Volume 713 Week 44 - Wednesday 13 April 2016(continued on Thursday 14 April 2016)Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVolume 713 Week 44 - Wednesday 13 April 2016(continued on Thursday 14 April 2016)[Sitting date: 13 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10539. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Wednesday 13 April 2016(continued on Thursday 14 April 2016)Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): I move That the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill.Hai wāwāhi i taku kōrero i tēnei ata ka tuku i tētahi kupu karakia mō te ātaahua o tā tātau nohotahi i tēnei rangi. Nō reira me pēnei rawa te kōrero: “Mai e te tipua mai e te tawhito mai e te kāhui o ngā ariki mai e tāwhiwhi ki ngā atua. Ō ī ka takina te mauri ko te mauri i ahua noa ki runga ki ēnei taura ki runga ki ēnei tauira. Kia tau te mauri ki runga ki ēnei tama tamatāne tamawahine he tukuna nō te whaiorooro o Tāne-te-waiora. Tēnei te matatau ka eke whakatū tārewa ki te rangi. Uhi wero hara mai te toki. Haumi e hui e taiki e!”Tauranga Moana koutou kua tae mai i tēnei rā tēnā koutou haere mai. Hara mai me te āhuatanga o te kapua pōuri o ngā mate huhua kua pā mai ki a koutou ki a tātau i te wiki kua hipa i ngā wiki tata kua hipa ake. Me te mōhio anō hoki nō nātata nei tātau hui atu ai ki runga o Te Marae o Hungahungatoroa tuku atu i te roimata ki a Matiu ēhara i te mea ko ia i tōna kotahi. He kitenga kanohi ka hoki ngā mahara ki te hunga kāre i konei i tēnei rangi ko rātau i para i te huarahi. Ka kite atu i te āhuatanga ki a Īria. Ka kite atu te āhuatanga ki ngā mate huhua o roto o waenganui i a koutou. Arā anō rātau kāre i waimaria ki te haramai. Me pēnei pea te kī ko te āhuatanga o roto o Ngāi Te Rangi ki a Turirangi Te Kani ki a Mau Gardiner ki a Hone Farrell ā tae rā anō ki a Matiu. Ngāti Ranginui ko Ānaru Kohu tērā Alec Tata Tipi Faulkner ki a Īria anō hoki. Ko te āhuatanga ki a Ngāti Pukenga ē ko Wīremu Ōhia ko Slim Mikaere ko Rere Amoamo ē ko Te Kepa Smallman. Ēhara i te mea ko rātau te katoa o te hunga kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi. Ēngari i a au e whakahua atu ana i ērā īngoa me pēnei te kōrero kua korowaitia rātau i te āhuatanga o te aroha nui kua tukuna atu ai e tātau i ngā rā kua hipa ake.Nō reira kai aku rangatira haere mai haere mai haere mai! Ēhara i te mea ko ngā mate ō nātatanei tātau e kōrero nei kei te kōrero tātau mō ngā mate ā i rongo nei i te ngau o te pū i ngā tau kua hipa ake. Nō reira koinei te tangi o te ngākau mō rātau kua ngaro atu i te tirohanga kanohi. Hoi anō tēnei te āhuatanga o te tū ki te tuku i te roimata mō rātau katoa. Ēngari ko koutou e whakakanohi nei i a rātau i tēnei rangi e kui mā e koro mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.Ēhara i te mea i pēnei ki tāku e kī nei nō nātata nei ngā mate i nanahi nei tātau e kōrero nei. I te mea i puta mai te take nei arā ko tēnei o ngā whakataunga kerēme i ngā mate o ngā tau kua hipa ake i ngā rā o nehe. Ka waiho ake mā Te Minita anō rā e kōrero mō te āhuatanga o ngā pire e kōrerohia ake nei. Ēngari ko te wāhi ki a au ko te whakatakoto i ētahi paku kōrero o roto i te ngākau.He aha te take o nehe? He aha tērā take? Ā te tino pūtake o tā tātau hara mai i roto i Te Whare Pāremata i tēnei rā? Ki taku titiro ko te muru! Ki taku titiro ko te raupatu! Ki taku titiro ko tēnei mea ko te pakanga ko te pakanga! Kai te mōhio tonu koutou o Tauranga Moana e rua ngā pakanga nui ko Pukehinahina ko Te Ranga. Āe arā anō wētahi! Ēngari nā runga i ēnei pakanga nui e ai ki taku rongo tata eke ki te 50000 eka i murua e te Kāwanatanga nā runga i ērā āhuatanga nā runga i ērā tohe. I te tau 2014 i tū ngā rā whakamaumaratanga mō ēnei wāhi e rua ko Pukehinahina ko Te Ranga.Ko Te Ranga i tēnei rā kai te mōhio tonu koutou he pātiki he pari. Ia rā ia rā ka taraiwa te tangata mai i Rotorua ki Tauranga mai i Tauranga ki Rotorua ka titiro whakatekatau ka titiro whakatemauī ka kore tētahi e paku mōhio i tū he pakanga ki tērā wāhi tae rā anō ki ngā tau tata kua hipa ake! Ēngari anō a Pukehinahina kai te rori matua o Tauranga tēnei wāhi. Ko wai te īngoa o te rori? Ko Kamerona! He mea nui tērā i roto i ngā kōrero mō te hītori e kōrerohia ake nei. Ko te painga ake o ērā rā maumaharatanga ko te whakaoho i a Tauranga Moana mō ngā hītori ka mutu ko ngā kōrero mō ngā tohe i taua tāone taua hapori o Tauranga Moana. Ko te mate kē i rongo Te Ao Māori i te kawa o ētahi o te hapori ki ngā hītori otirā ki a ngāi tātau. Ko ngā kōrero o ēnei wāhi ko te tikanga he mea whakaako i roto i ngā kura kia mōhio tonu ngā tamariki o Tauranga Moana ē arā anō ngā āhuatanga o ngā hītori kei mua tonu i te aroaro! E taraiwahia ana e ētahi ia rā ia rā ēngari kāre tētahi i te paku mōhio.Nā i roto i ngā tohe i ngā pakanga nei i noho tōku iwi o Ngāti Rangiwewehi hei hoa haere mō ngā whanaunga o roto o Tauranga Moana. Nō reira me hoki rā anō ki ērā kōrero. I te 29 o Paenga-whāwhā i te tau 1864 i tū te pakanga nui ki Pukehinahina ko Kamerona te tianara. Mō ngā 8 hāora i tukuna ngā pahū i tukuna ki runga i tērā o ngā pā. Nā Kamerona te tono kia kotahi atu ki te 300 tāngata ki tēnei o ngā pā arā anō te 300 tāngata i muri iho kia herehere i ngā Māori i tērā o ngā pā tūwatawata. Nā e ai ki ngā kōrero 230 ngā Māori 1070 hōia. Ēngari he mahi huna tā te iwi Māori i te pā. I te taenga o ngā hōia ki te pā i tūmeke katoa rātau i te mea i pōhēhē rātau kua mate katoa te iwi nei koutou. Ngā tūpuna ō rātau mā! Ko Rāwiri Puhirake o Ngāti Te Rangi te ariki o te pā i hinga pai te hōia. E 8 wiki i muri mai i tū pakanga o Te Ranga. I taua wā i eke atu tōku iwi o Ngāti Rangiwewehi Ngāti Pikiao Ngāti Porou anō hoki ki te tautoko i a Puhirake: 100 tāngata whenua i mate 10 hōia.I rā tātau i Tauranga Moana i ngā rua tau kua hipa ake he tuku i ngā tangi mō rātau i tērā o ngā urupā i te tāone nanā. Ēngari nā te whakamā i tae atu ai a Greer ko te tianara o tērā wā ā mai i reira ka puta te īngoa Greerton pea! Nō reira ēnei kōrero katoa kai roto i ngā hītori o te wāhi nei otirā o tēnei o ngā kerēme. Ngā hōia i mate ēngari i tū ngā tohe. Nō reira te wāhi poto nei ki a au i whakaaro ake me whakapuaki tonu i ēnei hītori ēhara i te mea kia whakanui i te āhuatanga o ēnei mate kāo! Ēngari kia tangi i te tuatahi i te mea ko ngā uri tēnei kua eke mai ki mua i a tātau i tēnei rā. Ka tangi ake mō te āhuatanga o wā tātau kōrero i tēnei rangi i te mea ka kōrero nei tātau mō ngā kerēme mō ngā whakataunga ēngari me kōrero mō ngā mate i roto i ngā tau kua hipa ake.Nō reira koinei tāku he mihi poto. Ki a koutou e hoa mā kai ngā pāpā ngā whaea ka tangi ake te kite i a koutou nā runga i te āhuatanga o ngā mate kua pā mai ki a tātau i ngā rā tata kua hipa ake nō reira tāku kupu whakamutunga he mihi ki Te Minita. Ko ia tērā i tiki atu i te rākau ā kia kōkiritia atu ki tōnā taumata me te mōhio anō hoki i ngā tau kua hipa ā i reira tonu ētahi paku raru ēngari kai te pai! Koinei te āhuatanga o te tangata. Pēnei i a Māui Tikitiki-ā-Taranga i pērā rawa a ia. Nō reira kāti! Ko tāku ko te kī ka mihi ki Te Minita ka mihi ki a koutou haere mai haere mai tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[To begin my speech this morning I will recite a ritual chant as we sit together on this beautiful occasion. And so I will recite it thus: “I invoke the inspiration and guidance from the universe and the gods and I therefore bestow upon these disciples and young men and women the life-force under the auspices of Tāne the giver of life. Let them attain the sacred knowledge from the highest heavens. Hold fast hold strong it is done!”Welcome to the people of Tauranga Moana who are present here today. Come forth under a cloud of mourning of the many deaths that you have suffered not only last week but over recent weeks. I also acknowledge our meeting which took place at Hungahungatoroa Marae where we shed tears for Matiu—but he was not the only one.When we see a face thoughts go back to those who are no longer here today and who paved the way. We recall the situation relating to Īria and to the myriads of deaths within and among you and others as well who were not lucky enough to come. Let me put it this way: the situation within Ngāi Te Ranginui was there were Turirangi Te Kani Mau Gardiner and Hone Farrell including Matiu. In Ngāti Ranginui’s situation there were Ānaru Kohu Alec Tata Tipi Faulkner and Īria once again. In Ngāti Pūkenga’s case there are Wīremu Ōhia Slim Mikaere Rere Amoamo and Te Kepa Smallman. It is not as though they were the total number lost from sight. Let me put it this way: as I mentioned those names they became enshrined with enormous empathy that we placed upon them in the days gone by.And so to you my esteemed ones welcome welcome welcome! It is not just recent deaths we are referring to but those also that felt the bite of the musket in bygone times. And so this is why the heart grieves for those who are lost from sight. Shedding tears for all of them therefore is an aspect of rising to take a call. But I do acknowledge commend and congratulate all you revered elderly men and womenfolk. You put a face to them today.It is not as though it is like what I am saying here is that the deaths yesterday we were alluding to were of recent times because this matter this one of the settlement claims emerged from deaths that occurred a very long time ago in ancient days. I will leave it for the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations to elaborate on features about this bill being debated here. But I do want to put forth some sentiments from within the heart.What is the purpose of ancient times? What is that reason? Yes the real reason for coming here today into Parliament House. To me plundering confiscation conflict battle are the reasons. You of Tauranga Moana know exactly that there were two major battles Pukehinahina and Te Ranga. Yes and there were other battles. But according to what I heard and because of these two major conflicts approximately 50000 acres were taken by the Government because of those circumstances and contentions. In 2014 memorial days were held for these two places Pukehinahina and Te Ranga.Te Ranga as you know so well today is a paddock and a precipice. Each day one drives from Rotorua to Tauranga and from Tauranga to Rotorua looks right looks left and would not see a shred of evidence right up to years just past that a battle happened at that place. But as for this place Pukehinahina it is on the main road to Tauranga. What is the name of the road? It is Cameron Road! That is a significant point alluded to here in the historical accounts. A benefit from those two memorable days is a wake-up call to Tauranga Moana about historical accounts and furthermore accounts about the protests in that community of Tauranga Moana. The problem was that Māoridom heard that some in the community were bitter about the historical accounts that affected us. As of right historical accounts relating to these places should be taught in schools so that children of Tauranga Moana become aware that there are other aspects of history that are there in front of them that one will drive past daily and be totally unaware of.In regard to these battles my own tribe of Ngāti Rangiwewehi tribe stood as allies with kin from within Tauranga Moana. So we need to go all the way back to those historical accounts. On 29 April 1864 a huge battle took place at Pukehinahina. Duncan Cameron was the general. For 8 hours that one of the pā settlements was bombarded by artillery fire. Cameron then ordered 300 to go directly to this one of the settlements and 300 more afterwards to arrest the Māori in that one of the fortifications. According to accounts there were 230 Māori and 1070 imperial troops. However the Māori were cunning. When the soldiers entered the pā they were absolutely shocked as they had assumed this tribe all of you their ancestors weredead! Rāwiri Puhi of Ngāi Te Rangi who was the paramount chief had fooled the soldiers well. Eight weeks later the battle of Te Ranga took place and my Ngāti Rangiwewehi tribe with Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Porou as well embarked in support of Puhirake: 100 locals and 10 soldiers died.So there we were in Tauranga Moana 2 years ago lamenting them at one of the burial sites in that town. It is because of the embarrassment when Greer who was the general at that time arrived there that the name Greerton emerged perhaps! Therefore all these accounts are in the histories of this place but at the same time in these claims. Although the soldiers perished the protests endured. So in this brief call I decided to reflect and to really express these historical anecdotes not as a means of extolling these deaths not at all but rather to grieve in the first instance as these are the kin who have arrived here before us today. I grieve because of the circumstances of our contributions on this day. While we talk about these claims these settlements we must also address the deaths that have occurred in the years gone by.So this is my contribution. A brief acknowledgement to you friends uncles and aunties. I am moved as my eyes settle upon you in respect of the deaths that we have experienced together in recent days. My final acknowledgement is to commend the Minister. It was he who reached out for the baton so as to thrust it forward to its ultimate destination knowing full well that in years gone by minor issues remain still but that is fine. This is how it is when dealing with an individual—quite like dealing with Māui Tikitiki-ā-Taranga; he was just like that. So enough! I salute you Minister and bid you all welcome come hither! My appreciation to us all.]PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau):“Papā te whatitiri hikohiko te uira kahukura ki te rangi! He ai tū ka riri ka rongo mai ka hē ko Ngungunu ko Ngangana ko Apārangi ko te titī o te rua ko te tao whakahoro ko te tao whakawahine ko te tao o tōku tupuna a Hineamaru. Tihei wā mauri ora!”E Te Minita ka tāpae waku mihi ki tāu nā i whārikihia nei ki mua i te aroaro o tō tātau Whare. Mihi atu ana au ki a koe nāu te huarahi i hanga kia kotahi ai te wairua Māori o tēnā o tēnā o tātau kua tau nei. Nō reira e mihi atu ana au ki a koe e Te Minita i tuku karakia e Te Minita o Ngā Mahi Whanake Māori. E tāpae atu waku mihi ki tāu nā mihi ki ō tātau tini aituā. Rātau kua ngaro atu ki te Pō. Ngā mate huhua ki roto i ngā taumaha kua pahure ake nei. Tae noa mai ki tēnei rangi e tangi tonu ana te ngākau e haehae tonu ana i te kiri. Koutou e ōku tini whanaunga kua tau mai ki roto i tēnei Whare o tātau. Pīkauria mai ngā aituā ki runga i a koutou kia tūhono ki ngā aituā ki runga i a mātau e noho nei kia tukuna atu ko ngā pātū o tō tātau Whare te mihi atu te tangi atu ki ngā mate. Koutou i mau ai te ringa kaha o aituā o aituere o aitukikini o aitutāmaki. Nāna i kōwhaki ai i te kauae o tērā e tangi mai rā o tērā e tangi ake rā o tātau e tangi atu nei nō reira kāti ki te wāhanga ki Te Pō!Nau mai te ao ko wai me ahau ko te ata! E aku rangatira mihi atu ana au ki a koutou! Haere mai rā koutou e Ngāti Hine ki Tauranga Moana. He aha te take a Peeni e taki nei i tēnei momo kōrero? Kua wahaina mai e Te Minita mō ngā pakanga. Nā ka huri ōku whakaaro ki roto i ōku ake ki Te Tai Tokerau. Ko te pā maioro ko te pā tūwatawata ko Te Ruapekapeka. I tukuna atu tōku tupuna a Kawiti i te karere ki te motu whānui haere mai awhi mainā koutou taua tono i whakatutuki. I haere mai a Te Whatarau ki roto i a au ki te āwhina atu i tō mātau pakanga ki te koti whero. Ahakoa i tae mai a Te Whatarau ki runga i tētahi wāhi pātata ki te tāone nei o Whāngarei ko te īngoa o taua wāhi rā ko Pakikaikutu. I tae mai a Te Whatarau nā i pōhēhē wētahi o ōku whanaunga ā ko koutou kē te hoariri. Tahi ka pūhia e mātau koutou ēngari ka ora mai a Te Whatarau! Hei hohou i te rongo ka tukuna atu e Kawiti tētahi wāhi whenua ki roto i a mātau e kīia nei ko Akerama. Nō reira i whai kāinga ai a Te Whatarau ki roto i a mātau o Ngāti Hine kātahi ka heke mai ko ngā uri. Ka moe rangatira