Tremain Chris: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTremain Chris: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12216. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHRIS TREMAIN (Minister of Internal Affairs):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Tīhei mauri orā. Whakataka te hau ki te uru. Whakataka te hau ki te tonga. Kia mākinakina ki uta kia mā taratara ki tai. E hī ake ana te atākura. He tio he huka he hauhunga ā tēnā koutou. Ki te Whare e tū nei tēnā koutou. Ki ngā hapū ngā tangata o Maungaharuru-Tangitū tēnā koutou. Ki ngā rangatira o ngā hapū tēnā koutou. Ki a koeBevan tēnā koe. Ki a koutou ngā hapū ngā tangata tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Nau mai haere mai ki te Whare Pāremata.[Greetings to you. Behold the breath of life. Cease the winds from the west; cease the winds from the south. Let the breezes blow over the land; let the breezes blow over the ocean. Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air a touch of frost and a promise of a glorious day. Greetings to you collectively. To the House standing before me subtribes people of Maungaharuru-Tangitū and leaders of the subtribes greetings to you collectively. Greetings to you Bevan. Acknowledgments salutations and tributes to you the subtribes and the people and to us all collectively. Welcome to Parliament House .]Can I welcome everybody to the House today. Can I also commence my speech by acknowledging Meka Whaitiri in what is my first opportunity to welcome you to the House Meka and to wish you well in your term in Parliament.Most important today we are here to acknowledge this Treaty settlement with Maungaharuru-Tangitū which is a collective of hapū from the beautiful Hawke’s Bay and from an area I represent—the Napier area. This rohe sits as Rino described it between the Esk Valley which is a place where I actually live Rino in that particular part of the area—my home is in the Esk Valley.The area is actually more than that. The Napier-Taupō road is actually the start of this area of the rohe. It goes up the Tangitū coastline which includes the Tāngoio Taits BeachWaipātiki Aropaoanui all the way up to the Waikare River mouth. The rohe is north of the Waikare River then goes inland to Maungaharuru which is a mountain range to the west and then down to the commencement of the old Ahuriri lagoon.It is interesting that Maungaharuru—“maunga” meaning mountain “haruru” meaning roar—actually speaks to much of the history of that particular area. Many seabirds—petrels—used to live in that range of mountains. The roar of the seabirds flying up in the dawn was a memory from those days. That is actually something that I know that the hapū are trying to reconstitute working with the likes of Julian Robertson who is an overseas investor but who has put a million dollars into actually restoring the birdlife in that particular area. So that gives you a sense of the area. In the middle isLake Tūtira. It is one of the most beautiful parts of this country. That coastline byWaipātiki Beach is just a stunning part of New Zealand. It is no wonder that you would want to look after that part of the country and to defend your rights there.Can I acknowledge the different hapū that are here today—Ngāti Kurumōkihi Ngāti Tū Ngāti Whakaari Ngāi Tauira Ngāi Te Ruruku ki Tāngoio and Ngāi Tahu which form the collective of hapū within the Maungaharuru-Tangitū hapū collective there.I have talked about the area so that everyone is clear about what we are talking about here and about its richness because indeed that is the case. I want to also acknowledge the grievance that we hear. Many members have talked in the House today about that and we have talked about the apology that the Crown has given. No one is trying to defend what happened. It is a situation that occurred with the land where there was someraupatu and where the hapū were left in a situation of economic social and cultural deprivation which we have had to acknowledge and seek some form of redress for.I acknowledge the member from the Green Party Denise Roche in talking about the level of compensation that is paid in these situations. It will never totally fulfil what has been lost but we do need to take steps towards this. I think the Green Party does need to acknowledge that it is part of the Crown making this settlement and part of this process. So yes although we can criticise former Governments for what went on this is a way forward for all of us and I think that is the important thing particularly if I reflect onmy mihi at the start of this speech. It talks about a new dawn and a new beginning and I think that is very much the perspective we need to put around this.Today I want to particularly acknowledge the people who have been part of this settlement who have driven this and who have shown leadership over years—not months but years—particularly Bevan Taylor whom I acknowledged in my opening mihi and also Tania Hopmans. When we sat at the Tāngoio Marae and listened to Bevan giving a mihi about Tania’s work you got a sense of the efforts that she has put in to bring the different hapū together to make sure that this settlement got momentum and then got to signing—so can I acknowledge you. Can I also acknowledge the other members of the settlement team. I think you have done an outstanding job to get to this position which is superb.This settlement is a way forward. It does have economic social and cultural redress. Obviously the $23 million is part of that economic redress going forward. There is some forestry redress in there but also really important some key reserves that are returned—part of the Ōpouahi Station and the Ōpouahi Scenic Reserve. Ōpouahi is just a stunning part of the country up behind LakeTūtira. Ōpouahi now has a kiwi recovery programme within it. The boundary stream that is behind it is Department of Conservation land and has some stunning bird life in there now. It is just a magic part of the country.My encouragement is to use this settlement wisely. I know that we have got very esteemed people within the collective there who will use this investment wisely and take the hapū forward into the future. It was actually exciting to sit there at the signing of the Treaty settlement and to talk to people such as Bevan and to say—even though he found the process difficult I acknowledge that—that this was actually a way forward for everybody in terms of addressing some of the wrongs that had happened historically. So I personally am excited about the future. I think it is a step forward and a way forward for all of us. I ask that you think about the mihi I used at the start: whakataka te hau ki te uru whakataka te hau ki te tonga. Kia mākinakina ki uta kia mātaratara ki tai. E hī ake ana te atākura. He tio he huka he hauhunga.[Cease the winds from the west; cease the winds from the south. Let the breeze blow over the land; let the breeze blow over the ocean. Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air a touch of frost and a promise of a glorious day .]It does talk about a new beginning a new dawn and a new way forward.