Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā tātou e te Whare. E te imi Moriori tēnā koutou e mātakitaki mai nei ngā uri o ngā tūpuna rongonui o Rongomaiwhenua me Rongomaitere tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. E tū ake au ki te tautoko i tēnei pire te Pire Whakatau Kerēme a Te Imi Moriori i tēnei pānuitanga tuarua. Nō reira huri rauna i tō tātou Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Madam Speaker. Greetings to all in the House. To the Moriori people who are watching the descendants of their famous ancestors Rongomaiwhenua and Rongomaitere greetings to you all. I stand today to support this bill the Moriori Claims Settlement Bill second reading. Therefore to all corners of this House greetings greetings greetings one and all.]I'm delighted to speak as the last speaker in this second reading of the Moriori Claims Settlement Bill. Just at the outset I just want to state that I'm very pleased that I have never been mistaken for either Simon Bridges or Paul Eagle. I have pretty distinct Ngāi Tahu southern features—I don't tend to be mistaken. But I am delighted to add my tautoko and endorsement to the further passage of this bill. As we have with every Treaty settlement it's a very significant piece of legislation in healing in a way the injustices of the past acknowledging those and also an opportunity for the Crown to make amends and to start a new relationship. And that's what is embodied in all the Treaty settlements with a hope for the future. I'm pleased that I was a former member of Māori Affairs Committee too—former chair in the last Parliament. I do want to apologise to Harete Hipango. She was correct. We were on the Chatham Islands her and I and colleagues for the actual signing of the deed which took place in February 2020. Harete Hipango: I wasn't. RINO TIRIKATENE: Oh you weren't there?Harete Hipango: I'd like to have been.RINO TIRIKATENE: Ha ha! But anyway I was there that day but I wasn't there obviously when the committee went down to hear submissions. But this is an historic occasion for a people that is now being recognised—further recognised I guess—through this legislation. As we know there have been tragic circumstances with the history and I don't want to really traverse that because I know it's been well covered in the contributions thus far. But I do want to acknowledge the work of the Moriori whānau in particular under the leadership of Maui Solomon who I first met it would have been around over 35 years ago now in the mid-1980s when he was really starting his crusade to fight for recognition for the Moriori people. I was a young lad but I was fortunate to be able to actually have a very full appreciation of the beauty of the Chatham Islands and also the wonderful Moriori people. The unveiling by the late Rt Hon Prime Minister David Lange of the statue of Maui's grandfather the late Tommy Solomon who was the last full-blooded Moriori which is there up in Manukau in the Chatham Islands. I think that really is like a pou which really signalled the start of the great deal of work that Maui and all of the Moriori whānau have been doing over those 35-plus years to get to this point. It hasn't just come to a completion here; there have been numerous landmark achievements along the way whether it's in the Māori fisheries settlement and the recognition of the Moriori and the iwi of the Chatham Islands in the Māori fisheries settlements all the way through now to addressing the historical treaty settlements in particular with Moriori. So there's been a lot of work that has gone on and I'm so pleased that we've come to this stage of the bill whereby we are just rounding the corner and we're about to enter into the home straight. I want to acknowledge the great work of the Māori Affairs Committee under the chairmanship of my colleague Tāmati Coffey. Just reading the report of the committee it's wonderful to see that the committee didn't just look at the actual black and white letters of the bill but they actually listened to the submissions and they took on board the issues that were raised which were beyond the scope of the bill but they inquired and they've made necessary investigations into things such as revitalisation of ta rē Moriori and also a protection of historical sacred areas like Te Ana a Nunuku. So I want to acknowledge the committee for going above and beyond in their examination of this bill and I'm sure that has been appreciated not only by this House but by the whānau of te imi Moriori as well. I coming from the South—and I do want to acknowledge my colleague Paul Eagle; great member for Rongotai and the Chatham Islands. So much so that he pretty much carries the load for me over there most of the time. I've got a very vast area that goes beyond that not least of which is the great Te Wai Pounamu Rakiura and also Te Upoko o Te Ika as well. But I want to just talk to the fisheries-related amendments that were made in this bill. I work closely and support as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries and I want to acknowledge the committee for the amendments that have been made on the basis of the submissions that were made—not all obviously but there were some very helpful submissions made on behalf of the lobster and pāua industry associations in particular around adding a consultation requirement on the creation of a rāhui. I think it's very important these days that consultation takes place and so to have that prescribed in the legislation I think is the right thing to do and I commend that. Likewise just the alignment of this bill with the Secondary Legislation Act which is very important too in terms of the treatment of by-laws and the review of such in this House. So I want to acknowledge the amendments that have been made to do that because as we know the Chatham Islands are renowned for their kaimoana I guess—the bounty of the sea and the land. I was just looking at the stats—yeah 135 jobs or a third of the employment on the islands is generated by the fishing industry. That generates roughly 40 percent of the total GDP which is around $18.5 million dollars—and that that was from a few years ago so I'm pretty sure that given the prices that have now been ever-increasing for those luxury items like lobster and pāua those numbers are going even higher. So that is a major contributor but what I take heart from is that Moriori and Ngāti Mutunga are major quota owners on the island as well owning about 16 percent of pāua and 11 percent of rock lobster. And if you throw in the ownership that Māori have by virtue of Moana which looks after the settlement on behalf of all Māori that is a significant Māori-owned industry and very much locally supported and locally owned there on the Chathams as well. I know my colleague Joseph Mooney will be talking about the hākari that was presented to the select committee when they were hearing submissions. All I can say is that yes the kaimoana is abundant and is very large in size on the Chatham Islands but it's probably about on par to the turtle-sized pāuas and lobsters that Paul Mooney and I have down in Ruapuke and in Fiordland as well—and equally contributing to our GDP as a nation. So this is a wonderful bill. I do acknowledge again te imi Moriori. This is a significant step forward and I'm really looking forward to the remaining stages and hopefully we could usher those through before the end of the calendar year or very soon. I support this bill. Kia ora tātou.Motion agreed to.Bill read a second time.