te rangatira o koutou ki roto i a au nei ka puta mai ko ngā whānau ka noho tonu ki runga i tō mātau whenua i tēnei wā tonu. E Ngāti Hine ki Tauranga Moana haere mai rā koutou ki runga i tēnei e kōrero ake nei ko Tauranga Moana ki roto i Te Tai Tokerau. Kāti e ngā whanaunga tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau!Kua kōrero mai Te Minita mō ngā āhuatanga o ngā pakanga i raupatuhia ai eTe Whenua o Tauranga Moanakua tae mai tātau ki tēnei wāhanga o wā rātau haerenga. Ko tāku e kī nei ahakoa ka tatū mai ngā nawe me ngā amuamu me ngā whakahē a Te Tiriti o Waitangi i tēnei rā tonu ka whawhai tonu tātau ka whawhai tonu tātau! Kia kaua tēnei Whare e pōhēhē ka tutuki tēnei pire ka mutu te whawhai o Tauranga Moana kāhore kāhore kāhore! Ko te whāinga matua ko Te Mana Motuhake! Ko tētahi o ngā tepe ki runga i te huarahi anā ko te mahi ngātahi ko te mahi ngātahi a Tauranga Moana me Te Karauna tāku e mihi atu nei ki a koutou!Ka huri ngā mihi ki Te Minita ki a ia i whakapau werawera mō ēnei take Tiriti. Kua roa rawa koutou e tatari ana! Nā kua tae mai i te rā nei nā runga i te tono a Te Minita otirā o te tāhūhū o tō tātau Whare. Nō reira ki a koe e Te Minita e mihi atu ana au ki a koe koutou ko ō āpiha ko Te Tari Tatū ai i Ngā Kerēme e pā ana ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi e mihi atu ana! Kua kōrero mai Te Minita ka haere tēnei pire ki mua i te aroaro o Te Rōpū Whāiti mō ngā Take Māori. Ko te hiahia nō reira kia āta wetewete kia totohe i ngā wāhanga katoa o tēnei pire. Āe kua whakaritea nei i tētahi wāhanga pūtea ki roto i te pire ka tika!Kua roa rawa mātau e kī atu ana ahakoa te rahi o te pūtea ka kore e ea i ngā mamae kei runga i a koutou.Ko tētahi atu wāhanga o te pire e mea atu ana āe e whakapāha ana Te Kāwanatanga mō ngā mahi tūkino i a koutou. Kia mōhio mai koutou e aku rangatira i te wiki kua pahure ake nei i tukuna e mātau o tēnei taha o Te Whare i tētahi kōrero kia whakapāhaTe Kāwanatanga mō ngā mahi tūkino i Te Reo Māori. Tēnā ko tāku e hiahia ana nā runga i te kōrero o Te Kāwanatanga tēnā pea ka kitea i tētahi whakapāha mō tērā āhuatanga ki roto i ngā mahi e whai ake nei!Kāti kai konei mātau o tēnei taha e tautoko ana i tēnei pire. E tautoko ana mātau i tēnei pire nā runga i ngā hiahia ngā moemoeā a ō tātau mātua a ō tātau tūpuna. Kua roa rawa a Tauranga Moana e whawhai ana i tēnei whawhai. Ko tāku e pānui ana i ngā kōrero ka tukuna mai e Te Kāwanatanga e mihi atu ana ahau ki a Tauranga Moana tā te mea ka noho nei koutou ahakoa ngā nekehanga me ngā whawhai me ngā kōrero o ngā hapū nē? Titiro mai ki a au o Ngāpuhi! Ka kite nei koutou i te kino o te whawhai Māori ki te Māori! Āe me tū motuhake ngā hapū ka tika!Ēngari mō te take nei ka kōkiri ngātahi a Tauranga Moana tēnei ka mihi! He tauira tēnā! He tauira tēnā ki ōku ake o roto Ngāpuhi. Tēnā ko ngā hapū ko te mana o ngā hapū ērā ka takahia nei i te nukuroa mō te wā roa. Ēngari mō te take o tēnei kaupapa ka kōkiri ngātahi. Tēnei e mihi atu ana ki a koutou mō tērā whakaaro rangatira me tēnā whakaaro rangatira. Ka kōrero nei wēnei mahi rangahau i ngā hapū katoa kei roto i a koutou tēnei ka mihi.Nā kua rongo koutou kua tangi te pere hei haukoti i tōku kōrero i te rā nei. Ēngari kia mōhio mai koutou i roto i te roanga ake o tēnei pire mai i te pānuitanga tuatahi tae atu ki tōna tutukitanga kei konei mātau totohe ai wero ai! He aha te take? Mō te mana motuhake e whāia nei e koutou! Nō reira kāti ake e aku rangatira! Hei whakakapi ake i tōku kōrero i te rā neii pahū te pūrepo ki runga i ngā pā tūwatawata o te motu whānuika auē te iwi Māori tahi ka hopī ngā mate i ngā hopī o te tūpara. Iaia tonu nei ka mihi atu ki ngā mahi rangatira i oti ai i a koutou ki runga i te pā o Pukehinahina ki runga anō hoki i Te Ranga.Hei whakakapi ake e ōku rangatira e kīia nei tēnei haka ki runga i te pā o Te Ruapekapeka. Pukehinahina hō! A Te Ranga hō! Ruapekapeka e hōhā! Kāti aku rangatira tēnā koutou kia ora tātau.[“Thunder rumbles lightning strikes and a rainbow straddles the heavens. Anger vents forth peace emerges it is Ngungunu Ngangana Aparangi it is the shearwater within its burrow the spear that descends the feminine article the spearhead of my ancestor Hineamaru. Behold the breath of life!”.Minister Flavell I append my words of greetings to those that you just uttered in our House. I salute you for binding the spirits of each of us gathered in this House. I commend you the Minister for Māori Development for leading us in prayer at the commencement of our debate. I append my regards for the dear departed to your words of farewell to them the people who have passed beyond the realm of the living; the many dear departed of the years past. Unto this day lamentations lacerations of the heart and the body keening for those never to return to this world. I turn to my kinfolk who have come to this House of ours. Bring forth your losses into our House that they may mingle with the losses borne by the members seated here that the very walls of our House reverberate with our cries of loss; you who bear the burdens of beloved kin passed beyond the firmament as we lament their passing. The lamentations that burst forth from the congregation here—enough of the dead!Returning to the world of the living and to whomelse but me the breaking of the new day! Salutations to you august visitors! Come hither to you Ngāti Hine from Tauranga Moana. You may well ask why Peeni is addressing you in such a manner. The Minister brought up matters relating to land wars. So my recollections reach back to my homeland in Northland to the fortified pā of Ruapekapeka. My ancestor Kawiti sent forth the clarion call throughout the land to come and assist you fulfilled that call. Te Whatarau came among us to help us fight the redcoat. Although Te Whatarau arrived at a place nearby to the present day city of Whāngarei that place was called Pakikaikutu. Upon his arrival some of my relatives thought you were the foe then we fired upon you. But Te Whatarau survived! As a token of amity Kawiti ceded a piece of land to you at Akerama. And so that is how Te Whatarau found a home amongst us of Ngāti Hine and his descendants followed thereafter. Your high-born married the high-born within Ngāti Hine and begat the families that continue to reside upon our lands to this day. And so to you Ngāti Hine of Tauranga Moana my personal welcome to you from this Tauranga Moana from within Northland. So welcome and acknowledgments to you collectively and my thanks to us all.The Minister has spoken about the wars that brought about the loss of lands in regard to Tauranga Moana and has come to this juncture of the proceedings. I state and reaffirm here even though imperfections complaints and criticisms of the Treaty of Waitangi still continue today we will continue to fight on. Lest this House consider that this bill will end Tauranga Moana’s battle I say it will not it will not it will not! The primary goal is independent integrity. One of the first steps to achieve this is working together. That is it! Tauranga Moana and the Crown working together! I salute you collectively on that!I turn to the Minister and direct my accolades to he who has expended perspiration over these Treaty matters. You Tauranga Moana have waited a long time. And now you have arrived here today through the invitation of the Minister but at the same time the invitation of the ridge pole of our House. Therefore to you the Minister I truly commend you your officials and the Office of Treaty Settlements well done! The Minister has stated that this bill will be referred to the Māori Affairs Committee. The desire is to carefully analyse and debate all parts of the bill there. Yes a portion of funding has been considered in the bill. Well then we have advocated for a long time that regardless of the quantum not all grievances that you have will be settled financially.There is another part in the bill saying yes the Government is apologising for its violations against you. Esteemed ones you need to be cognisant of the fact that we on this side of the House in weeks just past made a statement that the Government must apologise for its acts of ill-treatment against the Māori language. On the basis of the Government statement I want to see if the Government can find a way to apologise for that situation in terms of acts of violation that might occur subsequently.That aside we here on this side of the House support this bill. We do so because of the aspirations and dreams of our parents and ancestors. Tauranga Moana has fought this battle for a very long time. What I interpret from the contributions will be delivered by the Government. I applaud Tauranga Moana because you will remain fixed on the purpose regardless of movements subtribal battles and tribal ones yes? Look at me of Ngāpuhi! You will see the ghastly nature of Māori fighting Māori. Yes subtribes must remain independent and quite rightly so! But in regard to this situation Tauranga Moana has worked collaborately and I doff my hat to you! That is an example and one for my lot in Ngāpuhi to follow. There is an example for subtribes and for the integrity of subtribes to traverse and follow in the long haul and over a lengthy period of time. I commend you collectively for that esteemed and outstanding philosophy a truly great one. These researched anecdotes on all your subtribes within you are quite revealing and I commend you.Now you have heard the bell signalling that my address today is at an end but you must understand that throughout the lengthy process of this bill from the first reading right through to its conclusion we will be here to debate to challenge and for what purpose? For the independence you are seeking. Therefore enough my esteemed ones! To end my contribution today: the cannon boomed out over the fortified pā of the nation Māoridom wailed then the defeated were panic-stricken by the intimidation of the double-barrelled gun! At this very moment I commend the acts of nobility you collectively accomplished on the settlement of Pukehinahina and on Te Ranga as well.In conclusion my esteemed ones it is said that this posture dance performed on the parapets of Ruapekapeka went like this: Pukehinahina hō! Te Ranga hō! Ruapekapeka hō-hā! Pukehinahina Te Ranga and Ruapekapeka are fed up! Enough noble ones acknowledgments to you collectively and my appreciation to us all.]Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I join with the previous two speakers Te Ururoa Flavell and Peeni Henare in welcoming our guests in the public gallery. I am delighted we have reached this stage as they and I know it has been no easy task for reasons that I will develop in my speech.The Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective comprises Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui whose settlement is being read now together with the collective redress; Ngāti Pūkenga whose bill will also be read a first time later this morning; and Ngāi Te Rangi whose bill I expect to be introduced to the House in the next few weeks. I am particularly pleased we have reached that stage and I acknowledge all the good work of Ngāi Te Rangi.These groups entered into collective negotiations in 2010 to negotiate shared redress alongside their individual iwi settlements. This collective approach has required intensive engagement and has resulted in the three iwi agreeing on the shared redress which is set out in the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective deed and the bill. On 22 December 2011 the collective signed a statement of position and intent with the Crown. This summarised the status of negotiations between the Crown and the iwi collective and outlined the remaining steps that needed to be taken to reach final agreement on the collective redress. On 2 November 2012 the collective deed was initialled by the Crown and the collective and after a lengthy hiatus that followed to enable the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective parties to organise their affairs the deed was finally signed on 21 January 2015. The Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill will give legislative effect to the final agreements on collective redress as set out in that collective deed. Settlement redress for each individual iwi within the collective is set out in their respective individual deeds of settlement.Let me say something about the history that has got us to this place. The tribunal found that along with loss of life and loss of land Tauranga Moana iwi “suffered reduced access to and use of traditional resources from the rivers sea and the forests [around] Tauranga Moana.” Later the “accelerating pace of urban development” and economic activity led to “degradation and pollution” of the environment. Much land—as so sadly we hear every time there is a settlement bill read in this House—was taken under the Public Works Act. The collective actions and the omissions of the Crown left all Tauranga Moana iwi with insufficient land for their needs undermined their economy and frayed the social fabric of the region. It also impacted on the ability of whānau hapū and iwi to pass on language tikanga and mātauranga to younger generations—and that is one of the reasons why this afternoon we are going to have the third reading of the Māori Language Bill.The enactment of the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill is going to provide for Crown acknowledgment of statements of association for statutory areas joint management of the sacred maunga Mauao a right of first refusal over certain land the transfer of Crown forest land to Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective and Te Kūpenga and a relationship agreement—a very important agreement—between the iwi collective and the Department of Conservation (DOC). I acknowledge the good work of Lou Sanson and the team at DOC.I must also mention the framework the Tauranga Moana Framework a very important and novel co-governance framework for Tauranga Moana iwi and other iwi with recognised interests to participate in the management of the harbour and surrounding waterways and the coastal area. As described in the collective deed the whānau and hapū of Ngāti Pūkenga Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui are moana-centric people with an enduring thousand-year association with Tauranga Moana that is fundamental to their identity and well-being both culturally and materially. I know and I recognised it was an incredibly difficult decision for the collective to remove the framework from this bill because of reasons beyond their control. I too was very disappointed that we had to go down that path and today I reiterate my commitment to support the iwi as they work with their neighbours to see the Tauranga Moana Framework finalised. Then we will bring it in through separate legislation.Can I now turn to the Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui claims settlement which as I said is in the same bill as the collective redress. Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui is an integral member of the collective and as can be deduced from the title of their bill a hapū-centric iwi. To all of those in the gallery who have come to Wellington to witness this long-awaited and historic day I reiterate my welcome and my thanks to you for all your hard work so that we got to this stage. It is a very real pleasure to welcome you to Parliament this morning.Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui gave the mandated negotiators a mandate to negotiate a deed of settlement with the Crown. The Crown recognised the mandate on 7 April 2008. The negotiators and the Crown signed terms of negotiation on 27 September 2008 and on 21 December 2011 Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui and the Crown signed a statement of position agreeing in principle that Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui and the Crown were willing to enter into a deed of settlement. On 6 April the deed of settlement was initialled and on 21 June 2012 the deed was signed on the anniversary of the battle of Gate Pā. The bill will give legislative effect to the final agreements on the redress as set out in the deed.The historical claims primarily concern the war and the raupatu at Tauranga the purchase of the Te Puna and Katikati Blocks soon after the war and the effects of the Crown’s native land laws and later Māori land legislation and once again public works takings during the second half of the 20th century. The Crown’s actions during the bush campaign are of particular note. This conflict was sparked by Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui resistance to the raupatu and the Te Puna and Katikati purchase which Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui refused to recognise. In response to the obstruction of surveys and threats against surveyors the Crown employed a scorched earth policy to subdue Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui. A Crown force numbering in the hundreds looted and destroyed villages burnt crops and took any livestock that was found. In the years followingNgā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui have struggled to support themselves. Food shortages were common. Poor sanitation resulted in sickness. The Crown’s apology is set out in the deed of settlement and as I say was delivered by me personally in June 2012.The redress in the deed of settlement is designed to go some way to correct that which has been lost and I certainly hope it will eventuate for the whānau and the hapū of Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui. The financial and commercial redress offered to Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui seeks to recognise the losses suffered by them. They will receive just over $38 million plus interest as well as numerous commercial redress properties some sale and lease-back commercial properties a 20 percent share in Pūwhenua Forest lands and a right of first refusal in relation to certain right of first refusal land.I once again say it has taken longer than we anticipated to reach this stage but I want to thank all the negotiators for their work and my chief Crown negotiator Dame Patsy Reddy who has been working so hard both on the collective redress and on the individual settlements. We now move to the final stages of the deed of settlement process and I look forward to seeing the bill back in the House in the very near future.CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare he mihi nui ki a Tauranga Moana nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Acknowledgments to the House and a huge one to Tauranga Moana; welcome come hither to Parliament House.]To the kuia and kaumātua here today the whānau here today and the voice of the pēpi we heard in the Chamber urging us to remember that this is about mokopuna katoa the next generation welcome welcome. Thank you for being here for this moment of history your history which Te Rōpū Kākāriki wishes to honour and acknowledge. We wish to support the bill all the way through its process and to honour and acknowledge the extraordinary effort of Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Ranginui me Ngāti Pūkenga hapū katoa o Tauranga Moana [and all subtribes of Tauranga Moana]in your incredible survival commitment to change and willingness to rebuild a future in Aotearoa alongside us Pākehā despite a painful history which has been touched on already by the Minister for Māori Development the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and other speakers this morning.I just wanted to acknowledge a quote from Charlie Tāwhiao: “For [more than] 150 years … five generations of [our] people have been carrying an unbearable pain that this weekend will end and allow us to get on with the work of moving forward. We’re very pleased to hear that the Crown has acknowledged that up until now it has not properly dealt with the injustices we have suffered—that it now recognises we had control over our tribal area up until it started the war with us in 1864 that caused real suffering for many of our people.” I think that that is a really important quote in terms of understanding the history of Tauranga Moana. In the little that I know as someone who lives up the road in Hauraki this is a wealthy beautiful fertile amazing part of Aotearoa. Nowhere is as unique as this settlement or has had some of the unique dispossession that took place—the violence that has been visited on this area.I just want to acknowledge that war is a good way to steal land. What actually happened in 1864? We who have been taught such limited history think that there was a battle at Gate Pā. There was generosity and honour shown by tangata whenua warriors. Those things are true but that is not the reason there was a war. The reason there was a war is described well in a historical account. “Conflict in the Tauranga district between the Imperial troops and Maori warriors became … inevitable when in January 1864 three ships landed almost 700 soldiers at the tiny settlement known as Te Papa. At the time the government claimed that its intention was to prevent Maori from Tauranga and the East Coast lending support to the Kingite forces in the Waikato by sending men and supplies to the Waikato. However the government was also keen to increase the amount of fertile land available for settlement. Provoking a fight in the Tauranga district would provide a reason to confiscate productive land.”That is the truth of the matter: provoking a fight would provide a reason for raupatu. As the Minister said some 50000 acres were taken in raupatu and in subsequent forms of legalised theft right up to the late 20th century including the infamous Public Works Act. I just want to honour the survival and the determination of Tauranga Moana iwi and their commitment to work together where they share common interests to develop a future. It is not a simple matter. Others know this better than I and we will hear more no doubt through the select committee process but it is a total tribute to those people.My deep concern about this is that Pākehā do not understand. I would venture to say in Tauranga it is the same as everywhere else: this wealthy place with many wealthy and comfortable homes where there are many Pākehā people living comfortable lives in the context of an extreme dispossession that they do not understand. I was disappointed when the Minister of Education said that Land Wars education in Aotearoa is a choice for schools. It was not a choice for tangata whenua in 1864. It was not a choice when the Public Works Act took their land. It was not a choice to engage in the Treaty settlement process. It was a necessity in order to consider the future for mokopuna.How is it a choice for my culture to not know these things? How are we holding our heads up and saying we will not teach our children what has happened? How can the settlement be full and final if we do not have the understanding in my society of what happened and why it happened? How are we going to get the buy-in? It really disturbs me because I know that Tauranga Moana iwi have worked very very hard to create this with the Crown but my culture is still ignorant.I recently went to the freshwater consultation process and I was horrified by the blatant ignorance and racism of my own people in talking about relationships with natural resources. As we know natural resources are at the heart of this settlement in the sense of the damage that has been done particularly but not only to two awa in the rohe. I was there when the Rena foundered and I helped scrape oil off the beaches and that is a continuing hurt for Tauranga Moana. So this is a contemporary issue.How will we have a relationship? How do we manage our resources?The Green Party believes that education of everybody—tangata whenua tangata Tiriti katoa—in Aotearoa is not a choice but a necessity as a peacemaking parallel process alongside this important process that we are here to do today. If we do not follow those things we are going to have a whole lot of people floating around with their ignorance on the news and on their talkback shows hurting other people misunderstanding their place and being ignorant about history.I believe it is Parliament’s responsibility to do better than that. As we are doing better than that today with these processes we have to do better than that with education so that every citizen in Tauranga Moana understands what happened at Pukehinahina and Te Ranga understands what rohe they are in and knows the names the places the history the meaning of why we are here today and how this is about giving back 2 percent of what was taken. This is not to paralyse my culture with guilt but to inform us with the ability to engage with respect with history to give a deeper understanding of our own place and a recognition of the value of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a place where we can all stand if we stand with honour and respect. But if we do not educate our own while the tangata whenua are bending over backwards to build a relationship then it is on our heads. It is our failure. We as elders of this country—those of us who are over the age of 25—need to take some responsibility for this.There are many interesting and moving parts to this settlement and one of them is the maunga of the rohe: the beautiful Ōtānewainuku Pūwhenua and Mauao—these peaks and their story. I was a young person when I was told the story of the mountain that fell in love and then could not have his beloved. The patupaiarehe tried to help him throw himself into the sea. If we understand that story we understand that what has driven so much of the Treaty settlement process is law and is economics but it is really love of whenua love of maunga love of awa from the tangata whenua side. We all need to know the story and feel the love that actually supports Tauranga Moana as identity for everybody based in and started with the stories of the tangata whenua which are more than stories; they are whakapapa.So it does disturb me a little—and and no doubt it will come back after the select committee process—that the maunga peaks are not being returned. Recently we had a Department of Conservation briefing about what conservation land was available for settlement and I was disturbed by that briefing in the sense that my culture just seems to refuse to be as generous as we need to be. It is more than the peak; it is the maunga. It is more than reserve status; it is full return. That is what we would like to see in many of these settlement bills. It is more than right of first refusal; it is a generous return of a theft because when you steal something the thief is not normally giving it back. Kia ora koutou katoa.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Nuk Korako—5 minutes.NUK KORAKO (National):Ātēnā koe. Te mea nui ki te mihi atu ki tō tātau Matua Nui i Te Raki ko ia te tīmataka me te whakaotika mō tātau katoa. Nō reira ka mihi au ki Te Kaihōmai o kā mea pai katoa. Ā tēnei te mihi ki ngā waka o Te Arawa Mātaatua Tākitimu nō reira nau mai nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata. E ngā iwi o Tauraka Moana Ngāti Rangi Ngāti Pūkenga Ngāti Ranginui ka mihi. Ko WhakaraupōTeMoana ko Te Rakiwhakaputa TeTangata ko Te Poho o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua TeMauka ko Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa tōku marae. Kei te mihi ki te whanauka o Te Waka o Tākitimu Ngāti Ranginui. Nō reira e koutou rā ā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[The most important thing is to praise our Great Father in Heaven He is the beginning and ending for us all. Therefore I give praises to the Provider of all things that are good. I acknowledge the canoes of Te Arawa Mātaatua and Tākitimu so welcome come hither and welcome to Parliament House. I acknowledge you the people of Tauranga Moana Ngāti Rangi Ngāti Pūkenga and Ngāti Ranginui welcome! Whakaraupō is the ocean Te Rakiwhakaputa is the man Te Poho o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua is the mountain and Rāpaki o Te Rakiputa is my marae. I bid you welcome my relatives of the Tākitimu canoe and Ngāti Ranginui. Salutations to you collectively and to us all.]That was first of all a welcome to all of the iwi of Tauraka Moana and to say on behalf of the Māori Affairs Committee it is indeed our honour to actually host you here at the beginning of the first reading of the Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Nga Hapu o Ngati Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill. I know that the people here have been on a very long journey to get here today and I trust that now you are watching as your settlement enters its final stage before becoming a reality. I know you all feel all of the hard work that has gone into the process and you know that it is indeed worth it. The hard work of making this settlement work is the benefit of each and every one of these people here and your whānau whanauka whānau tautoko who are watching this back home.This omnibus bill ratifies two separate deeds of settlement: the Tauraka Moana Iwi settlement deed and the Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui deed of settlement. The Tauraka Moana Iwi collective comprises the three Bay of Plenty iwi centred around the Tauranga Harbour. This grouping into one collective reflects the fact that although each iwi will have its own settlement with the Crown the three are closely entwined and their interests overlap considerably.The collective deed of settlement is an important part of the settlement for each of these iwis so I just want to briefly cover that redress. There is the statutory acknowledgment of the cultural spiritual and historical and traditional associations of the Tauranga Moana iwi. There is a relationship agreement between the Department of Conservation and also Tauranga Moana. This agreement sets out how the parties will cooperate and enhance the conservation of their rohe. There is an arrangement for the management of the Mauao historic reserve. This reserve is currently managed by the Tauranga City Council and will be transferred to the new entity to provide a joint management arrangement.I know how Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui—and I acknowledge those who are here today particularly the various hapū as well. They are the hapū of Ngāti Te Wai Pirirākau Ngāti Taka Wairoa Hapū Ngāti Hangarau Ngāi Tamarāwaho Ngāi Te Ahi and Ngāti Ruahine as well. The Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui settlement recognises the great injustices that were committed by the Crown against the hapū of Ngāti Ranginui. In particular it recognises the loss of life that was caused through those land wars and the subsequent alienation of land under the raupatu.In all of this this is a day when the beginning of the end of that journey begins and I wish you all well for that journey the final part of it and we look forward at the Māori Affairs Committee to receiving you and hearing the submissions and continuing that journey to the finish when these deeds will become Acts of Parliament. I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.PITA PARAONE (NZ First):“Tuia te rangi i runga tuia te papa ki raro tuituia tātou ka puta i te ira tangata tihei wā mauri ora!”