Volume 707 Week 24 - Tuesday 11 August 2015(continued on Wednesday 12 August 2015)Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVolume 707 Week 24 - Tuesday 11 August 2015(continued on Wednesday 12 August 2015)[Sitting date: 11 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5643. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Tuesday 11 August 2015(continued on Wednesday 12 August 2015)Hineuru Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingHon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I move That the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time.I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill. Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of welcoming many of the community of Hineuru to Parliament to sign their deed of settlement and I am really pleased to welcome back to the House a number of them this morning as we put legislation into the House that covers their settlement agreement—reached if I may say so through determination pragmatism and willingness.I want to say something about the history of Hineuru’s interactions with the Crown. In the mid-19th century the tīpuna of Hineuru lived and cultivated land in the mountainous inland region between Hawke’s Bay and Taupō Moana. They had few interactions with the Crown until 1866. In that year Crown forces attacked a group of Māori who were camped at Ōmarunui near Napier after the expiry of an unreasonable ultimatum calling on the group to surrender. On the same day Crown forces also intercepted surrounded and then subsequently attacked another group led by the Hineuru rangatira Te Rangi Hīroa further north near Pētane. Crown forces killed Te Rangi Hīroa and other Hineuru people during their attacks and then pursued Hineuru and other Māori into the rohe of Hineuru and plundered their kāinga.By the end of 1866 Hineuru had abandoned nearly all of their kāinga and cultivations due to conflict with the Crown. Thirty-four individuals from the iwi were among 86 prisoners captured by the Crown. The Crown transported most of the prisoners to the Chatham Islands and detained them without trial in harsh conditions for almost 2 years. In 1868 the prisoners escaped and became embroiled in a war with the Crown. During this war Crown forces summarily executed a number of prisoners captured at Ngātapa in January 1869.In 1867 the Crown proclaimed a large confiscation district in Hawke’s Bay that included many of the lands of Hineuru. In 1870 the Crown concluded an agreement to retain some of the confiscated land in the core of the Hineuru rohe and return the remainder to individual Māori. This arrangement excluded a number of Hineuru from the titles for the Tarawera and the Tataraakina blocks and reduced the Hineuru interests in the Tarawera block to that of a minority. After years of protest in 1924 the Crown promoted legislation that allowed the Native Land Court to award land in Tarawera and Tataraakina to Hineuru individuals who were descended from those excluded from the 1870 titles. Then in 1952 the Crown promoted further legislation that overturned the titles that were awarded in the 1920s. For Hineuru these changes resulted in decades of tenurial uncertainty significant financial burdens and social dislocation.Fortunately the northern part of the Hineuru rohe was not included in the confiscation. However after 1877 the Crown and private purchasers acquired large areas of Hineuru land and so today as we have so often heard in this House in debates on Treaty legislation Hineuru are virtually landless.In the late 19th century Hineuru re-established a community at Te Hāroto where their marae and wharenui Rongopai stand today. However in the 20th century Hineuru faced economic insecurity which was accompanied by widespread poverty poor housing disease and the subsequent migration of many Hineuru from their traditional rohe. It goes without saying as I always have to say that it is not possible to compensate Hineuru fully for the loss and prejudice they have suffered as a result of the Crown’s acts and omissions. It really is a testament to their generosity that in agreeing to this settlement Hineuru have forgone full compensation so as to contribute to New Zealand’s development. As the history suggests their journey to settlement stretches back many decades indeed.Although I acknowledge those members of Hineuru here at Parliament today I also need to mention those who are no longer with us. This includes the tribunal claimants who carried the claims of their tīpuna but who were unable to see their efforts and their aspirations recognised in legislation. Hineuru settlement negotiations began in October 2009 when the Crown recognised the mandate of Ngāti Hineuru Iwi Inc. to negotiate the settlement of all their historical Treaty claims. Settlement negotiations began in 2010 and I asked our former parliamentary colleague Paul Swain to be the Crown negotiator. I acknowledge Mr Swain and the tremendous work that he has done. I regret that certain people in this House have been attacking Treaty negotiators in a very personal way in the last few days because they do an excellent job and Paul Swain is one of my closest confidants in this area. On behalf of him I reject everything that has been said about Treaty negotiators and I notice that no apology has yet been forthcoming.The Hineuru negotiators then provided me with a set of pou representing Hineuru’s settlement aspirations. These included the restoration and protection of Hineuru’s cultural heritage and their health and well-being; the recognition of Hineuru’s mana and the restoration of their relationships with neighbouring iwi a very very important consideration for the iwi; the reassertion of Hineuru presence throughout the rohe; the ability to rebuild an economic base for the iwi; and the revitalisation of Hineuru’s role as kaitiaki of the environment and its resources. These pou have guided Hineuru through their negotiations and have ensured they have obtained a settlement package that achieve these goals resulting in a stronger and more prosperous future for the iwi.In August 2012 I signed a letter of agreement and on 2 October 2012 I signed an agreement in principle. Intensive negotiations followed. These are not superficial negotiations as one member of this House seems to think. The Crown and Ngāti Hineuru Iwi Inc. initiated the deed of settlement in July 2014 and then as I said earlier we were very lucky to have Hineuru present in the precinct a couple of months ago when the deed of settlement was signed.The redress package recorded in the deed which will be given effect to by this legislation includes an agreed historical account Crown acknowledgments of its breaches of the Treaty and its principles and a Crown apology to Hineuru. These are not negotiated in 5 minutes; they are complex and carefully crafted documents that deal with important matters of history—I say that for the benefit of some members of this House. Then we have financial and commercial redress including a quantum of $25 million. Then thirdly we have cultural redress including the vesting of six significant sites overlay classifications statutory acknowledgments deeds of recognition and place name changes all of which require careful thorough negotiation as Mr Swain would tell us.I am confident that this package fulfils the objectives of the pou presented to me by negotiators in 2010and provides Hineuru with a strong vehicle for the development of their people in the future. I understand the trustees have already begun their strategic planning and have already made important decisions concerning the future of their iwi. I commend the trustees for their leadership and I acknowledge their decision to purchase both blocks of Woodstock Station at settlement date.The journey of this fine iwi now moves into the final stages as we look to implement the settlement legislation in the next couple of months. I say to the trustees of the post-settlement governance entity and to this House that this bill should proceed to the Māori Affairs Committee without delay. As we know that committee does a great job in processing these bills and getting them back to the House as quickly as possible. I commend the bill to the House.PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau):Ā tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. “Tīhei uriuri tihei nakonako whakatau hā whakatau ko te rangi i runga nei. Whakatau hā whakatau ko te papa i raro nei. Whakatau hā whakatau ki matuku mai i Rarotonga. Koia i rukuhia manawa pou roto koia i rukuhia manawa o pou waho kia whakatina te more i Hawaiki e pupū ana e wawau ana kia tārewa tū ki te rangi eke eke panuku eke Tangaroa hui e taiki e!”I te tīmatanga ko Te Kupu ko Te Kupu ko Te Atua ko Te Atua anō taua Kupu! Anā korōria ki tōna ingoa tapu i tau mai tōna ringa manaaki tōna ringa atawhai ki runga i a koutou kua tatū mai nei i raro i te tuanui ō tō tātou Whare. I mauria mai e koutou i te kaupapa whakahirahira o ngā mātua tūpuna koia nā te take ka korōria ka wehi tonu tēnei ki tō tātou Kaihanga kia tiaki tonu e ia ngā manako ngā wawata ō koutou o Ngāti Hineuru otirā mō ngā mokopuna o ngā uri whakatipu korōria ki tōna ingoa tapu!Nā ko ngā maharatanga ki ngā tini aituā i whakawaha mai te Minita i ētahi ō koutou otirā rātou kua ngaro atu ki tua o te ārai rātou i kawe ai i tēnei kaupapa rātou i kawe ai i te mamae mō te roanga o te wā mai i te tūkinotanga o te Kāwanatanga i a koutou otirā i a tāua Te Māori tae noa mai ki tēnei wā. Ka tangi tonu te ngākau mō rātou kua ngaro atu ki Te Pō. Haere mai haere! Ka tāpiri atu ko ngā aituā maha kei runga i a tātou e hui tahi nei i raro i te tuanui o tō tātou Whare. Kotahi tonu te kōrero:“Te rāngai maomao ka taka ki tua o Nukutaurua e kore e hoki mai ā muri.” Kāti te wāhanga ki te hunga mate!Kia whakahokia mai ngā rārangi kōrero ki a tātou. Ko tāku i tēnei wā e tautoko ana i te kōrero o te Minita mō tēnei take mō te pire e tatūnga i ngā kerēme i ngā take e pā ana ki te Tiriti o Wāitangi arā ki a Ngāti Hineuru i tau mai i te rā nei. Ka tautoko i ngā mihi ki ngā āpiha ngā āpiha nā rātou wēnei kōrero me te kiko o tēnei pire i whakaritea ka tae mai ki roto i tēnei Whare mō te pānuitanga tuatahi o te pire nō reira e mihi atu ana ki te Minita me ōna āpiha katoa. Ka tautoko tēnei i ngā kōrero ka tukuna atu tēnei pire ki Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i ngā Take Māori o Te Whare nei ka tukuna atu ki roto i ngā ringaringa o te heamana ka noho mai ki tērā taha o te Whare me ngā mema kei runga i taua rōpū hei whiriwhiri i ngā take hei whiriwhiri i te pire kei mua i te aroaro i tēnei wā tēnei ka mihi.Ka tautoko ahau i ngā mihi ki te ngākaunui ki te manawa ora ki te manawanui o Ngāti Hineuru mai i te takahanga o tēnei kaupapa i ngā tau 1990 i tatū ai wā rātou kerēme me ngā take e pā ana ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi ki Te Taraipiunara o Waitangi. Kia mōhio mai te Whare e te Māngai ā te Oketopa e tū mai nei ka whā tekau tau Te Taraipiunara o Waitangi. Nō reira ka whakaaro ake ki te nui o ngā mahi i oti i a rātou nā e pā ana ki ngā iwi puta noa nā me Ngāti Hineuru i tae mai i te rā nei tēnei ka mihi.Ka whakaaro ake ahau ki ngā kōrero hītori me ngā kōrero whakapapa i kōrero mai i waha mai e te Minita ki mua i te aroaro o te Whare i te rā nei. Nā ka kōrero mai te Minita mō te pakanga nui ki runga o Ōmarunui ki roto i ngā tau tini kua pahure ake nei. Kia mōhio mai te Whare e te Māngai kia mōhio mai koe ā te Oketopa ā te tau e tū mai nei ka 150 tau ka mahara tātau ki taua pakanga te pakanga i Ōmarunui. I taua pakanga rā ka kōrero mai te Minita mō ētahi o ngā uri o Ngāti Hineuru me iwi kē i whakaherea i roto i ngā whare herehere ki runga o Wharekauri.I taua tāima ka whakaaro ake ahau mō tērā tāima. Ka whakaaro ake ahau tā te mea i taua tāima i runga o Te Motu o Wharekauri tētahi tupuna rongonui ki roto i Te Ao Māori kāti ko Te Kooti tērā! Ka whakaaro ake ahau ki wētahi o ngā kōrero a Te Kootī. Hei tāna: “Ka whakaorangia e ahau te toenga o te tangata i hanga e tōku ringa i te tīmatanga āke āke! Ka pei ahau i te hunga kino! Ka whakahau ahau i ngā rohe o Rēneti.” Ko te ngako o taua kōrero e pā ana ki te ao i kitea nei e Te Kooti i a ia e mauherehere ana ki runga o Wharekauri. Nā ka whakaaro ake ki ōna whanaunga ki a ngāi tāua te Māori i tūkinohia ai e te Kāwanatanga ki roto i ngā tau i kōrero nei te Minita i nāianei tata ake nei. Nō reira ka mihi atu ahau ki a rātou nāna i peia mai i ō rātou tūrangawaewae tae noa atu ki ngā kāinga e mōhio nei tātou i tēnei wā arā ko Te Hāroto arā ko Tarāwera ko ngā awa rangatira ka tohua nei ka kōrero nei ki roto i te pire tēnei ka mihi tēnei ka tangi.Nō reira kāti ka huri i te titiro iaianei nā ki te roanga ake o ngā kōrero kei roto i tēnei pire. He nui ngā kōrero! He nui ngā kōrero e pā ana ki ngā mamaetanga i pā ki runga i a Ngāti Hineuru i roto i ngā tau. Nā ka tukuna atu tētahi kōnae pūtea ki a Ngāti Hineuru kia whakatinana ai rātou i ō rātou moemoeā i ō rātou wawata ki roto i ngā tau kei mua i a tātau. Nā ko ētahi atu wāhanga kei roto i te pire ka whakahokia atu wētahi o ngā wāhi kāinga o Ngāti Hineuru ki a rātou. Nā ko tētahi atu wāhanga kei roto i te pire ka āhei a Ngāti Hineuru ki roto i ngā komiti me ngā poari whakahaere o ō rātou rawa. Ā ko tētahi anā ko Te Awa o Te Rangitaiki ā ko tētahi atu ko Te Awa o Te Mōhaka. Kua kite tātau i tēnei Kāwanatanga e whakarite nei i ngā tatūnga kerēme pēnei i tēnei. Ka mea atu āe ka whakaae kia uru mai a Ngāti Hineuru ki roto i ngā mahi whakahaere o ō rātou rawa. Kāti!E mihi atu ana ahau ki tērā whakaaro rangatira! Pai ake tērā i te kore! Pai ake tērā i te noho wahangū o Ngāti Hineuru ki roto i ō rātou mahi whakahaere. Nō reira ka mihi atu ahau ki tērā āhuatanga o te pire.Tētahi wāhanga kai roto i te pire i kapohia nei i te whakaaro o Peeni e tū mai nei ko tētahi e mea atu ana ko ngā taonga tūturu kei roto i te pire nei. I te āta wānangahia te kōrero kai roto i te pire nā ka titiro anā koia rā ēnā ko ngā rawa ka puta mai i te whenua ka puta mai hei oranga mō te katoa. Kāti ka whakaaro ake ahau ki tērā kōrero te taonga tūturu! Ko te taonga tūturu o tāua Te Māori he aha rā tēnei? Ēhara i te mea nō te whenua anake! Ēhara i te mea nō te rangi anake! Ka pupū ake ko ngā taonga tūturu o ngā mātua tūpuna ki roto i te whatumanawa o te tangata ki roto i te mauri i kawea ai e te tangata nā ko Ngāti Hineuru kua tae mai i te rā nei.Hei whakapakinga ake kia mōhio mai koutou e Ngati Hineuru kua tae mai tēnei pire ki roto i tana pānuitanga tuatahi i mua i te aroaro o tēnei Whare i roto i te roanga ake o tōna haere ki roto i tēnei Whare. Kei konei mātou katoa e tautoko ana i te pire e āhua āta titiro ana ki roto i wāna kōrero kei roto hei totohe hei tutūnga i te puehu kia whakahoki atu te mana motuhake ki a koutou mā roto i ō koutou whainga ā tae hoake nei. Nō reira kāti! E te Māngai o te Whare tātou e hui katoa nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker of the House. “Behold the descendants behold the recollections welcome indeed the sky above me welcome indeed the reef heron from the north perform the ritual place the sacred red stone inwards conclude the ritual by placing it outwards. Firm up the Hawaiki origins here secure it. For that which wells up suspend it from the sky above secure it. Oh to be triumphant and to overcome Tangaroa; so join and be united; it is done!”In the beginning the Word was the Word God was God who was also that Word! That is it! Glory to his Holy name and that his protective and benevolent hand was upon you who arrived under the roof of our House. You brought the magnificent proposal of the ancestral forefathers and that is the very reason why I glorify and stand in awe of our Creator and that he continues to look after your hopes and aspirations of Ngāti Hineuru but at the same time for the grandchildren of future generations; glory to his Holy name!And now the thoughts go to the myriads of deaths. The Minister mentioned some of yours indeed those who have gone beyond the veil they who bore this proposal andhurt for a very long period from the time the Government violated you and us Māori indeed to now. I continue to grieve within for them who are lost to thevoid. Welcome depart! I add the many deaths that are upon us assembled here under the roof of our House to thosewhoare gone. There is only one aphorism: “The shoal of Scorpis violaceus that passes beyond Nukutaurua will never return after that.” Enough about those who have died!I want the address to come back to us. I am supporting the Minister’s address in regard to this matter about the bill settling the claims concerning the Treaty of Waitangi and Ngāti Hineuru who arrived here today. I endorse the acknowledgments to the officials. They considered these statements and the substance of this bill and are here in the House for the first reading of the bill and so I commend the Minister and all of his officials. I support the sentiments that this bill be referred to the Māori Affairs Committee of this House and into the hands of the chairman seated on that side of the Chamber and into the hands of the members on that committee for them to consider the bill that is before us right now; I commend this.I endorse the accolades in regard to the passion aspiration and persistence of Ngāti Hineuru since the transgression of this matter in the 1990s after the settlement of their claims relating to the Treaty of Waitangi claims was referred to the Waitangi Tribunal. It should be noted by the House that this coming October marks the 40thanniversary of the Waitangi Tribunal. And so I reflect on the vast number of settlement referrals that it has dealt with relating to tribes throughout and to Ngāti Hineuru who have arrived here today. I really commend them.I reflect on the historical and genealogical accounts that the Minister related and brought before the House today. Now the Minister related the major battle upon Ōmarunui many years ago to us. The House and you MrAssistantSpeaker should note that this coming October we will commemorate the 150thyear of that battle in Ōmarunui. The Minister told us that at that battle some descendants of the Ngāti Hineuru and of other tribes were imprisoned in the prison buildings on the Chatham Islands.At that time my mind went back to that period because there was another ancestor of note in Māoridom on the Chatham Islands but enough—that was Te Kooti! I mulled over some of Te Kooti’s proclamations. He said: “I will save the remainder of the people that my hand created in the beginning for ever more! I will banish the wicked! I will protect the borders of Rēneti!” The essence of that proclamation relates to the vision that Te Kooti witnessed when he was in prison on the Chatham Islands. So I thought about his relatives to us Māori mistreated by the Government during those years that the Minister alluded to just moments ago. And so I commiserate with thosewho were banished from their places thatthey had a right to stand on including places that we know of today namely as Te Hāroto Tarāwera and the revered rivers that are recognised and referred to in the bill. I commiserate with them and mourn for them.So enough! I focus immediately now on the substantial details in this bill—which there are a lot of! There are references to the hurt thathasimpacted on Ngāti Hineuru over the years. Now there is a reference to a financial compensation that was granted to Ngāti Hineuru to realise their future aspirations and expectations. In some parts of the bill there are references to some places belonging to Ngāti Hineuru being returned to them. Now in one part of the bill Ngāti Hineuru is able to participate in the committees and boards that administer their resources. One such is the river of Rangitaiki and the other one is the Mōhaka River. We have seen this Government making considerations in settlements similar to this one. I say yes I agree that Ngāti Hineuru participate in the administration of their resources. Enough! I commend that noble thought. That is better than nothing at all. It is far better for Ngāti Hineuru tohave a part to play in the administration of their resources than to remain silent. So I commend that aspect of the bill.Another part of the bill that captures the mind of Peeni standing here is theone that refers to the original treasures here in this bill. I examined that statement in the bill thoroughlyandIsuddenly realised that they were really resources from within the land that emerge as sustenance for everybody. So I pondered over that statement about anything prized that is original. What is anything prized that is original to us Māori; what in fact is this to us? It is not really something from the land alone neither is it from the sky! And then it emerged that anything original that is prized by the forefathers is within a person it is the very essence of life that each of us has; now there are Ngāti Hineuru who have arrived here today!In closing I want youNgāti Hineuruto be cognisant of the fact that this bill has arrived before this House for its first reading and for the entire duration of its journey through it. We are all here supporting the bill and being somewhat analytic of its statements at times debating and stirring up the dust a bit to ensure that your absolute independence eventually returns to you collectively throughyour aims. Therefore enough! MrAssistantSpeaker of the House I acknowledge and commend you and all of us gathered here; thank you.]Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker kia ora tātau katoa e te Whare. Hei tīmatanga kōrero māku hei whaiwhai haere i te ia o te kōrero me pēnei rawa te kī: “Tēnei te ara kei runga ko te ara o tēnei tipua ko te ara o tēnei ariki ko te ara o tēnei matua a iwi ko te ara o Ranginui e tū nei o Papatūānuku e takoto nei kia rarau iho rā ngā tapuwae o Tāne tēnei te pō nau mai haere mai te rā! Koia rā e Rongo whakairia ki runga tūturu ōwhiti whakamaua kia tina! Tina! Hui e tāiki e!”Ko tāku e hoa mā Ngāti Hineuru tēnā koutou haere mai. Ko te wāhi ki a au e tautoko i ngā kōrero a te Minita ka tahi ā tēnei o māua a Peeni ki a koutou kua tatū mai. Ehara i te mea he tawhiti rawa ngā korero ki tērā i kōrerohia nā e Peeni e tika ana tāna! Anei a Te Ururoa e tautoko ake ana i a ia anei Te Pāti Māori e tautoko ake ana i ngā kōrero kua puta anei māua ko Strepsils e raruraru nei kua pāngia e te maremare nō reira e kore au e kōrero mō te wā roa.E hoa mā ka mihi rā ki a koutou kua tatū mai! E tika ana tā te Minita otirā tā Peeni mō te hunga kua ngaro atu. I a au e tū nei ka hoki ngā mahara ki a Whetū Tipiwai. Ko ia tērā i haere ki te mata o te whenua i raro i te korowai o Ngāti Hineuru te wā i a ia. Ka tangi ki a ia me tērā kāhui kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi nō reira waiho rātau ki a rātau. Anei tātau i tēnei rā huri noa i tō tātau Whare me ngā mema katoa tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.Kai aku rangatira ko au tētahi ka haere i roto i tō koutou rohe ka puta i Rotorua ka tae atu ki Taupō kua mōhio tonu ahau ka tae ana ki Taupō kotahi hāora me te toru hauwhā hāora pea ā ka tae atu ki roto o Ahuriri. Ā ka tae atu ki Tarawera kua mōhio ā kua āhua tata atu ki tērā o ngā takiwā ki Ahuriri. Ka tae atu ki Te Hāroto ā wā poto ā ka tae atu ki Ahuriri. Ka mutu ka tata atu ki Ahuriri kua mōhio kei reira tonu te Iron Māori e tatari ana ki te hunga pakari. Nō reira kua waia kē au ki tērā rori ki tērā takiwā ka mutu e hia kē nei ngā wā kua haere au i tērā huarahi me te mōhio anō hoki arā anō te rohe pōtae o Ngāti Hineuru.Kua oti kē i te Minita nei te whakatakoto te hītori. E kore au e whakatōwai i ērā kōrero ka mutu he pērā anō hoki a Peeni kāo e kore au e hoki ki ērā kōrero. Ko te kaupapa nui ki a au i tēnei rā ko te kī atu ehara i te mea he nui ngā rerekētanga o tērā o ngā hītori i pā ki a koutou o Ngāti Hineuru ki ētahi atu iwi o te motu. Arā kua kite i ētahi atu kanohi o Ngāruahine rā kua waia kē rātau ki te āhuatanga o tēnei mea o te muru me te raupatu. Pēnei i tā Peeni e kōrero nei nā wai ngā whenua i whānako? Ē nā te Karauna! Ka puta i roto i ngā kōrero ā kō ake nei. Ka puta nā runga i te aha? Ā nā runga i te āhuatanga o te whawhai o te tohe ka tahi. Ka rua nā te āhuatanga o ngā mahi tinihanga a te Kōti Māori tēnei Kōti Nātive e tū tonu i tēnei wā. Nā reira ka tangi ake! E tika ana te kōrero i noho kore whenua nei koutou i raro i te korowai i raro i te tirohanga o te Kāwanatanga! Ēngari kua mōhio tonu koutou ki tō koutou ake rohe.Ā ka mutu i rongo anō hoki au i te kōrero mō Te Kooti. Ki tāku mōhio ē āhua ōrite a Te Kooti ki ngā poropiti o roto o Taranaki a Te Whiti o Rongomai rāua ko Tohu Kākahi. He aha tā rātau kaupapa? Te rangimarie me te rongomau! Ā tōna mutunga mai he aha te kaupapa i puta? Ko whawhai ko pakanga! Nō reira ka raruraru i reira! Anā pēnei i ngā mea o roto o Taranaki ā i heria ngā tāne ki Ōtepoti rā anō. Te āhuatanga ki a Te Kooti me āna tāngata kua heria atu ki Wharekauri rā anō. He aha te mahi? Mauherehere nei i roto o Ōtepoti mauherehere nei ki roto o Wharekauri. Ēngari ko te mea pai i puta ko te rongopai. Ko tēnā o ngā whakaaro ko te rongopai ko te whakapono ki Te Atua. Mā Te Atua anō rā ngā mamaetanga ngā pēhitanga e whakatau. Ēngari kei konei tonu tātau e kōrero nei mō ēnā uauatanga. Nō reira ka tangi ake ki te āhuatanga o ngā mamae i rangona nei e te ngākau e te wairua e te tinana o te tangata ō koutou Ngāti Hineuru. Ka tangi ake ki te mamaetanga i utaina ai e Te Karauna ki runga i a Ngāti Hineuru otirā ngā iwi o te motu. Kei konei tonu tātau e tohe nei mō ērā kōrero!Hei whakakōpani i taku kōrero kua rata atu au ki te āhuatanga o ngā kōrero mō ngā pou e whā i whakaritea mai ai e koutou. Tuatahi kia whakaora anō rā i te ara whanaunga ki ētahi o tērā rohe o tērā takiwā. Ā ka pai hoki kia pērā rawa te āhua. Tuarua ko te whakaora i te oranga tonutanga o Ngāti Hineuru ā-wairua ā-tāngata ā-ngākau. Tuatoru kia whai tūranga a Ngāti Hineuru i roto i ngā take katoa o te takiwā. Me pērā ka tika! Tuawhā kia noho a Ngāti Hineuru hei kaitiaki i runga i ō rātau ake whenua. Koinei te tikanga me pērā ka tika! Nō reira ehara i te mea he nui ngā kōrero i tua atu o tērā.