It's not often that Te Paati Māori are afforded the opportunity to talk for a short time in Parliament, particularly in debates, so we're really keen to take this moment. I guess it's because we're often talking about what we have to do next, and today we'd like to talk and reflect on what we have done, and also taking on board, you know, kāore te kūmara e kōrero mō tōna ake reka. The kūmara doesn't talk or speak of its own sweetness. But we are not kūmara. In fact, we are gardeners. Tangata w'enua always have been gardeners. Te Paati Māori did not grow in the ground; we grew from the ground. We represent a grassroots movement that was built from the ground up, proudly. A tangata w'enua movement that has overcome all odds just to be here. It was only last year that every political analyst, every media analyst, was saying Te Paati Māori were dead in the water, that we would be swept up by the incoming red wave. Minister Willie Jackson himself said he was here to destroy Te Paati Māori, yet here we are constructively working with the Government and also boldly holding it to task.