Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. To everybody from the East Coast here today tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Tainui te waka ko Waikato te awa ko Ngāti Maniapoto te iwi ko Ngāti Huiao te hapū ko Te Kauae te marae. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. [Tainui is my ancestral canoe Waikato is my ancestral river Ngāti Maniapoto is my tribe Ngāti Huiao is my subtribe Te Kauae is my marae. Greetings greetings greetings to you all.]I'd like to just start off by welcoming everybody in the room that's come here from the mighty East Coast today for what is a special occasion in this House and for New Zealand. I'd like to acknowledge everybody from Ngāti Porou—all 72000 members that affiliate to this iwi. That's double those from my iwi Ngāti Maniapoto so something's going right with this iwi group. I'd also like to pay a special acknowledgment to your ancestors—many of which are great ancestors. To tautoko what the Hon Shane Jones mentioned Sir Apirana Ngata stands out here for us today in the House. What a great man he was. His legacy lives on even today.So we're here at the third reading of this important bill which we have discussed that brings together the effect of a deed of 47 important hapū in this iwi and the relationship between these 47 hapū and the Crown. You were the only iwi group that signed this deed under the Foreshore and Seabed Act so you have led the way in the past and continue to lead the way into the future.Although that Act was repealed by the previous National Government you've managed to renegotiate the deed and we are here today to acknowledge and bring effect to that deed that you have all worked so hard for in the last 15 years. So this is a special day for Ngāti Porou. It's a special day for the people of East Cape and we acknowledge the process that's gone through started in 2018 where the first reading was made and it's great to acknowledge certainly the Hon Chris Finlayson and the work that he's put into this. There's been a lot of people to acknowledge. Those here today we've got of course Dr Api Mahuika and Selwyn Parata who have been leaders in this process throughout several years in bringing us to this stage here today.So here we are. We've been through several processes throughout the last few years. We had about 215 submissions in the select committee process of which 18 were oral submissions. There were a number of changes that were made in that process from the select committee if I can just recap a few of them around introducing a cut-off date for hapū providing views on resource consent applications around clarifying the regulation of freshwater fisheries providing consistency and clarity between the deed and customary fishing regulations and a whole raft of other changes that we listened to in the select committee process. I wasn't on that select committee but I am on the Māori Affairs Committee now.So a number of changes came out and we're now at the stage of the third and final reading. We've had here the culmination of many years of work and I do just want to acknowledge everybody in the room and in the House here today—from both sides of the House—who have come together in order to make sure that there is an acknowledgment of the customary fishing rights of this iwi and of the 47 hapū who have signed this deed that this Act and this bill would effectively bring into force. So again I want to acknowledge the previous speakers and everything that's been said here today. I want to acknowledge of course all the team who have been involved in the negotiating process. It is a special day for you all on the East Cape where you now will have clarity you will have ownership and you will have certainty as was said by my colleague the Hon Nicky Wagner.So I would like to just sum up and say that this is a special day. It is going to be a day that will be remembered and this iwi leads the way for other iwi in terms of how we deal with foreshore and seabed matters and issues related to the customary fishing rights of iwi and of hapū that sign up to these deeds as well. So I don't want to take any more time. I do want to again acknowledge everybody for making the trip down from the mighty East Cape. You are the first to see the sun every day you are the first to have led the way on matters such as this and no doubt you will be the first of many such things to come in the future. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.