Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai oti noa e tika ana kia tū ake anō ki te tuku mihi atu ki a Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa nō reira koutou mā kua tae mai ki Te Whare me kī te ana raiona tēnei ahau tuku mihi atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai whakatau mai. E mihi ake au ki ngā hapū katoa o Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa ki a Ngāti Aukiwa Te Hoea Ngāti Kaitangata Te Pohotiare Ngāti Rangi Matamomoe Ngāti Roha me Ngāti Rua koutou katoa ngā whānau ngā hapū katoa kei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa ā tēnā koutou.He tino honore tēnei kia tū ake ki te tuku i taku kōrero ki tēnei pire. E tū ana ahau i runga i taku whakapapa ki a koutou ki a Ngāti Kahu ā kua tae mai au i tēnei rā ki te tautoko i tēnei pire. Ka tuku mihi atu ki taku hoa mahi otirā ki taku whanaunga a Peeni Hēnare mō tana kōrero atu ki a koutou me tana kōrero ki tēnei pire nō reira tēnā koutou.[And so I thank you Mr Assistant Speaker but at the same time it is fitting that I rise again to accord a welcome to Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa and so to those of you who have arrived in the House—let us say the lion's den—I formally welcome you come forth draw close welcome. I acknowledge all the subtribes as well of Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa: Ngāti Aukiwa Te Hoea Ngāti Kaitangata Te Pohotiare Ngāti Rangi Matamomoe Ngāti Roha Ngāti Rua; all of you the families and subtribes welcome to you all.This is a real honour to stand up to deliver my contribution to this bill. I stand on my genealogical ties to you Ngāti Kahu and have come here today to support this bill. I acknowledge my fellow colleague and relation Peeni Hēnare on his address to you and his contribution to this bill so welcome to you collectively.]It is a great pleasure to speak on this bill. Once again I acknowledge my connection to Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa. I am a descendent of Kahukuraariki as well and I want to acknowledge everyone else who has arrived here from the Far North for the second reading of this settlement bill. We have heard a lot of discussion today around the process of settlements and as one of the few in this House who has had the honour and pleasure of negotiating a settlement for my iwi of Ngāti Apa I know—I said this in my first contribution and I will say it again today—that this process has its flaws. So I want to actually acknowledge some of the kōrero that the Rt Hon Winston Peters has said around the flaws of this process. But I also want to address how that can be addressed in the future. One of the key things around it is of course that settlement iwi—iwi that are in this process—have to ask themselves whether they can live with what this process can deliver and what it cannot deliver. That is an important part of the negotiating process. Quite clearly we are in a position as a Parliament to acknowledge that they have gone through this process and have signed a deed of settlement and now we are passing legislation that will enable that deed of settlement which is a binding contract between the Crown and the iwi. I want to talk about how that will look in the future because we want these settlements to be enduring—that they stand the test of time—which is one of the key parts of the settlement process. So what are the redress mechanisms actually based on? The process means and we have all acknowledged it that the Crown can provide redress but not compensation so we have to accept that. We have to also look at the basis for each of those settlements and there are some key things that we should be mindful of when the Crown uses the mechanisms that it uses for the settlement process. It looks at things like the amount of land loss the nature of that loss and relativity to previous claims. It looks at any special characteristics particular to that iwi or claimant group. These are the things that we should be mindful of when we are discussing these issues about how these settlements come into being and that it is a negotiated situation between the claimant group and the Crown. As I have said this process is not perfect and it is incumbent upon every participant to ensure that they understand what is at stake. I believe that through the work of the Māori Affairs Committee—and I have read its report very carefully—all of those things have been considered. So I mihi to the Māori Affairs Committee. So where does that take us in the future? I believe that we will not be able to address the issue of relativity until every settlement has been completed because we do not know the relativity of this settlement to a future settlement. We know the relativity—or we might think we do—of this settlement to all previous settlements and we at some stage will need to ask the question about whether that issue around relativity has been addressed to our satisfaction. So I acknowledge the contribution of Metiria Turei in this discussion because I think she raises those very issues around how this might fit into the future. This is a developing conversation I believe because if we look at previous debates on previous settlement bills in the early stages when settlement legislation started they could not possibly have predicted where we might be today—20 years later—and 20 years into the future. That is the discussion that we should have in a rational way so that we can preserve these settlements in an enduring way but acknowledge that at some stage our future generations will have another look at it. That will be based around I believe the process of how we get to where we are today. I do not want to take up any more of the House's time. I think that today we should celebrate the really good things that are in these Treaty settlement bills because they provide the opportunity for our people to enhance our aspirations moving forward for future generations. And so kei te mihi atu anō au ki a Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa nō reira tēnā tātou katoa.[I acknowledge Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa once again and therefore commend us all.]