. E Tauranga Moana koutou i tae mai ā-tinana koutou i are taringa mai i runga ngā Reo Māori Irirangi koutou i are kanohi mai i runga i te pouaka whakaata tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou! Ka tū ake tēnei ki te tautoko ngā mihi i mihingia e aku hoa ētahi ngā tuākana ki te whakatau i a koutou i te rā nei. Ēngari i mua i te haere tonu i tēnā wāhanga e tika ana kia mihi hoki ki tō tātou Minita. Nāna i whakaritengia i a tātou i te rā nei nā reira e Te Minita tēnā koe! E hari ana au i kite atu i a koe i whakakī i taua wāhanga ko te tūmanako kaua e waihotia ki tēnei pire anahe ēngari mō ngā pire pēnei kei te haramai. Taku hiahia kia kite atu i a koe e whakarite ana i a tātou ki Te Runga Rawa kia ahatia?E tātou mā ka nui ngā mihi i mihingia ki tēnā o ngā hunga e ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohiahakoa i whakarārangitia ētahi i waenganui i a tātou mai i a Tauranga Moāna i hinga atu. Ēngari taku hiahia kia maumahara ki tētahi o koutou e noho nei i roto Te Tai Tokerau e hia te roa ki te kaha ana ki te tiaki i tō mātou rangatira. Nā ko te wahine tēnā a Tā Kereama. I whakahuangia e tōku tuakana tetahi whenua i roto i a mātou i W‘agārei-terenga-paraoa ko Pakikaikutu tēnā ko ia tetahi o ngā wahine e mau hea i roto o aua whenua. Nā reira e hiahia ana ki te mihi atu ki a ia me ērā atu i takahia Te Ara Whānui-ā-Tāne. I hoki atu ki te kāinga e kīia nei te kāinga tūturu mō tātou mō tē tangata. Nā reira kua ea te wāhi mō rātou ka hoki mai ki a tātou e te hunga ora nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou!Ko tēnei pire kia whakatau i ngā wawata ngā tūmanako o Te Iwi o Tauranga Moana wā rātou kerēme e pā ana ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi. E korekau kē i whakahēngia ngā kōrero i puta mai i roto i te pire nei. I mea mai te kaikōrero mai i Te Rōpū Kākāriki tana āwangawanga tana pōuri karekau kē e whakaae ana Te Tari Mātauranga kia akongia ngā kōrero e pā ana ki ēnei kōrero i kite tātou i roto te pire nei. Koinā tetahi take ka nui te hari ka nui te koa o tōku ngākau kia puta mai ēnei kōrero kia mōhio mai te ao i ngā āhuatanga e pā ana ki ngā kerēme Māori i te rā nei ki ngā kerēme e pā ana ki a Tauranga Moana nui me Ngāti Ranginui.Nā reira taku mihi ki a koutou nā te mea e āhua pūhaehae ana au ki a koutou. Ahau nei mai i te tino hapū Iwi nui rawa atu o Te Tai Tokerau o Ngāpuhi ko Ngāti Hine tērā! Mai i te putanga mai o ēnei kaupapa kīhai Te Karauna e w‘akaae ana ki a mātou o Ngāti Hine!Kāre kau kē e tika ana kia tono mai koutou ki Te Taraipiuna o Waitangi he aha ai? He hapū koe! Kārekau mātou o Te Karauna e hiahia ana ki te kōrero atu ki ngā hapū ēngari ko ngā iwi ā pai atu tēnā! Ēngari i te rā nei ka kite ana i a koutou o Ngāti Ranginui me ētahi atu ka nui taku mihi ki a koutou! Kia ahatia?Kai te kotiti haere waku kōrero! Te pire e tātou mā! Kāre kau kē i tino hē ngā kōrero i roto i te pire nei. E tika ana Te Minita e toru ngā take e pā ana ki te pire ko te muru ko te raupatu ā me te pakanga! I kite ai i a mātou i aianei nā te maha o tātou o Te Ao Māori e hiahia ana ki te maumahara ki ngā pakanga o Te Motu nei. Tērā pea karekau Te Kāwanatanga te iwi whānui i whakaae ki ēnā kaupapa ēngari he kaupapa tino māharahara ki a tātou o Te Ao Māori. Koinā te take i kaha ai tātou ki te ki te i roto i tēnei whenua ko te āhuatanga e pā ana ki ngā pakanga ngā mahi kikino a Te Karauna ā rātou mahi whakahē i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Nā reira e tika ana kia tū kaha ai tātou o Te Ao Māori!`[“Bind the heaven above bind the earth below bind us all together and so the human element emerges behold the breath of life!”. To you the people of Tauranga Moana who have arrived here physically those of you listening on Māori radio stations and watching on television acknowledgments salutations and greetings to you. I rise today to endorse the acknowledgments of welcome accorded to you by my colleagues and some of my elder kin. But before continuing on with that part it is appropriate that I acknowledge our Minister. He was the one who commenced our proceedings today so acknowledgments to you Minister. It pleases me to see you fulfil that role; hopefully it will not be for this bill alone but other ones in the future similar to this one. My wish is that I see you conduct us in a prayer to the Almighty Above but never mind.I say to us all many tributes have been accorded to those who are lost from view and although we ennobled some from Tauranga Moana they have passed on. But I do want to reflect on one of your kin who lived in Northland and cared for our esteemed elder for many years. That was the wife of Sir Graham Latimer. My elder kin mentioned an area of land that is in the region of Whangarei-terenga-paraoa and that is Pakikaikutu. She is one of the women with shares in that land. So I want to acknowledge her and others who have traversed the extensive pathway of Tāne. She has returned to that place referred to as the permanent home for us the living. Therefore that part for them has been fulfilled and we come back to us the living so acknowledgments greetings and salutations to you all.This bill settles the hopes and aspirations of the people of Tauranga Moana relating to the Treaty of Waitangi. The contents that emerged from within this bill cannot be faulted. The spokesperson for the Green Party expressed her concern and disappointment that the Ministry of Education opposed the accounts that we saw in this bill being taught. That is an issue that I am extremely pleased about in that these accounts have emerged for the world to learn about situations relating to Māori claims today in regards to those concerning greater Tauranga Moana and Ngāti Ranginui.So I congratulate you because I am quite envious of you. I in particular come from one of the greatest subtribes of Northland of Ngapuhi and that is Ngāti Hine. From the outset when these policies emerged the Crown refused us of Ngāti Hine. You actually did not have a right to make a submission to the Waitangi Tribunal and why? Because you are a subtribe. We of the Crown didnot want to reveal that to subtribes; on the other hand tribes were able to and that was fine! On the contrary today we recognise you of Ngāti Ranginui and others and I truly applaud you. So be it.My address is straying—back to the bill fellow colleagues back to the bill! There appear to be no faults in the accounts contained in this bill. The Minister is correct there are three matters relating to this bill: confiscation takimg without any right waging war. We have seen today that a number of us of Māoridom want to commemorate the wars of this nation. Although the Government and people at large may not favour these initiatives on the other hand it is an important strategy to us of Māoridom. That’s the reason why we strongly advocate and want to see in this country an aspect about wars acts of mistreatment by the Crown and breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. So it is indeed right that we of Māoridom stand resolute.]I do not need to elaborate on the details of the bill. I think sufficient time has been had to look at this but I look forward to it being discussed after being referred to the Māori Affairs Committee. Like all settlement claims although we may be delighted that we have reached this stage there will always be some concern as to why certain claims were not included in the bill.I certainly look forward to that opportunity of hearing from members of the tribe and those members of the tribe who do not support the tribe in terms of their claims to hear the details of what their concerns are in relation to the settlement. The select committee process does give the opportunity for people to have their say in terms of what they feel may not be quite right for them. So I join with the rest of the House in supporting this bill to the Māori Affairs Committee.Nā reira e tātou mā ahakoa e āhua poto tēnei tū ēngari ko te mea nui kei te tautoko i te pire kia haere ki Te Komiti Whakawhiriwhiri o ngā Take Māori kei te wātea koutou ki te haere ake ki mua i te aroaro o taua komiti ki te whakatakoto i wā kātou kōrero wā koutou āwangawanga me ērā atu o ngā mea. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai anō tātou![So to all of us even if this is somewhat of a short address the important thing is that I am supporting the bill going on to the Māori Affairs Committee. You arewelcome to come before thatselect committee to submit your thoughts concerns and any other matters of relevance. Therefore acknowledgments and salutations to you collectively and my appreciation to us all once again.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Louisa Wall—5 minutes.LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa):Kia ora e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koutou ngā mana whenua o Tauranga Moana me ngā hapū o Ngāti Ranginui nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Acknowledgments to you the mandated ones of Tauranga Moana and those from the subtribes of Ngāti Ranginui welcome come hither to Parliament House.]It is a pleasure to take a call in this first reading of your settlement legislation. In trying to determine what I was going to say in my 5 minutes I actually went back to the Waitangi Tribunal report Te Raupatu o Tauranga Moana. It was presented to Te Minita Māori the Hon Parekura Horomia on 11 August 2004 and it noted that the first hearing of the Tauranga Moana Tribunal was held at Hūria Marae between 23 and 27 February 1998. In this document it lists the Wai claims that actually led to the process that we are here to honour today.I would like to take the opportunity to look at some of the claimants because I think we should always acknowledge the whānau who started this journey so many years ago. The first claim that was lodged was Wairoa Hapū (Wai 42(a)). It was lodged by Rameka Apaapa and others and that was under the Ngāti Ranginui claims. We had Wai 227 which was lodged by Tipi Faulkner on behalf of the Pirirakau hapū. Wai 362 was lodged by Lance Waaka on behalf of Ngāti Ruahine of Ngāti Ranginui. Wai 370 was lodged by Taumatangi Keno who died during the course of the inquiry and Tane Heke-Kaiawha on behalf of Ngai Te Ahi. Wai 503 and Wai 672 were lodged by the late Michael O’Brien and others on behalf of their hapū. Wai 546 was lodged by Tūreiti Stockman on behalf of Ngāti Tapu. Wai 659 was lodged by Desmond Tata Peri Kohu and Piripi Winiata on behalf of Ngāi Tamarāwaho. Other Ngāti Ranginui claims we had were: Wai 42(b) which was lodged by Jacqueline Sayers; Wai 42(d) which was lodged by Alex Tata and others; Wai 47 which was lodged by the late William Ōhia and others; Wai 360 which was lodged by Lance Waaka on behalf of the descendants of Ānaru Hauā; Wai 580 which was lodged by Toa Faulkner and others; Wai 611 which was lodged by Christopher Tangitū; and Wai 853 which was lodged by Peri Kohu and others.Then in the report we look at Ngāti Pūkenga. There was Wai 637 which was lodged by Shane Ashby; Wai 751 which was lodged by Te Awanuiārangi Black; and Wai 664 which was lodged by Thomas McCausland and others. Under Ngai Tukairangi we have the Wai 211 claim which was lodged by Mahaki Ellis. In terms of Matakana Island hapū we had Wai 228 Wai 266 and Wai 854 lodged on behalf of Matakana hapū by Taiawa Kuka and the late Sonny Tāwhiao and John Toma respectively. Wai 342 was lodged by Tane Kaiawha on behalf of Ngāti He. Wai 353 was lodged by Patrick Nicholas. Wai 489 and Wai 947 were lodged by Toa Faulkner. Wai 42(c) and Wai 522 were lodged by Kevin Bluegum and David Murray. Wai 540 was lodged by Kihi Ngātai. Wai 717 was lodged by Mātire Duncan and others. Wai 755 was lodged by Desmond Tata and Wai 807 was lodged by Tūreiti Stockman. Wai 938 was lodged by Te Karehana Wicks. Wai 100 and Wai 650 were lodged on behalf of the Hauraki Māori Trust Board and Wai 454 and Wai 182 on behalf of Marūtuahu. And finally we have Wai 645 lodged on behalf of the Tauranga Moana Māori Trust Board and Wai 701 lodged on behalf of the Athenree Claims Committee by Matiu Ellis and Colin Bidois. Kia ora tātou.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Ā tēnā tātau katoa. Ka tika ka tāpiri atu aku mihi ki a koutou nō Tauranga Moana kua tau mai nei i roto i tēnei Whare ki te whakarongo ki tēnei wāhanga o ngā tutukitanga. Nō reira Ngāti Ranginui tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou kātahi anō tātau i mutu i te kaupapa o Te Poukai i runga i Te Marae o Tūtereinga nō reira nui te mihi nui te aroha i tēnei wā.I rongo ake ki ngā kōrero i whakaaro au me whai wāhi ki te whakahua i ngā hapū i raro i te maru o Ngāti Ranginui me aua marae. Nō reira ka mihi atu rā ki a koutou Ngāi Tamarāwaho Ngāi Te Ahi Ngāti Hangarau Ngāti Kahu Ngāti Ruahine Ngāti Te Wai Pirirākau tēnā me ō koutou nei marae a Hūria a Hairini a Hangarau a Wairoa a Waimapu a Tūtereinga Poutūterangi a Paparoa ā a Tawhitinui. Ko te take ka whakahuahua i roto i te tīmatatanga o taku kōrero kia mōhio pai ai tēnei Whare kua kawea mai a Ngāti Ranginui me ngā momo kei waenganui i a koutou mō tēnei kaupapa. Kāre mātau i te tino mōhio ki ngā toimahatanga kei waenganui i a koutou kia tae pai mai koutou ki tēnei wā.Nō reira i whai wāhi anō ki te whakahoki mahara ki ngā hononga kei waenganui i a tātau ngā pakanga ō mua me tērā hiahia o ngā mātua tūpuna kia pupuru i ngā whenua ki waenganui i a tātau anō. Nō reira ki ngā āhuatanga o Pukehinahina Te Ranga e kore e wareware ngā āhuatanga o aua wā. He aha ai? Kia kaua e wareware tēnei motu o Aotearoa ko ngā pakanga ō mua kei runga i te mata o tō tātau nei whenua he mea nunui kia tū māia te iwi Māori i runga i ō rātau nei ake whenua. He aha ai? Kia anga whakamua tātau. Me kaua e wareware ēngari me anga whakamua.[Acknowledgments to us all. It is fitting that I add my welcome tributes to you Tauranga Moana who have arrived here in this House to listen to this part of the settlement bills therefore I welcome you collectively Ngāti Ranginui even though we have just completed Te Poukai on the marae of Tūtereinga. So a huge acknowledgment and love to you at this point in time.I listened to the contributions and decided to find time to mention the subtribes and those marae under the protective cloak of Ngāti Ranginui. Therefore I acknowledge you Ngāi Tamarāwaho Ngāi Te Ahi Ngāti Hangarau Ngāti Kahu Ngāti Ruahine Ngāti Te Wai and Pirirākau and your respective marae Hūria Hairini Hangarau Wairoa Waimapu Tūtereinga Poutūterangi Paparoa and Tawhitinui. The reason for mentioning them at the beginning of my address was for this House to be well informed that Ngāti Ranginui and whom it represents have been brought here to be amongst you for this matter. We really do not know what difficulties there are amongst you to get you here safely at this point in time.However we do have the opportunity to reflect upon the connections that exist amongst us in relation to the wars of former times and that desire of the ancestral forefathers to keep the land amongst ourselves. So in terms of Pukehinahina and Te Ranga the circumstances of those times will never be forgotten and for what reason? So that this country of New Zealand will never ever forget the wars of former times on the face of this land of ours here and so that Māoridom stands on land that really belongs to them with confidence so that we can move forward; never forget that for us to move forward.]I just want to endorse many of the statements that have been made with regard to the settlement bill before the House today. It is in two parts that I would like to comment. The Tauranga Moana Iwi Collective Redress and Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill primarily has two parts which the select committee will be looking at. As I said in my brief introduction we really do not know the challenges within Tauranga Moana to have a combined collective redress mechanism as well as specific remedies for the interests of Ngāti Ranginui Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga. The mere fact that Ngāi Te Rangi has not been able to proceed as one today indicates that there have been some significant and challenging moments. Also the fact that in 2014 in the Ngāti Ranginui settlement there was an amendment to the extent of redress to be included indicates to members in the House and certainly to the Māori members of the Māori Affairs Committee that there were substantial matters that still needed to be addressed if this was to get over the line.So I expect that when we as a select committee go to hearings within Tauranga Moana we will get the total summary of some of the issues in regard to