Hauiti Claudette: Ngā Punawai o Te Tokotoru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHauiti Claudette: Ngā Punawai o Te Tokotoru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 12 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16649. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAUDETTE HAUITI (National):I stand to support the Ngā Punawai o Te Tokotoru Claims Settlement Bill an omnibus bill. The purpose of this bill is to give effect to the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Ngā Punawai o Te Tokotoru made up of Ngāti Rangiwewehi Tapuika and Ngāti Rangiteaorere.The Māori Affairs Committee examined the bill and recommended it be passed with the following amendments: changes to Parts 3 6 and 9 in relation to the right of first refusal redress process to ensure that if a waiver or variation was agreed to the right of first refusal provisions would work as intended and amending clause 293 to vest the fee simple estate for Te Wētā Pā in the trustees of the Tapuika post-settlement governance entity. This is normal procedure and was inadvertently omitted from the bill as introduced. It also recommended amending clause 292 to include a parcel of land within Te Pehu Pā which is currently a legal if unused road and amending clauses 353 and 359 for the sake of clarity to exclude the transfer of Te Mataī Forest North Te Mataī Forest South and Pūwhenua Forest as they are already covered by clauses 354 and 355.Each settlement provides an agreed historical account Crown acknowledgments an apology to iwi and cultural and commercial redress for each iwi. With Ngāti Rangiwewehi cultural redress includes the vesting of certain areas including Te Riu o Kererū which is in Ngāti Rangiwewehi; vesting a part of Hamurana Springs as a recreation reserve and Ngā Tini Roimata a Rangiwewehi and Te Riu o Kereru B as scenic reserves; making Te Riu o Ngata subject to a conservation covenant; and statutory acknowledgments over a number of sites of cultural significance to Rangiwewehi.For Tapuika the settlement establishes a framework for co-governance of the Kaituna River. The Lower Kaituna Wildlife Management Reserve will be vested jointly in Tapuika and Ngāti Whakauē who will in turn and after a specified period of time gift the reserve back to the Crown. There is also the recognition of the significance of certain sites totalling approximately 209 hectares which will be vested in Tapuika including three sites from Kaharoa Conservation Forest two sites from within Te Mataī Conservation Forest Ōtahu Pā and Ōtūkawa which is in the Pah Road area. The settlement provides a whenua rāhui over Ōpoutihi a 65 hectare area from within Gammons Block Conservation Area and one additional site Te Taita Scenic Reserve will be vested jointly in Tapuika and Ngāti Rangiwewehi.The settlement provides for statutory acknowledgments over a number of sites and waterways of significance. With Ngāti Rangiteaorere the bill provides for the vesting of fee simple of the Te Ngāe/Rangiteaorere site to be known as Waiōhewa the vesting of Te Ngāe Junction Recreation Reserve subject to recreation reserve status to be known as Rangiteaorere and the Crown vests the Lake Ōkataina Scenic Reserve which is 321 hectares to be known as Whakapoungākau. The deed of settlement will provide for protocols to facilitate good working relationships between Ngāti Rangiteaorere and the Department of Conservation the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. The final redress amount paid under this settlement is around $750000. Again the purpose of this bill is to give effect to the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Ngā Punawai o Te Tokotoru. I commend this bill to the House.