Ēngari mēnā he kupu kōrero hei whakakōpani i taku mihi ki a koutou i tēnei rā mēnā ko te tino rangatiratanga tā koutou e whai nei ehara i te mea ka kitea mai ai i roto i tēnei pire kāo! Ēngari koinei tētahi paku wāhanga o te huarahi kia eke ki tērā taumata! Nō reira kua puta te kōrero mai i a Hineuru mō Hineuru. Mēnā koinei te whāinga matua ka pai hoki! Ko tāku he tautoko ake i te mahi nui a te Minita he whakatinana i tēnei o ngā kaupapa ko te pānuitanga tuatahi. Arā anō ētahi mahi nui hei whakaoti ā ngā marama tata kei mua i te aroaro. Ēngari ko te ngākau o te Whare e tautoko ake i ngā keremē katoa.E hoa mā kia kakama ki te whakatutuki i te kaupapa nei! Kua roa mātau e kī ana kaua e kī atu kua mutu te huarahi i tēnei rā kāo! Tonoa mai wā koutou tamariki tonoa mai ā koutou tamariki ka kore e mutu ēnei āhuatanga ki konei ā ngā marama tata kei mua i te aroaro! Ēngari ko te mamae e kore e mutu! Kei roto i ngā tamariki kei roto i a koutou! Nō hea mai? Nō te mahi a te Karauna ki ō koutou tūpuna ki ō koutou mātua! Nō reira tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou ki a tātau e te Whare huri noa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia kaha kia toa![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to us all in the House. To begin my address and to follow up the tenor of it allow me to say: “This path upwards is the path of this deity this firstborn this father of the tribe this Sky Father above this Mother Earth below for man to place his feet upon this night welcome the day welcome! That is it; Rongo hang these words up there and fix it firmly! Firmly and permanently! Join gather entwine!”Welcome to you my friends of Hineuru welcome. Firstly I endorse the Minister’s statements and those of the fellow member Peeni Henare to you who have arrived here. My sentiments are not too far away from those expressed by Peeni and what he has stated is correct. Te Ururoa is standing here supporting what he said as is theMāori Party and so are my Strepsils as I am troubled somewhat by a cough and as a consequence will not be speaking too long.Friends you have arrived and I really welcome you. In regard to those who have passed away the tributes by the Minister and Peeni are so appropriate and as I stand here my thoughts go back to Whetū Tipiwai who travelled the country under the cloak of Ngāti Hineuru during his lifetime. I mourn him and those who are lost from our sight and so allow them to rest there in their own company. And here we are today throughout our House with all the members; I acknowledge us all.I am one who my esteemed elders when I leave Rotorua to go to your region once I get to Taupō I know that I will reach Napier in about an hour and three quarters. So when I get to Tarawera I am cognisant of the fact that I am getting closer to one of those Napier boundaries. When I reach Te Hāroto I know that in a short while I will get to Napier and also just before I get there the place for the Iron Māori event is still therewaiting for the fit ones. ThereforeI am accustomed to that road that area and so I have travelled that highway several times knowing full well that it is Ngāti Hineuru territory.The Minister has already outlined the history. I will not add anything further and besides Peeni did the same. No I will not go back to those historical accounts. My major platform today is saying to you Ngāti Hineuru that there is not a great deal of difference about that history that relates to you as it does to other tribes. I see the face of others like Ngāruahine especially; you are accustomed to this thing about plundering and confiscationas Peeni said in his address. Who stole the land? Er the Crown stole it! That will emerge in accounts to follow. Based on what? Based on the circumstances of warfare and disputes is one; two the deceitful actions of the Māori Land Court this Native Land Court that continues to exist today. And so I grieve. It is true that you were left landless under the cloak and watchful eye oftheGovernment. But you know your region well—very well.Furthermore I also heard about the stories about Te Kooti. In my opinion Te Kooti is a bit like the Taranaki prophets Te Whiti of Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. What did they advocate? Calm and peace. What was the outcome? Conflict warfare! And so it broke down there. In the case of the ones in Taranakithe men were taken all the way to Dunedin. In Te Kooti and his followers’ situation they were taken all the way to the Chatham Islands. What did they do there? The oneswhowere taken to Dunedin were imprisoned thereand the ones taken to the Chatham Islands were imprisoned as well. But peace was the great thing that emerged. In regard to that thought it was the peace and belief in God that emerged from the imprisonment. Only God can settle the hurt and oppression. But we are still here talking about the circumstances of those hardships that the heart spiritand body of those of you of Ngāti Hineuru experienced. I grieve for the hurt that the Crown inflicted upon you Ngāti Hineuru and indeed upon the tribes of the nation. And here we are debating those accounts.In conclusion I warm to the four milestones that you came up with for us to consider. The first one is to restore familial relationships with others in that region or district. It is wonderful if that is the situation being sought. The second one is to restore the very spiritual health bodily health and welfare of Ngāti Hineuru. The third one is for Ngāti Hineuru to have a position in all matters relating to the district. That must occur as of right. And the fourth one is that Ngāti Hineuru remains a guardian over its own lands. This is the custom and it must be so. Aside from thatI do not have much more to add.However if there is a comment to close my welcome to you todayit is this: if self-determination is what you are seeking you will not find it in this bill—absolutely not. But this is a small step towards attaining that level. And so the story from Hineuruabout Hineuru has emerged. If that is the main aim then that is absolutely wonderful. My role is to support the great work of the Minister in implementing this first reading. There is much more work of importance for us to completein the near months ahead. The heart of the House is really set on supporting all the claims.Colleagues we need to make haste to complete this matter. We have for a long time said that the road hasnotended here today; no it has not at all. Send your children your youngsters here; these circumstances will not finish here in the near months ahead of us. And the pain will not end! It is in the children;it is in you. Where is it coming from? From the actions of the Crownto your ancestors and your parents. And so I acknowledge you and us in the House collectively throughout; well done congratulations be strong be staunch!]MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti):Mr Assistant Speaker tēnā koe; e ngā mema o te Whare tēnā tātou katoa. Ngāti Hineuru whenua Ngāti Hineuru mana Ngāti Hineuru tangata tēnei te mihi maioha ki a koutou. Tēnei te mihi maioha i runga i te kaupapa whakahirahira. Āe kua tae mai te wā kia hōnore Te Kōrōria o Te Atua. Nō reira e te iwi nau mai nau mai hara mai.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to you all the members of the House. To you Ngāti Hineuru land authority and people my affectionate welcome to you in regard to this great proposal. The moment to honour the Glory of God has arrived and so I bid you the tribe welcome welcome welcome.]It is indeed an honour to stand to acknowledge and to support unreservedly the passage of this historic bill the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill. Like previous speakers in the House I too want to acknowledge those who are no longer here with us both to witness today the first reading of this important bill but also to see the conclusion of what I understand has been a real struggle in getting to this point. So I mihi in their honour to those who are no longer here.In the short time I have it is important to acknowledge those who have been instrumental in bringing this bill to this House today. I do want to acknowledge the negotiators of Ngāti Hineuru and to commend them for the tenacity they have shown and the commitment and the generosity—using the words of the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations—in getting to an acceptable settlement here today. As a former negotiator myself I understand the commitment that being a negotiator requires—it requires a commitment of character when you have to travel home to your people and you get called all sorts of things; a commitment to make sure that you are doing the absolute best for your people. So I do want to commend and acknowledge the negotiators for getting us here today.Of course we would not be here unless we had the support of the Crown. I want to acknowledge the Office of Treaty Settlements officials for their role. I also want to acknowledge the Minister Chris Finlayson. He has overseen a lot of Treaty settlements and I want to support and acknowledge his support in getting us here. Of course as this bill goes to the Māori Affairs Committee I want to acknowledge the chair and the members of a very hard-working select committee that does the best for our people and I want to acknowledge them in support of the work that they get. Hopefully we will get this bill back in quick time.I do not want to go through it in detail because there is too much to cover in the short time I have. There are two parts of the historical account that I want to draw to the House’s attention and make note of in my contribution. One is about the 34 Hineuru individuals who were among the 86 prisoners of the Crown captured at Ōmarunui and the conflict near Pētane. Most were transported to the Chatham Islands which the Minister acknowledged and detained without trial for 2 years in harsh conditions. In 1868 the prisoners escaped and became embroiled in a war with the Crown. During this war the Crown forces attacked Ngātapa in January of 1869. After the attack a severed head reported to belong to Nikora of Hineuru was brought back to the Crown camp. The Crown forces similarly executed a number of prisoners captured at Ngātapa.With that record of Ngāti Hineuru’s historical account I draw the conclusion that it is one that is similar to that shared with my father’s people of Rongowhakaata who along with Hineuru lost many lives at Ngātapa. In fact women and children were shot and thrown over the hill at Ngātapa. I feel the hurt that Ngāti Hineuru have particularly for those people who were executed at Ngātapa. Kei te mihi ki a koutou.The second point that I want to raise in the historical account is what I have also seen in many other Treaty settlements. The Minister referred to the taking of land and the returning of land in 1920 to those descendants—to the individual Māori—and how that was overturned in some other forms of legislation in the 1950s when Ngāti Hineuru again became landless. There have been many settlements where we have seen the actions of the Crown reward those who either fought or enabled the Crown to take the actions that it did on our people by the gifting of land and then the taking away of land. I just want to draw attention to that particular point because right in front of this House we are dealing with a bill around Māori land which is ngā ture whenua. I wanted to draw a comparison between what the current Government is doing and some of these historical Acts that have breached the rights of the people of Ngāti Hineuru. I want to make the point that when we are passing legislation in this House that impacts on the rights of Māori landowners we have to do that very very carefully.That is my message today in celebrating this first reading of this important bill: we cannot bring legislation in here that further alienates Māori from their whenua. When we read the historical account of Ngāti Hineuru they like many many iwi were left landless. It is upon us as parliamentarians as members of this House that the property rights of iwi katoa need to be protected. I want to acknowledge this in the support of this bill.With the minutes I have left my closing comments—and I support the Minister—are around the generosity that Ngāti Hineuru have displayed in getting to this final settlement. They have been subjected to atrocious breaches of their rights as guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi. Therefore it is important and incumbent on all members of this House that we not only acknowledge those breaches but we support what has been negotiated like the Minister said under trying times to ensure that we can at least in a very small part accord a form of compensation of remedy that will ensure that the aspirations of Ngāti Hineuru are strong as we go forward. Therefore I stand with all members in this House in commending the first reading of this bill the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill. Kia ora tātou.NUK KORAKO (National):Tēnā koe e te Mana Whakawā. Ka mea nui ki te mihi atu ki tō tātou Matua Nui i Te Raki me te tīmataka me te tautoko o Te Ao katoa. Nō reira ka mihi atu hei hōmai ngā mea katoa. E ngā manuhiri a tuāraki ka mihi ki a Ngāti Hineuru Te Kura Mouka Te Mōhaka Awa Rangi Hīroa te tangata ka mihi. Ngāti Hineuru e mihi nei e tangi nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. The most important thing is to acknowledge our Almighty Father in Heaven and the beginning and the support of the whole world and so I give thanks to all things given. I welcome you the visitors from afar Ngāti Hineuru the mountain Kura the river Mōhaka and the man Rangi Hīroa. I mourn and bid you welcome Ngāti Hineuru; greetings and salutations to you all.]I want first to acknowledge the representatives of Ngāti Hineuru who are here today and through you I want to acknowledge all of Ngāti Hineuru and the pain and loss that have been caused to you by the actions of the New Zealand Government over many years. I also want to acknowledge the many years of hard work that successive generations of Ngāti Hineuru people have put into seeking redress for multiple breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The iwi have sought fulfilment of six pou whenua or milestones within this agreement that reflect the nature and the scale of the losses that Ngāti Hineuru have sustained. These include tuatahi restoration and protection of their cultural heritage and history for the future generations. This reflects the severe impact on Ngāti Hineuru’s culture and traditions of the loss of land and identity they suffered.Past New Zealand Governments had labelled the iwi as rebels to justify a tax on them and the confiscation of their land. The Waitangi Tribunal concluded that Hineuru were not in rebellion but the labelling of the iwi as rebels persists in some historical accounts. This treatment of Ngāti Hineuru as rebels also led to much of their land being given to other iwi who were allies of the Crown.Tuarua is the restoration of the health and well-being of their people. Unsurprisingly the confiscation of such large amounts of land had a detrimental effect on Hineuru’s living conditions particularly housing. The poor health and state of poverty that resulted still affect Hineuru to this day.Tuatoru is the recognition of the mana of Hineuru and the restoration of the relativity Hineuru had with other iwi. Over the years the Crown had systematically undermined the mana of Hineuru and failed to acknowledge it as an iwi in its own right. The classification of Hineuru as a hapū of other iwi in the region has held back its ability to develop a partnership relationship with the Crown and to maintain its relativity with other iwi in the area.Tuawhā is the reassertion of the presence of Hineuru through their rohe. Before the intervention of the Crown Hineuru were a key iwi in a strategic position in the Hawke’s Bay. Following the mass confiscation of their lands Hineuru were left in the position of being considered a minor iwi to the point where they have often been left off lists of iwi in the region. This has included also not being listed as an iwi in census material.Tuarima is rebuilding an economy base for Hineuru. As well as the devastating effect on their culture health and mana massive land confiscations have prevented Hineuru from building any sort of an economic base.As with any Treaty settlements this one will not try to compensate Ngāti Hineuru fully for the land and the subsequent economic opportunities that have been lost. But we must acknowledge that every iwi that reaches this point of the settlement process has shown a great generosity of spirit in accepting that full compensation for past wrongs is not possible accepting instead an apology for past wrongs and a small investment in their future.Tuaono revitalisation and restoration of Hineuru’s role as kaitiaki of their resources and their environment. Hineuru will be given a greater role to play in the management of resources within their rohe. This may be recorded in the deed of settlement as a form of redress and indeed Hineuru’s exclusion from the management of these resources is wrong and is indeed in need of correction. But it is also very easy to see this as another form of generosity on the part of Hineuru. Since the Crown took responsibility for the management of these natural resources they have been degraded. The iwi are now once again becoming involved in the management of these resources which have been degraded on the Crown’s watch.At the risk of becoming repetitive I want to reiterate what I have said in this House many times before: involving iwi in the management of the environment is a win-win. New Zealanders whether Māori or non-Māori are people who value our natural environment and who derive all sorts of benefits from it be it our enjoyment of our beautiful national parks our mahinga kai our enjoyment of outdoor recreation or the economic benefits of tourism. Māori have a unique perspective and a valuable contribution to make to the management of our natural environment. We already know that the Hawke’s Bay will benefit from this settlement through the increased economic development that will come out of the financial redress but it will also benefit from Hineuru’s involvement in the economic management of their region.I want to reiterate to the people of Hineuru—I say this: your many years of struggling to right the wrongs of the past are nearly over. You have signed your deed of settlement and soon this bill will give legal effect to that agreement that has come to fruition with the Crown. When that day comes and this bill is passed it will be up to you to turn this small settlement into a brighter future for your people. The struggles are behind you but a different type of challenge lies ahead for you. I know that your rangatira will already be preparing for that challenge. As chair of the Māori Affairs Committee I look forward to considering this bill and welcoming the people of Ngāti Hineuru and any others who come to our committee hearings to make submissions on this bill.Finally I want to acknowledge the members of the Māori Affairs Committee. We work in congeniality as a collective and we work for our people. This is a true reflection of the work that still needs to be done. I have no hesitation in commending this bill to the House. Kia ora.CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker tēnā koutou te Whare Pāremata. He mihi nui ki a Ngāti Hineuru me Te Kōpere trustees o te Iwi o Hineuru Trust inā ahikāroa o ō rātou whenua he mihi nui.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Greetings to you collectively the House of Parliament; a huge one to you Ngāti Hineuru; and a great gesture by the trustees of the Te Kōpere o te iwi o Hineuru Trust who are promoting the continuous occupation of their lands.]The Green Party is very pleased to stand in support of the first reading of this settlement bill. I think we feel very deeply that what has been “invisible-ised” must be brought into the light through this process. This iwi has been through more than most people in this country could possibly imagine—more marginalisation more violence and more land loss—with the added hurt of being “invisible-ised” right up to relatively recent times. Saying their name acknowledging their mana recognising their place and recognising their work and their tenacity to get to this point is a very important part of it as is recognising their tūpuna and those who have gone before and those who have gone before in the negotiation process to get to this point.The story of the historical account is indeed a profound experience to read. It is a heavy story much like many others that we have heard in this House but with the added pain of so much of it being unknown to many others and so much of it being marginalised. So many other names are known but the story of Ngāti Hineuru has to come to light so that this nation can move forward.Like my colleagues I want to acknowledge that there is too much to cover in the first reading but it is a beginning and I want to acknowledge as Meka Whaitiri said that there is so much in the historical account to acknowledge and so much that needs to be talked about. I just want to touch on perhaps my whakapapa as a Pākehā requiring me to acknowledge the role which needs to be examined of people like Donald MacLean and Whitmore—Meka Whaitiri: Hard.CATHERINE DELAHUNTY: Yeah—General Whitmore. Streets are named after these men all over the country particularly on the East Coast. Streets are named after these men and they are regarded as the founding fathers. But where is the street that is named after Te Rangi Hīroa? Where is the street that is named after the tūpuna of Ngāti Hineuru? So I think that it is very important that we actually examine the behaviour of all of our tūpuna including those of the Pākehā culture.We look at the historical account and we can see that Donald MacLean decided without a really clear explanation that the people were a threat. The Crown under Donald MacLean decided that the party at Ōmarunui was a threat to the security of the regions surrounding Napier. It could be argued that in the context of the wars that were taking place that Donald MacLean was acting in the interests of the Pākehā community but what he was doing was acting in the interests of colonisation. So too was General Whitmore acting in the interests of my culture to take over the whenua of many peoples—particularly this people Ngāti Hineuru. So this is indeed a dishonourable story which is really important to acknowledge and we need to acknowledge the death that took place.After all of the negotiations and the mana of people like Te Rangi Hīroa and after all of their attempts to negotiate in fairness and justice with the Crown what happened at Ōmarunui and Pētane in those days tells another story: a story of dishonour on behalf of my people my culture and the Crown. That needs to be acknowledged in order for us all to move forward. There needs to be acknowledgment of those things because it is tragic to read that halfway through the 1860s the men were either dead had retreated to other parts of the motu or had been transported to Wharekauri. And so the women at Tarawera lamented their losses every morning and evening with customary mourning practices scoring themselves with pipi shells “with the effect of making them weep most naturally.” There is much to weep about when all of your men have been taken when your land has been taken and when your people are on an island offshore with Te Kooti without trial and without justice.And so the story continues to be intertwined with the story of Te Kooti Pai Mārire and the Hauhau movement and the story of the people returning to Whareongaonga a place I have been to where Te Kooti and people from Ngāti Hineuru the whakarau landed in order to return to Aotearoa. But that was just another round of tragedy and another round of marginalisation. I think that it is really important to acknowledge that the whakarau should never be forgotten; that story should be taught in every school in this country. People need to understand what it is to be imprisoned without trial to escape peacefully basically and to come back to your home country and then to be hounded by the Crown throughout the motu. I think that we have already touched on what happened at Ngātapa—an appalling story of Crown culpability.So it is really important that we acknowledge that the end of the war meant that Hineuru could maybe return finally to their rohe but of course that was not the end of the instruments of colonisation. So then comes another hundred years—another hundred years—of rip-offs manipulations individualisations and destruction through the wonderful instruments that the Crown had created in order to continue the colonisation process. So we might debate how much is being spent on Te Tiriti settlements but we need to remember that we have got more than 170 years of the rip-off and that we need to invest in the healing. We need to do that properly and we need to invest in that healing. So it is really important that we actually understand what happened.I support the fact that the historical account is very very clear that the 1951 royal commission report raised more issues and acknowledged that the Crown should not have interfered with the titles that were provided in 1870 but still it goes on. Still there was more marginalisation and loss. So today we are beginning a more positive moment as my colleague Nuk Korako showed when he took us through the settlement aspirations and the response. Still the people have held on and they have very clear aspirations. They have the six pou and those six pou are very very strong.I was in Tai Rāwhiti this week with another iwi who have had their settlement and one of the things they said to me was: “Yes it’s very awesome to be focusing on the rebuild and we must but one of the tragedies is so many people have left. How do we bring our people home?”