he campaigned throughout his rohe. He knew that getting on the wrong side of them was a mistake, yet he had a knack of getting all his aunties and his cousins and the ladies running around after him. It seemed effortless. They would do whatever he asked. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000298\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EI experienced Parekura\u2019s support throughout our time in Parliament as a friend and as a colleague, and I appreciated that. Parekura lived by two very simple tikanga: manaakitanga\u2014to care for people\u2014and kanohi kitea\u2014to be visible; to be present. He did a lot of his electorate work, as many of you know, by attending hui, going to birthdays and tangi, and attending the regular events on the M\u0101ori calendar. His style of politics could be best termed as old-school\u2014always willing to have a good bust-up without making too many enemies along the way, always doing the business, and never appearing too tired when it came to his people. He gave so much of himself. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000299\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura was no good with technology. I suspect he moved to the iPhone only because his moko\u2014\u201CBig Moko\u201D\u2014was a gun on the gadgets, and he always told me that. I have to admit that face-to-face conversations with Parekura were often very long, and if I had a really important question and I needed a simple yes or no answer, I would just text him. I kind of got some really good text responses to me, but they were never more than two or three words, and I liked that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000300\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura had a quick temper, and if he got all worked up he would thump the table, his eyes would bulge, and the sentences got shorter and shorter. In fact, he had a number of two-word sentences\u2014you fill in the gaps. You kind of got the feeling that this was his rugby character, and you had better step back because he would explode. We never heard too many stories about how explosive Pare was on the rugby pitch, but we were told\u2014you know that cricket patch that goes up and down the rugby pitch? That was where he was supposed to be the gun, on that little cricket pitch. He made a good little number there. And Tau is right. I suspect Parekura gave it as much as he got it. He was no good at fund-raising. I remember at a Labour Party fund-raiser we got him to auction some wine, and he sold a $30 bottle of wine to an auntie for $2, and after that bottle we said: \u201CYou\u2019re sacked. We\u2019ll bring in someone else to auction this wine off.\u201D \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000301\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003ENo story about Parekura would be complete without mentioning his many drivers, and there were many. Whanaunga, staff, mates, ministerial drivers\u2014every one of those people will have a story. Parekura was shocking. I went in the car with him only once, and I never ever went again unless he promised me that he was not driving. But you got value out of every kilometre that he travelled. He would always know where the hui was, where the tangi was, where a birthday was. Just calling in was enough, and you would see the delight of his people when he just called in unannounced, when they would know that they were special enough for him to call in. I really admired that about him. He never had too short a time to have a cup of tea. The only problem was with every cup of tea came the cakes and the sausage rolls, and all of that. So, you know, people made comments about his size and all of that, but it was really indicative of the love that his people showed for him. Let it be a timely lesson for us all that love can be shown with a salad and a carrot stick, and maybe a gluten-free something\u2014watch this space. As I said, some of the best stories will remain with the many people who drove him around and saw the extent of the mahi he really did. He was always good for a yarn on those long trips, and members of our caucus will miss him for that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000302\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EThere were several times that I would walk into the office and he would be having a conversation with his son Wal, inquiring about his farm, a busted gate, sending some meat for a tangi somewhere down the line, paying for this and that. Wal always seemed to have the con on whatever Parekura did or wanted to do. Desmond had \u201CBig Moko\u201D in Auckland. Parekura was proud of Des\u2019 achievements and the fact that moko played softball and was a gun on the gadgets. We would pick up and drop off Parekura from Des\u2019 place when he had to go to Auckland. Parekura glowed when he talked about his two moko. To them he was just Papa, and that is the way he liked it. T\u016Brei\u2014well, I suspect he always made Parekura feel like a father. He was always forever worrying about T\u016Brei. If it was not one thing, it was another. But it did not matter to Pare. He was immensely proud of each and every one of his sons, and, true to form, so as not to boast, he never ever cooked his affection for his sons from what I saw. He simply loved them for who they were. