Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Madam Deputy Speaker. Ka pai. I'm pleased to speak on the second reading of this bill the Iwi and Hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa Claims Settlement Bill and I've enjoyed the contributions thus far. I wasn't a member of the Māori Affairs Committee in the 51st Parliament but I do want to acknowledge the work of the previous chair Tutehounuku Korako and all the members of that committee because I think what was evident in the debates today was the effort and the detail that they go into in scrutinising the legislation and in considering all of the submitters and the issues that have arisen through that process. If we look to this bill there are some issues that did arise and I'm hopeful that we can see some progress on those matters if not in this legislation then certainly some way somehow in the future. In particular I'm referring to the Hereheretau Station. One can only imagine how the Whakakī hapū must feel—the magnanimous gesture that they made in gifting that massive massive sheep and beef station for the benefit of returned soldiers but with very little if any benefit coming back to the descendants of the owners of that mighty agribusiness Māori agribusiness. So I certainly hope that Te Tumu Paeroa the administrator of the trust and the hapū can come to some resolution of that because it just doesn't seem right that the hapū right at the heart of Whakakī are denied any real rights to their own farming businesses which are a massive massive farming enterprise at Hereheretau. I just wanted to add my remarks on that particular point because I understand that Whakakī is renowned for their eels—their tuna—and I certainly hope that there can be a big hākari at some stage with plenty of those tuna served up. Perhaps it may be when the Hon Shane Jones opens that rail line from Wairoa to Gisborne. I might even pull out my horn and my old Rātana blazer and blaze away with the band at that occasion. Hon Meka Whaitiri: You heard it folks. RINO TIRIKATENE: It will be a treat. But I do want to refer back to what we're here for. Yes we are putting through this legislation at a second reading but I like to think of the sense of anticipation that is in store for the hapū and the iwi of Te Wairoa in the future and that will unfold as a result of not only this piece of legislation but all of the collective efforts that have been going on. I think that's evident from the collective group that forms te hapū me te iwi o Te Wairoa. I'm not too familiar with Te Wairoa but I do want to acknowledge just in my remaining time my uncle Kukupā Tirikātene who was actually whāngai-ed to a whānau in Wairoa and his grandmother was Pani Paata whose husband was an August—Ākuhata. He's māuiui at the moment up there in Tāmaki but I know that he has very strong ties to Wairoa and he always acknowledges his upbringing with his nan as he called her who raised not only him but many others from infancy. So I guess through that connection there—it's always nice to have a connection to the subject matter of the bill and to the illustrious iwi and hapū that this bill belongs to. So with that I really commend this bill at its second reading and look forward to its progress. Kia ora tātou.