the nature of redress—the mechanisms to enable rights of first refusal for example and other aspects of redress to be successfully implemented. And there it is.In order for any Treaty settlement legislation to be useful and I think gain the advantage that iwi like Ngāti Ranginui would want it to gain our role as a select committee will be to ensure that the redress mechanisms that are available to Ngāti Ranginui can be successfully implemented.I want to comment briefly on the nature of the history of Tauranga Moana and whether or not the reduced mechanisms were sufficient. I will come to that Minister as I allude to some of the historical facts. Tauranga like Auckland is considered a significant regional economic hub to the detriment of the confiscations that occurred there.We could not even begin to fathom the lost opportunity for the iwi in Tauranga Moana as a result of raupatu and people being disenfranchised from their lands and their moana but also as a result of the growing expansionism that occurred there in terms of the development of the port infrastructure to ensure that Tauranga was connected to the rest of New Zealand as a growing and emerging economy that is now significant in the space of horticulture and power generation. It is no wonder that over time the people of Tauranga Moana have soughtvociferously and led the way to achieve representation on local government. In fact I can remember my former colleague Mita Ririnui bringing the local bill to the House to ensure that the Bay of Plenty Regional Council had two dedicated members on the council.Once you understand the extent of the history and the impact of lost opportunity for Māori and the way in which local government severely imprinted the way in which that city grew it will be a no-brainerto ensure that Tauranga Moana will continue down this road and that Parliament will support its aspirations to have greater local government representation because where the rubber hits the road is actually at the local government level. The mere fact that many of the public works lands transferred to local government are not available for settlement remains a matter of contention for a number of iwi and I expect that it could still be an ongoing issue for people in Tauranga Moana.The other point I would like to make is that in this instance the land and sea are synonymous with the people of Tauranga Moana and certainly from what I have read of the Ngāti Ranginui interests synonymous with the interests that they would like to see in their ongoing role not only as kaitiaki but also as good custodians of positive development in the Tauranga Moana area. I would watch with interesttoo the way that the Tauranga Moana management framework will develop and come back into the House. Potentially there is an opportunity for the select committee to pursue questions in that space so that we are a bit more informed when that does come back into the House as a separate piece of legislation. When I read the Waitangi Tribunal report I was very mindful that the land and sea are synonymous for the people of Tauranga Moana and in this instance for the Ngāti Ranginui interests.A comment was made by Des Tata. He said: “Some impact on the natural environment is inevitable when development occurs but what I really object to is the thoughtless and irresponsible development that has taken place. Local bodies have a habit of putting rubbish dumps and oxidation ponds and sewerage plants by waterways.” That really sums it up for me. The ongoing test of implementation of Treaty settlements is actually the way in which local government accepts its responsibility to work alongside iwi to be able to ensure responsible decisions are being made about everyday things. Once a settlement goes through and the iwi can continue to do what they do at the coalface it will still be local government where much of the responsibility for implementing some very practical things will continue. I just raise a flag there that it is an opportunity for us as a Parliament to consider how we could better support the implementation of Treaty settlements such as that in the Ngāti Ranginui settlement.He poto te wā māku tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[This is but a brief one from me well done and congratulations to you all.]Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker and welcome to Tauranga Moana iwi all three of you; welcome to Parliament. Congratulations on what I know has been a long road for you in getting here today. In my remarks can I address both of the bills before Parliament and all iwi: Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Pūkenga.As I say congratulations on getting to today to legislation that gives effect to the final agreements that you have signed with the Crown and that provides for the redress that as we know with all of these settlements does not provide fully by any stretch for the injustices of the past but nevertheless is an acknowledgment both in statutory form in terms of relationship agreements and in regard to for example new approaches in relation to Mauao that special and splendid mountain in the area that we all love. And of course there is commercial redress as well—again never enough—both financial and in terms of property.As the member of Parliament for Tauranga can I address my remarks and my focus not just to what this means for you—clearly that is most important as iwi in our region—but also what it means for our entire subregion in terms of the settlement today that comes to the beginning of the end in this Parliament. These settlements are truly significant in that new commercial entities for economic development are being formed and you will as iwi be significant engines of regional economic development—you already have been but will be much more so—for the long term. We know and you know that you are not going anywhere in our region and you are much more able I think—certainly than politicians who come and go; much more than other businesses in fact—to take that long-term strategic view as to what you want to do.I have always believed quite strongly that although the primary reason and rationale for the Treaty settlement processes which have been well established now as we work our way through is to redress past injustices a secondary very clear benefit is the very strong regional economic development that the settlements provide in regions like the Western Bay of Plenty and the Bay of Plenty. I know that you will be fantastic economic stewards of the commercial redress that you are providing. There will be competing priorities. There will be so-called great ideas coming from left right and centre including from me as one of the members of Parliament in your areas but I know that you will grow the economic pie. You are now in so many sectors in our regional economy but you will grow into other areas as well—this decade the next and beyond.Can I just finish on what is a side issue really but one that I know affects you as well as the entire region. It is in a sense a crusade of mine but I think it is a significant issue: Tauranga Moana needs a museum. Tauranga Moana needs a museum for the reason of its size as a city of a very significant population now and as an area that has an incredibly significant history which you and these settlements are an integral part of. Let us be honest: that is going to require very significant government—central government and local government—backing but also business backing. I hope you as iwi will also play a very significant role because you need a place where your story—so incredibly important in Tauranga—is told and it is something that I want to engage with you on more in coming weeks and months. So once again congratulations on today on coming this far to the beginning of the end—the homeward straight if you like. Kia ora tātou.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.WaiataNgāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingHon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I move That the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill. I am sure that its members will do a very good job although very soon I think they will have about seven or eight bills before the committee so there will be no time to waste. I expect them to get on with it and knowing the calibre of the people on that committee—which includes you Mr Deputy Speaker—I am sure that will happen.I am so very pleased to speak in support of this bill which like the other Tauranga bills has been many years in the making. It is almost 3 years to the day since the deed was signed and despite the time that has been taken I never had any doubt at all that we would get to this stage. It has been worth the wait. On 4 December 2009 the Crown confirmed the mandate of the iwi to negotiate a settlement of all historical Treaty claims of Ngāti Pūkenga. On 25 January 2010 Ngāti Pūkenga and the Crown signed terms of negotiation that set out the scope the objectives and the general procedures for negotiations. On 31 July 2012 Ngāti Pūkenga and the Crown signed a statement of position and intent as a basis for the final deed of settlement. On 23 November 2012 the deed was initialled and then on a beautiful day 7 April 2013 the deed was signed. The bill is going to give legislative effect to the final agreements on the redress as set out in the deed.As with all these settlement bills it is very important to place on the permanent record of the House the history of why we are here. These historical claims relate to the Crown-initiated military conflict in Tauranga in 1864—actions that were in breach of the Treaty and its principles. Despite assuring Ngāti Pūkenga that it would scrupulously respect their interests the Crown extinguished all of the Ngāti Pūkenga customary interests in Tauranga land by confiscating a very large part of the district. Ngāti Pūkenga became dependent on lands gifted to them by other iwi but the Crown failed to protect Ngāti Pūkenga tribal interests in these lands from the impact of the individualisation of Māori land tenure which the Crown imposed in the 19th century. The financial and commercial redress provided to Ngāti Pūkenga seeks to recognise the losses suffered by them. They are going to receive $7 million plus interest as well as commercial redress properties and rights of first refusal in relation to right of first refusal land. Cultural redress provided to Ngāti Pūkenga includes the vesting of cultural redress properties protocols and statutory acknowledgments and the vesting of minerals in vested land.I too join with my friend and colleague Mr Bridges in his—as he said “a crusade”; perhaps a politically incorrect term—desire to see a museum in Tauranga. It is something that I was very interested in achieving when I was the Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage. A great city like Tauranga with such a special history in terms of Māori culture needs to have a museum. The other day The Telegraph in London said—no surprise to any of us—that we are the best country on Earth and one of the 26 reasons it gave for that self-evident proposition was the unique and very strong Māori culture. It is so important that we recognise around the country in various regional museums that unique culture and so too in the Tauranga district. So I hope that Mr Bridges and his parliamentary colleague and our mutual friend Mr Muller will be able to persuade the Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage that that regional museums fund could be used to very good purpose.Ngāti Pūkenga were renowned as warriors and priests. Due to these skills and the ability to move at short notice they were called on to assist tribal groups with their disputes and were rewarded with gifts of land. There are so many who have worked tirelessly on these claims and more widely for the iwi of Ngāti Pūkenga but I particularly want to mention the late WīremuŌhia who displayed the qualities of a warrior and a priest. Bill was a leader in the farming forestry and kiwifruit industries of Tauranga Moana and he was a Māori leader on the national stage. He worked very hard to bring together the different kāinga of Ngāti Pūkenga. As I said the Crown let them down in the 19th century. As a consequence of that they were dispersed to various parts of the North Island—Manaia in the Coromandel; Pakikaikutu in Whangarei Maketū as well as Tauranga. It is therefore not surprising that each kāinga operated autonomously and independently of one another. Bill’s vision however was that they would work together and that came to realisation through the negotiations process. Now once the bill is passed we will move to the post-settlement environment.Ngāti Pūkenga priestly skills continue to this day with their relationship-building leading them to becoming part of two collectives: the Tauranga Moana iwi and the Hauraki collectives. They have also built an enduring and warm relationship with the Crown through their interactions with officials and in particular my chief Crown negotiator Dame Patsy Reddy whom I want to acknowledge once again for all her work. I also want to thank my ministerial colleagues and various agencies for their extensive input into making this settlement possible. Now as I say the bill once passed moves to the select committee and I very much look forward to the Ngāi Te Rangi legislation coming in shortly thereafter. I am sure the Māori Affairs Committee is going to deal with this legislation expeditiously so that it can come back to the House and hopefully be enacted before the end of the year. I think the bill needs to go to the committee without delay and thus I commend the bill to the House.PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau):He pito kōrero whakahokia. E Te Whare e haere tonu ana ngā mihi ki ngā kaupapa kei mua i te aroaro i te rā nei. E haere tonu ana ngā mihi ki Te Minita tana kōrero ki te āta whakatakoto i ngā kōrero katoa kei roto i te pire. Mihi atu ana au ki a ia ōna āpiha me te rōpū whiriwhiri i ngā take Māori. Korekore aini ka taumaha te kōnae mahi o taua rōpū whiriwhiri ki roto i ngā wiki e tū mai nei.E aku rangatira kua kōrero mai te mema o tērā taha o Te Whare mō te waka o Mātaatua. I taku kōrero tuatahi ka kōrero ahau ki te īngoa o tērā wāhi o Pakikaikutu me te taunga mai ō koutou ki roto i a au o Ngāti Hine. E kīia nei ko Mātaatua Waka Ngā Kurī a Whārei ki Tihirau. Āta whakaaro ake ana au ki tērā kōrero korekore i a koe e te pāpā e Kihi ki roto i a au o Ngāpuhi ka rongo koe ki ngā kōrero o Mātaatua Waka ki roto i a mātau. Ko te kī atu ahau i aia tonu nei ko Ngā Kurī a Whārei ki Tākou ki Te Raki. Ēhara i te mea kua whakaritea nei tēnei Whare kia tū wēnei pire i te ata tonu nei me te pire o Ngāti Kahu whai muri ake tā te mea ko te wāhi o Ngāti Kahu nā ko tātau te takotoranga o Te Waka o Mātaatua. E te pāpā e Hoturoa e mihi atu ana. Koinā te pai o te whakapapa. Tuituia nei i a tātau ki roto i ngā mahi o te wā. Ka whakaaro ake anō au mō te whakapapa.Kai pōhēhē tēnei Whare ka ara mai tēnei pire mai i ngā pakanga ki runga o Pukehinahina ka hoki atu anō waku whakaaro ki te hainatanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ko Te Kau o Rēhua te kaihaina i Te Tiriti o Waitangi nō roto i a koutou e Ngāti Pūkenga. E mihi atu ana au ki tērā whakaaro nui tā te mea i mate te tupuna rā ki runga i te pakanga o Pukehinahina. Kei konei tātau. Kei konei tātau ki te whakatikatika i ngā hua i ngā hēmanawatanga ka puta mai i te pakanga o Pukehinahina ēngari kia kaua e wareware tātau ki ngā tāngata ngā tūpuna ngā rangatira i hainatia ai te Tiriti o Waitangi i te 1840. Nā rātau te mana o tō koutou iwi ka waitohu ki runga i te kawenata tapu e puritia nei e tātau i te rā nei. Nā ka kite nei ko ōna uri ko ngā pire kai mua i te aroaro o Te Whare nei i te rā nei. E Ngāti Pūkenga tēnā koutou kia ora tātau!I te ata nei i kōrero au ki runga i Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa e pā ana ki ngā take pakanga o te motu nei. Ko te kī atu ahau e hoa me tukuna atu ki roto i Te Marau o Te Tāhūhū o Te Mātauranga! Ka pātai mai ētahi: “E Peeni he aha te take e mātau ana koe ki ngā kōrero a Ruapekapeka ki ngā pakanga o Ōhaeawai me Kororāreka? I pānui koe i ngā pukapuka ki roto i te kura?” Ka kī atu ahau kāhore nā ōku mātua tūpuna wēnei kōrero i hūhare mai ki ahau e tū nei. Ko te hiahia kia rongo atu te ao whānui i ngā kōrero i hūhare mai e ōku mātua e ōku tūpuna ki a au nei. Nō reira āe me whakaakohia wā tātau tamariki ki wēnei kōrero i a rātau i te kura ka tautoko ana au i tērā kōrero. Koinā tāku e tautoko ana i te kōrero o tōku tuahine te mema nei mō te Kākāriki me tana kōrero me pērā!E kara e Awanui ka kī atu ahau ki roto i tēnei kōrero tā te mea kai konei koe kei konei koutou. Hōmai te rā kia whakanuia e tātau i ngā mahi o ngā mātua o ngā tūpuna. Ahakoa te pūrepo ahakoa te pēneti ahakoa te tūpara i whawhai mātau mō te mana motuhake o ngā iwi o ngā hapū. Nō reira e mihi atu ana ki te whakaaro nui kia whakaakohia wā tātau tamariki ki ngā kōrero. Kia mōhio mārika rātau he aha ngā tūkinotanga ki runga o Ngāti Pūkenga ki runga o Tauranga Moana whānui. Nō reira ko tēnei e tautoko ana.Kua kōrero mai Te Minita mō ngā wāhanga kai roto i te pire e pā ana ki tetahi rahi pūtea. Ka whakaaro ake ā ki te whiti 9 o te pire ko te whakapāha o Te Kāwanatanga ki a koutou e Ngāti Pūkenga i taku kōrero tuatahi i te ata nei i mea atu ahau tēnā pea ka whai wāhi koutou ki te whakarongo i tētahi whakapāha mō Te Reo te take tā te mea i te wiki kua pahure ake nei ka mea atu tēnei Kāwanatanga āe i tūkinohia e mātau i a koutou e pā ana ki Te Reo Māori ēngari rawa mātau mō te whakapāha. Tēnā pea ka mirimiri i tērā whakaaro i te wā ka haere tonu tēnei pire ki roto i te rōpū whāiti o ngā take Māori. Ka kōrero mai Te Minita mō ētahi o ngā wāhi whenua ka whakahokia ki a koutou me te hiahia kia whakaritea i tētahi tūranga ka āhei koutou ki te whakahaere i ō koutou ake rawa ki te whakahaere i ō koutou ake whenua ki tā koutou e hiahia ai. He mea pai tēnā!