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000303\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura supported many things during his time as Minister, and much mention has been made of that, but we should say it again and again because this is where the heartbeat of M\u0101oridom is, and Parekura understood it\u2014Te Matatini, waka ama, M\u0101ori wardens, M\u0101ori Television, M\u0101ori radio, M\u0101ori tourism, Treaty settlements, the w\u0101nanga settlement, and a M\u0101ori curriculum in education. He always focused on what was good for M\u0101ori. Shivers, if we applied a rugby analogy to it, he always played the ball, not the man. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000304\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EHe was a steady hand for the M\u0101ori affairs portfolio, but I am sure he caused a bit of a flurry now and then\u2014in fact, I am absolutely positive. I can remember going to a secondary school national kapa haka event, and he was staggered by the numbers of young people turning out to that event to show their prowess on the stage. He asked his Te Puni K\u014Dkiri official: \u201CHow much have we given to this event?\u201D. When he was told the minimum figure by his official, he wrote something on the piece of paper and he gave it to me just as I was going up to thank everyone on behalf of the Government at the time. He told me to tell everybody that this will go towards helping pay for the buses for the next nationals. Anyway, I get up and I make the announcement on behalf of the Minister of M\u0101ori Affairs that a sum had been made for every kapa haka group coming to the nationals, and there was a loud applause and roar. I walked back down and the Te Puni K\u014Dkiri regional officer was rubbing her head in despair. I said: \u201CWhat\u2019s wrong? Your Minister just OK\u2019d it.\u201D She said: \u201CYeah, that\u2019s one thing. But head office will tell me I\u2019ve got to find the savings within my regional budget because he made the announcement in my area.\u201D Such was the man. He really had a sense of what was needed at the right time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000305\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura was a public figure, but he was a very private man. He never let on to his colleagues the extent of any illness that had afflicted him. He would try very hard to meet his regular calendar of commitments, but in the last year it became evident that he had slowed right down. Parekura was a working-class politician with a grassroots sense of gravitas. He joined the Keep Our Assets h\u012Bkoi. He marched for port workers. He stood side by side on the picket line with meat workers. He never lost sight of the real issues that affected real people\u2014jobs, kai for the kids, a warm home, and looking after the old battlers who fought for our proud nation. Parekura exemplified all the values that he lived by. During his time as an MP and a Minister, he was served by some very loyal staff who respected his passion and laughed around him, got frustrated with him, and were dedicated to his cause of M\u0101ori development. Although we would have preferred to hear a valedictory speech from Parekura, sadly that is not to be. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000306\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EParekura had a deep spiritual side. He would always talk about all these different spiritualities as he was growing up. But you can count on this, certainly for the members of the M\u0101ori caucus: if a karakia needed to be said, because we did not know our way through or we did not know what was happening or something needed to be corrected, Parekura would always follow his M\u0101ori heart and confirm the spirituality within him. I respect him for that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000307\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EToday, Parliament has an opportunity to farewell a friend, colleague, loyal servant of his people, and faithful member of the Labour Party. Right now I just want to recognise Joe, who in his electorate was Parekura\u2019s eyes, his ears, and his hands. He would mobilise people throughout his electorate if he needed them to be somewhere to support him. Joe, you have not stopped working for him, right to this current day. Your service, I think, has made a big difference to the things that Parekura did in his time. He will be remembered for the impression he left and for the laughs along the way. We remember him fondly. N\u014D reira, e moe, Parekura. N\u014D reira, kia tau ki a t\u0101tou katoa te atawhai o t\u014D t\u0101tou Ariki a Ihu Karaiti, te aroha o Te Atua, me te whiwhingatahitanga ki Te Wairua Tapu, ake, ake ake, \u0101mine.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000308\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E[And so, rest, Parekura. Let the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the ability to access the Holy Spirit be with us all for ever and ever, amen.]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000309\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EMotion agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000310\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EWaiata\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000311\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EKaranga\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000312\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EThe House adjourned at 4.47 p.m.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id20130507c84f13f8ffaa418b9abffa6826daaab3000313\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/body\u003E\n\u003C/html\u003E"