Speaker’s Statements — Te Reo Māori Interpretation—Question Time

Members, before we proceed, I just want to inform members that for question time we will be without our normal te reo interpretation service as a result of the weather at Wellington Airport and losing both of our interpreters that way. We are hopeful, though, that by the end of question time we’ll have a remote service available and that way people who are listening from outside will be able to have the interpretation. I will now ask for members who do speak in te reo, if they wish to, to do an interpretation. I did offer to one of the parties that if they didn’t like that approach I’d get Mr Jackson to interpret, but he doesn’t appear to be available.