Henare Tau: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12202. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TAU HENARE (National):Te mea tuatahi kei a koutou e aku rangatira tēnā koutou. Ā tēnā koutou i a koutou haere mai nei i tēnei rā mō tō koutou pire hou mō tō koutou raruraru i a mātou te Karauna. Nō reira ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa.[The first thing my leaders is acknowledgments to you collectively. Greetings to you who have come here in respect of your new bill and the problem you have caused us the Crown. So huge greetings to you all .]Where to start? First of all as a long-time resident of Auckland again I say thank you to Ngāti Whātua for allowing me to stay both in Ōtara and in Te Atatū peninsula.Like my colleague from the Greens David Clendon has said the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill is quite a unique piece of legislation in the fact that it allows for co-governance. We see more and more when we are doing Treaty bills that there is a move to co-governance and co-management. I think that is a good thing. I think that is a world-beater. It is one of the reasons why I think this country can hold its head up high in terms of the work it does in trying to work with indigenous people. We have not got it completely right but I think we do lead the way in our thought process on indigenous issues.There are a couple of funny things about this bill. In 2006 it was signed off. An agreement was signed in principle between Ngāti Whātua o Ōrakei and the Crown. Then as is most probably typical in Māoridom a few iwi got their noses out of joint.Hon Shane Jones: Who were they? Who were they? The Māori Party. The Māori Party.Hon TAU HENARE: No I am not going to say who they were. But I think that actually led to a better agreement than the 2006 one-off. So now we have 13 iwi who have put their hands up and wanted to be part of a collective co-governance regime over maunga and motu.Let me say to the House and also to the folk in the gallery that there is one maunga that I have a particular interest in and it is not Mount Eden. It is Maungarei in Mount Wellington and my involvement and I am sure many people’s involvement in the Kōkiri training centre in Maungarei. To all of those people who have been involved in the Kōkiri training centre at Maungarei my hat goes off to them right from the first day until the last day. My hat is certainly doffed to all of those people involved in the centre for their work.I cannot wait to get on the road with my colleagues from the Māori Affairs Committee and to come and listen to the submissions. I think it is important that the home folk of this bill—the 13 iwi—make sure that they make submissions to the Māori Affairs Committee. Wherever you go and when you talk to taxi drivers and you talk to people on the street about this issue they will say: “Those blinking Māoris are going to get the mountains. Those blinking Māoris are going to get the islands in the Hauraki Gulf.” It is up to us and it is up to you to start educating the rest of Tāmaki and the rest of the country in terms of what is actually involved here. If you talk about co-governance and you talk about the way things are going to pan out people actually start to take ownership of it and quite like the idea that there is co-governance that there isco-management and that there is basically joint ownership of the taonga that they see every day and every night.Lastly can I say about Tāmaki that my vision when you look at Tāmaki is Rangitoto. It is not the Sky Tower; it is Rangitoto. I want to say to the home folk that we must always have Rangitoto in our minds when we are looking at Tāmaki. It is the most beautiful sight in the world and we have got it right here in Tāmaki. Again I cannot wait to get on the road with my colleagues on our select committee to listen to some of the stories some of the reasons behind this settlement. I suppose it is just another tick in the box of our Government and our Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations in terms of I think our determination to settle as many of these grievances as possible in the shortest possible space of time. Kia ora.