Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. Tēnā tātou katoa i roto i tēnei Whare Pāremata. Tēnei rangi pai rangi rangatira tēnei. Ā nō reira kei te mihi ki a koe e Te Ariki Tā Tumu te Heuheu ki a koe e Dame the Hon Whaea Georgina te Heuheu hoki. Ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou ngā uri ki a koutou katoa ngā whānau ngā mokopuna o Ngāti Tūwharetoa i tēnei rā kia ora mai tātou.[Madam Deputy Speaker greetings. Greetings to all of us here in this House. This good day this is an esteemed day. And therefore I greet you paramount chief Sir Tumu te Heuheu and to you Dame the Hon Whaea Georgina te Heuheu also. Loving greetings to you the descendants to all of you the families the grandchildren of Ngāti Tūwharetoa today greetings to all of us.]Kia ora. I'm particularly pleased to stand at the third reading of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill as an uri of Te Roroa e Ngāpuhi in the north and Ngati Porou in the East Coast. One of the privileges of being able to go through the House and journey alongside our claims settlement bills is learning about the different rohe around our country that we may not be as familiar with as we are with our own tūrangawaewae.So with that it really is a pleasure to have you here and we don't just say that. I was listening to the tangi o ngā pēpē earlier before and that's a beautiful sound to remind me actually that in our mokopuna is the reflection of our tūpuna. And this is everything about what we are doing today: it talks about who we are as iwi and who we are as tangata whenua and having the voice and the tangi and the reo of our babies is one of the best backgrounds to be able to help us move through the debate and the kōrero on this bill. And actually we like babies in here—so nau mai haere mai to every one of you.As I said before I'm learning about this rohe. I haven't spent lots of time in Lake Taupō Taupō Moana the central plateau and much of the central North Island and Te Araroa regions and of course being the fifth-largest iwi with approximately 36000 of you. So that's helping to get my understanding of who you actually are. Then of course in who you are is the strength and the vision that you all represent here as uri in upholding the whakapapa work that was brutally interrupted by colonisation by the processes that are outlined in the historical summary account in this bill.The whakapapa disruption to your kaitiaki responsibilities over land and water and maunga and mokopuna and economic development and being able to sustain yourselves was brutally brutally disrupted and this bill and this day represent part of the journey to try and at least acknowledge what has happened to try and give some semblance back to Ngāti Tūwharetoa to take forward with the best kaha that I know you all will muster. And so I also wanted to acknowledge actually TKT—Te Kotahitanga o Ngāti Tūwharetoa—who are the post-settlement governance entity because as we all know you've still got more work to do. TKT still has more work to do particularly—and my colleagues have traversed them quite well today—in some of the unresolved issues that will still need to be progressed outside of this settlement process.I wanted to pick up a lot of what the bill does. A lot of the historical account which I've also traversed in this House in my earlier readings on this bill has been picked up so I thought I would pick up particularly on another few key issues that maybe haven't been traversed as well.I want to acknowledge the concern around Lake Rotokawa Conservation Area in this settlement. I want to acknowledge that there have been many discussions and forums actually trying to pull together Ngāti Tahu - Ngāti Whaoa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa hapū who really wanted to consider having that conservation area in this. I know the Crown has removed Lake Rotokawa Conservation Area from this settlement package and because of that it cannot be included in this bill. And I'm sure those conversations will continue. I was very grateful to have visited Lake Rotokawa with Ngāti Tahu – Ngāti Whaoa—or as I found out when I realised half way through the day that when they say Tahu-Whaoa that's who they're talking about and was finally like Oh yes. Right now I know who that is." And so I just wanted to acknowledge what that place means for so many people and what has happened actually over that colonisation interruption and how this has happened through a lot of our rohe and overlapping claims around the country. It is hapū in particular who are left with trying to restore the connections over particular pieces of whenua. It's an ongoing issue. I acknowledge the manaaki that I was shown when I visited that place.Another outstanding issue: of course I do encourage the pursuit of the Motutere Recreation Reserve as redress especially when I hear that apparently even the Taupō District Council supports the concept of returning that reserve as redress. I do encourage that discussion to be continued but what I really wanted to have a chat about was the kaitiaki work that I know will improve.I completely agree with Mr Finlayson when he says—and the Greens have said this often—that the most enduring conservation plan we can have for Aotearoa for our rivers our soil our maunga our trees our indigenous species is to give it back to iwi. I would go further and say we should just give it all back—not just Waititi Land Corp.; just all of it. Just give it all back—that absolutely would be the most enduring conservation plan that this country could have because our maunga are our living rangatira as the Minister referred to in the beginning. When they are our living rangatira when the maunga really is our koro and when the river really is our kuia then we are accountable to her and to him. We are accountable to keep him well and to keep her well. We are accountable to think about everything we put in our soils and our waters and what it will be doing to the mauri and the well-being of our rangatira and our whakapapa and therefore what it will be doing to their mokopuna. So that is why I completely uphold that returning all the stolen stuff back to its rightful owners is one of the most enduring things.I haven't been able to spend a lot of time—sadly I was unable to attend the hearings in Ngāti Tūwharetoa that particular day and I read with deep profound interest the submissions and the report back from my colleagues on te Komiti Whiriwhiri Take Māori about how that amazing day went. I might take up Gina Rangi who would like to take me up to visit your maunga in a more Ngāti Tūwharetoa - centred way—and if that was supposed to be a secret well it's not any more. But I think being able to really ground myself in your history your tūpuna and your rangatira—oh yeah that tuku was never supposed to be a gifting over. So I'm glad we've established that really well—again you know give our koro back.The authority was disrupted and interrupted and returning taonga and affirming the kaitiaki responsibilities for hapū and iwi over water maunga rākau lakes etc. is a really good start. I know that you all will do the best with what has been delivered. I know you have all worked so hard over generations actually to try to regain some justice. I can't wait for the day when New Zealanders are enlightened enough to understand that giving everything back would be good for all of us and that's the vision that I hope for.So with that ngā mihi aroha ngā mihi hohonu ki a koutou katoa ngā uri katoa o Ngāti Tūwharetoa i ō koutou whakapapa ngā rangatira ngā rangatira ngā maunga ngā awa ngā mea katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa [loving greetings deep greetings to you all all the descendants of Ngāti Tūwharetoa your genealogies the chiefs the chiefs the mountains the rivers and everything else greetings greetings thrice greetings]."