Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): Kia ora Madam Speaker. E mihi atu ana au ki taku matua Hauauru me taku tuakana Herearoha hei kanohi mō taku iwi o Ngāti Paoa ki roto i te whare i tēnei rangi mō tēnei te pānuitanga tuarua o te pire whakataunga mō te iwi o Ngāti Paoa nō reira ka mihi atu ki a rāua ki a tatou katoa. He uri ahau o Patuone. Patuone i moe i a Riria Takarangi. E takoto ana ki roto i a Haukapua ki runga Takarangi. Taku taha o Ngāpuhi. Ngā herenga whakapapa kei waenganui i a Ngāpuhi me Ngāti Paoa. Anō ka whakaaro ahau ki taku taha o Ngāti Wai ki roto o Mahurangi ki runga i a Aotea ērā o ngā herenga whakapapa anō ki taku iwi o Ngāti Paoa. Huru ki Ngāti Rongo i roto o Mahurangi anō. Ērā o ngā whakapapa ērā o ngā kōrero tukuiho ka mihi atu. Ki runga i ngā tini karanga maha ki waenganui i a tatou ki runga i te here aroha ki runga i te ngākau tapatahi mō tēnei te whakataunga kereme o te iwi o Ngāti Paoa. E mihi atu nei e mihi atu nei. Tēnei iwi o Ngāti Paoa he iwi tere waka. E ai ki te kōrero mai Matakana ki Matakana. Me mau ahau i taku pōtae o Hauraki he uri tēnei nō Ngāti Whanaunga. Nō reira e tika ana a Hauraki e mihi atu ki a Hauraki. Me whakaaro anō ki te waitohutanga o te Tiriti o Waitangi ki runga i te Karaka i reira aku tupuna o Ngāti Wai i waitohu i te Tiriti o Waitangi taha o Ngāti Paoa tupuna. Nō reira ka mihi. Me huri ahau ki roto i te reo pākehā kia kuhu katoa aku hoa o tēnei Whare Pāremata.[I would like to acknowledge my uncle Hauauru and my sister Herearoha representing our people of Ngāti Paoa in the House today for this second reading of the settlement bill for Ngāti Paoa I acknowledge them both and us all. I am a descendant of Patuone. Patuone slept with Riria Takarangi. In the resting place at Haukapua on Takarangi. My connections to Ngāpuhi. My connections between Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Paoa. I also like to mention my connections to Ngāti Wai of Mahurangi on Aotea those genealogical links and history. I acknowledge the many kin amongst us together with unity together with foresight for this settlement claim of Ngāti Paoa. Salutations. Ngāti Paoa are a seafaring people. As the saying goes Matakana to Matakana. I shall wear my Hauraki hat a descendant of Ngāti Whanaunga. And so that is right Hauraki acknowledges Hauraki. I need to mention as well the singing of the Tiriti o Waitangi at Karaka in which my ancestors of Ngāti Wai signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi alongside the Ngāti Paoa people. And so salutations. I shall now speak in English so that my colleagues of the Parliament can understand.]I stand on behalf of te Rōpū Kākāriki and share sentiments of support for this the second reading of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill. As I shared in my initial mihi as an uri of Ngāpuhi as an uri of Ngātiwai Ngāti Rongo and Mahurangi and also as an uri of Ngaati Whanaunga I stand in tautoko.I want to reflect on loss and the losses for Ngāti Paoa over many generations and think about Tāmaki-makau-rau and the thoroughfare. I shared that Ngāti Paoa are a seafaring people. They were an iwi whai rawa [a wealthy tribe] and they were rich with abundance in Tāmaki and across their tribal rohe. In 1820 a missionary by the name of Butler visited Mokoia on the Tāmaki inlet—and I quote—Their houses are superior to most I've met with. Their stores were full of potatoes containing [many] thousands of baskets and they had [many] very fine hogs."Now Butler who must have climbed Maungarei—Mount Wellington—shared that he saw 20 villages in the valley below and with a single glance beheld the greatest portion of cultivated land he had ever met in one place in New Zealand. He iwi whai rawa a Ngāti Paoa [Ngāti Paoa are a wealthy people] and that's where the loss is because as we have heard from the Waitangi Tribunal the tribes of Hauraki were left virtually landless due to the acts and omissions of the Crown retaining only 2.6 percent of their tribal estate in 2024. The hara sits on te Kāwanatanga who have made the people of Ngāti Paoa mai Matakana ki Matakana—virtually landless—within their own tribal territories. The economic loss the opportunity for Ngāti Paoa to maintain what they had at Mokoia across their tribal territories across the islands was lost because the Crown failed to protect them to retain sufficient lands for their people to thrive and grow. The Crown failed to protect them from the rapid alienation Crown purchases Native Land Court public works takings—you name it Ngāti Paoa suffered it.These are what this settlement is trying to provide a tiny iti pīhi—a small piece—of redress for the people of Ngāti Paoa. Nō reira e tangi tonu ana taku ngākau ki taku iwi o Ngāti Paoa pērā i a Ngāti Hei. Ēnei iwi o tatou Parehauraki.