. So I am sure that that will be part of the plan but it is not an easy plan because to bring the people home you have to have work for the people. You have to have mahi and to create mahi it takes more than a one-off settlement. So I honour the pou because I can see the vision but I think that it also behoves the rest of the motu and the Crown to actually facilitate not just a settlement but also a genuine opportunity for regional development that will allow those settlements to be what they can be and not just to leave it to the iwi involved to find a way because there is so much to rebuild—there is so much to rebuild. It is not only the reconnection to the whenua and the whakapapa but also the reconnection to the taonga and the reconnection to the relationship with awa and with maunga—all of those things—and then to be able to survive in their own rohe on the terms that the people have defined in their settlement aspirations.So there is much work to be done and in the first reading all that we can do is say “Fantastic work.” to the negotiators and honour what they have created here as a first step—as a platform—but also recognise how much more there is to be done. The Green Party does need to say as we always do that settlements are not full and final; they are the first step. There is always more negotiating to take place and there is a need for more investment by the Crown because so much was destroyed and taken. The miracle is that the vision of the people—the kaupapa that we face here today—was not destroyed and taken. That is something that we need to honour here today. That is something to be proud of. But again I say to my own people to Pākehā tātou as well as to the Crown that we need to learn the history. When we drive down Whitmore Street and we look down MacLean whatever we need to recognise that actually those men did things in our name from which we have benefited at the expense of an iwi such as Ngāti Hineuru.So in order to move forward togetheras a nation—kotahitanga unity mana motuhake—we as Pākehā have to face those things and say that there are other names. There are other people who stood strong and whom we should honour. Whether it is Te Kooti or Te Rangi Hīroa we need to stand up and honour those people. We need to know why we own all the whenua and why we control the resources today so that redress can be understood by Pākehā and so that there will be a generosity of spirit on our side of the culture as well as a generosity by the Crown and instead of expecting all of the generosity that has been given today by Ngāti Hineuru in a settlement that does go some way to restoring the people but that will still take a lot more work. So I guess we are very happy to support this settlement. We are very happy that the “invisiblisation” of Ngāti Hineuru is over and that this iwi will not only be seen but also be able to begin to be strong again. Kia kaha. Kia ora tātou katoa.PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Ā tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speakertēnā anō hoki tātou. E tū wāhi tēnei ki te tautoko ngā mihi i mihingia e aku tuākana me te tuahine hoki ki a koutou a Hineuru kua tae mai nei kei waenganui i a tātou ki te ‘hakarongo te ‘hakatakototanga o tā koutou pire. Aroha anaau ki a koutou. He aha ai? Ko te moata o tēnei take i haere mai ki mua ite Whare nei. Taku kitenga mēnā he take Māori ā tukuna atu i tēnei waha. Ēngari mēnā he take Pākehā ā waihotia ki te ahiahi kia mōhio mai te motu whānui e aha ngā take e aha ngā kōrero ēngari mō ngā take Māori waihotia ki te ata he iti noaiho ngā tāngata e mātakitaki pouaka whakaata ‘hakarongo ki ngā reo Irirangi nā reira aroha ana i a koutou kia moata kia haere mai ai koutou ki te whakarongo ki ngā kōrero. Kia ahatia? Ēngari ka nui taku mihi ki a koutou.Tua atu i tēnā kei te kaha taku pūhaehae ki a koutou hoki! He aha ai? Nā te mea e’hakaae ana te Karauna ki a koutou he iwi!Ki ahau nei horekau he raru ki tēnā!Ēngari ki a mātou o te hau kāinga tōku whānau anahe tata kēki te rima manoēngari i kite atu i ngā kōrero i roto i te pire nei e tahi mano rima rau i a koutou nā reira ka nui taku mihi.Ka nui hoki taku pūhaehae i a koutou nā te mea e ‘hakaae ana teKarauna ki a koutou he iwi. Kia ahatia? Ēngarikorekau e mimiti te kōrero ki a koutou me pēnā o ngā hunga korekau i waenganui i a tātou i te rā nei ēngari nā rātou i tīmata mai te kawetanga o tēnei kaupapa tae noa ki tēnei wā tae noa ki tēnei. Nā reira tēnā koutou.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to us all once again. I stand to endorse the tributes that were accorded by my elder male colleagues and my female colleague to you Hineuru who have arrived here amongst us to listen to the reading of your bill. I sympathise with you all. Why? Because of the early hour this matter has come before this House. When I saw that it was a Māori matter I said allow it in this instance. But if it is a non-Māori matter leave it for the afternoon so that the public can become aware of the issues and what was said. But as far as Māori issues are concerned leave it for the morning as only a small number watch television or listen to the radio and so I feel sorry for those of you who came early to listen to the addresses. What can be done about that? But I admire you greatly.Further to that I am also envious of you all! Why? Because the Crown recognised you as a tribe! I personally do not have an issue with that. But for us back in our home area just our family alone we are close to 15000 but according to the detail in this bill I see that there are nearly 1500 of you. I applaud you greatly. I envy you greatly too because the Crown accepts you as a tribe. So what? But like those who are no longer amongst you today we cannot say enough for the part they played at the start when they took up this proposal to where it is this moment at this stage; so congratulations to you collectively.]As I have just said in my introductory comments I support the words of welcome extended by colleagues in the House. But I also want to have it said in English that although I cannot congratulate Hineuru enough it is with great envy that I acknowledge them. In the bill it talks about the iwi numbering approximately 1500 people which compared with the settlement that has been granted them as individual recipients makes this one of the most generous settlements that we can see in terms of per person. Be that as it may having said that my envy is really about the fact that my own family is almost 5000 and yet my iwi is still considered a hapū. However having said that it does not detract from the rationale that this bill has given to this settlement.I just want to say that the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations alluded to and acknowledged the generosity of iwi and particularly of Hineuru given that as we well know any settlement will not be a complete settlement. Again we have here today an iwi that is prepared to go into settlement accept the negotiations and know within themselves that this will not completely compensate them for the things that the Crown has done to them. But I have no doubt that during the Māori Affairs Committee process we will certainly learn more about it and we will also learn from those who are not satisfied with this settlement. That is one of the beauties about the select committee process; it gives everybody the opportunity to express a view.I do not need to reiterate the history that has led to this settlement bill other than to say that it is to the Crown’s credit that it has acknowledged that and this is part of the process.I also want to say that although this is a time of joy particularly for Hineuru I just want to make a comment that is really about politics. The Minister made reference to an apology being required—not an apology to Hineuru but an apology from a political party that produced the facts. If any apology should be given it should be given by the Minister to those whom he appointed as Crown negotiators because we did not name any Crown negotiator and then when he started doing that—Hon Louise Upston: Don’t spoil it.PITA PARAONE: —then in our mind he has to take responsibility for issuing that apology. And do not tell me about not spoiling things. If the Minister had not said anything—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! [Interruption] Order! The member will resume his seat. I just want to say that the Minister did make some comments that were not strictly within the ambit of this bill. The member has replied and the member will now come back to the bill.PITA PARAONE: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker—the point is taken.The financial redress is $25 million and includes interest and of course the return of culturally significant properties particularly the Tarawera hot springs scenic reserve and quite clearly that meets the needs of Hineuru. There probably were other properties that Hineuruwould have liked included. Hopefully they will let us know during the Māori Affairs Committee process and we will bring it back to the House—rest assured of that.Of course there is the erection of a pou whenua and I think that is one way of ensuring that the claim of Hineuru is well known not only to this generation but also to generations to come. So the total compensation is roughly $50 million and as I alluded to earlier divide $50 million by 1500 people—but hei aha? That will never ever fully meet those transgressions that the Crown did against Hineuru.I am particularly interested in the cultural redress. It officially recognises Ngāti Hineuru as an iwi. They were regarded as a hapū of Tūwharetoa and I would be very interested to learn from them how they were able to do that so that Ngāti Hine might have the same recognition as an iwi too. Mr Deputy Speaker I see that you are giving me the signal—other than to say that we will support this bill and look forward to hearing from the claimants during the Māori Affairs Committee hearings. Kia ora.JOANNE HAYES (National): Tēnā koe e te Mana Whakawā.Ka huri au ki te Whānau o Ngāti Hineuru nau mai haere mai ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. I turn to the family of Ngāti Hineuru and welcome you all welcome.]I am humbled. I am very humbled to be standing here today to take a call on the first reading of the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill. I am humbled because your journey has been a long one and as I have read about your history and heard about your history I am saddened within my heart that all of those things have happened to you. So when I stand here today to take this call on the first reading I stand here and I look at a people who have lost their land who have been attacked who have been imprisoned—enough hara that will send a people away for good. But through the strength of your tīpuna and of the people who have kept on fighting for Ngāti Hineuru—I just want to say that I am humbled. I am very humbled to be standing in front of you today.As a member of the Māori Affairs Committee I am looking forward to the whole process of this bill coming back to the select committee. We on the select committee do a lot of work around the claims process listening to the submissions etc. In respect of this particular one I am most interested because up until today it was the first time that I had heard of your iwi. I can tell you that now and I feel a lot of whakamā about that. So therefore I will be looking with much interest at the process from here on in and through to the fruition of your claims process.I know that the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has said that the amount that you are being given within the redress may not be as much as what everybody thinks it should be but it is a start. It is a start towards your economic future the economic future of your mokopuna—the mokopuna who will lead you all into the future. Ngā tāngata the people of today have done all the work along with educating your mokopuna in the process that has happened and your mokopuna will lead where you are going to go into the future. I believe that through this process you have a very bright future. It is not how much you get; it is what you do with it that counts. It is like Ngāi Tahu and what they got back then. People would have said “Oh that wasn’t a lot.” but they took that little bit and they turned it into a multibillion-dollar business. I can see that happening for you as your iwi grows past this point. So without any further ado I want to say thank you. Thank you for taking on the Crown process thank you for accepting the work of our Minister the Hon Chris Finlayson. He would be and will go down in history of this Government and of future Governments and Governments of the past as one of the best Treaty negotiation Ministers to ever walk the halls of our Parliament. Kia ora.LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora e te Māngai o te Whare. E ngā mana e ngā reo e rau rangatira mā ngā whanaunga o Ngāti Hineuru tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. I stand here filled with much emotion. I found my Uncle Nick’s submission. It was delivered during the hearing period of 27 to 31 January 1997.What I want to do is acknowledge Peter Kahukiwa and others who on 27 July 1992 lodged their claim which is Wai 299. Part of that lodging and part of the resolution of that particular Treaty claim also has relevance to other Wai claims and I want to acknowledge the people who lodged those claims. The Wai 299 claim was consolidated and it included Wai 119 which is Ariel Whai Aranui and others; Wai 168 which is Anikānara Te Haipō Hadfield and others; Wai 191 Tamihana Matekino Nuku and others; Wai 216 Moari Karaitiana and others; Wai 400 Hoani Hōhepa;Wai 436 Wī Te Tau Huata and others;Wai 488 Terry O’Sullivan; Wai 491 it says “Niger”—I will not say the other pronunciation—Baker and others; Wai 598 David Kinita and others;Wai 599 Tuhiao Kahukiwa and others;Wai 600 Te Rina Sullivan and others;Wai 601 Winifred Kupa and others;Wai 602 Willie Bush;Wai 608 Lyndhurst O’Donnell; Wai 627 Albert Eden;Wai 692 Hana Loyla Cotterand others; Wai 731 Kevin Te Taka Kupa and another;and Wai 732 Albert Edward Eden. I have read the names of the people who started this process 23 years ago.I also want to acknowledge the board of Ngāti Hineuru Iwi Inc. That board is chaired by Tūhuiao Kahukiwa. The deputy chair is Karauna Brown who is also the lead negotiator. Other members are Ivy Kahukiwa-Smith Toi Tāwhai Tirohia Bridger Rēnata Bush and Te Reo Spooner. Today is a great day for the iwi of Ngāti Hineuru. I must admit that growing up—and actually in my Uncle Nick’s submission he said that Ngāti Hineuruwas a hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Actually what I want to do is acknowledge that many years ago when I was contacted about Ngāti Hineuru being an iwi and while going through our claims settlement I said: “No; I was always told that I am Ngāti Tutemohuta and Ngāti Hineuru and that we are part of Ngāti Tūwharetoa.” But what I do want to acknowledge obviously is our whanaungatanga—our close relationship—and I want to acknowledge Ngāti Hineuru in their own right. Obviously I have to sort out my pepeha now and claim not only Tūwharetoa Hineuru—Meka Whaitiri: You can register.LOUISA WALL: I think my Uncle Robbo has already registered in part of the process. It is really interesting reading my Uncle Nick’s submission. He made this as I said in 1997. He went to Te Hāroto School and my nanny Wāriti Te Pohe and obviously my great-grandfather Ngāhiri Te Pohe. When I look at my Uncle Nick—and I will have to save Uncle Nick’s submission for the second reading—and his children so Ngāhere Te Pohe my cousin and my other cousin Ngātoru Mahupuka they obviously got the names from Ngāti Hineuru. My Uncle Nick who went Te Hāroto School—in 1946 my dad was only a baby. Growing up we went to Te Hāroto when I was a kid a lot. So I want to acknowledge all the whānau. I have not had as close a relationship as I should have had over the years but I am very proud to represent our iwi here in the House. I am very proud of the settlement that our iwi have managed to negotiate and I wish you all the best for the future. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a 5-minute call.ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Otirā e kī ana te kōrero Apa-hāpai-taketake nāna a tāpiki te takiritanga o TeAta ā tihei mauri ora! Nō reira anei a’au tētehi uri o Apa-hāpai-taketake kei te mihi atu ki a koutou o Hineuru. E mi’i ana ‘oki au ki Te Maunga Titiokura Te Awa Mōhaka ki ngā Whare Rongopai me Piriwiritua ki Hāroto Marae me kī ki a koutou katoa ngā uri o Hineuru tēnei te mihi ake ki a koutou nau mai haere mai ki te Whare nei.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker of the House but at the same time the saying goes that Apa-hāpai-taketake rises before the break of dawn and so behold the breath of life! So here I am a descendant of Apa-hāpai-taketake welcoming you Hineuru paying a tribute as well to Titiokura mountain the Mōhaka River and the meeting house Te Rongopai and dining hall Piriwiritua at the marae of Te Hāroto. Let us say to all of you the descendants of Hineuru welcome come hither to this House.]It is a great pleasure for me to speak at the first reading of the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill. Hineuru is a descendant of Apa-Hāpai-Take-Take as I am also. I mihi to the people of Hineuru. I have read very carefully like I do all historical accounts. This historical account is a story that needed to be told. In this historical account I would summarise the actions of the people of Hineuru as being full of perseverance. We have a saying in Ngāti Apa—it is taken from the bible—īnoia rapuhia [request it seek it out]. I think that I could easily apply this saying to the people of Hineuru for their perseverance in getting to this stage the first reading in the House today. I acknowledge all of the people involved in getting to this stage. It is not an easy thing to negotiate any settlement and I acknowledge those Hineuru people—the negotiators—for bringing from my point of view a settlement that will deliver a vastly better future for the coming generations of Hineuru. So I acknowledge them.The cultural redress aspects of this bill and the settlement deserve some discussion in this House. The very first item within the bill is te kawenata a partnership agreement between the Crown and Hineuru. I have read through that carefully and I do not think that I have read or seen in any other settlement a partnership agreement quite like this one. The Crown will have responsibility for and will be held to account in this agreement and I think that that has taken settlements to another level through this particular bill.Within this bill there are also a number of statutory acknowledgments and deeds of recognition. I wanted to speak briefly on the deeds of recognition. They are an instrument that is used when a statutory acknowledgment has been given to a certain piece of land and then a deed of recognition overlays the statutory acknowledgment in order to give the iwi some responsibility and rights in terms of the management of that land. So it lifts to another level their connection to those particular pieces of land. I like to think of it as: in the absence of being owners of that land they have rights that are tantamount to being owners but without the responsibility of paying for it which I think is a good thing. That responsibility should be on the Crown.I also want to mention the commercial redress. As has been pointed out by other speakers this settlement is per capita the largest settlement that has come to this House so far. That needs to be acknowledged purely and simply because it provides a pathway forward for the iwi of Hineuru to address those wrongs of the past and to give opportunities for the future generations who will be the true beneficiaries of this settlement.I acknowledge the iwi once more for their tenacity and for their perseverance and I congratulate each and every one of them. I look forward to this bill progressing through the House to its third reading. It is not an end the third reading; it is a beginning. Nō reira ki a koutou ngā uri o Hineuru tēnei te mihi ake anō ki a koutou ā tēnā tātou katoa.[Therefore to all the descendants of Hineuru I once again salute you and all of us.]MELISSA LEE (National): It is a great honour to take a short call on this Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill. Before I begin I would like to apologise just in case my pronunciation is terrible. I am reminded of my maiden speech when I actually talked about how I arrived in this land in 1988 in a waka. The waka was slightly different from the one that the ancestors arrived in. This waka that I arrived in had wings and it was slightly faster. I would like to say: ka mihi atu ki a Ngāti Hineuru. I hope that means that I acknowledge the Hineuru tribe—iwi sorry.Hon Te Ururoa Flavell: Tribal nation.MELISSA LEE: That is right. It is a great honour even to take just a short call. I am just so touched that I am actually involved in this debate. I have heard Opposition members and Government members talk about this settlement and what a fantastic opportunity it is not just because of the great amount of money that we are bestowing upon the Hineuru iwi but also because it is an acknowledgment of the wrong that has actually been done. For a Korean girl who was raised in a country that has a 5000-year history which was annexed for 36 years by another country—I will not name which one it was—and has never received an apology this is a fantastic country that we live in New Zealand. We actually acknowledge the wrongs of the past.I am also a recipient of the bestowment of the Māori Battalion or K-force—the Māori people who served in Korea. They taught the Korean people a song and I grew up thinking that it was a Korean song. I insisted stupidly that it was a Korean song because I was raised believing that it was a Korean song. Imagine the strange feeling that I got when I arrived in this land in 1988 and listened to people singing “Pokare Kare Ana”. I was thinking: “Oh my goodness! These people in New Zealand have learnt a Korean song.” In Korea we call it “Yeon ga” which means love song. Imagine that!You know how Korean people have learnt that Korea was devastated in 1950 by the Korean War. It was utterly flattened. For 3 years they fought and it is still in a state of war. But the Korean people are a resilient people. Since 1950 we have—everybody probably has—Samsung telephones or drive a Hyundai or Kia car. We have even funked up the “Pokare Kare Ana” song. You know how it goes really beautifully “Pokare Kare Ana”; well the Korean one is “Yeon ga” and it is really really fast: “Bi Baram I Chinun Bada…”As the recipient of the—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! It is very entertaining but we would rather you spoke to the bill.MELISSA LEE: I shall wrap it up. It is an honour for me to actually say that I commend this bill. It is an absolute pleasure.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. E tāpiritia atu ana āku mihi ki ērā i waihotia ki mua i tō koutou aroaro. Nō reira Hineuru tēnei te tino mihi rawa atu ki a koutou. Kua riro ki tēnei te whakatōpūtanga o ngā kōrero o tō mātau nei tīma e pā ana ki tēnei kaupapa mō te pānuitanga tuatahi. Ka whakaaro ake māku pea hei whakamārama ērā o ngā kōrero e pā ana ki te whakapāhā ā e tika ana kia kuhua ki roto i ngā rārangi kōrero o ngā pukapuka o tēnei Whare Pāremata.“(a) Tēnei te Karauna te tuku whakapāha atu nei ki a Hineuru ki ō koutou tīpuna ō koutou whānau mokopuna anō hoki.(b) Kua roa rawa te wā kīhai te Karauna i aronui atu ki te mana me te rangatiratanga o Hineurukīhai hoki i tutuki āna here i raro i Te Tiriti o Waitangi me ōna kaupapa matua.(c) E kore e taea te whakapuaki i te pouri nui o Te Karauna mōna i tuku ope tauā ki runga o Ōmarunui i te takiwā hokio Pētane i hinga ai tō koutou rangatira a Te Rangihīroa me ētahi atu me te tūkinotanga te aitua nui hoki i pā ki a Hineuru nā runga i te mate o te tangata me te peinga i te whenua tupu.I raru nui anō koutou i te kōkiritanga a Te Karauna ki tō koutou kāinga te mauheretanga o ō koutou tīpuna kāore he whakawā kāore he ahame te patu i ngā mauhere kia mate he mahi weriweri ka titiro mai a te ao i a Ngātapa. Mō ana mahi me ngā pouritanga nui kua utaina mai e te Karauna ki runga i a koutou ko ō koutou tīpuna tēnei te Karauna te tuku whakapāha atu nei.(d) E pouri ana te Karauna mō ngā wharanga nui wharanga mauroa i ara ake i ana raupatutanga i te wāhi nui o ō koutou whenua tuku iho. Mō tēnei mahi raupatu mō ngā ngahuru tau o te raruraru me te pōkaikaha ngā tau i ngaro ngā painga mō te iwi o Hineuru i runga i ngā mahi hē a te Karauna e pā ana ki Tarawera me Tataraakina e whakapāha ana anō hoki te Karauna.(e) Mai o te wā o te raupatu i hē kē atu te kino mō Hineuru i ngā mahi hokohoko atu a te Karauna i ngā whenua i toe mai ki a koutou. Tēnei te whakapāha noa atu a te Karauna mō ana kaupapa matua mō ana mahi me ana hapanga i noho whenua kore tonu a Hineuru i ngahoro ai ngā pou o tō koutou noho hei iwi o ō koutou pūmanawa ki te whai i te oranga ki te tupu hei iwi ki te kimi oranga ā-kikokiko ā-ngākau ā-wairua anō hoki mō koutou.(f) E mihi ana te Karauna ki te pakari me te mana o Hineuru me tō koutou whāinga roa i te tika i roto i ngā whakatipuranga maha.(g) Rā roto i tēnei whakatau e mahi nui ana te Karauna ki te utu mō ana hara o tau kē me te tahuri ki te hāpai i a Hineuru kia hīkina ai ngā taumatanga o te whakamauāhara kia whakawhiwhia anō te iwi ki te toiora tae atu ki ngā taonga tuku iho o te iwi. E titiro whakamua ana te Karauna ki tōna whanaungatanga hou ki a Hineuru i runga i te whakapono tētahi ki tētahi te mahi tahi me te whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi me ōna kaupapa nui.”E tika ana kia kuhua ai ēnei kōrero ki roto i ngā rārangi kōrero mō ngā whakatupuranga mā roto i ō koutou tamariki mokopuna kia rata atu ai rātau ki te takenga mai o tēnei kaupapa i waenganui i a tātau ā e tika ana kia whakaotia. Nō reira i roto i tērā paku whakaaro mō tēnei pānuitanga tuatahi ka waihotia ki reira. Nā mō ō koutou tutukitanga ō koutou whakaaro ki te Karauna ka waihotia ērā ki reira mō ake ake tonu atu. Tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātau.[Greetings Mr Deputy Speaker. I add my acknowledgments to those that were expressed and left before you collectively and so I really acknowledge you Hineuru. I have been given the task of consolidating our team’s contributions in terms of the first reading. I thought that perhaps I might explain those sentiments about the apology so that they are recorded as of right in the official record of this House of Parliament.“(a) The Crown makes this apology to the iwi of Hineuru to the tipuna whānau and descendants.(b) For too long the Crown has failed to respect the mana and rangatiratanga of Hineuru and to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles.(c) The Crown profoundly regrets its unjust attacks at Ōmarunui and near Pētane that took the lives of your rangatira Te Rangihīroa and others and the devastation and grief Hineuru suffered through loss of life and exile. You suffered further prejudice when the Crown plundered your kāinga detained your ancestors without trial and carried out dishonourable summary executions at Ngātapa. For its actions and the immense hurt the Crown has caused you and your tipuna the Crown apologises.(d) The Crown deeply regrets the enduring prejudice it caused by confiscating so much of your ancestral whenua. For the confiscation and for the decades of title disruption dislocation and lost opportunities Hineuru have experienced as a result of the Crown’s actions in relation to Tarawera and Tataraakina the Crown also apologises.(e) Since the confiscation the Crown compounded the prejudice to Hineuru by purchasing significant parts of your remaining lands. The Crown unreservedly apologises for its policies acts and omissions that have left Hineuru virtually landless and undermined your tribal structures your capacity for economic and social development and your physical emotional and spiritual well-being.(f) The Crown pays tribute to the resilience and the mana of Hineuru and your long pursuit of justice over many generations.(g) Through this settlement the Crown seeks to atone for its past wrongs and to assist Hineuru in lifting the burden of grievance and restoring the well-being of your people and cultural heritage. The Crown looks forward to building a new relationship with Hineuru based on mutual trust co-operation and respect for the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles.”It is appropriate that these sentiments be included in the records for our children and grandchildren so that they are satisfied with the origin of this proposal that is amongst us and it is fitting for it to be completed. And so in regard to that diminutive thought about this first reading I will leave it there. As far as your achievements and thoughts through the Crown are concerned I will leave it there as it will go on forever. My appreciation toyou and to us all collectively;thank you.]TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. Tēnā koe e te Whare—and in particular very warm greetings to those from Hineuru who are here this morning for the first reading of the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill.Because of the large amount of business that the House needs to conduct on these occasions of extended sittings it is necessary for those who speak at the latter end of the debate to speak for a very short period of time but I do want to assure all who are listening that that does not in any way signify a lack of respect or appreciation for the very important work that we are doing today.I in particular want to endorse the comments of all my colleagues from across the House who have spoken today in a way that I think has been both enlightening and as my colleague Jo Hayes said very very humbling. We—or at least many of us—have today been taught things we never knew before. They are things that should trouble all of us and should certainly not only weigh heavily on our heart but stiffen our resolve to ensure that we take whatever steps we can to put them right. I am very proud to be part of the modern generation of parliamentarians who have the privilege and the opportunity to do just that and it is on occasions such as this that I feel particularly proud to be a member of Parliament and accept that responsibility.So could I simply say to the iwi thank you for your generosity of spirit and for the good faith with which you have entered into the negotiations. I want to acknowledge the outstanding work of the Crown negotiators and to say this is very important work that this Parliament acknowledges and I am delighted to see that we will all be united in supporting it. May I wish you all the very best in the future as you at long last see significant grievances at least redressed no matter how inadequately. Tēnā koutou katoa.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.Ngāruahine Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingMr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Kia ora. E te iwi o Ngāruahine tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou kia ora mai tātou.[To you the tribe of Ngāruahine greetings salutations and welcome to you all. I appreciate you greatly and thank you to us all.]There is a convention in the House that the Speaker in the Chair is not allowed to make a speech. It will not be lost on my friend John Hooker that I intend to pussyfoot around those rules. Some of us live by the mantra that it is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. You will not hear me speak for very long about the travesties of the past—Te Ngutu o te Manu—the travesties of the confiscations around our rohe and you will not hear me acknowledge the leaders of the past or acknowledge the travesties of those confiscations and where they have left you today or wax lyrical in congratulations to Daisy to Pita to John and to others—the familiar faces of those sitting in the gallery. You will not hear me say any of that because it is against the rules.Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I move That the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill. First and foremost like you Mr Deputy Speaker—of course you did not do it—I want to extend a warm welcome to the people of Ngāruahine who are here today to witness the first reading of their settlement bill. Nau mai haere mai.Today is a day for acknowledging Ngāruahine tūpuna as well as their descendants. It is particularly important to acknowledge those who have been part of the Ngāruahine journey working tirelessly over the many years to have those grievances properly addressed. Sadly many of these people are no longer with us and cannot be part of this important occasion today but it is important to read their names into Hansard for ever more. I speak of Tohe Pakanga Ngatai Rawa Tarawanuku Margaret Kahupūroko Olley Eric Whakataka Taha Pue Barry Whakaruru and John Kata Luke. They unfortunately passed away even before the settlement was realised. I want to read into Hansard the names of Stephen Hēnare Toki Jean Teira Nuku and Cyril Rangiwaiwaitomo who have passed on since.I want to acknowledge those who are still with us and who were and are absolutely committed to making sure that the Ngāruahine voice their concerns and their interests were heard. I refer here to Matekitawhiti Carr Hine Toki Hinewaitou Josie Bingham and Ronald Boyd Hudson some of whom are sitting amongst us today. Of course special acknowledgment goes to that great New Zealander Tihi Anne Daisy Noble who has driven the Ngāruahine negotiations from the outset with mana with class and with determination along with the other negotiators. Attending the many Waitangi Tribunal hearings and court sittings in Wellington in addition to the countless negotiation hui shows the extraordinary commitment of all these people to the Ngāruahine kaupapa. This unrelenting dedication is the reason we are here today.I want to acknowledge particularly the Office of Treaty Settlements. I want to acknowledge all departments of State for the work that they have done particularly the Department of Conservation the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and there are so many others. I want to say something about the chief Crown negotiator. Yesterday I said that after the 2011 election I approached my parliamentary colleague and friend Rick Barker and asked whether he would be prepared to be chief Crown negotiator. He worked very hard on this settlement and like all settlements it had a lot of complexity.Yesterday there was some unfortunate criticism of my negotiators by one member of this House without really understanding the complexities and without really understanding how difficult these negotiations can be. I do not want to belabour the point but all I want to say for the benefit of the House is that it is so easy to criticise from the sidelines; it is much harder to study a settlement to understand the complexity and to understand the historical gravity and the need to put things right. Rick Barker did that very well here indeed.But every country has the type of politician who snipes from the sidelines. Take the United States for example. Just yesterday Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said of Donald Trump: “We’ve got an empty suit here full of bravado but not full of anything really meaningful for the country.” Enough said. I do not want to dwell on that particular MP—until the next debate at least—but I do want to acknowledge Mr Barker and thank him for his wonderful work not only in this settlement but in plenty of others as well and I am going to continue using him regardless of the criticism.I now want to highlight some key moments in the history of the relationship between Ngāruahine and the Crown which provide the bleak backdrop—and I emphasise the bleak backdrop—to this settlement. In the 1840s and the 1850s Ngāruahine people engaged in trade with Europeans. They were prosperous. They were successful. During this time Ngāruahine consistently opposed the sale of their lands to Europeans and they retained control over their land and resources. What unfolds after that is a truly sorry history of Crown land purchasing that led to war in Taranaki the devastation of Ngāruahine settlements and cultivations by Crown forces the indiscriminate and the unjust confiscation of every acre of the Ngāruahine rohe in 1865 and the loss of control over the few lands that were returned.By the late 1870s large numbers of Ngāruahine people were among the many people from Taranaki and elsewhere who relocated to Parihaka and supported that settlement’s leaders in their movement for independence and peace. Ngāruahine people were among those who were arrested transported to the South Island and imprisoned in harsh conditions for long periods without trial and were also among those who were displaced from Parihaka when that settlement was invaded and dismantled by the Crown troops in 1881. These events remain among the lowest points in New Zealand’s history which is why we have been doing so much work in recent times with Parihaka and that is work that I can talk about on another day.Earlier this year we were welcomed—I say this to my friend Mr Korako—so kindly by Ngāi Tahu at the beautiful Arahura Marae near Hokitika and then up the road I was honoured to deliver the Crown’s apology to the people of Ngāruahine at the very site of a memorial for those of the iwi who were transported to the West Coast. This was at the conclusion of their recent hīkoi to the South Island to visit places where their tūpuna were taken from Parihaka and held captive in caves forced to build stone embankments around Otago Harbour and many of the roads in Dunedin. This was a fitting conclusion to a very emotional and spiritual hīkoi.I now turn to the settlement itself. Following the signing of the terms of negotiation in October 2010 Ngāruahine signed an agreement in principle at the end of 2012. The deed of settlement was initialled in June 2014 signed a couple of months later and now we have the bill before the House. Of course the members of the Māori Affairs Committee are going to take a good look at it. They will see that key elements of the package include $67.5 million a right of deferred selection over 10 sites the vesting of four culturally significant sites overlay classification over six sites of particular importance statutory acknowledgments over 51 sites of significance and deeds of recognition over 23 sites.There is so much about this settlement that I could talk about but it is important to get this bill away to the select committee today. So in closing can I simply say that it truly is a privilege to be the steward of this portfolio the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and to have negotiated this settlement with this great iwi. It certainly is a privilege to be opening the debate on this very important occasion. It is a day for reflection on what Ngāruahine have lost but it is a day of optimism as well—optimism for the future that lies ahead for Ngāruahine. The bill should proceed without delay to the Māori Affairs Committee and so I commend it to the House.ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te W’are oti noa “Piki mai kake mai hōmai te wai ora ki ahau e tū tehu ana te moe o te kuia i te pō hoi ka raru ka papaki kau ana ngā tai ki Te Reinga ka pō ka ao ka awatea ā tihei mauri ora!” E tuku mi’i atu kia koutou Ngāruahine ā ki ngā hapū Kānihi Umutahi hapū Ōkahu Inuāwai hapū Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū Ngāti Tū hapū Ngāti Hauā hapū Ngāti Tamahūroa Tītahi hapū. Anei ahau tētehi uri o Ngā Wakatauroa tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai whakatau mai. Ka mi’i atu anō ki ngā mate ngā mate katoa i runga i a koutou i a mātou i a tātou katoa. Ka nui te tangi o te ngākau te wehenga atu ō rātou mā i tīmata tēnei kaupapa nō reira e ’oki e moe e moe.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker of the House and so “Come up ascend here give me living giving waters for the lady sleeps in eager anticipation but there was deception as the tides broke at Te Reinga and the night and alas the night set in then came dawn and behold the breath of life!”. I welcome you collectively Ngāruahine and the subtribes Kānihi Umutahi Ōkahu Inuāwai Ngāti Manuhiakai Ngāti Tū Ngāti Hauā Ngāti Tamahūroa and Tītahi. I a descendant of Ngā Wakatauroa stand here to welcome you collectively; come hither come forth welcome. I also acknowledge the dead: those upon you us and everyone. There is much grief within me to those ones who started this proposal and so rest sleep slumber on.]It gives me great pleasure to speak in the first reading of the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill. Ka tāpiri atu taku mihi ki te mihi ka tukuna atu e koe ki te iwi nei [I add my tribute to the one that you accorded this tribe here]. I want to join my acknowledgment to the one that you gave first Mr Deputy Speaker because I think it is appropriate as you are in the Chair that you ought to have done that. So I acknowledge that you did that and I join my acknowledgment to yours.This settlement has been a long time coming like all settlements that arrive here. I talked about perseverance in the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill and I could equally apply that to the Ngāruahine people—their perseverance in coming through all of the historical issues that have happened in Taranaki whānui and in particular in this case to Ngāruahine; the likes of which are still carried by the people of Ngāruahine to this day.I have spoken on these settlement bills on previous occasions and I have talked about historical and intergenerational trauma. If there was a historical account that I have read that describes the historical and intergenerational trauma then I would point to the historical account that is included in this bill. It is not easy for a generation to carry such trauma and then to address it with the perpetrators of the trauma that has been inflicted upon them. It takes courage to be able to do that so I acknowledge the whole iwi and I want to acknowledge in particular the negotiators and as the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has pointed out Daisy Noble who has been absolutely tenacious in getting Ngāruahine to this point today. I think that she ought to be mentioned for the very fact of carrying the hurt and the trauma of past generations so that it can be addressed appropriately through this settlement. And so I acknowledge that.This settlement is a significant one. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has outlined all of the parts that are included within this deed of settlement. I want to acknowledge his work in bringing this settlement to the House and also the Crown negotiators and the officers at the Office of Treaty Settlements. The kaitiaki instrument in particular drew my attention. It talks about the natural resources which are of course very important to Ngāruahine.I also wanted to spend a bit of time on the financial redress. I believe that the financial redress looks fairly significant of course but we all know that it is but a small proportion of what was lost. The total area lost in Taranaki was 1.2 million acres which includes all of the land of Ngāruahine. This gives an opportunity for the iwi to move forward to use that settlement asset to grow the economic base of the iwi so that the generations of today and the generations to come which bear the effects of those things that impact the iwi today will have a base from which they can restore or begin to restore their place within and on their lands.I think it is important that we acknowledge—and we have heard about this—the generosity of spirit. We have heard of it a number of times during debates on settlements but when an iwi has lost completely everything—absolutely everything—and then still survives today and finds it within itself to negotiate with the perpetrators of the hurt that has been inflicted upon it that generosity certainly needs to be acknowledged. The financial redress as I said provides a way forward for the iwi. I think that through this financial redress future generations will be in good stead.I have to acknowledge also that through this settlement the iwi of Ngāruahine will eventually be—and I am sure that they are well on their way to being—full participants in everything that goes on in their rohe. I point to the relationship mechanisms within this Treaty settlement and also to the letters that the Crown will write to ministries in order to encourage those relationships to move forward. I always think that those letters could be a bit more. I think that there could be more obligation on the ministries and departments to ensure that that relationship happens. It is something that I think should be discussed at the select committee and hopefully we can make sure through submissions that those letters are not just pieces of paper and that when there is engagement between the iwi and those ministries it is at the level where the decisions are made and not with officers—middle management—of those ministries.Nō reira koinā taku kōrero ā ka mihi atu anō ahau ki a koutou ngā uri o Ngāruahine. Ka nui te mi’i atu ki a koutou ko te tūmanako kia ūhia mai ngā manaakitanga ki runga ki a koutou katoa mō ngā wā katoa ā tihei mauri ora![That is my address and I acknowledge you collectively once again descendants of Ngāruahine. I admire you greatly in the hope that all that generosity will spread over you all the time; so behold the breath of life!]Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): “Titiro titiro ki Te Maunga Tītōhea i runga o Parihaka Waitotōro Ngāti Moeahu Ngāti Haupoto. Ko te takiritanga i te kahu o Wikitōria kaitoa kaitoa! Ko Tohu ko Te Whiti nga manu e rua i patu i te hoariri ki te rangimārie ksss auē ksss aue! Ahakoa te pahū o Tanga o Parihaka uē uē uē hā!”Kai ngā taokete Te Maunga Tītōhea koutou e kawe nei i te raukura ngā tūmanako o te hunga kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi tēnā koutou tēnā koutou nau mai e rarau! Nau mai ki roto i te Whare Pāremata nāna koutou i tūkino i ngā tau kua hipa ake i tēnei rā kua hara mai koutou ki raro i tōna parirau me ngā mate huhua kua pā mai kua kōrerohia nei e te Minita i tēnei ata. Ka tangi ake he kitenga kanohi ka hoki ngā mahara ki te hunga kāore i konei ēhara i te mea nō roto i a koutou ēngari hā ka huri tika tonu ōku whakaaro ki a Te Miringa mā ko rātou i āki nei i ēnei kaupapa mō Taranaki whānui tonu i te wā i a ia. Ēngari anō koutou i tēnei rā te hunga ora e Daisy ko koe tērā e ārahi nei i ngā kaupapa. Ka tangi ake ka tangi ake mō ngā pakeke kua ngaro. Hoi anō kai konei koutou kai konei koe kua eke ki roto i te Whare Pāremata haere mai haere mai haere mai kei aku rangatira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau!I puta i a au tētahi kōrero i Te Marae o Tūrangawaewae i te kotahi marama pea kua hipa i tērā o ngā hui i whakanuia ko te āhuatanga o te kirimana i waenganui i a Waikato-Tainui me te Karauna. I reira a Hēmi Bolger rāua ko te tangata nā a Sir Doug Graham. I kī atu au i te marae rā ē kua āhua raruraru a Te Ururoa ki te noho i Tūrangawaewae i a rātau e whakanui ana i te kirimana i waenganui i a Tainui me te Karauna i te mea i ngā 25 tau kua hipa i tērā taha o te taiapa kē au e porotēhi ana. He pērā anō taku aronga ki a koutou i tēnei rā e kai ōku taokete! I ngā wā roa mō ngā toru tau kua hipa ake i reira tātau ētahi o tātau ā tukituki nei te rae i runga o Waitara!Ā he aha te kaupapa? Ko te kōpaki o te Karauna! Ko tana Kiriona ē kī ē kī! Ko tā tātau i tērā rā ko te kī atu tō hamuti! Whakahokia atu tō kōpaki ā ki tua o tāwauwau! Ēngari anō a kai konei tātau ā ko tōna whakatinanatanga ā kua āhua tūreiti te kōrero mō tērā i tēnei wā. Nō reira haere mai rā i raro i te āhuatanga o ēnei whakaaro. Ka tangi ake ēngari ka hari harikoa i te mea kua eke koutou ki tēnei taumata. Nō reira e tika kia noho au ki roto i Te Reo Māori ēngari kua koropupū ake te whakaaro ā me whakatakoto ētahi paku kōrero i te reo Pākehā kia mārama tonu te whānuitanga o ngā mea e whakarongo nei ki ēnei kōrero. Nō reira kai aku rangatira o te Whare kai te Kaikōrero o te Whare tēnā koe me tō kore kōrero mō tō rahi.[“Look look at the Barren Mountain over Parihaka Waitōtara River and the subtribes Ngāti Moeahu and Ngāti Haupoto and the loosening of Victoria’s cape; good job good job! It was Tohu and Te Whiti those two birds who slew the enemy with peace; ksss oh the pain ksss oh the pain! Despite the eruption of Tanga and Parihaka it shook shook and shook to no avail; what a delight!”To the in-laws to Barren Mountain bearers of the feather plume and aspirations of those who are lost from sight I greet and acknowledge you; welcome come hither settle in! Welcome to Parliament House that which violated you in the years gone by and today you have come under its wing with your many deceasedwho havebeen mentioned by the Minister this morning. I mourn themandafter seeing you memories of those who are no longer here are recalled even thoughthey are from within you entirely. My thoughts go directly to Miringa and them the ones who really urged these proposals along for Taranaki at large in his time. As far as you are concerned todayDaisy you and the ones who are alive are leading the proposals. But I do mourn and grieve for the elders who have passed away. You as a collective however are here; you have arrived in the House of Parliament; come hither welcome draw closer and acknowledgments to you my esteemed elders; salutations congratulationsand well done to us all.I made a statement at Tūrangawaewae Marae about a month ago at one of the meetings to celebrate the circumstances around the signing of the deed of settlement between Waikato-Tainui and the Crown. Jim Bolger and Sir Doug Graham were there. At thatmaraeI stated that I Te Ururoa had become somewhat troubled to remain there at Tūrangawaewae while they were celebrating the deed settlement because 25 years ago I was on that side of the fence protesting instead. My inclination to you my in-laws is still similar to what it was then as it is today! In that lengthy period about 3 years ago we were there; some of us were there up at Waitara at loggerheads with each other! And what was the proposal? The fiscal envelope of the Crown! Its billion dollars—well well! Our response that day was: “Your faeces! Take your envelope away to beyond the wherever!”. That aside we are all here—its fulfilment? Well today it is a bit late now to talk about that.And so welcome here indeed under the circumstance of these views. I lament but at the same time I am very happy because you have reached this pinnacle. It is apt therefore for me to have remained speaking in Māori but the thoughts well up from within that I should express a few thoughts in English so that the vast number listening in can have some clarity about these sentiments. And so esteemed ones of the House and MrDeputySpeaker my appreciation to us all and to you in particular Mr Deputy Speaker of the House for not making any reference to how well youhave been put together; thank you.]It gives me great pleasure to stand in front of Ngāruahine today. I say that because it was about 30 years ago that I arrived with my whānau back in Taranaki. My wife is from Taranaki and became involved in many of the things. As I said earlier I was on Tūrangawaewae Marae a couple of months ago actually celebrating 25 years I think it was—Hon Nanaia Mahuta: 20.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Twenty—20 years since the signing of the Waikato-Tainui agreement and there was James Bolger and—Tim Macindoe: Doug Graham.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Sir Doug Graham. Sir Doug Graham referred to a protest that happened to be outside of Tūrangawaewae at the time and I said: “Well Sir Doug you were on this side; I was actually on the outside protesting about that fiscal envelope that was touted around by the National Party at the time.” It brings back memories because for many of the people I see up here it is exactly the same. It was about 30 years ago when I went to Taranaki and—I will admit to it—we sort of led a few protests now and again caused a bit of havoc now and again but had some fun.Pita Paraone: Led by your heart.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Ha ha! It was very much led by the heart and I just think about those times and the many people because I did attend many of the first discussions. We are talking about 30 years ago—holy cow; 30 years ago. Here we are 30 years down the track and not everybody is through the gate yet but some are. I remember the Waitangi Tribunal hearings where absolutely everybody said: “No way. Do away with that blimmin $1 billion. You’re not going to buy us off for that amount of money.” Well history is history. We know what has happened since then.But I think about many of those who have passed on and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations mentioned some of them but I think very much around Te Miringa Hohaia whom you may remember but one of the korero that came out was Taranaki kia kotahi te kōrero [Taranaki be of one voice]. We know what has happened is that people have split off and that is fine. But I think about nā koutou who have come today because it has been a long journey. So to Daisy I congratulate you and you whānau and your team. Wīremu ki a koe anō hoki i kite au i tō ingoa i runga i ngā rārangi ingoa [to you too Wīremu; I noted your name on the list of names]. So congratulations to you for being here.You may not have been here earlier but we made mention—a couple of the members have talked about a few things this morning that I think are important to put on the radar. One of our members the Green member Catherine Delahunty in fact talked about the fact that although we celebrate so much the various people in our history—people like Paris and Grey and Whitmore are celebrated in history; I know they are celebrated because they are street names in New Plymouth for goodness sake—but ko te hunga Māori ā kāore i kitea [as for the Māori people they were not sighted]. And I know that one of those protests was to get rid of those posts but I did not—I did not touch those ones. It was other ones—no no it was not. So I think that is an important point that those names have huge ramifications for our people because they are symbols of a history that many people do not talk about.I just want to raise a second issue that others have spoken about which is that the history of people like the people of Taranaki—I lived there for a couple of years and I have got to say there are a few people who I know feel so deeply and strongly about confiscation. These people are one of them. Tūhoe is another; Tainui is another. There are others obviously. But you know because they live on that same land that was confiscated from them—and as a teacher of Treaty education I have seen the books that show the confiscation line. For somebody who came out of a Parliament of New Zealand to draw down the page one squiggle and draw to the right and say “All of that is now confiscated.” you know that is a part of our history that not many people talk about. Here we have an opportunity to put that sort of stuff in front of our Parliament and I think we should take that opportunity all of the time.I take the point of the “Ngāti Paraone” tribe. He said: “You know maybe these debates should be in the afternoon so that they open up for the general public.” It is all very well for us sitting here and for those watching on TV but actually the history that is spoken about in these Treaty debates is hugely important. We never get it out—we have got 10 minutes to put everything out there. We never do it justice but the mere fact of some of the key points that all of us make for the purposes of being united about giving opportunities for people to move forward I think should be given consideration. Maybe we will take that up in the Business Committee of the House.These are the thoughts that sort of come to mind and the hope is of course that although the journey is not over because there are a couple of stages—I was looking for one certain man from Ngāti Tū to come to the door but I cannot see him here today. So I am suspecting that he will want to have an audience with me and to have a talk. I gave a commitment to that Ngāti Tū kaumātua that I would come up and see him. It may be a little bit later. I may have a phone message on my phone which I will get to this afternoon and we may have a talk on Facebook. But these are the things that we go through. Some of our people say “Let’s go.” some of our people have certain issues that they still want resolved and some of our people are so passionate—and there is nothing wrong with passion. There is nothing wrong with passion especially if it is in the best interests of our people.E hoa mā koinei te mihi o te ngākau ki a koutou i tēnei rangi kua eke ki tēnei taumata! Ē harikoa ana ko koutou tēnei kua noho nei hei hoa haere mō ngā iwi kua tae kē mai ki roto i te Whare Pāremata. Taihoa ake nei ka eke Te Komiti Whiriwhiri Take Māori ki runga i a koutou ki reira wetewete ai te tikanga ia i mua o te paunga o tēnei tau. Ko wai ka mōhio ka hoki mai koutou? Ā koirā te rā waiata te wā ngahau te wā e tutuki ai te kaupapa e taea ai tō koutou haere i runga i te huarahi whakarite mai ai. Nō reira kai aku rangatira e ngā taokete kai ngā uri o ngā manu e rua tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Colleagues I really acknowledge you from the heart today; you have reached the pinnacle. I am absolutely thrilled that you remain here as ones for tribes arriving here in the House as ones to engage with. The Māori Affairs Committee will shortly prevail upon you to critically analyse with you there and hopefully before the end of this year. Who knows when you will be back? And that will be the day to sing entertain—and when the proposal is settled and you go off on your way to make plans. And so my esteemed colleagues in-laws and descendants of those two birds I acknowledge commend and congratulate you and us all collectively; thank you.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. Māku e whaiwhai ngā kōrero kua kōrerohia i te ata nei ā nō reira ki a koutou Ngāruahine kei te mihi maioha ki a koutou. E hoki ngā mahara i tēnei wā ki a rātou katoa ka whakaaro ake ki ngā mātua tūpuna me ngā kupu kōrero i waihotia ki ngā whakatupuranga hei kawe i tēnei kaupapa te toimahatanga o te raupatu me te hiahia kia whai oranga i roto i ngā āhuatanga mō ngā whakatupuranga. Nō reira ki tērā kīwai o te kete nei e Tihi e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Nāku te waimaria kia tuitui i ēnei kōrero ki ērā i waihotia i roto i Te Whare nei.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. I will follow up on the contributions expressed this morning so an affectionate greeting to you collectively Ngāruahine. At this moment my thoughts go back to all of the departed and I reflect on the words uttered by the ancestral forefathers which they left behind to the generations about this matter of extreme depression relating to confiscation which was for them to bear with a desire that benefits accrue from within the circumstances for generations. Therefore on the other handle of this basket Tihi I acknowledge you all; greetings well done and congratulations. It is my good fortune that I am able to stitch these comments to those that were left in this House.]It gives me some pleasure to be able to contribute to this particular Treaty settlement. As I said in my opening mihi you cannot help but be reminded of some of the historical facts of the country and locate yourself in some small way to some common interest. When I read through the historical accounts for Ngāruahine and the impact of confiscation in the area there was so much that was similar to the experience in Waikato—1.2 million acres were confiscated in Taranaki which is the same amount as in Waikato.In terms of the inability of the Compensation Court to adequately address the issues because those who had fought hard to hold on to their lands were classed as rebels and in terms of the dislocation that people had as a result of raupatu of their land—how that turned relationships around often within hapū and within whanau those who fought with the Crown and those who remained loyal to the aspirations of their people—all of this kind of gets churned up as a result of combing through the historical facts and the events that occurred. I grew up as a child who heard only stories of people who had remembered their tūpuna who had fought during particular times. But can I say this as a child of a raupatu area he rongoā i roto i te mamae [there is a medicine in the pain]because we were very well assured that despite the burden of obligation that the generation above me—my parents’ generation my father’s generation—had to address the issue of raupatu it was so that the next generation had the ability to look forward.In some small way the settlement process enables that to happen. It is not a complete redressing of all those wrongs but it is a window and a door that you can choose to walk through so that things can be better for the next generation. It is so as not to forget the past but to be able to walk confidently into the future and say: “This is who our ancestors were and what they believed in. This is who we are now. This is how we choose to be going forward into the future.” For all that I acknowledge Ngāruahine. I acknowledge everything that is in this particular settlement and what you have tried to achieve.I had a look at some of the aspects of this settlement. Can I say that at the select committee level I am particularly interested in the local government level the instruments that enable your participation in the planning and regulation aspects of what happens within your particular region. I will take a particular interest in that because I know that so much of what can happen going forward into the future will require your own determination of your development aspirations and being able to locate that within your own area working with local government working with business and working with all those groups you have to work with to give full effect to what you want to do. I also note that there are relationship accords with key Government agencies. We have just had a debate yesterday in the House with the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations noting the Post Settlement Commitments Unit and how that unit can be a really key part of ensuring that these accords are monitored and evaluated and are operating in the way that the settlement intends it to operate because if it falls short of that it falls short of your aspirations contained in the settlement.Although it may not on the surface be appropriate for certain matters to be relitigated Minister I anticipate that even though the Wai 552 issue has gone to the High Court and has had a determination it may well come back to the Māori Affairs Committee through a submission. Often I have noticed through the Treaty settlement process that people use the select committee as a way to be able to tell their story and have it recorded and heard in some way shape or form. The select committee gives a lot of respect to anybody who presents submissions to us in earnest in order to try to understand the nature of their concerns. We are somewhat constrained in being able to address this because once it gets to the settlement phase and the legislative phase our strongest role is to ensure that the deed reflects what is contained in the legislative mechanisms and we can kind of really scrutinise some of that aspect. But to revisit matters that have already been determined elsewhere we are a little bit constrained in that respect. I do want to mention that because I anticipate that that will be an issue.I also note the matters with regard to the conservation estate. You know the conservation legislation is still in itself one of those Acts of law that have the strongest references to giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi. So the Treaty settlement process has enabled us to really have a high level of expectation on these accords and these instruments through the conservation estate to be able to make sure that they are working to their full extent as well.Do you know what? Over time I have considered in this House—and I have been here as long as the Waikato raupatu settlement 20 years next year—that the conservation lands might be the last bastion of New Zealand lands solely held for our people in the public estate and Māori are inserting themselves right in there saying: “We’re going to partner how these lands are going to be managed for the benefit of all New Zealanders.” That can only be good because more and more we are seeing so much of the New Zealand estate sold elsewhere out of our hands and the next generation is quite fearful about that. So New Zealanders owe a huge debt of gratitude to iwi who through their good nature have said: “We can do this with the Crown for the benefit of all New Zealanders.” It gives me great heart the Tūhoe settlement with Te Urewera. That will radically I think transform the way in which people will look at co-management and co-governance of a beautiful estate like that as does the Ngāruahine settlement.There is so much more to this Treaty settlement that again as the Minister himself said there is not enough time in 10 minutes to be able to do it adequate justice. But you can rest assured Ngāruahine that the diligence of our select committee chair and his good nature enable us to investigate any matter that we require—Pita Paraone: And members.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: —and members; that is right the member from New Zealand First—and to investigate those matters that are really important to give you an assurance that we are doing the best job we can do to steward through what has been a huge and long effort of a number of people. But most important the total sum of that effort is courage—courage and conviction. Nō reira i roto i ērā kupu iti ka waihotia i roto i ēnei pito kōrero mā koutou hei hari hei whakahoki ki te kāinga nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[So in those brief words I leave these brief statements for you to enjoy and take home; so acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all.]NUK KORAKO (National):Tēnā koe e te Mana Whakawā ā “Ko te hau mua ko te hau muri ko Te Hau Tamawahine ko Te Hau Tamatāne e tū mai rā Te Tokotoko a Tāne-nui-a-raki e tutū mautia whakamaua ka tīna tīna haumi e hui e tāhiki e!” Ā tēnā rā koutou ngā pōua o Waitaka o tō tātou matua tipuna. Ngāruhine ka mihi Taranaki Mauka ka mihi nō reira e ngā manuhiri o te Whare Pāremata nau mai haere mai piki mai kake mai hōmai te wairua.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. And so: “It is the winds to fore and aft those of Tamawahine and Tamatāne and yonder stands the walking stick of Tāne-nui-a-raki hold fast to it securely; join gather and entwine; it is done!” And so acknowledgments to you the aged from Kaikōura to Waitaki; I salute you. To you Ngāruahine and Taranaki Mountain visitors of Parliament House I therefore bid you welcome; draw hither mount and climb aboard give me the spirit.]I want first to acknowledge the people of Ngāruahine who are here today and those who could not be but may be watching or listening to this which is a momentous occasion for the people. I am Ngāi Tahu and I know the history of these people. I come from Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa and I also come from Kāti Waewae Arahura o te Whare Tūhuru. As children we were told these were the stories of these people these prisoners who came to our marae and who actually at Rāpaki they were interned on Ōtamahua and a lot of them perished. My tīpuna brought them from Ōtamahua te Rāpaki. And then those who were taken to the Tai Poutini were also interned where they suffered and died. So I want to acknowledge this incredible people and what they have gone through.The history here of Ngāruahine is one of the great ironies of the New Zealand Wars. Despite the fact that it was the Crown that violated the recently signed Treaty of Waitangi it was the iwi who were branded as rebels both by the Government of the day and by many subsequent historical accounts. Ngāruahine was one of these iwi. This was a prosperous and successful iwi that had been trading peacefully with Europeans but for many years they opposed the sale of their lands to Europeans and that was their right. When the end of Ngāruahine’s success as a prosperous and peaceful iwi came it was not to protect their own lands but that of neighbouring iwi.It should be a mark of pride to the people of Ngāruahine that their ancestors put at risk their financial prosperity to go to the aid of others. When the Crown declared war on North Taranaki iwi who were resisting forced sales of land some Ngāruahine entered the war to support their neighbours. When the Crown confiscated 1.2 million acres of Taranaki land it included all of the land belonging to Ngāruahine. Crown forces then entered the Ngāruahine rohe destroyed villages stores and sources of food and took a lot of Ngāruahine as prisoners. Eventually small percentages of land were nominally returned but even then there was uncertainty about the control the iwi had over its land.As I said before many displaced Ngāruahine relocated to Parihaka and joined the peace movement there only to be arrested and transported to jails in Te Wai Pounamu. It was highly appropriate that the apology for the Crown’s wrongs committed against Ngāruahine should be delivered on the Tai Poutini at Hokitika earlier this year at the site where many Ngāruahine ancestors were jailed. Over the years since these breaches of the Treaty took place Ngāruahine has been forced to suffer the injustices of so-called redress through the wholly inadequate west coast commissions.The Taranaki Maori Claims Settlement Act of 1944 claimed to provide a full settlement of claims with no evidence that Ngāruahine had agreed to the settlement. What we have here today is a full and final settlement that has been agreed between the Crown and Ngāruahine. It acknowledges the wrongs that the Crown perpetrated against the iwi and offers an unreserved apology. What it does not and indeed cannot do is fully compensate Ngāruahine for what the Crown stole from them. Instead the commercial redress of $67.7 million provides a way for Ngāruahine to begin developing an economic base for their future and for these tamariki who are here today and for their tamariki after them. The iwi’s relationship with their lands is also recognised through various means such as deferred selection vesting of culturally significant sites statutory acknowledgments and deeds of recognition.I want to reiterate the Minister’s acknowledgment of Ngāruahine’s generosity in accepting the settlement. I want to also acknowledge the work of the many people who have brought the iwi to this point. These include the tūpuna who first began seeking redress for the Crown’s breaches of the Treaty over a hundred years ago. There are also many whom the Minister has already acknowledged by name—the two Ministers actually—who have worked on this current settlement. I acknowledge those who have passed on those who could not be here today and those who are here to see the first stage of their settlement process through this House.This bill will now move on to the Māori Affairs Committee which I am honoured to chair. I look forward to considering this bill in detail. I look forward to welcoming those Ngāruahine people and others who wish to make submissions on this bill. I want to acknowledge the work of Minister Finlayson as our Treaty settlements Minister. I also want to acknowledge the tautoko from the Minister of everything else Māori—Te Ururoa Flavell my colleague from “Tīpene Kura”. Finally to my colleagues the members of the Māori Affairs Committee—we try to park our political affiliations at the door and then we enter that room and then we try to do things that are in the best interests of our people. Nō reira Ngāruahine ka nuinui te mihi te aroha e mihi e mihi e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa.[And so huge greetings and empathy to you Ngāruahine; I acknowledge salute and congratulate you all.]I would like without any reservation indeed to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.METIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green):E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe tuarua ki ngā mema ō tō tātou Whare tēnā koutou katoa tuatoru ka mihi atu ki a Ngāruahine me ngā hapū katoa ka mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker of the House; secondly acknowledgments to all members; and thirdly I welcome you Ngāruahine and all the subtribes.]Last year John Key responded to the Waitangi Tribunal claim on Te Paparahi o Te Raki by saying that New Zealand was settled “peacefully”—that was the word he used. And he went on to explain that Māori would have been grateful for the injection of capital that early Pākēha brought with them when they settled Aotearoa New Zealand—Māori would have been grateful for the capital! The history of Ngāruahine puts John Key back in his place—someone who is sadly ignorant of his own history of his own country and of the efforts of his own Government to respond to that history with some restitution.This morning I want to set out some of that history as John Key’s own Government has described it in its own legislation before us today and to suggest that perhaps he might want to reflect on both the inaccuracy and the offensiveness of his earlier comments. Before 1860 Ngāruahine were prosperous and economically successful and retained ownership of their lands and resources after consistently opposing the sale of land in their rohe to Europeans.In the late 1850s some Ngāruahine provided assistance to northern Taranaki iwi who were also resisting Crown efforts to acquire land. The Crown declared some Māori who were preventing the surveys elsewhere in Taranaki to be in rebellion and commenced hostilities against them. Some Ngāruahine entered the war on the side of the non-sellers. Following the occupation of the Tataraimaka Block by Crown troops conflict in Taranaki resumed in 1863 and Ngāruahine people again travelled north to engage with Crown forces.In 1865 the Crown proclaimed 1.2 million acres of Taranaki land confiscated including all of the Ngāruahine rohe. The confiscations were indiscriminate depriving both “loyal” and “rebel” Māori of their lands. The war continued and in early 1866 Crown forces entered the Ngāruahine rohe and used scorched earth tactics which devastated several Ngāruahine villages along with associated food stores livestock and crops. As a result of the Crown’s military campaigns Ngāruahine people were forced to abandon their former homes and food-gathering sites suffering severe hardship. Some Ngāruahine people were taken prisoner during the war and a number lost their lives.The process that was established to compensate “loyal” Māori for the confiscation of their land began in the 1860s before the fighting had come to an end in South Taranaki and this made it very difficult for Ngāruahine people to participate in the hearings for that compensation. By 1880 none of the compensation court awards to Ngāruahine had been implemented.So the settlement legislation says the Crown acknowledges that the cumulative effect of the Crown’s actions in purchasing land in Taranaki created tensions that led to the outbreak of war; that it conducted a bush scouring campaign and used scorched earth tactics in southern Taranaki to reduce the ability of Māori including Ngāruahine to fight; that these campaigns resulted in the devastation of a number of important Ngāruahine kāinga including Māwhitiwhiti and Ahipaipa and forced Ngāruahine to flee their settlements causing severe hardship for them; that Ngāruahine suffered loss of life during the Taranaki wars; and that the Taranaki wars constituted an injustice. It does not sound like peaceful settlement to me.The settlement bill goes on to describe that in the early 1870s many Ngāruahine returned to their lands on the Waimate plains. Through the 1870s the Crown attempted to secure nominally confiscated Ngāruahine land for European settlement by making formal and informal payments to Māori and by promising to provide reserves and protect significant Ngāruahine sites. These promises were not fulfilled. By the late 1870s many Ngāruahine people were uncertain about the status of their lands.By this time many Ngāruahine had relocated to Parihaka in central Taranaki and were supporting its leaders Te Whiti and Tohu Kākahi and their movement for Māori peace and independence.The Crown acknowledges that Ngāruahine provided material support to the Parihaka community and that large numbers of Ngāruahine people were residing at Parihaka when Crown forces invaded the settlement in 1881. It inflicted serious damage on the prosperous Māori village of Parihaka and the people residing there forcibly dispersing many of the inhabitants and assaulted the human rights of the people. These actions caused great distress and were a complete denial of the Māori right to develop and sustain autonomous communities in a peaceful manner and its treatment of Ngāruahine people at Parihaka was unconscionable and a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.The Crown also goes on to acknowledge that it detained members of Ngāruahine and other Māori of Taranaki for their participation in the peaceful resistance campaigns initiated at Parihaka that legislation was enacted that suspended the ordinary course of law and that as a result most prisoners including many Ngāruahine people were detained without trial. The detention of those prisoners without trial for an unreasonably lengthy period assumed the character of indefinite detention and the imprisonment of Ngāruahine and other Māori of Taranaki in South Island gaols for political reasons inflicted unwarranted hardships on them and their whānau. The treatment the Crown acknowledges of these political prisoners was wrongful a breach of natural justice and deprived them of their basic human rights.There is much more of this history—this demonstrable proven history—in the settlement legislation. I would urge all New Zealanders to take the opportunity while this bill and other settlement bills are going through the House to look at those histories to learn what those histories are especially in their own areas and to understand what happened in their own country so that we may learn from those lessons understand where we come from and present a much brighter vision for how we might proceed in the future. The history set out in the Ngāruahine legislation shows just the first decade after Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed and it is a history of violence racism and theft all of which characterise the colonisation process. It was not peaceful; it was not about fair exchange. It was about greed.Treaty settlements have many problems in the Green Party’s view but one of the things they get right is the setting out of our collective history. We need to make more of these accounts—to understand them to learn them and to learn lessons from them. I want to wish Ngāruahine all the very best for the future of their settlement. I look forward to talking with them more about this in the select committee. Tēnā koutou katoa.PITA PARAONE (NZ First): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. Ā tiheiwa mauri ora tuku mauri ora ki te wheiao ki te ao mārama! Ngāruahine nau mai haere mai. Tū wāhi poto tēnei ki te tautoko i ngā mihi i mihingia e aku tuākana i whakatau i a koutou kua tae mai nei i runga i te kaupapa i karangahia tātou i te rā nei. Kei te tautoko hoki i ngā mihi ki tēnā o ngā whanaunga karanga maha nā rātou i ‘hakatīmata mai tēnei kaupapa ka harekau kē kei waenganui i a tātou. Ahakoa horekau i waenganui i a tātou ā-tinana ēngari mōhio ana au kei konei rātou a-wairua nā reira e tika ana kia mihi tonu ki a rātou. Nā reira kua ea te wāhi mā rātou ka hoki mai ki a tātou te hunga ora tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.Kei te tautoko mātou o Aotearoa Tuatahi i te pire nei ahakoa e mōhio ana au e horekau e tino tatū e tino tau kē tā koutou kerēme. Tika ana te kōrero a te Minita ahakoa me pēhea tō rātou whakaaro ka horekau kē e tino tau ēngari ko te mea nui i tēnei wā i raro i te kirimana i hainatia i a koutou i waenganui i te Karauna kua tau kē. Ēngari ka nui taku mihi ki a koutou tā koutou manaakitanga ēhara ki te Karauna anahe ēngari ki te iwi whānui o Te Motu nei nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.I mea atu au ki wā tātou whanaunga mai i Hineuru i te ata nei āhua pūhaehae ana au ki a rātou nā te mea kua tau kē te whakaaro o Te Karauna he iwi kē rātou. Horekau i hē ki tēnā! Pēnā i a koutou e tū i te rā nei hei iwi! Horekau ahau nei e raru ki tēnā! Ēngari i roto i a mātou o Ngāti Hine tōku whānau anahe tata kē 10000 ngā tangata ēngari kīhai te Karauna i ’hakaae i a mātou ē tū hei iwi. Kia ahatia? Ēngari te mea nui i raro i te kaupapa o te pire nei pai kē ki a koutou i te Whare nei. Nā reira ngā mihi hoki![Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. So “Behold the breath of life! I give life to the natural and the enlightened world!” Welcome come hither Ngāruahine. I stand briefly in support of the tributes of welcome expressed by my elder colleagues to you collectively who arrived because of the call of the proposal that brought us all together here today. I also endorse the tributes to those relatives of many callings who started this proposal and are no longer amongst us. Even though they are no longer amongst us physically I am cognisant of the fact that they are here spiritually so it is apt that we continue to acknowledge them. Therefore the part for them has been satisfied and so we come back to us the living; greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you collectively.We of New Zealand First support this bill even though I know that your claim has not really been settled properly. What the Minister has said is correct; regardless ofwhat their thoughts are it will never really be settled but the main thing at this point in time is under the mandate of agreement that you collectively signed amongst the Crown it has been settled already. But I do appreciate you greatly for your hospitality not just with the Crown alone but with the public of this land; so well done wonderful and congratulations.I said to our relatives from Hineuru this morning that I was somewhat envious of them because the Crown had already made up their mind that they were already a tribe. Nothing at all wrong with that. It is much like your standing today as a tribe! Absolutely no problems at all with that. I do not have a problem with that! But within us in Ngāti Hine in my family alone there are nearly 10000 people but the Crown will not agree that we stand as a tribe! So what? But the important thing is under what is being proposed by this bill it is better instead for you really in this House and so congratulations as well.]I just want to say that we certainly support the bill going to the Māori Affairs Committee. Like all other settlements there will be other people within the tribe and outside of the tribe who will have some reservations a contrary view perhaps about this settlement. I think that the Māori Affairs Committee process allows the opportunity for those people to come and air their views.The bill provides that Ngāruahine may nominate members to the Taranaki Regional Council’s standing committee. On that particular issue I must say that I know that there are people out there who oppose this view. I have no problem with them having a different view. In fact this is one of the good things about this whole process. The actual history is recorded so that if people have any doubts as to the merits of iwi claims then it is documented there. It is documented in a way that is acceptable to the Crown as well. The fact that the Crown has tendered its apology to Ngāruahine is testament to its acceptance of the history that has been recorded. I want to have that noted in the Hansard. Āe nā tēnā pea ka rongo i a mātou mai ngā hunga i tautoko ‘hakahēngia te kaupapa i roto i te pire i mau mai i mua o te aroaro o Te Komiti mō ngā Take Māori. Tēnā pea kei te mōhio mai i a mātou he aha te tino ngako ō ō rātou whakaaro.[Yes and they might hear about us through those who agree to or oppose the proposal in this bill before the Māori Affairs Committee. Perhaps they might know about us in respect of what is the real substance inside their minds.]As a previous speaker alluded to there is some concern about Wai 522 the Āraukuku hapū claim. Again I think that through the Māori Affairs Committee process that will certainly be a point of discussion and it will give the committee some clarification as to what is the actual situation. It is important that this legislation actually reflects what is in the deed of settlement. We will certainly have that confirmed again in the Māori Affairs Committee.This whole process of Treaty settlements does provide an opportunity for this country to have recorded the actual history of what happened to Māori when the European came to this country. Today we are discussing a settlement bill that concerns a tribe in the Taranaki area. I can remember when I sat on the Māori Affairs Committee to look at the Ngāti Mutunga claim. I must say that I thought that the quantum was very small given the history and the impact that the arrival of the Crown had on that part of our country. Perhaps it could be argued that the quantum for this one could be similar in that it is not big enough considering the course of history that impacted on this iwi. However we will certainly hear more about that during the Māori Affairs Committee deliberations.I just want to conclude by saying that we do not have any concerns about the quality of the negotiators. We do have some concern that the Crown negotiators get compensated very well but I wonder whether or not the Māori negotiators got something similar. I would suggest not. Really if there is any criticism it is in that respect. I just want it on the record Minister that it is not against the individuals but against the unfairness I would suggest. However having said that I just want to conclude by again commending the bill to the House. Kia ora.JOANNE HAYES (National):E te Mana Whakawā kia ora. E te iwi o Ngāruahine ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa nau mai haere mai i tēnei rā.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and a huge appreciation to you all the tribe of Ngāruahine; welcome come hither today.]I stand very humbled again. Each time I stand for these claims settlement bills I am very humbled to speak in support of them. I stand because a little while ago I watched on television the hīkoi that Taranaki iwi and members of Ngāruahine made down to the South Island following the tracks of those who were imprisoned wrongly over the confiscation of land in Taranaki out at Parihaka. My heart sobbed for all of you. I was in Dunedin in 2011 and I went and visited those caves. I can almost tell you that I could feel the mamae and the tears that were flowing through the whole process that you have endured over time.Today is a special day for all of you and it is also a very special day for the Māori Affairs Committee. We are humbled to be able to take your bill to the select committee. And yes not everybody will agree with the findings inside the bill and there will be lots who will agree but I have yet to stand in this House and hear of a smooth ride of any claims settlement bill coming through this House. This is the reality of what we go through. Under the leadership of our Minister here the Hon Chris Finlayson and the leadership of the chair of our select committee Nuk Korako I believe that we will be very expeditious with the rest of the process for your bill. I wholeheartedly support it and commend it to the House. Kia ora.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a 5-minute call.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. Tēnā koutou rau rangatira mā Ngāruahine Taranaki Maunga Taranaki tangata tēnā koutou nau mai haere mai. Haere mai ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei nō koutou tēnei rā whakahirahira. Ka huri ngā whakaaro ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia haere koutou haere koutou ka hoki mai ki a tātou te hunga ora e rau rangatira mā. Huri rauna i tēnei Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and greetings esteemed ones of a hundredfold Ngāruahine Taranaki Mountain Taranaki people; salutations welcome welcome. Come hither to Parliament House in readiness here; this momentous day is yours. My thoughts turn to those who have passed away farewell and go forth to you collectively and so I come back to us the living esteemed ones of a hundredfold. Therefore I commend acknowledge and salute you collectively and us all.]It is a great honour to be making a small contribution to the first reading of this settlement bill. I acknowledge Ngāruahine my whanaunga who have travelled this long distance to finally be here in Parliament—not only physically but also over the many many years of mamae and anguish and pain that have transpired—for the first reading of this settlement bill. I do acknowledge the whanaunga just like the chair of our Māori Affairs Committee my whanaunga Nuk Korako through our connections with Poutini Ngāi Tahu but also through Ngāti Toa up to Taranaki. I am your pōtiki here and I do mihi to you today.I just acknowledge that we have heard a lot of the history. It is a dark bloodstained history and I was thinking that there is no need for me to traverse that. This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Great War the First World War as we rightly should do and the sacrifice that was made collectively as a nation—Māori Pākehā everybody—in that Great War. But I think that too often we overlook our own history and our own conflicts and wars that took place in our country. There is no better example of that than the wars that took place in Taranaki in the 1860s and all the way through the 1880s. Our manuhiri here today were front and centre in the thick of all of that and I think that as a nation we need to reflect on and make sure that that history is taught and carried on. I know this definitely happens at our hapū and our whanau levels but I think that collectively as a nation we need to do that.These are special days. It is about remembering those who have put through the petitions and the commissions—everything that has taken place in the past. It is about reflecting on that and it is also about acknowledging the work that has gone on with Te Korowai o Ngāruahine as well. I do acknowledge all of the hapū who have come under Te Korowai who have completed this settlement. We know that not all hapū are perhaps supportive of this settlement. We get that in every settlement piece of legislation that comes through this House. There will always be some disappointed or disaffected hapū—a hapū with whakapapa in both camps of different pā—so we will have the opportunity to hear that kōrero and I think that is important too.But let me not detract from the fact that this is a momentous day for Ngāruahine. I was just reflecting on the Crown labelling you as a Māori as being either “a loyal” or “a rebel”. I find that really staggering. Regardless of where Ngāruahine were—as a loyal or a rebel—actually they were just helping their whanaunga of Te Ātiawa a lot of the time getting behind them because of the Crown’s insatiable appetite for land. As anyone will know when you go over the Waimate plains these are beautiful plains green lush plains which stretch right out to the great maunga; obviously green is gold. It is just a great sadness that this great iwi has been denied their lands and at least there is some measure of compensation that is taking place here. Reserve lands—yes they were set aside but most of them are locked up in perpetual leases so that they still cannot get access to their actual whenua.It is a long history and today I think is just to celebrate this first reading. I am looking forward to being in the Māori Affairs Committee where we will continue the kōrero so all I can do is commend this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou.BRETT HUDSON (National): E te Mana Whakawā tēnā koe. It is a privilege to stand in the House today to support this bill in its first reading. I do not profess to understand either the pains of the injustices inflicted upon Ngāruahine in the past or the generations that it has taken to reach this point but I come to this House and stand resolute in the belief that the New Zealand society that we want to deliver is one that provides opportunity for all our people to contribute to a growing economy—one that is creating more and higher-paying jobs—to participate in an education system that creates opportunities for our young and leads to greater prosperity in their futures and where we can lead long and healthy lives and live safely in our homes and across our communities.As my colleague Mr Korako said earlier with this settlement and the economic redress that it includes we cannot right the wrongs of the past but we can provide an economic base for Ngāruahine to participate in the future and in the partnership of the New Zealand that we all wish to see. I commend this bill to the House.PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau):Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. “Te tai rā te tai rā e tumu ana e pari ana ki tawhiti nui ki tawhiti roa i Hawaiki rā nō—he tai tapu nā Tangaroa! Tērā whaitiri Te Waka o Mātaatua i haere mai i te nuku roa. Ko te ngaru whatiwhati hoe he kura tongorere wā taku ika poutapu nā Te Oro nā Puhikaiariki. Ko ngā hoehoe o te pō te whetū rere ata ko Tāne Mahuta i whakairihia whano whano haere mai te toki haumi e hui e tāiki e!”Kāti ake rā e te Whare! E te Māngai o te Whare ka tāpiri waku kōrero tāu nā kōrero i horaina ki runga i ngā manuhiri kua tae mai i te rā nei—ka mea atu he manuhiri? Ēhara tēnei i te whakaae! Kua roa rawa a Ngāruahine kua roa rawa ngā iwi Māori e takahia nei i ngā ara poutama i mua i tēnei Whare. He aha te take i takahia nei rātau i te nuku roa ka tae mai ki runga i a tātau i te rā nei? Nā mō ngā take Tiriti mō ngā tūkino a te Karauna ki a tātau Te Iwi Māori tēnei e whakatau nei i a koutou tēnā koutou!Ka huri ngā whakaaro ki ngā tini aituā. E te pāpā e Hone i kawea mai ngā puna roimata o Taranaki Maunga ki runga i Te Marae o Ōtīria ki roto i ngā marama kua pahure ake nei koutou Ngāruahine! Kia mōhio mai koutou i a au e tamariki ana ko tōku pāpā tērā i āwhina i a koutou me ngā mahi rangahau mō ō koutou take Tiriti. I a au e tamariki ana ia marama i taraiwa mātau ko pāpā mātau ko tōku whāea ki roto i a koutou. He aha ai? Hei āta wānanga i ngā take! Hei āta kōrero i ngā tūkinotanga! Hei whakatuituia hei whakawhanaunga i a tātau ki roto i ngā whakapapa e puritia nei e tātau Te Iwi Māori. Nō reira ka tangi tonu te ngākau mō pāpā kua ngaro atu ki Te Pō! Ka tangi tonu mō ngā mate mō ngā aituā maha i mauria mai e koutou ki runga i te tāhūhū o tō tātou Whare.Nā ka whakaaro ake ahau ki ngā ingoa kua wahangia nei e te Minita. Ko ahau tēnā e oro ana i ngā ingoa me ētahi atu i mahue atu i roto i ngā rārangi ingoa o te Minita i te rā nei. Ka whakaaro ake mō te pāpā a Tohe Pakanga Ngātai ka whakaaro ake mō te papa a Harry Hikuroa me tērā o ngā mātua a Jack rāua ko Peggy Toro. Ka whakaaro ake ki ngā mātua ki a Lawa rāua ko June Nuku ki a Hōne Luke ki te pāpā ki a Eric Taha anā me te whāea a Rose. Ka whakaaro ake ki a Cyril Tāmau ānā me tōna tuakana a Sonny. Kai roto i waku whakaaro ko te whāea a Mīria Rangi anā ko Richie Luke ko Bill Kātene. Ahakoa ngā totohe kei waenganui i a koutou e Ngāruahine e Taranaki Maunga ngā au piki me ngā au heke i roto i ō koutou haerenga hei āta whiriwhiri hei āta totohe i tēnei take e pā ana ki ngā tūkinotanga a te Karauna ēnei ka tangi ēnei ka mihi! He puna wai e utuhia he wai kei aku kamo! “Te pua kōrau e ruia e tipu i te waru!” Kāti te wahanga ki te hunga mate!Ka whakahokia mai ngā rārangi kōrero ki a tātau e te Whare. Hei whakataki ake i te kōrero: “He toa tauā he toa pāhekeheke. Ko te toa ngaki kai e kore e pāheke!” E mihi atu ahau ki a koutou e ngā ringa raupā koutou e ngā waha kōrero e ōku apa whatukura e ōku apa māreikura. Ko koutou rā tērā e kawea nei i ngā moemoeā ngā mamaetanga o Ngāruahine i roto i ngā taumaha tae noa mai ki te ata nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.Kai āianei ka huri tū atu ngā whakaaro ki ngā kōrero kai roto i te pire ā kia mōhio mai tātou ka noho ahau ki roto i Te Reo Māori. Ka whakaaro ake ahau ki te wāhanga tuatahi. Kai roto i taua wāhanga he wāhi whakapāha ki a koutou e Ngāruahine. Ā e mōhio ana tātau kua tae ki te wā me whakapāha. I āta wetewete e tātau i ngā kupu kai roto i te pire nei kia tirohia i te hōhonutanga o te whakapāha ki a koutou kia kaua e tuku mā te ngutu anake te whakapāha ēngari ka puta mai i te whatumanawa o te tangata otirā o te Karauna e whakapāha nei. Nā ka whakaaro ake ki ngā hītori kua kōrero mai nei e te Whare. E kaha tautoko ana ahau i ngā kōrero o tēnā o tēnā o tātou. E mea atu ana i tūkinohia e te Kāwanatanga i a Ngāruahine. E mea atu ana kua wareware kua roa rawa te Kāwanatanga i wareware i a Ngāruahine ki roto i ōna whiriwhiringa mō ngā taumaha kua pahure ake nei. Kāti he pai he manawanui te kite atu i tēnei wāhanga kua tuhia nei ki roto i te pire.Ka whakaaro ake ahau mō tētahi atu wāhanga: tētahi wāhanga ki tāku nei titiro ki te titiro o ngā kanohi Māori nei! He aha nei ko ngā kanohi? Anā ko te whakapapa! Ko wai te Kāwanatanga ko wai te ture ka tohu atu anā ko Ngāruahine koutou? Kei te pupuru koutou i ō koutou whakapapa hei tuituia ki ngā iwi katoa puta noa i te rohe whānui o Taranaki Ngāruahine tae noa hoki ki a au i Te Tai Tokerau. Ko wai rā te Karauna te tohu ko wai koutou? Kāti e mihi atu nei!Ka huri tū atu ahau ki te wāhanga tuarua o te pire. E toru ngā pū wāhanga kai roto i tēnei wāhanga te wāhanga tuarua. Tuatahi hai whakarite i tētahi mahere hei tiaki i te taiao kāti ko Papatūānuku kei raro ko Ranginui kei runga tēnei ka mihi. Ko tētahi atu pū wāhanga e mea atu ana te tikanga mō ngā hao ika. Kua roa rawa tēnei Whare e totohe ana mō ngā mahi hao ika o te motu whānui nei. Pai te kite atu ki roto i te pire ka whai wāhanga a Ngāruahine ki roto i ngā kōrero hao ika tā te mea he iwi takutai koutou. Nō reira e mihi atu ana tēnā koutou! Anā ko te pū wāhanga tuatoru kei roto i te wāhanga tuarua ko ngā taonga tūturu kei a koutou. Ko ngā rawa o te whenua o te hau e pupuhi mai nei anā koia rā tērā ko te hau i purea nei i ō koutou mauri ō koutou wairua ki roto i ngā tau anā he taonga tūturu tērā—[Bell rung]Anā kua tangi te pere!Ka huri atu ahau ki te wāhanga tuatoru arā te wāhanga whakamutunga o te pire nei te taha ki whakatika hapa arumoni me te kōnae pūtea hei whakapāha atu hei whakaea ai i te mamae kua roa rawa koutou e hīpokina kāti! He aha nei nā te pūtea ki a tāua Te Māori? I te ao o ngā mātua tūpuna ko te oranga te mea nui! Ko te kōrero o ngā mātua tupuna pērā i a Tā Apirana Ngāta e mea atu ana: “Mā ngā rākau a te Pākehā ka whiwhi oranga.” Nā tēnā! Ka tukuna atu i tēnei kōnae pūtea ki a koutou hei whakatinana ake i ō koutou moemoeā i ō koutou moehewa mō ngā uri whakatupu mō ngā mokopuna e haere ake nei kāti!E mihi atu ana ki Te Rōpū Whiriwhiri i ngā Take Māori āianei ka tau te pire ki mua i a koutou otirā ki mua i a tātau. Ka noho tātou ki te āta whakarongo. Nā he taonga te whakarongo! Kauwē e tohutohu ki a Ngāruahine ki roto i te pire anake! Te mea nui kia āta whakarongo tātau katoa ki ngā kōrero ā tēnā ā tēnā ā-tēnā kāti!Ki a tātau katoa e te Whare mō ngā mahi katoa kua oti nei i te ata e mihi atu ana. Ngāruahine! Ka waiho ngā kete kupu nei a te tupuna kei roto i a au a Te Kāwiti e mea atu ana “me titiro ki ngā taumata o Te Moana” tēnā koutou tēna koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker of the House. “It is the tide it is the tide it ebbs and flows in from the far and great distance from way back to the homeland Hawaiki it is the sacred tide of Tangaroa. That thunderous canoe of Mātaatua traversed the great distance the wave that splinters paddles and heralds the sacred fish of Te Oro belonging to Puhikaiariki. The night paddles the dawn star are Tāne Mahuta personified; proceed go forward come forth the adze join gather entwine!”Enough of that for now. Mr Deputy Speaker of the House I add my tributes to yours that you cast so lavishly upon the visitors that have arrived here today—but I ask: visitors? I do not agree! Ngāruahuine and indeed Māoridom have for a long time tramped the well-worn red stoned paths before this House. And what is the reason why they have tramped the great distance to be seated there above us there today? For Treaty matters and transgressions of the Crown upon us indeed the Māori people that I and every one of you as a collective have considered—hello there!I turn my thoughts to the myriads who have passed away. To you the elder Hone you took the pools of tears of Taranaki Mountain up on to themaraeof Ōtīria in months just past; you Ngāruahine. You must understand Ngāruahine that while I was a toddler my father was that person who assisted you and the research that was done on matters pertaining to you under the Treaty. While I was a child each month we would drive down with my dad and mum to be amongst you. Why? To critically analyse matters to speak about the wrongdoings carefully to weave our connections and relationships with each other through the genealogies that we as Māori keep. Therefore I continue to grieve inside for Dad who has gone to the void and for thedeaths and the many misfortunes that you as a collective have brought upon the roof of our House.Now I think about the names that the Minister mentioned. I was one who heard them but others who were left out in the list of names by the Minister today come to mind: elder Tohepakanga Ngātai elder Harry Hikuroa and the parents Jack and Peggy Toro. I think about parents like Lawa and June Nuku Hone Luke elder Eric Taha and yes indeed Dame Rose. I recollect Cyril Tāmau and his elder brother Sonny. In my mind is dear Dame Mīria Rangi and then Richie Luke plus Bill Kātene. Despite the ongoing internal debates within you Ngāruahine and Taranaki Mountain the ups and downs in your journeys to carefully consider and debate this matter relating to the transgressions of the Crown we mourn and acknowledge you. As a spring gushes water so do tears that well up in my eyes. “The young fern shoots grow unto maturation when summer is upon us!” With due respect to the dead enough for that part.I bring the comments back to us in the House. To preface this part of the address an aphorism: “A warrior’s life is full of uncertaintybut the life of one who is an expert at tilling crops for food is not.” I acknowledge you the providers of secretariat services the advocates the providers of expert and specialist advice; you are the ones who have carried the aspirations and pain of Ngāruahine through the hard timesright up to this morning. I say well done congratulations and good on you all.I turn now to the contents in this bill but you must all understand that I will remain speaking in the Māori language. I reflect on Part 1 where there is an apology to you Ngāruahine. We know that we have come to where an apology must be made. We analysed the wording very critically to assess the depth of the apology offered to you so that it was not coming merely from the lips alone but from right inside the very core of the individual; in other words this apology was coming from right within the heart of the Crownmaking the apology. Nowthinking aboutthe historical accounts that the House presented here I strongly endorse the sentiments expressed by each and every one of us. The sentiments are saying that the Government violated Ngāruahine. It is saying that the Government has absolutely forgotten about Ngāruahine for a long time in its own considerations about the seriousness of these in the past.Well it is good and really reassuring to see this part that has been written into the bill.I think about another partonethatin my perspective reflects a point of view from these Māori eyes! Why the eyes now? Wellit is the genealogy! Who indeed is theGovernment the lawto say that you are Ngāruahine? Hold fast to your genealogyto thread to all tribes throughout the broad region of Taranaki and right up to meas wellin thenorth! Who indeed is the Crown to say who you are? Butenough;I acknowledge you.I stand and turn toPart2of the bill. There are threeSubparts in thissectionofPart2;firstlyto consider a plan to protect the environment. Now thenthere is Mother Earth below and Sky Father above;I applaud this.Another clause sets out protocols for fisheries. This House has been debating fisheries operations throughout this country for far too long. So it is good to see a part included in the bill for Ngāruahine to have a place in the discussions around fisheries because you are a coastal people. So I applaud you; well done.And now for Subpart 3 in Part 2 of the bill: things of value handed down that you have Ngāruahine resources of the land and air the very wind that has been removing impediments from your life and spiritual principle for uncounted years. Now then those are treasures handed down—[Bell rung] And there goes the bell!I turn now to Part 3 to the concluding part of this bill which relates to commercial redress and a component of the apology—the financial package to alleviate the painyou have borne for so long. Enough said! What exactly is funding to us Māori? In the world of our forefathers livelihood was the most important thing. In a statement by one of them Sir Apirana Ngata had this to say: “Livelihood will be achieved through the tools of the non-Māori.” And there you are! A financial package is offered to you to manifest your aspirations and dreams and those of the generations and grandchildren to come. Enough said!I acknowledge the Māori Affairs Committee. The bill is about to come before you—in other words before us. We will sit down and have a good listen. Now then listening is a thing to be prized. Do not just give counsel to Ngāruahine solely in the bill. The most important thing is that we must all give our ear to each and every one who gives an account. Enough said!And so I thank all of us in the House for what has been achieved this morning. To you Ngāruahine I leave these words within me from my ancestor Te Kāwiti for you: “Look to the peaks of the ocean.” Greetings and acknowledgments to you and to us all collectively; thank you.]TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā; tēnā koe e te Whare; and particularly warm greetings to all who are here today representing Ngāruahine. I made the point earlier today that unfortunately because of the significant amount of business that the House has to conduct in a fairly short space of time some of us speaking in the latter stages of this debate will have to take very short calls. But I do want to assure you that that does not in any way suggest that we do not fully appreciate and endorse the great significance of this occasion.I want to begin by thanking those who have spoken in today’s debate. I think that most have made very thoughtful and insightful contributions. It is certainly not an occasion to be mean spirited or petty. The significance of this occasion deserves much more than that and I want to acknowledge the outstanding work that the Crown negotiators have done and particularly the goodwill that has been shown by Ngāruahine in engaging with the process. You could never be adequately compensated for the wrongs that have been done. It is a privilege to be one of the modern-day parliamentarians who has an opportunity to be part of trying to redress these great wrongs. As others have said we could never adequately do that but I think that by acknowledging the wrong and by being absolutely determined to ensure that we do our level best to try to ensure a much brighter future for the iwi thatis I hope in a small way an indication of goodwill.The other point that I would make is that this is a process that began more than two decades ago under the leadership of the Rt Hon Jim Bolger and the outstanding work that was done by his Treaty negotiations Minister Sir Doug Graham. The greatest progress of all has been made under the determined leadership of the Rt Hon John Key and the outstanding stewardship of this portfolio by the Hon Chris Finlayson. So to those who wish to be demeaning of that effort I simply make the point that actions speak louder than words. It is this Minister and his team who have been getting on with the job. I am immensely proud to be supporting them in their endeavours. I thank the select committee for the outstanding work that it is doing. I wish the iwi all the very best for what I hope will be a bright and prosperous future.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.WaiataMr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou tēnā koutou katoa.Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee BillIn CommitteeThe CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): It is my understanding that leave has been given—or I will now seek leave—for the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill to be considered as one question but for votes to be taken separately.Preamble Parts 1 and 2 schedule and clauses 1 and 2Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I will take just a brief call to explain to members what Supplementary Order Paper 104 is about. All it is is that since this bill had its first reading on 2 November 2014 two of the iwi in the “tāngata whenua appointer” definition in clause 4 Ngāti Hineuru and He Toa Takitini have actually formed their mandated post-settlement governance entities. This has happened obviously before the legislation has passed and that is why an amendment to the definition of “tāngata whenua appointer” in clause 4 is required to reflect this. Minor subsequent amendments to clauses 5 and 11 are also required.The question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 104 in the name of the Hon Christopher Finlayson be agreed to.Amendments agreed to.Preamble Parts 1 and 2 schedule and clauses 1 and 2 as amended agreed to.Bill reported with amendment.Report adopted.Third ReadingHon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I move That the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill be now read a third time. I acknowledge the iwi from the Hawke’s Bay region involved in developing this legislation and welcome some familiar faces to the gallery. I acknowledge that it has taken a long time to reach this very important milestone. I also acknowledge those who are representatives of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. They too like their iwi counterparts have travelled a long way to be here in Parliament to listen to this the third reading of the bill. To those of you who have worked so hard to make this possible I offer you my very very sincere thanks. It has been more than 5 years since Cabinet agreed to establish a planning committee of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council through legislation. The committee is the outcome of a significant amount of both careful and creative thinking about how best to manage the diverse and complex nature of the natural resources in the Hawke’s Bay.At the beginning of this process we considered a number of existing models around New Zealand to see whether any of those would be suitable for the situation in Hawke’s Bay and I acknowledge the Hon Nanaia Mahuta here. We actually had a good look at the Waikato model and whether that could be transplanted across for example. But because of the sheer number of rivers and waterways within the region we actually found that none of those models would work. Having one board for each of the rivers in their catchment areas would result in clumsy administration as well as being very difficult and uneconomic to manage. So a completely new approach was required and who better to do it than Fran Wilde who at the relevant time was chair of the Greater Wellington Regional Council and there is a considerable body of opinion including me that she should still be the chair of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. She had been the chief Crown negotiator for Ngāti Pāhauwera and she had the inspired idea of devising a committee that was tailored to the Hawke’s Bay situation.It is a committee that takes an overarching collaborative and unified approach to resource management so I acknowledge Fran’s meticulous work. It is not the sort of once-over-lightly superficial exercise that some may expect Crown negotiators to get involved in. If you adopt that approach in the interests of saving a few thousand here and there then you fail—not you Mr Assistant Speaker of course; I am talking about one. It is certainly not a recipe for success in Treaty negotiations hence the need for hard-working dedicated Treaty negotiators. In practical terms this committee which comprises equal numbers of council and iwi members has already been successfully working in interim form—since at least 2012 the committee has been operating—and it is demonstrating the benefits of a coordinated and a collaborative approach from elected representatives from both the council and iwi in the Hawke’s Bay region. By improving iwi participation and governance on natural resources costs in resource management processes for local authorities businesses and the public will be reduced over time.This bill gives effect to the Crown’s commitment made in the Ngāti Pāhauwera deed of settlement and again recorded in the Maungaharuru-Tangitū deed of settlement to work with iwi and hapū to introduce legislation to establish this committee. The bill ensures that the relevant iwi post-settlement governance entities are entitled to appoint representatives on that committee. It sets out a framework for the committee but it does not specify all its operating provisions. These will be discussed and agreed by committee members.What is the purpose of the bill? Well the purpose is to improve the involvement of iwi in the region to oversee the development and review of a regional policy statement and regional plans for the region prepared in accordance with the Resource Management Act 1991. It does not mean that the committee will make actual decisions on behalf of the full council. The committee has strong recommendatory powers. An important feature of the committee moreover is that it is a permanent committee and can be discharged only by unanimous agreement of all members—iwi and council members alike. The rationale behind this is that the committee is involved with resource management issues that span a much greater time frame than local body elections. Under schedule 7 of the Local Government Act committees are deemed to be dissolved at or following triennial general elections of members. In order to function effectively and ensure continuity of planning the committee needs to span local body election cycles so the bill needs to provide for this section of schedule 7 to be overridden.There are many people who have contributed to this legislation both within iwi and within Crown agencies. As I have already noted I particularly want to acknowledge Fran Wilde. She is unable to be here to mark this occasion because I think she is in Oslo but it was her creativity and drive that contributed significantly to the formation of this committee. She and other Crown negotiators do a great job.I also wish to acknowledge the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. Its efforts and its willingness to engage with the hapū and with officials have been vital to the ultimate success of this legislation. The council has shown a real commitment to having an ongoing relationship with iwi in its region. In its approach to its obligation to consult with iwi on resource management matters the council actually had two options. It could make separate arrangements over seven separate catchment areas or it could work with all the iwi in the region to cover the whole of the region and it chose the latter. The resultant legislation is a good example of a strong co-governance model that is well resourced.Most important I want to acknowledge the tireless work of the iwi leaders involved in the development of this very important legislation.The bill has taken time energy diplomacy—at times—patience and pragmatism so that we could all arrive at a piece of legislation that satisfies all parties that are involved. The legislation is the basis of a new and an on-going relationship between the regional council and the iwi of the bay and I commend the bill to the House.MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Ngā mema o te Whare nei tēnā tātau katoa. E te hau kāinga kua tae mai nei nau mai hoki mai ki ō tātou Whare i tēnei wā i runga i te kaupapa whakahirahira o te wā nei. Nō reira hari koa ana te ngākau ki te kitekite anō i a koutou tēnā koutou![Greetings Mr Assistant Speaker. To the members of this House greetings to us all. And to the people from home who have arrived here come hither and welcome back to our House at this moment on this inspiring proposal of this time. Therefore it is so heartening to set eyes on you once again—congratulations!]I stand with members on this side of the House in wholeheartedly welcoming the third reading of this bill the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill. Can I please acknowledge those who have travelled long distances to be here to hear the passage of this important piece of legislation. Can I acknowledge the origins of this bill being the Ngāti Pāhauwera Treaty Claims Settlement Act. Can I mihi to my whānau of Ngāti Pāhauwera Toro Waaka—good to have you here in the House. Also I acknowledge our whānau from Maungaharuru-Tangitū Tania Hopmans. Tēnei te mihi ki a koe ki a koutou katoa. I also see our chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Fenton Wilson. Ka nui te mihi ki a koe Fenton. It is lovely to have you here again to witness the third reading of this important bill.I want to acknowledge the work of the Māori Affairs Committee. There was mention that we had eight submissions presented to the select committee. Six clearly supported this bill. Some had some reservations but I do want to acknowledge the work of the Māori Affairs Committee and our chair and our members here in bringing this bill back to the House. I want to say just in terms of the select committee process that I know that although there were only eight who actually submitted the importance of this bill was well discussed back home in terms of unlocking the co-governance arrangement which is clearly I think going to benefit the Hawke’s Bay region. When I see eight submissions I can almost triple that to know that the people at home have a very very keen interest in this particular bill and what it will enable. So I want to commend those who did submit.I also do not want to shy away from some of the points I raised in the second reading because if you are going to raise an issue then you want to stand by that. There were a couple of issues that I did raise in the second reading. One was around representation and I acknowledge all the iwi who are currently at the table. I wanted the issue around coverage—and I will again welcome all the iwi who are at the table. We still have a major entity back in the Hawke’s Bay Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. which through the Maori Fisheries Act does have some responsibilities that will probably extend what we are passing through this bill. So the cautionary note I made at the second reading which I say again at the third reading was that it will be something that needs to be managed between the iwi at the table and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council simply because we do not want anything coming unstuck over what we are starting to pass through this House here. Kōrero is definitely a better proposition to have than to be litigating in the courts so I just wanted to make that point.The other point I raised was one around skills and capabilities. I acknowledge the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s commitment of $100000 to help with the resourcing of this committee but again as we get into the technical areas of the Resource Management Act that requires quite a bit of investment particularly if you have got iwi at the table to unlock the intricacies I guess of the legislation that surrounds the Resource Management Act. Again I just raise that point to ensure that what we are setting up here is well resourced—well resourced—so that it can do the job that we all want it to do.I also want to acknowledge that in working out a co-arrangement that would best suit the Hawke’s Bay we did reference a similar arrangement in the Ngāti Awa and the Ngāti Tama claims to ensure that this particular arrangement was fit for purpose. So I want to acknowledge the research that went into that.I am glad to stand here to say that I am from the Hawke’s Bay. Our primary industry is critical to the survival of our economy. Having good governance and good decision-making ensures not only that our land and our water are protected but that they are allowed to grow the opportunities that we very much have become accustomed to in Hawke’s Bay and we also want to protect. So in accepting and supporting this bill I see it as a continuum of both iwi and local government having a say in the future of the Hawke’s Bay. I want to acknowledge the Minister’s introductory point around this committee’s role as being purely recommendatory and say that the final decision sits at the local government level. We have local elections coming up in 2016 and we will be encouraging as many people from the Hawke’s Bay—hopefully we will see more iwi at both the regional council as well as the city council.So I really want to support this bill coming through the House. I can see the potential and the fortitude that the negotiators of Ngāti Pāhauwera have set. I have shared my cautionary notes about ensuring that this is an ongoing arrangement. I also want to acknowledge the hard work of the Napier MP my colleague Stuart Nash who I want to say works really tirelessly for Napier and for the people of Hawke’s Bay. It is a pleasure to work with Stu and his absolute commitment not only to making us the best region in New Zealand but also to holding on to that log of wood when another colleague of ours hopes to be travelling down with the Northland team on Sunday to try to take it off us. So—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I am just going to warn the member against irony.MEKA WHAITIRI: I again want to assure the House that I look forward to the passage of the final reading of this bill. I can see the potential like I said that it will unlock in Hawke’s Bay. I wish that all the iwi who have come today and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council let it be a model for all co-governance arrangements in Hawke’s Bay because I can see the opportunity that it will unlock there for our people whom we represent. I commend this bill to the House.