Prime Willow-JeanHon WILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Minister of Conservation): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare otirā tēnā tātou katoa kei roto i tēnei Whare o tātou i tēnei ahiahi.He tino hōnore tēnei mōku te tū ki te tautoko o te pānuitanga tuatahi o tēnei pire mō te whakataunga kerēme a Ngāti Hei. Tēnā koutou ngā uri o Ngāti Hei kei konei kei roto i te Whare i tēnei ahiahi. Otirā tēnā pea ki a koutou o Ngāti Hei e whakarongo mai ana i tēnei ahiahi i runga i te reo irirangi te pouaka whakaata.Tuatahi māku e te Māngai o te Whare e tautoko ana ahau i ngā kōrero a te Minita mō ngā whakataunga kerēme ki te Minita hoki a Nanaia Mahuta te mema Pāremata o tērā takiwā o te Hauraki Waikato. E tautoko ana ahau i ā rātou mihi ki a koutou kei roto i te Whare i tēnei ahiahi nā koutou i whakapau ō koutou kaha ki te kawe i ngā take Tiriti mō tō koutou iwi.E tautoko ana hoki ahau i ngā mihi ki ngā kaimahi a te Karauna i mahi ngātahi ki a koutou o te iwi kia whakatau i ēnei kerēme ēnei take. Nō reira e mihi ana.[Thank you to the Speaker—indeed greetings to all of us in this House of ours this afternoon.This is a real honour for me to stand and support the first reading of this bill for the settlement claim of Ngāti Hei. Greetings to the descendants of Ngāti Hei that are here in the House this afternoon. Indeed to those of Ngāti Hei who may be listening this afternoon on the radio or television.Firstly for me I support the statements of the Minister for settlement claims and also to the Minister Nanaia Mahuta member of Parliament of that electorate of Hauraki Waikato. I support their acknowledgments of those of you who are in the House this afternoon those of you who expended your energy to bring these Treaty matters for your people.I also support the acknowledgments made to the staff of the Crown who worked together with you of the iwi to settle these claims and these matters. So I thank you.]It's my absolute honour and privilege to speak in the House this afternoon on the first reading of the Ngāti Hei Claims Settlement Bill. In my mihi I just wanted to acknowledge all of those descendants of Ngāti Hei who are here today but also those that may be tuning in may be listening online as well to this really important part of the process. This is a milestone getting to the first reading of the settlement legislation. I wanted to acknowledge Minister Little and Minister Mahuta who both spoke before me and all of the acknowledgments that they made to those who were both on the iwi side and on the Crown side who have been involved in this mahi; just to repeat to the negotiators from Ngāti Hei to Peter and to Joe and also those Crown negotiators Michael Dreaver and Rick Barker; and I want to acknowledge the former Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations as well Minister Finlayson. As the member Scott Simpson was just reciting the story I could just imagine Minister Finlayson trying to dry his socks on the fire and Ginny and I were laughing over here on this side having had some experience with Minister Finlayson myself before coming into Parliament.I was reflecting on Minister Little's speech about the length of time that this has taken and some of the reasons for that but also the ability to make progress when departing from that omnibus approach and being able to get it to where it is today. I just want to acknowledge that it was first signed in 2017 and here we are in 2023 finally having its first reading in the House. Manawaroa" is the word that we use in Te Tai Tokerau for perseverance and patience and that has very much been the case here. I want to acknowledge those that will be on the Māori Affairs Committee who are going to be receiving this bill and hearing submissions about it and the mahi that they will do. I have had the privilege of sitting on that committee in the past and I know that they put a lot of effort into hearing the submissions often visiting the rohe these settlements relate to. So I know that they will do a very good job on behalf of us all here in Parliament.I believe that other members have already outlined the main parts of the redress that are in the settlement. There is the apology. There is the financial redress and commercial redress as well as cultural redress which has been traversed by other members so I won't repeat that for you this afternoon. And given that it's been since 2017 I won't prolong it any further either and add to that delay. So with that Mr Speaker e tautoko ana ahau i tēnei pire pau te kaha. [I support this bill with all my strength.]"