[And so the heart is still in mourning for my people of Ngāti Paoa likewise with Ngāti Hei. These people of ours of Parehauraki.]So I stand here with a heavy heart as I support this legislation but tangi for the people of Hauraki for today I wear my Hauraki hat. I stand in my Haurakitanga and mihi to the people of Ngāti Paoa.The settlement package of rua tekau mā toru me te hāwhe miriona tāra [$23.5 million] and 12 sites vested in the iwi—is that enough? I question it: 184 years since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and they get $23.5 million and 12 properties vested in the iwi. Is that enough? Is this a process that is fair? No—kāhore—it is not. As we have heard this is about building a pathway to thrive and look to build an asset base but it's 184 years - plus of loss for te iwi o Ngāti Paoa and so I tangi for that. Co-governance co-management of sites—that should be a right and these sites should be in the name of Ngāti Paoa.Mā rātou e tohutohu me pēhea rātou e whakahaere i ēnei whenua taurikura ō rātou. Nō reira e mihi ana ki a koe e Herearoha me tō whakahaere i tō tatou iwi. Me koe anō hoki e te matua e te Rangatira Hauauru i ārahi i te iwi ki roto i tēnei whakataunga. Me taku mihi anō ki a Mōrehu Wilson kua ngaro atu nei. E mihi ana ki a ia ngā pokowhiwhi nui o tērā tangata e kawe nei i te taimahatanga o te iwi o Ngāti Paoa kia tutuki i te whakataunga kereme o tēnei iwi o tatou.[Let them decide for themselves how they manage their regional lands. And so I acknowledge you Herearoha and your management of our people. And you as well sir Hauauru who lead the people in this settlement. I also acknowledge our departed Mōrehu Wilson. I acknowledge him and his huge shoulders to carry the responsibilities of our people of Ngāti Paoa to succeed in these settlement claims for our people.]May I mihi to Ngāti Paoa in the good faith that Ngāti Paoa iwi has stood in the claims process because for my whakapapa we have overlapping interests and we have had disputes but the Hauraki Collective aside and that settlement this is about Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Paoa's leadership that came to the tēpu. May I reflect on behalf of my iwi of Ngātiwai and the overlapping interests and the way with which the hui through tikanga Māori we came together as peoples recognising our whakapapa connections but also our differences as we are different but we are whanaunga. Through those meetings on our marae in Ngātiwai and then both in the tribal territories of Ngāti Paoa agreements were made and those agreements were based on a tikanga-led process. Waiho te kāwanatanga ki waho. [Put the Government aside.] Leave the Crown out and let us settle it as whanaunga. I celebrate the way with which Ngāti Paoa leadership came into those meetings. Ahau nei nā [personally] I'm just an uri. I was watching on the outside. I'm a kaitautoko. But as kaumātua leadership came to bring our people together agreements were made so I mihi to the leadership of Ngāti Paoa. Three years ago since the signing of the agreement at Wharekawa Marae in Kaiaua I remember when my elders of Ngātiwai went to support Ngāti Paoa on that very special day.So these settlements are not about justice for Ngāti Paoa because the Crown settlement policy does not provide the pathway for full reparations for loss of Ngāti Paoa iwi and te Iwi Māori but what it does provide is an opportunity for a commencement of growth knowing the journey of Ngāti Paoa and the tribes of Hauraki and acknowledging Ngāti Hei who came through this House earlier this week and the support of the iwi ahakoa ngā piki me ngā heke [despite the ups and downs.]Through the claims and the negotiations process as a mokopuna of Hauraki on behalf of te Rōpū Kākāriki we support the second reading of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill.Ngāti Paoa ki uta Ngāti Paoa ki tai Ngāti Paoa tua o te pae o Matariki. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tatou katoa.[Ngāti Paoa inland Ngāti Paoa onshore Ngāti Paoa beyond the veil of Matariki. Thank you thank you thank you all.]Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa."