Shanks Katrina: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeShanks Katrina: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10827. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KATRINA SHANKS (National): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It is my pleasure to take a call on this Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill today. I would like to welcome everybody here who is in the gallery for the settlement. It is great to see the young here because these settlements are about the future. It is great to see the elders who are here today because they have worked so hard so persistently and with such good faith to get this Treaty settlement here today.I was going to say it is great to welcome the rowdy because you have been one of our more noisy-spirited iwi in the gallery especially with the roll-call. It was good to hear your clear voices out there so proud and strong coming from the gallery today. I would like to acknowledge those who have passed away on this journey who have not been able to be here with you today in this long long journey you have been on and those who have worked hard—all of you—to make this a reality for your iwi and for your future.This is the first time I have spoken on a Treaty bill since the passing of Parekura Horomia and I would like to acknowledge his work and his commitment to this process that we have got here today as well. What I have learnt from these processes and these Treaty settlement bills is the stories that you tell and the history that you learn. I think that it is important that we tell these stories and that we hear them and it is a privileged situation that we are in as members of Parliament to do that.I would like to tell just a little one about Parekura today and about these Treaty settlement bills. I am not known for my great Te Reo skills at all. I would stand up here and I would do a settlement bill speech and I would see Parekura put his hand up and there would be a little note in it. The messenger would come over and pick the note out of his hand; I would be watching this as I am speaking and the messenger would walk around put it on my desk and Parekura in the note would write: “You’ve got the pronunciation all wrong. This is how you say it.” So I would be speaking away reading this note at the same time trying to work out how to pronounce better pronunciations of all the words I had been saying and speaking at the same time. He would be sitting there with a big smile on his face with a big thumbs up and here I am thinking: “Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness!”. But that was Parekura for you: loving and supportive and always there to make a difference. The irony of his giving someone lessons on speaking and pronunciation is not lost on me in any way shape or form but we did love him to death and we do miss him incredibly in this House andalso in our select committee because he was a very very very strong member of that committee.I have touched on how we are very privileged as members of Parliament to be part of the Treaty settlement process. It is only small what we do in this House at this stage but what we have the privilege of is going out to the maraes and listening to your history listening to your stories and getting a much better understanding of the journey you have been on and why and how we have got to where we are today. Part of that is understanding the wrongs that need to be righted and part of that is understanding what is actually in this legislation because we have a role to play in ensuring that it is the strongest it can possibly be for you. So this legislation is about acknowledging the wrongs. It is not about an apology. It is about cultural redress. It is about financial redress.I just want to finish by saying that Nanaia Mahuta in a previous Treaty settlement speech said the words that it is great to be a bird but you need the feathers to be able to fly. How true is that. I wish you all the best for your future and I look forward to the constructive relationship that you are going to have with the Crown moving forward. I commend this bill to the House.