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker kia ora anō tātau katoa. Kai aku rangatira tēnā koutou katoa i tēnei ata kua mihia a Ngāti Hineuru i tēnei ata ka mutu nō nā tata nei i puta atu ai a Ngāruahine o roto o Taranaki tēnei wā ko koutou ēnei kua tatū mai ko tāku ko te whaiwhai haere i ngā kōrero a te Minita ā ka mutu o taku tuahine ki a koutou e ngā rangatira i roto i te Whare Pāremata. E kui Āwhina tēnā koe he oranga ngākau te kite atu i a koe e whakakorikori nei i tō iwi ka mutu e hari koa ana kua tae mai koe koutou i tēnei rā ki te whakaotinga mai o ngā mahi kua roa e haere nei i tōna huarahi nō reira hara mai me ngā mate kua kōrerohia ka mutu ka huri ki a koutou katoa ngā kanohi ō rātou mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and to us all once again. I acknowledge you all collectively my esteemed elders. This morning we welcomed Ngāti Hineuru and furthermore Ngāruahine of Taranaki left just moments ago and now you have arrived here. My part is to follow up the Minister’s sentiments and after that those of my esteemed sister’s words to you collectively the esteemed members of Parliament. Madam Āwhina greetings to you. How heartening it is to see you mobilising your tribeand what is more it is pleasing to see you arrive with you others today to finalise tasks that have been on their way for a long time. So welcome with the deaths that were alluded to and furthermore I turn to address you the representatives of all those who have passed away. I acknowledge commend and congratulate you and us all collectively; thank you.]Can I just add to the comments made by the member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti Meka Whaitiri as well as by the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations welcoming people here to this particular kōrero. I have not got too much to say in this debate. Suffice it to say that one great thing about this bill in particular—and there is only one point that I want to make—is that finally some of our boards and councils that have been set up have come and seen the light. They should not be scared of Māori input into decision making.The scene was set I think by the Hon Mita Ririnui in the Labour Government back in the day when it opened the door up to involvement in Waiariki in my case from Te Arawa people the Mataatua people to be involved in decision making at the regional council. Three members on and no one else has taken up the baton since then. I want to congratulate the Hawke’s Bay region—congratulations on bringing together our iwi into the decision making. I am so pleased albeit I hear: “Oh a recommendatory body. Well you know I think our people are seeking a little bit more than that.” But that is OK—it is a step along the pathway. We want to actually be a part of the decisions that are made for our region. Why? Nō tātau te whenua ka mutu he whenua Māori wētahi i raro i te āhuatanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi.[The land is ours and furthermore some are Māori lands under the situations that relate to the Treaty of Waitangi.]I think it is important that we do have absolute say and are part of the decision-making processes certainly around environmental issues. Why? Because No. 1 it is a Treaty responsibility and I think that the debate in respect of the Mayor of New Plymouth putting the whole notion around seats on to councils by right as a Treaty right as well as a representational right is the right thing to do. I am so pleased as I say that this has happened today and about the involvement of all iwi that have been spoken about: Ngāti Pāhauwera who opened the door up—ka nui te mihi ki a koutou—Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust which has been in this House before and I see some faces that are familiar; Mana Ahuriri Inc.; Te Tira Whakaemi o Te Wairoa; and He Toa Takitini. It is good to know also there are some other seats there for Ngāti Hineuru whose legislation had its first reading today Ngāti Ruapani Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāi Tūhoe—all the ones who live down that end anyway.So congratulations our people on taking up this challenge and putting it in front of the district council. Congratulations to the council on taking up the opportunity to work together and I hope and pray that this is an example that will be set throughout the country. It has set the scene of working together. We have got a vested interest in our people being involved in the decision making and I hope that we take up this opportunity with plenty of vigour and participate in the decision-making process. But keep pushing the boundaries—this is but a start. The test will be when it gets down to the crunch and we have to make a decision and somebody disagrees with the decisions that are made across the board by all iwi involved. That is the real test—to see whether the relationship in fact does mean anything. With that I say congratulations again. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa aroha mai mō te poto o tēnei kōrero kua āhua māuiui tēnei Māori ā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau.[Much appreciation to you all and my apologies for the brevity of this speech as this Māori is getting rather weary. And so acknowledgments and congratulations to us all.]STUART NASH (Labour—Napier): Tēnā koutou katoa. I must admit that Meka Whaitiri’s words were saying—I very much enjoy working with Meka. We work very closely together. Labour in Hawke’s Bay has never been stronger—onwards and upwards.The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations made a very good point actually and that is that we should never be scared of working in a co-governance model. This is my third speech on this bill and I have outlined the reasons why I support this but the main reason really is the kaitiakitanga model and philosophy that Māori have around land management. I have always believed and I have tested this a number of times with my good colleagues that Māori have more of a stewardship role than an ownership role when it comes to land and therefore have the ability to look to future generations. As opposed to saying “I own this now and I’ll do what’s best for myself.” they are saying: “This is here for future generations and we don’t own it. All we are is guardians for the future.” I love that model. I think it is absolutely fantastic and it is the way we should be managing all our native resources. But there is not a word in the English language that encompasses that philosophy and that is as beautiful as “kaitiakitanga”.I tell you I stand up here and I am fearful that one of the longest courtships is going to end in one of the shortest marriages. The Minister the Hon Chris Finlayson talked about how this had taken 5 years to get to where it is—extensive negotiations between affected parties. But the way that I read this piece of legislation is that once the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is gone then this group falls over. What we are facing at the moment is an amalgamation referendum in Hawke’s Bay. On 15 September this year we will know what the governance arrangements for Hawke’s Bay will be. We will know whether there are still four local councils and one regional council or whether the Napier City Wairoa District Central Hawke’s Bay District Hastings District and the regional councils are to be dissolved and merged into one Hawke’s Bay council.The way I read the final proposal put out by the Local Government Commission is that what will be attached to this new amalgamated council is a Māori board and a natural resources committee. What it also says is that that Māori board will have a statutory limit of 6 years and then it will exist only due to the largesse of the council. So I do not know where this committee stands in respect of the local legislation. Does it mean that there could be possibly two Māori advisory boards? Because that is the way I read it.I talked to Wairoa District Council extensively about this and it has one of its advisory boards. The way it believes things is that its advisory board will once again disappear and be replaced by the advisory boards as outlined in the Local Government Commission’s final report. I might be wrong. I may be reading the legislation wrong and if I am then I am sure the Minister will correct me.Hon Christopher Finlayson: No I can’t.STUART NASH: No no personally—you will correct me personally and I will seek to address this in a newspaper article or something. But I do not understand how this fits in to the final proposal for Hawke’s Bay regional governance. The reason I say this is that I had a look through the final proposal put forward by the Local Government Commission before I came to speak on this bill and I saw no reference to this group at all. So I am unaware as to whether the Local Government Commission was even aware that this piece of legislation was going through the House which would surprise me because as we have acknowledged it has been in the winds now—or more than the winds; it has been on the table—for 5 years. So it is a very important piece of legislation and there are people who have put a lot of time and effort into it. As mentioned I completely support it. So let us see what will happen there. Let us have a talk afterwards Mr Finlayson and see where we end up on this.The other thing I would like to say is that these committees are fantastic in principle and they look really good on paper but the real test is whether we can really make these work and whether there is the relationship with the council—not just the council but the body itself—to make sure that people are working in partnership with good faith. The way people tend to work in Hawke’s Bay by and large is in good faith. There is no doubt about that. That is my experience from being a member of Parliament for 3 years—being outside and coming back. But I just hope that that same good faith is transferred from this board through to the regional council and that we can make decisions in the best interests of Hawke’s Bay.Obviously a big one that is coming up—a very very big decision—is the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme. This is one that I know my colleague Meka Whaitiri has major concerns about. I have no doubt—well I do know actually because I have been in a number of meetings where Meka has spoken about these concerns and this is something that we are going to need to work through as a community to get the right outcomes for Hawke’s Bay.I will leave it at that but let us hope this works in the best interests of the Bay because we are a province of immense potential. We are doing well in some areas. I must admit we did not get the boom times when the dairy sector was going hell for leather but as a consequence we are not getting some of the bust times when the dairy sector is in the doldrums. We have got the wine industry doing incredibly well we have got the apple industry doing incredibly well red meat is doing well and there are also a number of exceptionally innovative businesses from Hawke’s Bay that are taking on the world and winning. So all I can say is onwards and upwards. Meka and I are going to be here for as long as it takes to really drive meaningful change in Hawke’s Bay and I will look forward to the next few years. Thank you very much.NUK KORAKO (National): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker ā huri noa i te Whare Pāremata nei ngā mema e me mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. Tēnei te mihi o te whanauka o Te Waka o Tākitimu ki a Ngāti Kahungunu me koutou rā ngā iwi katoae mihi atu ki a koutou.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and to the members of this House of Parliament I acknowledge you all. I this relative of the canoe of Tākitimu acknowledge you Ngāti Kahungunu and all other tribes; greetings to you collectively.]I am pleased to speak in support of the third reading of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill and I want to acknowledge the representatives of both iwi and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council who are here today. I also acknowledge those who have worked so hard on this bill but could not be here today. The establishment of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee was mandated by the deeds of settlement with Ngāti Pāhauwera and Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū but it incorporates many other iwi along with representatives of Ngāti Hineuru Iwi Inc. Ngāti Tūwharetoa Hapū Forum Trust He Toa Takitini Mana Ahuriri Inc. and Te Tira Whakaemi o Te Wairoa.The committee is already in operation and by all accounts is working very well. It was clear to us on the Māori Affairs Committee that there was a strong relationship between the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and local iwi. The relationship developed through an understanding on the shared goals that Māori and non-Māori have for the Hawke’s Bay region. With the establishment of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee—the final step as this legislation is passed is to give it legal standing—that relationship will only become stronger.Another thing that was clear to the Māori Affairs Committee when we considered the bill was the innovative approach to a very very complex problem in some ways. None of the existing models of natural resource management would have worked for Hawke’s Bay so a new approach was indeed needed. This is a new way of collaborating a new way of putting into practice the relationship between iwi and local government and it is working successfully. It is a great example of how iwi and local government can and should work together in partnership. This bill does not give iwi the right to mandate certain outcomes or overrule the elected council. Its purpose is not to move decision making away from the regional council but to bring iwi into the process.Although the committee has been operating successfully without a formal legal mandate since 2011 the bill is important to the ongoing operation of the committee. First of all it ensures that the committee is a permanent committee—just to address the previous speaker Stuart Nash—of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and is therefore not dissolved before each local body election. This permanence ensures that the committee and its work continues regardless of election cycles although some of the membership will change depending on the outcome of the election. This enables the committee members particularly the iwi representatives to undertake long-term planning over multiple years and across election cycles. The bill also enshrines in law the entitlement of post-settlement governance entities to appoint representatives to the committee.I would like to once again acknowledge the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. Our Minister has acknowledged the many people who have been involved in the bill and the workings of the committee to date. I just want to acknowledge though the committee co-chairs Fenton Wilson and Toro Waaka—tēnā koe—and everyone else who has served on that committee since its formation for the success they have had in the first years of the committee’s operation.Finally in a lot of ways there is not a lot of change with the passing of the bill because the committee is already in operation but the bill enshrines in legislation what is already happening and ensures the committee’s future. This is an excellent bill and I commend it to the House. Kia ora.DENISE ROCHE (Green):E te Māngai tēnā koe tuarua ki ngā mema o tō tātou Whare tēnā koutou katoa tēnei te mihi ki ngā tāngata katoa i te Whare.Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Secondly acknowledgments to members of our House and I pay a tribute to everybody in the House. Greetings to you all.]I am speaking in the third reading of this bill and I maintain that it is a privilege. But I am speaking on the bill for the Green Party in the place of Catherine Delahunty who was the Green Party MP on the Māori Affairs Committee which was hearing the submissions on this bill. She was spokesperson on the issues raised in this bill as it progressed through the House.In the second reading of this bill the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Chris Finlayson explained that this bill will establish the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee which implements the Government’s decision to establish a statutory body called the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee. The establishment of this committee will give effect to the commitment made by the Government in the Ngāti Pāhauwera deed of settlement and recorded in the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū deed of settlement to work with iwi and hapū in the Hawke’s Bay region and with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to agree on details of this planning committee in order to introduce legislation.The bill ensures that the relevant iwi post-settlement governance entities and Crown-mandated entities will be entitled to appoint representatives to the planning committee. We support the concept of the Treaty settlement process creating mechanisms for genuine sharing of decision making that respects the rights and responsibilities of mana whenua hapū and iwi—and the Crown for that matter—as a Treaty partner.We are supporting this bill but we are also compelled to point out as others have that this bill could have been more aligned with the settlements that commit regional authorities to more than simply allowing a regional advisory committee on Resource Management Act issues. We acknowledge that there are certainly complexities around Kahungunu Inc. and iwi katoa but we maintain that the Crown has an obligation to lead the regional authorities away from advisory tokenism and we fear that that may well be the result of this bill. So we say that the Crown should lead authorities towards a genuine relationship between the regional council and iwi based on the rights and the obligations outlined in article 2 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.My colleague Catherine Delahunty notes that this genuine relationship is a slow process. It is a gradual process of leading the horse of Pākehā dominance and resistance to the pool of water as well as making that horse drink. Iwi Māori know this well as do those who have spent decades teaching Te Tiriti o Waitangi to tauiwi katoa—that racism is rife and disquiet still exists from Pākehā around Treaty settlement bills and bills like this that try to give some effect to some aspects of Treaty settlement.If I were to hazard a guess—because I do not really understand it—I would suggest that that racism stems from a fear of sharing power. And it stems from a sad and widespread lack of understanding of the history of our land where really few Pākehā actually understand the losses that were suffered by iwi and hapū in the Hawke’s Bay area and across Aotearoa.We maintain that in the end tangata whenua of the rohe deserve a whole lot more for their historical suffering—the raupatu marginalisation and the economic servitude and low-paid jobs on land that was stripped from their grasp. They deserve the full right to the things that they never handed over: rangatiratanga and mana motuhake.We note that the Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee is a committee with powers and functions relating to the Resource Management Act. We note that iwi are already advisers to the council and that the advisory committee is effectively already operating. We would have preferred to see a co-governance co-management model. I note as would many in this House who have already had to deal with co-governance and co-management that it is not an easy process. Those of us from Tainui and Raukawa and the other river iwi—we know this. The difference is that this committee will make recommendations but it will not make decisions.Having said that may this bill be celebrated as a step—not as the final deal but as a step—in the right direction. It is a tribute to the negotiation team and to the tenacity of that negotiation in a context where the parameters are frequently changing. We see this as a beginning. As well as the end of this process through the House it is a beginning and certainly it is not full and final. We see it as the beginning of a permanent negotiation for decolonisation and justice. We note and we acknowledge that this should be and is a time for optimism for the iwi of the Hawke’s Bay area and we look forward to seeing how this plays out. We sincerely hope that true decision-making and power will be handed to iwi in due course as a result of this bill. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker ā tēnā koutou aku whanaungapēnei i a au nō Te Tai Tokerau mahara ana au i te wā tuatahi kua tae mai koutou ki waenganui i a mātou wēnā taku karanga ki a koutou aku whanaunga mēnā he tuakana tēina rānei ēngari ko te mea nui he whanaunga ēngari kei te tautoko i ngā kōrero i kōrerohia e aku tuākana aku tuāhine ki te ‘hakatau i a koutou i te rā nei. Kei te tautoko mātou o roto i a Aotearoa Tuatahi i tēnei pire.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to you my relations—like me of the North. That is how I regarded you collectively the first time you came amongst us. I referred to you as older or younger siblings—you bet—but also importantly as relatives and I endorse the sentiments expressed by my elder and female colleagues in welcoming you here today. We of New Zealand First support this bill.]I just want to reiterate that we do support this bill and we recognise that this is part of a settlement process. I also want to say that it is the establishment of a committee comprised of iwi and members of the council. It is a committee. It does not provide for separate seats on the council which is a different matter altogether.The Minister for Māori Development did make reference to a former member of this House the Hon Mita Ririnui who introduced—I think it was called—the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Māori Constituency Empowering) Bill which set aside two seats specifically for Māori. New Zealand First has never supported that approach. One of the reasons is that the example that I have just alluded to—at the time there were actually six Māori on that council. From the time that that bill became law that council has had no more than two iwi members on it. What we are saying in New Zealand First is that we are no less than and we are just as good as those of the general public. However I acknowledge the process that has been taken to get to this stage.The bill puts into legislation an organisation a committee that has already been operating for a number of years. I am glad that the Crown negotiator saw fit to adopt that approach. However the main point is that iwi have the opportunity to contribute to that whole process affecting the council.I just want to take up the comments made by the honourable member for Napier Stuart Nash. That is an issue as to whether or not this bill has the durability to overcome any possible amalgamation of the different councils at the moment. I think the proof will be in the pudding if the people of the Hawke’s Bay agree to that amalgamation. However from the comments that I have heard when I visited the Hawke’s Bay people are certainly not in favour of it. However time will tell whether or not that is going to be an issue.I do not have too much to say other than to say that New Zealand First will certainly be supporting this bill because it gives the opportunity for iwi to participate in the process albeit in a recommendatory process. So without further ado I commend the bill to the House.JOANNE HAYES (National): Ā tēnā koe ngā mema o te committee o Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou. Time is of the essence and my contribution will be a short one. Everything that has been said has been heard. Everything that has been written has been submitted. Everything that can be debated within the Māori Affairs Committee has been debated and discussed. And all that is left for me to say with some words borrowed from the great Barry White is that this has been the committee’s first it has been the committee’s last it is the region’s everything. Congratulations. I commend the bill to the House. Kia ora.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It is pretty hard to follow Barry White but I do have that baritone that bass that I can roll out here.I just want to make a short contribution to congratulate the members the iwi the hapū the tangata whenua groups and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council on—actually they have beat us to the punch for we are just formalising the commitments that were made in the Treaty settlement. So Parliament is actually in catch-up mode. They are way ahead of the game. They have been working as a committee for over 2 years now. So it is really up to Parliament now to try to catch up with the mahi that has been going on.I congratulate all the groups. Can I acknowledge my whanaungas Ngāti Pāhauwera Maungaharuru-Tangitū we had Hineuru this morning and all the other groups that are represented on the committee. It is an exciting time and I know that they have got a lot of money—mahi that is going on. [Interruption] I hope they are generating some money as well. But whatever the reorganisation or potential hypothetical situations that might be happening with local government reorganisation in the future for the Hawke’s Bay region this committee is a permanent committee that has been established based on solemn agreements reached with the Crown. So regardless of what future structures may come into being this committee will continue. I am very certain of that based on the commitments that have been entered into with the tangata whenua with the hapū and with the iwi of the Hawke’s Bay.I do not want to prolong this debate but can I just congratulate the groups once again congratulate everyone who has been involved in this legislation and I commend it to the House. Kia ora tātou.SARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): Time is of the essence and I too would like to rise in support of this bill. It is an exciting time for the principles of partnership and kaitiakitanga. With that I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a third time.The House adjourned at 12.49 p.m. (Wednesday)