Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: Meitaki maata e te Vaa Tuatua. Last Sunday, I opened te 'Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani, Cook Islands Language Week 2022, at the Enuamanu Hall in Māngere. There I spoke of the challenges for the Cook Islands language, classified as vulnerable by UNESCO, with 9 percent of Cook Islands people speaking the language in Aotearoa, which is why te 'Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani and the Pacific language weeks are essential to raise awareness and breathe life into the mataora of te reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani, its people, and their identity as Cook Islanders across Aotearoa New Zealand and the vast blue Pacific continent. Our nine Pacific language weeks will allow our Pacific people to walk in two worlds, and demonstrates how this Government is building cultural capacity and bilingualism and for the next generation of Pacific learners.