Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Matua Tama Wairua Tapu me ngā anahera pono. Mā ngā māngai hei tautoko ae anei ake nei āe. Tēnā koutou Ngāti Hinerangi tēnā koutou ngā whanaunga tini karanga maha nau mai whakatau mai ki Te Whare Pāremata i tēnei ahiahi. Ka tū tautoko ahau ki te tautoko i tēnei pire i tēnei pānuitanga tuarua. Nō reira rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings Madam Speaker. Father Son Holy Spirit and faithful angels. May the divine mouthpiece confirm this prayer now and for ever. Yes. Greetings Ngāti Hinerangi greetings to my many relations and welcome me to Parliament this afternoon. I stand to support this bill at second reading. Therefore to the leaders among you greetings to one and all.]I'm delighted to speak in support of the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill at its second reading. I want to acknowledge the member for W'anganui Harete Hipango and her elevation within her caucus but also for her contributions in this debate thus far. It's always a pleasure to speak to these readings and I am particularly fond of Ngāti Hinerangi as chair of the Māori Affairs Committee because we travelled—it was back in December now last year—right into the heart of Matamata the most beautiful part of the country—Matt King: Northland.RINO TIRIKATENE: Oh it's better than Northland I'm afraid Mr King. It's equivalent to those most beautiful parts to the north and to the south. But Matamata is a wonderful part of the country. And so I was delighted along with fellow committee members to hear the kōrero from submitters. It may not be the largest Treaty settlement but every iwi has mana and every iwi has their own history and their own grievances which have been fully traversed and embodied in the deed of settlement which this bill gives full effect to. And so I was very pleased to chair the proceedings on that particular day. We heard a number of submitters as Minister Little said. Of the 47 submitters 43 were 100 percent fully in support of the bill; no changes required. There were some opposing submitters. And I think it's understandable that we do hear some other contrary views. As we know a Treaty settlement involves many hapū and if we think of Ngāti Hinerangi strategically where they are located there are a host of other iwi around Tauranga Moana around the Waikato - Bay of Plenty area which are all in that area of interest in which Ngāti Hinerangi is nestled. So we heard from hapū members who were perhaps wanting to get clarification around the terms of a particular hapū for instance. So there was Ngāti Tamapango who is part of Ngāti Hinerangi and Ngāti Pango. And to cut a long story short the two are one and the same and Ngāti Pango which is a hapū of Ngāti Ranginui on Tauranga Moana is also reflected in Ngāti Tamapango in Ngāti Hinerangi.So it's always most interesting to hear the history and to hear these connections. And really it's all about the whakapapa because there is the common ancestor of Kōperu I believe the common tupuna which links all of Ngāti Hinerangi and all of those hapū as well. We also heard from other hapū who applied to the Waitangi Tribunal. They sought some decisions from the tribunal around the mandate of Ngāti Hinerangi; the tribunal dealt with those issues—whether they would decline the urgent applications or dismiss certain applications—because there was already a mechanism in place for any hapū of the eight hapū that are part of Ngāti Hinerangi. There is always a mechanism and a process in place as part of the mandate arrangements that they could have followed through on. So those opportunities were available to those particular hapū but it was again very important that we were able to hear the kōrero and to record that not only through our submission process but also here in the House. But the long and the whole of it we actually made no substantive changes to the bill which is great. It fully reflects what was recorded in the deed of settlement. There were a host of technical amendments that we made around descriptions of various properties and the like which are all now 100 percent correct. And so this bill is now well positioned. I mihi to Ngāti Hinerangi. We have had a bit of a hiatus—we had the Christmas holiday break—from when we heard from submitters and then obviously COVID-19 which has intervened. So it's been quite a bit of a hiatus between then and now but I'm certainly pleased that we've picked it up again and that we are able to take another important step with this bill through the House. And with that I'll say more at the third reading but I want to mihi once again to Ngāti Hinerangi and I am here to tautoko this bill at its second reading. Kia ora tātou.