Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā e te whānau kia tuku mihi atu ki a koe Tutehounuku e tuku atu Te Reo Whakamoemiti i te ata nei nō reira mā Te Māngai e tautoko mai aia nei āke nei āe!" E tika ana ki te mihi ki a rātou mā i te wāhi ngaro nō reira kei te mi'i atu anō i te ā'uatanga ki ō tātou tini mate rātou katoa e hinga mai nā puta noa i ngā moutere nei. Nō reira e ngā mate ma'a o te wā hoki wairua atu ki a rātou mā te tini me te mano hoki wairua atu ki te ringa kaha o Ihowā o ngā mano tūāuriuri whaiōiō kī tonu te rangi me te whenua i te nui o tōna korōria kāti mō tēnā! Tika hoki kia tuku mihi atu ki ngā whānau me ngā hapū kua tae mai ki Te Ana Raiona i tēnei rā. Nō reira e mihi ana ahau ki a rātou katoa! E kī ana te kōrero "Tini whetū ki te rangi Rangitāne ki te whenua". E mihi ana ahau ki te pae maunga o Ruahine ki te awa o Manawatū. E mihi hoki ahau ki te maunga Rangitūmau ki te awa o Ruamahanga ki Rangitāne o Tamaki nui ā Rua ki Rangitāne o Wairarapa ki Kurahaupō waka ki Rangitāne iwi nau mai! Haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata nei tēnā koutou! Tēnā koutou e ngā uri o Whātonga tēnā koutou ngā uri o Tautoki rāua ko Waipuna me tā rāua tamaiti a Tāne-nui-ā-rangi! Koutou tātou anei au e tuku mi'i atu ana ki a koutou katoa koutou e whakamau ana ki te tupuna nei e whakamau ana ki te whakapapa o te rangatira nei. Me mau tonu ki ngā hononga o ngā karanga maha ō roto rā nō reira Rangitāne mā tū mai rā tū mai rā tēnā koutou katoa![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker but at the same time to you the family bear with me as I express my appreciation to you Tutehounuku for the prayer you gave this morning. And so "the Mouthpiece endorses it right now and forever more yes!" It is apt to pay a tribute to them and the others in the unseen place. Therefore I pay homage once again in the circumstance of our innumerable deaths to all of them that have fallen throughout these islands here. So to the deaths of the moment return spiritually to them and the others to the countless the numerous go back in spirit to the powerful hand of Jehovah of the thousands of the pitch-black of the very numerous. Heaven and Earth are filled with the greatness of His glory enough! It is right also to extend a tribute to the families and subtribes who have arrived today at the lion's den. And so I pay homage to all of them. The proverb states: "Like the multitude of the stars in the sky so is Rangitāne on the Earth". I acknowledge the Ruahine mountain range the Manawatū river. I also acknowledge the Rangitūmau mountain the Ruamahanga river Rangitāne of Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua Rangitāne of Wairarapa the Kurahaupō canoe and the Rangitāne tribe welcome! Welcome to this House here greetings to you collectively! Salutations to you the descendants of Whātonga of Tautoki and Waipuna and their child Tāne-nui-ā-Rangi! To you and us collectively here I am acknowledging you all; you the ones attaching yourselves to this ancestor and to the genealogy of this chief. Hold fast to the connections of the many callings within it and so Rangitāne and others stand and rise up. My appreciation to us all!]As always it is a great pleasure to stand to speak on claims settlement bills. Here we are today for the second reading of the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā (Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua) Claims Settlement Bill. It has been a long journey and I suspect an arduous journey and I want to acknowledge first of all those who are still with us but those who have passed on who had the vision to ensure that the stories and the kōrero of the past are being told in the context of what has happened to Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā.I always enjoy it when iwi bring their rangatahi for these occasions. So I want to acknowledge those who have the vision from the past and today and those who will carry on the legacy into the future. It is without a doubt that moving forward with claims settlements is really about the future. I will come to that later on in my speech but I do want to acknowledge that rangata'i are present because—if I can speak directly to the rangatahi here—this settlement is for you and all uri of Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā in the future.There are a number of parts to this bill and I want to touch on the very first part first of all. It is the part that I think is most important because in Part 1 there is the historical account the Crown acknowledgment and the apology. The historical account is an agreed account between the iwi and the Crown so it is a negotiated one. As always I always think "I wonder what's not in there?" but we know what is. I want to just acknowledge that—the historical account or the interaction between the Crown and the iwi since 1840 forms the basis for the acknowledgments that follow. The acknowledgments talk about how the Crown has breached the Treaty and then there is an apology.In the acknowledgment you have things like "The Crown acknowledges that the Rangitāne experience of large-scale land loss in the nineteenth century urbanisation in the twentieth century and the State education system that discouraged the use of te reo Māori contributed significantly to Rangitāne struggling to maintain their traditional marae communities and becoming alienated from their own cultural traditions and language." I wanted to mention that particular one—and there are several acknowledgments—because the actions that have happened to hapū w'ānau and iwi since 1840 have created a legacy that through this process we are trying to leave behind. The historical and intergenerational trauma that is transferred from one generation to another at some point needs to stop. So I wanted to talk about that particular one because of the clear impact on Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā.The next part of course is the formal apology from the Crown. The apology says things like "The Crown is deeply sorry for its many breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles" and "The Crown profoundly regrets that it failed to actively protect the tribal structures of Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Rangitāne o Tamaki nui-ā-Rua …" which is very good. It is great to have the historical account the acknowledgment of what went wrong and then the apology. But that apology needs to be real and I am not talking about just the current Government but from all Governments now and in the future. We must always remember that the Crown has breached the Treaty and it apologises and it says it must never do that again—never. So in the instance where legislation comes to this House it must never ever not consult properly with Rangitāne—ever. That is what the Crown is undertaking to do. That is Part 1.I agree with Minister Finlayson that moving forward there is a lot in this settlement. I want to just briefly touch on the cultural redress as well. I was interested to see that there are statutory acknowledgments and deeds of recognition and that there were five properties that have both. I think having those two layers over those five properties gives a huge opportunity for the reconnection of Rangitāne to the w'enua—back to the land. I remember when I was a negotiator for Ngāti Apa that was one of the key things that our people always talked about—the loss of land and reconnecting with the land. So that is one part of it. Another part is of course the commercial redress because reconnecting to the land in a cultural sense is fine but we also need to have an economic base—the economic base that we lost.I just want in the remaining few seconds that I have to recognise Mavis Mullins the chair of Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā Trust and all of the officers of that trust and I wish them all the best in going forward into a new direction through this settlement. Nō reira e Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. Otirā tēnā tātou."