Ēngari ka whakahoki atu ahau ki taku kōrero tuatahi i te rā nei: koinā tētahi tepe ki runga i tēnei huarahi roa rawa atu. Ko te hiahia kia whakahokia mai aua rawa ki a koutou kia tū motuhake ai koutou ki runga i ō koutou ake whenua. Koinā te mahi ngātahi. Āe me mahi ngātahi kia whakahokia mai pū ngā rawa ki a koutou koinā tā koutou e whai nei koinā tā mātau e whawhai nei.E ōku rangatira ko ētahi atu o ngā kōrero kai roto e tautoko ana i ngā kōrero o ngā Minita e pā ana ki te wāhi whānui o Tauranga Moana. Nā te pire i mua mai i tēnei ka kōrero mai mātau mō Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Ranginui ōnā hapū katoa. I aia tonu nei mō Ngāti Pūkenga. He mea pai tēnā! I kōrero mai tōku tuakana a Pita Paraone nei mō tērā tūāhuatanga ka whai wāhi ngā hapū me ngā iwi katoa ki roto i wēnei nekehanga. Kia kaua e whāiti te Kāwanatanga i a mātau ka taea e tātau katoa ki te whakapuaki i wā tātau ake reo mō ngā take nei. Koinā tēnei e tino harikoa ana! E tautoko ana ahau i te kōrero a tōku tuakana ki a koutou he tauira koutou. He tauira koutou mō ngā nekehanga e pā ana ki te tatūnga kerēme ki roto i a mātau o Ngāpuhi.Kāti hei whakakapi ake e harikoa ana mātau o tēnei taha o Te Whare ki te tautoko i tēnei pire i roto i tana pānuitanga tuatahi. Ia pire ka mea atu ahau āe ko konā ko ngā tino toki o tēnei taha o Te Whare ki te āta wetewete ki te totohe i ngā kōrero i te wā ka haere atu ki roto i te rōpū whāiti o ngā take Māori. Nō reira kāti ake ngā mihi whānui i te wā nei. Ā taihoa ake ka tau mai ko ōku ake o Ngāti Kahu ki roto i Te Whare hei tāpiri atu ki tēnei kaupapa me ngā tūmomo mahi o te wā nei. Hei whakakapi ake e te tuakana e Awanui ngā mihi nui ki a koutou i tae mai ki roto i a au o Te Ruapekapeka hai tautoko ake i tēnei kaupapa tupuna i marere iho mai ki a tātau katoa e te hunga ora o tēnei wā. Nō reira ka mutu i konei: hōmai te rā! Kia ora tātau katoa.[Worthy speech should be reciprocated. To the House I continue the acknowledgment for each of the issues before us today. I also acknowledge the Minister and his statement about the bill being a place of permanent record. I thank him and his officials as well as the Māori Affairs Committee. Without doubt there will be an increase in workload for that select committee over the proceeding weeks.Esteemed guests the member from that side of the House has referred to the Mātaatua tribal confederation. In my first speech I referred to the name of Pakikaikutu and your own arrival into my tribal lands of Ngāti Hine. According to the adage the region of the Mātaatua confederation is known as Ngā-Kurī-a-Whārei to Tihirau. I have myself pondered over that precept. No doubt when you our elder Kihi were among my people of Ngāpuhi you would have heard our own oral histories for the Mātaatua region. I will state here today my own adage Ngā Kurī ā Whārei to Tākou in the north. It is also not as if the House planned for the bills to be read this morning with that of Ngāti Kahu to follow given the region of Ngāti Kahu includes Tākou the resting place of the Mātaatua. Greetings also to you Hoturoa my senior. That is the beauty of genealogy. It binds us together within current events. Genealogy is indeed significant.Lest this House thinks mistakenly that this bill emerges from the battles upon Pukehinahina I return to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It was Te Kou o Rehua who signed the Treaty from among you of Ngāti Pūkenga. This should be deeply acknowledged as that ancestor died in battle at Pukehinahina. We are here now. We are here now to address the long term ill effects and associated post-traumatic stresses occuring from the battle of Pukehinahina. Let us also not forget the people the ancestors the chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. It was they who signed with the authority of your people the sacred covenant we still retain today of which the present bills before the House today are figurative descendants. Ngāti Pūkenga greetings to you greetings to all.This morning I spoke on Radio New Zealand about the New Zealand wars. What I said was it should be in the curriculum of the Ministry of Education. And some asked me: “Peeni how is it you know the history of Ruapekapeka and the battles of Ōhaeawai and Russell? Did you read about them in books at school?”. I said no my grandparents and forebears handed down these stories to me. They should be heard wide and far the stories my forbears handed on to me. Indeed they should be taught to our children in school and I support that initiative. That is also why I support the contribution of my sister the member of the Greens and her appeal for this to happen.My friend Awanui I will say it here as you are here you are all here. This is a great day worthy of recognition from all of us for the efforts of our forebears and ancestors. Despite the cannons despite the bayonets despite the double-barrelled shotguns we fought for the self-determination of the people and the subtribes. Therefore I commend the importance of teaching our children the history. So they know without uncertainty what ill treatment befell Ngāti Pūkenga and indeed the wider Tauranga Moana region. Therefore I stand in support.The Minister has spoken about the provisions within the bill including a financial redress package. In reflecting on clause 9 of the bill which is an apology from the Crown to you of Ngāti Pūkenga in my opening speech this morning I referred to you possibly hearing an apology from the Crown for the Māori language as last week this Government acknowledged yes we have ill-treated you in relation to Māori language however we are not going to apologise. Perhaps there is some opportunity to massage this idea when the bill proceeds to the Māori Affairs Committee. The Minister has referred to some of the lands that will be officially returned to you and has expressed a desire to establish a platform by which you may manage your own resources and your own lands in the way you deem fit. That is commendable.However I also return to my first comment today: this is one step on a very long journey. It is hoped through returning those resources to you you will again be able to achieve self-determination on your own lands. That is indeed working together. Indeed only through working together are the resources able to be officially returned to you. That is what you have sought and that is what we have fought for.Esteemed guests some of the other provisions support what the Ministers have said in relation to the wider Tauranga Moana region. In the preceding bill we spoke of Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāti Ranginui and all their subtribes. Now we speak of Ngāti Pūkenga. This too is commendable. My senior Pita Paraone referred to this saying that all tribes and subtribes will have a place in this process. To ensure we are not unnecessarily restricted by Government everyone will have the opportunity to express an opinion on the issues. This is very pleasing. I endorse my senior’s speech to you in saying you are indeed exemplary. You have also set an example for Treaty claims settlement for us in Ngāpuhi.In concluding we on this side of the House are pleased to commend this bill in its first reading. As I have said of each bill indeed we have our most experienced on this side of the House to analyse and carefully consider the contents when it goes through to the Māori Affairs Committee. Therefore I conclude with greetings to all. Shortly my own people of Ngāti Kahu will arrive in the House to follow on from this bill and continue this important process. Finally my senior Awanui my salutations to you all who arrived into my own area of Te Ruapekapeka to support this ancestral journey that has been bequeathed to all of us the living. I end here: give us the day! Acknowledgments to us all.]CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker.He mihi nui ki a koutou katoa te whānau whānui o Ngāti Pūkenga ki Tauranga Moana Manaia Maketū Pakikaikutu ngā hapū katoa tēnā rā koutou![Thank you Mr DeputySpeaker. A massive acknowledgment to you all the extensive family of Ngāti Pūkenga at Tauranga Moana Manaia Maketū Pakikaikutu all subtribes I welcome you indeed.]It is a privilege for Parliament to have Ngāti Pūkenga in the Whare. First I want to acknowledge the extraordinary tenacity of this tangata whenua of this particular people given that they were dispersed as a result of the impact of colonisation from the homelands in Tauranga Moana to Manaia to Whangarei at Pakikaikutu and to Maketū and Little Waihī. They are a dispersed people and yet a strong people who have maintained throughout all the tribulations an identity that we see before us—an identity that has come before us—with the ability to have a future.I would just like to pay respects in particular to Ngāti Pūkenga living in the tuku whenua land at Manaia and Hauraki—I also live near there. They are long-term friends and neighbours of mine who were unable historically to return to Tauranga Moana and whose lands have been undermined divided and fragmented both in Tauranga Moana and in Manaia and elsewhere. So I just want to tautoko the ahi kā of Manaia—Ngāti Pūkenga people Ngāti Whanaunga people not to mention Ngāti Huarere and others—who have resisted the destruction of their pātaka kai and resist it to this day: indeed warriors; indeed priests; people of deep knowledge of the spirituality of Hauraki even though they are also from Tauranga Moana. These are people who have stood up and have stood up for their maunga for their ngahere and for Tikapa Moana and who have educated those of us who have lived near Ngāti Pūkenga ki Manaia in the importance of standing up for your place. So I just want to thank them for the education. When they stood up against the multinational miners in the 1970s who sought to dig up their whenua and their harbour: they still have their kauri their harbour still has fish—not as it once was but these things are recoverable because of their vigilance and determination. So I acknowledge them in particular.I also want to acknowledge the other end of the rohe down to Maketū—a magical place—and all across Tauranga Moana because I think as some other speaker referred to that there is the inability to separate Tauranga from moana and that is such a true thing. When we knelt on the beach scraping black oil off the rocks at Maketū alongside the people of the marae there I felt that history was continuing to be about the pollution of not only the environment but also of people’s identity and so I am humbled by the resistance and strength of these people.Just acknowledging the historical account Te Kou o Rehua signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi with the expectation that peace would be upheld with the Crown but that is not what happened. In 1864 Pukehinahina and Te Ranga happened and raupatu happened. Te Kou o Rehua was killed by a bayonet on 29 April 1864 at the battle at Pukehinahina. I think it is a warning to the 21st century: if we are standing here—my culture the Crown—on the side of doing right by the articles of Te Tiriti we had better remember that promises have been made before and not fulfilled. The promise was made by George Grey. When Te Kou o Rehua signed Te Tiriti he did not expect the confiscation of Tauranga Moana but in fact George Grey was an intimate part of planning some of that confiscation although he limited it. He held discussions at Tauranga without Ngāti Pūkenga addressing that those who had been in the military action against the Crown would retain a quarter of any land confiscated and return the rest to tangata whenua. But Ngāti Pūkenga know that is not what happened.I just want to quote George Grey as a warning to us all because the Crown has an ability to make speeches but not always to make justice: “I now speak to you the friendly natives. I thank you warmly for your good conduct under circumstances of great difficulty. I will consider in what manner you shall be rewarded for your fidelity. In the meantime in any arrangements which may be made about the lands of your tribe your rights will be scrupulously respected”. And I acknowledge that the Minister also used that word because he knows the history deeply—“scrupulously respected”. However in 1865 the Crown issued an Order in Council for the raupatu and it confiscated all the land described in the schedule regardless of the iwi to whom it belonged or whether they had fought against the Crown. That is not very scrupulous is it?Therefore the Crown now has to be scrupulous because our tūpuna were not and the price was paid by Ngāti Pūkenga and other iwi across Aotearoa. I think it is really important to remember that if we do not understand history we are doomed to repeat it and that is why we should teach all of our kids what George Grey said and what he did not do—it is really important to remember that. If your word is your bond—if you believe that a word given by an ancestor passes on through the generations—then our word needs to be good otherwise we are of as little dignity and honour as George Grey at that moment of history. I am not personalising it to George Grey: there was a whole colonisation process; he was a mouthpiece.I would like to just acknowledge the importance of the mechanisms that we used subsequent to raupatu. They are not the only problems that beset the people subsequently. There were many problems that have followed. I just want to acknowledge that the 20th century was a bad time for many tangata whenua groups because of the use of other tools of colonisation—for example the fragmentation of whenua. NgātiPūkenga reasonably believed that eight individuals to whom the Native Land Court awarded title at Manaia were representative of the hapū but that is not what happened. The Native Land Court awarded lands differently. The Native Land Court along with the Public Works Act 1864 are two instruments of colonisation that are very important parts of this story and—particularly for NgātiPūkenga—the way in which individual title and the manipulation of people’s belief that they were speaking as hapū became an ability to alienate land and make it into individual title. That was the unique gift of the Māori Land Court—that is what it did. It used the belief of the people that they were acting collectively to turn everything into Pākehā individual title. In fact the transformation of collectively owned whenua into individual title was a key part of the strategy because collectivity was a threat—individual title was what we understood; individual title was a way of gaining control of land.I will never forget our kuia Aunty Betty Williams at Manaia talking about the 1967 Act and about whenua that was seen to be too small to have any value and so little pockets of land that belonged to whānau that had been passed down with great love through whānau became declared to be too small to be economic and up for sale. I was in disbelief that the court could just make a ruling like that and that a law could just say: “This little bit of land is not economic; therefore you can’t own it.” So when we talk about economics let us be very careful—and I am thinking about the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act here—that those little blocks of land that are precious to whānau the whānau themselves need to define whether they are of value in any sense including economic sense. So our kuia Auntie Betty reminded us that you need to look at these Acts of the past and remember what they did to NgātiPūkenga and to other iwi katoa.I look forward to the select committee process and learning and understanding more because you can live in a rohe—and I do—and know nothing. That is the scary thing. If you ask anybody in the street in Coromandel how come NgātiPūkenga who are deeply connected to Tauranga Moana actually live in Coromandel they will not be able to tell you and that is a disgrace. That is a disgrace of the education system but also of a culture that talks Te Tiriti but does not bring its people on board. We have a lot of work to do. I look forward to learning more and to honouring the survival tenacity and vision of NgātiPūkenga. Kia ora tātou katoa.MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā me te mihi atu ki a koe ki a koutou o Te Whare ōku hoamahi koutou o Te Komiti Whiriwhiri Take Māori tēnā koutou tēnā tātau katoa!