I'm humbled because I am among many, 340 to be precise, members of Parliament who have served on the Māori Affairs Committee, as it is known today. It is amongst that distinguished company—and I say distinguished because our people, when we gather around the table at the select committee of Māori Affairs, we are not there as any one individual. We carry the memory but also the responsibility of those who have gone before, those here in our present, and those who are to come. 