Wall Louisa: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWall Louisa: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17671. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. E ngā mana e ngā reo e rau rangatira mā me ngā whānau o Ngāti Korokī Kahukura tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. To the authorities voices and leaders of a hundredfold the families of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura greetings salutations and congratulations to you collectively and to us all.]I would like to talk about justice because the chair of our Māori Affairs Committee Tau Henare brought up this concept of justice this morning within the context of my wanting to talk about our Treaty settlement process being about truth and reconciliation. I guess I premise my speech with that because for me the truth is that the facts and the history of our country is now encapsulated within our legislation. I want to pick up what the Hon Pita Sharples has said. The big challenge for the House now is disseminating that history that reality of our country so that every young person in our education system knows about the specifics within their rohe and the specific experience that the mana whenua have had within the rohe of all of our kura in our history as a country. That is the truth part of the process.In terms of reconciliation for me it is about relationships and partnerships going forward. I guess if we look at definitions reconciliation is about restoring relationships. It is about becoming amicable and fundamentally it is about harmonious and cooperative relationships which we all want our Treaty settlements to be. For us it is that process that will enable us to forgive what has happened in the past and to move forward with confidence. It is about iwi groups and the Crown working towards a common goal. I guess that is why for me this process is about truth and reconciliation.I do want to talk about justice. Within the context of this particular Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill that justice relates back to the 1860s—1863—when 1.2 million acres was taken from Waikato iwi. That was the raupatu of 1.2 million acres. In 1871 313364 acres was returned to Māori. So the Crown took 1.2 million acres and it returned 313000 acres which was approximately 26 percent of the lands that were taken from Waikato iwi. Then if I pick up on another point that Minister Sharples made by 1901 there had been 50 Native Land Court hearings that Ngāti Koroki Kahukura had been specifically involved in. What they got in terms of that 26 percent of lands taken was 800 acres returned which is 0.25 percent of the 1.2 million acres that was taken from Māori.What do we have in this settlement? The return of 20 properties. It is 110 hectares which equates to 44.44 acres. That is 5.55 percent of the lands that were returned to them in 1871. Is that justice? That is not justice. It is absolutely not justice but it is the honour of our iwi leadership the integrity of our iwi leadership that they want to move forward in a positive and constructive manner. So no way should we ever frame this as being about justice because it is not justice. It is about Māori—our whānau our hapūand our iwi—wanting to take control of their lives. It is about mana motuhake. It is about tino rangatiratanga.Within these settlements the vesting of opportunities for our hapū and iwi to be involved in the Maungatautiri Mountain Scenic Reserve is incredibly important. What that does is say to our communities across Aotearoa that Māori have a significant and special status that is over and above citizenship status or status that is conferred on us through the democratic process. What it says is that by right Māori—tangata whenua mana whenua specific iwi—have rights and responsibilities to ensure that these geographically identified taonga will for ever have their kaitiakitanga over them. Actually these are the significant parts of these Treaty settlements that I think going into the future will provide that platform for partnership that this process has enabled. In the future that is what we will be held to account for the most. It is that. It is the implementation of these Treaty settlement partnership opportunities that we as a Parliament will be held to account for more than anything else.I am not going to speak for much longer other than to again acknowledge Ngāti Koroki Kahukura and their mandated negotiator the Taumatawiwi Trust. It is the leaders within our iwi groups whose settlements these are and to whom we have to pay the ultimate tribute because without their leadership we would not move forward. I look forward to the day when they have their third reading when they have their piece of legislation that will enable them to move forward with the pride and positiveness that they had because what we do know is that our iwi groups were prosperous. They were flourishing. We had lands. We used our lands in constructive ways. We fed ourselves. We clothed ourselves. We did not need intervention from anybody else. That base which was taken from us actually needs to be recognised. But we also need to recognise that as the Government moves forward the relationships it has forged specifically those with iwi and hapū are really going to be the testament to how committed it is to this Treaty settlement process. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.