Ēngari ka huri ki a koutou ko koutou ngā kanohi e kanohi nei i ngā kaupapa me ngā take kua whārikihia nei e aku hoa i tēnei rangi nei te mihi atu ki a koutou!E tika kia whai wā te mihi atu ki a rātau mā kua mate āe te hunga wairua! Rātau kua whakapau werawera i ngā tau kua hipa kia kōkiritia tēnei kaupapa ngā hītori ngā kōrero o ō koutou takiwā. Kai te mihi atu ki a koutou ki a rātau mā kua wehe atu! Hoki wairua mai! Hoki wairua mai hei ārahi i a mātau i roto i tēnei ao te hunga ora nei te hunga tutuki i ō rātau nā wawata. Hoki wairua mai hei arahina i a mātau! Kai te kōrero au mō koutou rātau i whakarite i te kerēme ēngari atu i a rātau ko ngā tūpuna mai i te wā i tae ā-tinana a Pākehā ki runga i te whenua mai i te wā o Te Tiriti. Mai i taua wā ki tēnei wā kua porotēhi kua hīkoi kua whawhai mō te whenua nā reira ki a rātau mā e tika me mihi atu ki a rātau.Āe ko ō tātau tīpuna ēnā kua whawhai mō te whenua mai rā anō ā koinei mātau he aha ai? Kia whai mana mātau i runga i te whenua kia whai rangatiratanga tātau i runga i te whenua kia mau ō tātau mōtika i runga i te whenua kia ora pai ai ō tātau tamariki mokopuna mō tēnei rangi me ngā rangi kei te heke mai! Koirā te whawhai kei mua i a tātau katoa!I tēnei wā ka konei koutou mō te pānuitanga tuatahi o tēnei pire. Ā ēhara i te mea he mea māmā tēnei te kawe i ngā kerēme ki mua i Te Karauna! Kaha ana rātau ki te whawhai te tautohetohe! Kei roto i ngā rūma koutou e whārikihia nei i ngā kōrero tapu ki a koutou kātahi ka wero nei Te Karauna i a koutou! Hika mā! Nā tātau tēnā kōrero! Ko wai kē koutou te whakahē i ō tātau kōrero ēngari koirā te ao o Te Karauna TeTaraipiunara ka wehewehe i te tangata ka whawhai i ngā hapū ka tau ngā āwangawanga kei waenganui i a tātau hei wāwāhi i te tangata.Ēngari kai te hoki atu au ki tētahi wā kua whai mana koutou i te tau 1977. E ai ki a Te Ururoa i haere tētahi rōpū o koutou ki te kaunihera. I hiahia te kaunihera ki te whakaputa i te parahako i roto i te moana te moana o Rangataua iWelcome Bayi hiahia rātau te whakaputa i te parahako o te tangata ki roto i te Wāhi Tapu o Rangataua. Kātahi tētahi rōpū pakupaku i haere atu ki a rātauko te koroua a Wīremu Ōhia tēnā i mea atu hikamehemea ka whakaparahako koutou i tō tātau wai ā ko te kaimoana tēnā kai reira ko Te Wāhi Tapu e kaukau ana te tangata kei reira! Ka patu te manawa o te tangata mehemea ka pēnei ana tā koutou mahi. Kātahi ka whakakorengia taua mahi a Te Kaunihera o te rohe rā! I runga i tēnā ki tāku e mōhio nei ko ngā rangatira o taua wā ko Wīremu Ōhia ko Gwen Kiriwehi-Walker ko Elaine Tapsell me ētahi atu i tīmata i tēnei haerenga ki Te Taraipiunara.Ēhara i te mea he huarahi māmā tēnā ki a koutou!Kei ngā rohe katoa o te whenua kāre Te Karauna ite kite i taua tūāhuatanga ki runga i te whenua! Kāre rātau i whakaaro he iwi a Ngāti Pūkenga! He rerekē te noho o Ngāti Pūkenga ki ērā atu o ngā iwi! Nā reira kāre koutou i hāngai ki tō rātau tauira!Ēngari ko wai rātau te kī mehemea he iwi tātau! Ko wai rātau te kī me pēnei te noho o te tangata! Nā tātau tēnei! Nā reira ko koutou tēnā i whakarite i tō koutou rōpū Te Au Māro mō Ngāti Pūkenga hei whaiwhai i tēnei whawhai ki Te Karauna nei. Ā e ai ki tō koutou rōpū e kī nei ko te matakahi tēnā. He aha te matakahi? Ā ko te matakahi he momo wedge! Mehemea ka whawhai te ope tauā ā ko te matakahi tēnā e wehewehe i te hoariri. Koirā te mahi o tō koutou rōpū ki Te Karauna nei. Āe ehara i te mea he māmā karekau!Ēngari kua tae ki tēnei rangi whārikihia ō koutou kōrero ki runga i te pukapuka o Pāremata mō ake tonu atu! Ā he ture kai te haere he pūtea āe kai te haere ēngari kua whai anō ō koutou mōtika i runga i te whenua i runga i tō koutou ake whakaritenga. Nā reira kei te mihi! Ā me tiro whakamua me tiro whakamua!I haria ā mātau tamariki o Te Wharekura o Wairarapa ki Raukawa i ngā tau kua hipa atu kai reira tētahi rōpū o tō koutou takiwā o Te Kura Kōkiri. Nohotahi mātau i reira Te Kura o Wairarapa me Te Kura Kōkiri ki te whakahoahoa i a mātau anō. Nā Te Kura Kōkiri mātau itiaki i manaaki i tētahi wā pōuri rawa atu ki a mātau i taua wā! Kātahi anō ka puta he raru kia mātou o Wairarapa i pāngia ētahi o ō mātau tamariki ki te mate ēngari ko ngā tamariki me ngā kaiako o Te Kura Kōkiri tēnā awhi nei i a mātau i a mātau i haere atu ki Raukawa. Nā reira kai te mihi atu ki ērā rēanga te hunga rangatahi nei ā Ngāti Pūkenga ko rātau ka hua!Ko rātau te hunga rangatahi ka puta hei rangatira mō āpōpō! I runga i ō koutou tohutohu i runga i ō koutou whakarite i runga i ngā whawhai kia tae ki tēnei rangi. Kua wātea nei te huarahi mā rātau kia tū rangatira i runga i te whenua ahakoa kai hea! Kai Hauraki kai Te Hiku kai Tauranga kai Maketū. Ahakoa kai hea ka taea e koutou i runga i ngā whawhai nei kua whai mana kua whai rangatiratanga ā he wā anō tēnei mā koutou kia puta pai ngā tamariki i runga i te tauira o ō tātau tūpuna. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker my acknowledgments to you fellow members of the House andmy colleagues of the Māori Affairs Committee greetings and salutations to you and to us all.But I turnto you the ones who are the eyes viewing the policies and matters that have been laid forth by my colleagues today I acknowledge you.It is only right thatwe take the opportunity to pay a tribute tothosewho have passed away yes to the spirits! They are the ones who perspired in years past to advance this policy the historical accounts and the stories relating to yourregions. Ipay a tribute toyoucollectively and tothosewho have departed! Return to us here in spirit! Come back to us spiritually to guide usmortals here in thisworldand indeed those of uscharged with the responsibility to fulfil their aspirations!Returnto us spiritually to lead us!Iam speaking on your behalf about them who considered the claim and beyond them tothe ancestors whowere here at the timethe Pākehā arrived here physically upon the land from the timeof theTreaty. From that time to the present there have beenprotests marchesbattles for land and so I say it is fitting that we acknowledge them!Yesthose wereour ancestorswhofought for the land right from the outset and here we are and for what purpose?So thatwe have control and independenceover the land so that we keep our rights over thelandandso that our children andgrandchildrencan live well today and in the future.Thatisthe battleahead of us all.At this point in time youare heretoday for the first reading of thisbill.Bringing claims before the Crownis by no means an easy thing to do.Our ancestorswere tough at mixing it up and haggling;whilst youare there in rooms presenting accounts sacred to you and then theCrownchallenges you all. Forgoodnesssake! That’s our account! Whodo you the Crown think you are contradicting our version of events? But then that is the domain of theCrownand Tribunal; they isolate individuals do battle with subtribes and concerns descend upon us which set individuals up against each other.ButIwill go back to a time when you were mandatedin1977. According to Te Ururoa Flavell a group of yours wenttothecouncil. It wanted to comment on detrimental acts in the sea at Rangataua atWelcome Bayand at a sacred site atRangataua.A small delegation then went to them and theelder WīremuŌhiasaid:“For goodness’ sake if you pollute our waters seafood there would be unfit to eat a sacred place there would be desecrated and recreational swimming there would not be possible anymore.”In the end the councildiscontinued discharges in that area.I understand the leadersat thattime were WīremuŌhia Gwen Kiriwehi-Walker ElaineTapsellandsomeothers andthat set off the first trip to the Tribunal.It was not as though that path was an easy one for you; it is the same for all other regions in the country.The Crownis notsensitive tothat situation occurring across the land.It doesnot recognise Ngāti Pūkengaas an iwi. The situation with Ngāti Pūkenga is differentfromthat of other tribes. Therefore you do not fit theirmodel. Nevertheless who are they to say whether you are a tribe or not? Who are they tosay that this is how a person should live? This is for us to determine. So there you are you considered that the group to represent you ofNgāti Pūkengato fight this battle with the Crown would be Te Au Māro. And according to your group this Te Au Māro is thatmatakahi!What isa matakahi?It is indeed a type of wedge!When a battle force attacks warriorstake up awedge formationand drive forward to take the enemy apart ideal for attacking and breaking up massed enemy forces. Thatisthetactic your group will employ against thisCrown.And yes it is not going to be easy not at all.Butyou have arrived heretodayto express your thoughts so that they are captured in the ParliamentHansard for posterity.Therefore an Act and funding is in the making it is proceeding but you are also acquiring your rights on the land with your very own terms of reference. Therefore I commend you!So look ahead to the future!Yearsago wetook our children of Te Wharekura o Wairarapa to Raukawa.Te Kura Kōkiri a school affiliated to your peopleis there. We Te Kura o Wairarapa were billeted there withTe Kura Kōkiriat the same time and developed a good rapportwith each other. And it was Te Kura Kōkiri who came to our aid whenproblems besetus oftheWairarapa when some of ourchildren fell ill.The children and adults ofTe Kura Kōkiri assisted us in our time of needwhen we went to Raukawa. Itherefore acknowledge those ones and the younger generation that helped us;Ngāti Pūkenga they are the ones who will benefit from that experience and I thank them.They the younger generation will emerge as leaders in the futurethrough your tuition considerationsand the battlesyoufoughtto arrive here on this day. Thewayforward has been cleared for them to stand tall on the land wherever they might find themselvesbeitHaurakiTe Hiku Taurangaor Maketū.Regardless of where you might findyourselves and despite these battles youwill achieve integrity and autonomy. Opportunities might come to hand as well to add to the next generation whereby children in the future will follow the example set by our ancestors; therefore acknowledgments congratulation to you collectively and my appreciation to us all.]NUK KORAKO (National):Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare huri noa i Te Whare nei e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa ā tēnei te mihi ki ngā iwi o Mātaatua e mihi atu ana ki a koutou anō.[And so thank you Mr Deputy Speaker I acknowledge you all throughout this House and the tribes of Mātaatua I commend you once again.]As the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee it is indeed a pleasure to be able to stand and speak in the first reading of the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill. I will not go into the whole content of the bill because the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson has already done that quite eloquently.I think though that it is worth noting the really interesting sort of history of this claim particularly when we look at the Ngāti Pūkenga iwi; the fact that the stories of them are very much that—when looking at that incredible time when their lands were confiscated and when there were very many breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi—they continued along that road of passive peacefulness and dependence on the rule of law. There is the rich history particularly from the kaihautū of the Mātaatuawaka Tōroa and then moving down to the beginnings of their iwi up there and their tipuna their ancestor Pūkenga—particularly when looking through that rich history and moving down to the signatory of Ngāti Pūkenga for the Treaty of Waitangi who was Te Kou o Rehua. It was really interesting when he signed that treaty. There was an interesting sort of part to that. He said basically that it was actually based around that rule of law particularly with the Governor and also with Queen Victoria. But obviously in a lot of ways the rest of it was one of the exact opposite.In understanding all of that we as a committee do. I mean when we look at all of these settlement bills a lot of it is based around wrongs that do need to be righted. As we all know grievance mode is in some ways a terrible thing. Grievance mode is a time of entering the world of darkness but when you can see light on the other side well that is the beginning of another new part of the journey. I want to acknowledge Ngāti Pūkenga here today because this is your time and also acknowledge that coming from an iwi who was one of the first to settle Kāi Tahu the fact is that this is only part of the journey to get to settlement. But after that is another really important part and it is all about kotahitaka or kotahitanga. It is about iwi hapū and whānau working together. But also on the other side of it it is about local government businesses and all of those who are responsible and who build a community and actually work together. That is kotahitaka and that is the most important essence of the whole thing.Finally you will see here today that some get to speak more than others but that is actually a situation in which we have to balance this. You will not see many people in the House but everyone here is watching because this is a special time when we set aside Treaty settlements to actually be debated in the House. So we have somethinghere—particularly on our side of the House we get little time to speak. But I like this one: after all that was said and done there was more said than done. That is us; this is what we are about. So kia ora. I look forward to receiving this bill in the Māori Affairs Committee and I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Ā tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Taku hara taku hara taku hara e kara e Kihi! Kāre kau au i kite atu i a koe i mua nā te mea wēnā te mate i a mātou e noho i tēnei taha nā te mea ki reira i tērā taha o te pūtea kia ahatia? Tēnā pea ā te tau e tū mai e aroha mai ki a koe kia koutou hoki kia pōti mai ki a mātou kia haere ki tērā taha o Te Whare kia ahatia? He kōrero noa iho tēnā![And so thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. My fault my mistake and my oversight friend Kihi! I did not see you before because that’s what happens when we sit on this side rather than on that side of the ledger so what can be done about the situation? Perhaps in the coming year you all might pity us and vote for us so we can go to that side of the House how about that? Just simply idle chatter that is all!]Back to serious business. I stand to support the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill. I am going to take this opportunity because I want to address the students who are in the gallery. Today we have a bill that will help settle a Treaty claim for a tribe called Ngāti Pūkenga and here in the gallery you see descendants of that iwi. I want to take this opportunity because in another forum we have talked about the need to include the history of these battles and of the claims as part of the educational curriculum. We have been told that that is a choice that is to be made by the local community the board of trustees and in fact the school itself. I just want to say to particularly your teachers that they may consider taking the opportunity of taking a copy of this bill and the report relating to this claim and allowing it to be part of the curriculum for your school so that your generation may learn more about the history of our nation. Although some of it would be quite embarrassing to this generation I think it is important that we do know the background to the history of our nation. So teachers take the opportunity.Again I take the opportunity of also supporting the welcoming of you into the House today. You are part of history. You will be part of history because this is the first reading of the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill which has come here as a result of claims that Ngāti Pūkenga has made to the Waitangi Tribunal. The bill is all about an apology from the Crown in terms of its breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. It is also about commercial redress which will help—I should not say “appease” but certainly it will help—the wrong that the Crown by its actions inflicted on the tribe.You should remember that this tribe did not go to war and yet the Crown saw fit to confiscate its land and this is what this claim is all about. It is about trying to redress that wrong for the people of Ngāti Pūkenga. It is also about the urbanisation and industrial development that has occurred in Tauranga and in which the tribe has been somewhat marginalised from the valuable sources of kai moana at Tauranga Moana at Maketū and Manaia that have been lost due to pollution and sedimentation of waterways. They believe that they have benefited little from the rapid urbanisation of Tauranga since 1945.Ngāti Pūkenga believe that they have been inappropriately marginalised in histories about the Crown-Māori relations in Tauranga Moana and so in this bill the Crown apologises for bringing war to Tauranga Moana apologises for unjustly extinguishing all customary title to land within the Tauranga Moana confiscation district and apologises that Ngāti Pūkenga did not receive the same opportunity as others to protect their interests in Tauranga Moana after the confiscations. So on that basis and on other things that are articulated in the deed of settlement I certainly support this bill.Also I want to acknowledge the negotiators. They were Rāhera Ōhia Shane Ashby Te Awanuiārangi Black Harry Haerengarangi Mikaere Āreta Gray and Dominic Wilson. I have no doubt that their task has not been an easy one and we will certainly find out once this bill comes before the Māori Affairs Committee just how difficult that task has been because there will be members of the tribe who will have an obvious different point of view from those of the negotiators and that is what I would be very interested in hearing: what are the things that they would have liked but did not get and why they did not get them.I want to quote from a comment made by the chairman of Te Au Maaro o Ngāti Pūkenga after they signed the deed of settlement who said that the signing of the deed of settlement was a time for reflection not celebration. He said: “It was bad enough that our land got confiscated in the first place but to then be shut out of the Native Land Court process in the 1880s that saw some iwi get some of their land back really rubs salt into the wounds. … It was a courageous decision by our people to overwhelmingly accept this settlement and give us the opportunity as a people to move forward.”When I look at the details of the different land interests that form part of this settlement bill I think that some people particularly those outside of the tribe will probably think that Ngāti Pūkenga are getting too much. I just want to remind this House that any settlement that comes before this House will never fully compensate the iwi. We have said this before and as each claim comes before the House we will continue to say that because it is a fact.During the third readings of each of the settlement bills people have commented on the generosity of the iwi to accept that settlement knowing full well that they are entitled to much more. Kia ahatia? I look forward to the bill coming before the Māori Affairs Committee and again I commend the bill to the House. Tēnā koe.MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti):E Te Māngai tēnā koe e ngā mema o Te Whare nei tēnā tātou. E ngā mate ō tātou kua hinga i Te Pō haere haere haere atu rā! E ngā kaumātua tēnei te mihi ki a koutou āe Te Iwi o Ngāti Pukenga Tauranga Moana Ngāti Ranginui nau mai nau mai haere mai! Nau mai haere mai ki ō tātou Whare o Te Whare Pāremata o Aotearoa nō reira kei te mihi kei te mihi kei te mihi![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to us members of this House. I say to our dead who have fallen into the Void depart farewell and journey on. To the elders I acknowledge you and to you the tribes of Ngāti Pukenga Tauranga Moana and Ngāti Ranginui welcome draw closer and welcome. Come hither to our House of Parliament New Zealand;therefore I commend salute and congratulate you collectively.]I rise to take a short call on this important bill and to stand with all members of this House in supporting the first reading of the Ngāti Pūkenga Claims Settlement Bill on behalf of ngā iwi katoa o Te Rohe o Ikaroa-Rāwhiti e tautoko ana i te pire whakahirahira nei [all the tribes of the electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti we are endorsing this magnificent bill].It gives me great pleasure to stand here as the representative of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti to mihi to the people of Tauranga Moana in acknowledgment of the significant day of this first reading of your bill. There is too much in this bill to give due time to in the 5 minutes that I have but I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the negotiators for their perseverance. As a former Treaty negotiator myself—I have had some 7 or 8 years’ experience of having to sit in that seat—I know that it is not an easy seat in terms of having to hold the line with the Crown to always go to bed thinking about whether you have done the best deal for your people and also to make compromises that are sometimes uncomfortable to do because you wear the burden of your people on your shoulders. So I want to acknowledge the negotiators.As I look up there I see Dame Patsy Reddy. I want to acknowledge you in your future appointment as our Governor-General. I realise now that your movement amongst our people means that you will extend your hospitality to them when you take the big house in your appointment so I mihi to you and I mihi to that happening. But in all honesty negotiators do have a hard row to hoe and like all my colleagues here I say that having this first reading is an important step to then having it closely examined in the select committee. Like the previous speaker Pita Paraone I too look forward to hearing not only about the good parts of this bill but also about what have clearly been omissions and to seeing whether the Māori Affairs Committee can help address some of those issues.For the time I have got remaining I want to talk also about the expectation of negotiators on behalf of their people when they come to the table with the Crown. They come to the table in good faith that they will get a decent hearing by the Crown and they are constantly informed by the Crown that this is a full and final settlement. We all know as Māori people who have been in that chair that it is never ever full and final for the losses that we have all suffered. It is interesting that for Treaty settlements that are signed on behalf of the Crown—and I appreciate that we are starting this process for Ngāti Pūkenga—when the Crown signs it is a contract; it is a contract and an obligation on the Crown as full and final which acknowledges the losses of the people of Ngāti Pūkenga and it makes commitments to address the losses that they suffered.This week iwi have been challenged by a Treaty settlement that is fisheries related and it is important that when we go through and see the passage of this bill the Crown is obligated and keeps to its word that it is full and final. If there is ever a time when we challenge what that settlement means we need to be speaking to the iwi who have signed part of that contract. So all I am saying is that if we are making that obligation to iwi who come to the table—that it is full and final—then we respect that obligation and that the Crown upholds its commitment. We have a very live issue in this House this week and it has been brewing. I ask the Crown to ensure that it addresses this in the way in which iwi have always come to the table and that is in good faith. I commend this bill and look forward to it being examined in the Māori Affairs Committee. Kia ora tātou.KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Ngāti Pukenga tēnā rā koutou kātahi anō ahau i tū i te ata nei te kōrero. Nā reira ka tautokongia ahau i ngā mihi nui kua ūhia ki runga i a koutou i te ata nei. Kia kore rawa ahau e pau taku wā i runga i ngā mihimihi me haere pū ahau ki te ngako o tēnei pire.Nā reira tuatahi e huri ngā whakaaro ki tērā o ngā tupuna arā ko Te Kou o Rehua. I roto i tēnei pire e meatia ana nāna nei i pupuri i ū tonu ki te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ahakoa rā tēnā ohorere ana ahau kia rongo kua mate ia i runga i te pēneti o te Pākehā i roto i tērā o ngā pakanga o Pukehinahina. Nā reira e whakaarohia ana ahau mehemea he tangata hūmārie he tangata rangimārie pēhea ai ia i mate i roto i te pakanga o Pukehinahina. He aha ai ngā mahi o te Pākehā kia whakamatea taua rangatira i runga i tēnā pā?E kī ana tēnei o ngā pire kīhai a Ngāti Pukenga i uru atu ki roto i ngā pakanga o tērā wā i te mea nā rātou nā koutou i ū ki tērā o ngā whakaaro o Te Kou o Rehua kia pupuritia i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Nā reira ahakoa tēnā e kite ana ahau kua pau katoa ō koutou whenua. Kua riro katoa. Nā reira mai rā ano te Karauna i mahi pērā rawa ai te raupatu te muru whenua. Ahakoa horekau ēhara nō koutou kīhai koutou i tahuringia kia tangohia ngā rākau ki te Pākehā nā rātou i huri ki a koutou! Kua tāhaengia koutou kua raupatuhia kua murua ō koutou whenua katoa. Ka kite atu ahau i te whakahokitanga mai o ngā whenua he kongakonga noa iho. Ehara te katoa o ngā whenua e iwa tekau mā waru me te hāwhe o ngā eka i hoki mai ki a koutou! Kīhai i whakahokia mai aua whenua ki te katoa ēngari ki tētahi tokotoru! Taua mahi o te kāwanatanga kia whakaroherohe i ngā whenua māmā noa iho kia whiwhi tētahi wāhanga whiwhi tētahi wāhanga whiwhi tētahi wāhanga ā i te mutunga ka pau katoa! Koia ngā mahi o te Karauna mai rā ano ki a koutou ki a tātou katoa.Nā reira i runga i tēnā e rongo ana mātou katoa i ō koutou mamae me te harikoa kua tae ki tēnei wā hei whakatikatika wēnei raruraru ēngari e tika ana te kōrero ā tērā o ngā mema nō Aotearoa Tuatahi taku whanaunga a Pita kua tika wana kōrero. E Pita nāu i tāhaengia te hau o ōku kupu i te mea i te hiahia ahau kia kōrero ai ki ngā tamariki! He tika tāu aua tamariki e noho ana kei roto i tēnei Whare. Kaua kē rātou i te tino mōhio ki te ngako o te take. Haere rātou ki ngā kura ka ako rātou i ngā hītori o whenua kē ēngari horekau rātou e ako ana i ngā hītori o konei o Aotearoa. Horekau i te mōhio nō hea aua tamariki! Ēngari ahakoa nō hea rātou he iwi nō tēnā takiwā kua meangia nei ēnei āhuatanga ki te iwi e noho nei koutou.Nā reira Ngāti Pukenga ko tāku atu ki a koutou kia hoki ki ō koutou kura kura Māori kura auraki rānei kōrerohia ō koutou kōrero. Whakaakongia ki ngā kaiako i ngā kōrero kia kore e ngaro ki te reanga e tū mai ana. Hangaia i ngā rauemi hei whakaakongia wēnei āhuatanga e pā ana ki Te Kou o Rehua ki a Pukehinahina me wērā atu o ngā āhuatanga. Hangaia ngā rauemi kia whakaakongia ai ki roto i ō koutou kura kia kore e warewaretia ngā whakatipuranga e haere mai ana. Kei a koutou ngā kōrero. E kore e taea te kāwanatanga e kore te kāwanatanga e mea ana e ngā kura me whakaako koutou. Nā reira kaua e wareware te mana te kaha o te katoa o ngā iwi haere ki ngā kura. Tono atu ngā kura kei roto i ō koutou takiwā kia whakaakongia ēnei mea.E kite ana ahau kua hangaia te kāwanatanga tētahi huarahi hei whakawehewehe koutou i te takutai moana kia kore rawa koutou e taea te kite i ngā mātaitai. Ēngari kore rawa e taea te whakawhitia te haere i te mea kua wehewehe koutou e te kāwanatanga i tēnā huarahi tēnā rori i te takutai moana. He aha te take o te Māori te taea te kite i te moana ēngari kore taea te haere ki te moana te whiwhi i ngā kai moana? Pai ake te poro o taku ringaringa i te haukoti ahau te haere ki te tiki mātaitai. E kite ana ahau hoki i waenganui i ngā tau 1953 me te 1974 he ture ka whakakahangia i te Māori Trustee kia murua i ngā whenua ki tō rātou whakaaro horekau e whiwhi hua. He aha te hua ki te Māori he pūtea? Tērā pea. Ēngari mōhio ana ahau taku pito whenua kei roto Karetu e 2 eka pea te nui ko te awaawa haere ana ki te taha o taua whenua karapoti ana i te ngahere horekau au e hiahia ana kia whai i tētahi pūtea mai i taku whenua horekau ahau e hiahia ana ki te whakatū i tētahi wheketere ki runga i taku whenua.Ki ahau nei te mea nui e āhei ana tōku whānau kia haere ki te whakatū ō mātou tēneti i te wā o te Kirihimete noho ki kō mō e hia wiki. Kia haere ki roto i te ngahere wērā tūāhuatanga. Koia ngā hua o taua whenua ki ahau ehara te whiwhi i te pūtea mai i ngā wāhi whenua katoa. Ēngari tēnei ture e mea ana ki te kore e whai pūtea mai i taua whenua e pai ana mō te Māori Trustee kia murua. E hē ana tēnā! E hē ana tēnā he ture anō me pānui ahau i tēnā i roto i te reo Pākehā: “The Crown acknowledges the compulsory status changes to Māori land titles carried out under the Māori Affairs Amendment Act.” Ko wai Te Karauna hei tahuri i te mana o te whenua? Ko wai rātou? Kei a tātou te Māori mā tātou anō e kōrero mō ō tātou whenua. Ēngari i pōhēhē ai Te Karauna e āhei ana rātou ki te tahuringia te mana o ngā whenua.Hei whakakapi i taku kōrero he kōrero mō te whakapāha. E pai ana mō Te Kāwanatanga kia whakapāhā mō ngā hē ki a koutou tautokongia ana ahau i tēnā. Ēngari tautoko hoki ana ahau i te kōrero a taku hoa a Peeni mō te kore whakapāha i roto i Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori kīhai Te Kāwanatanga i whakapāha mō te wēpu i ngā tamariki kei roto i ngā kura. Kore ahau e kite ki roto i tēnei pire te whakapāhatanga mō tēnā āhuatanga kei runga i ō koutou tamariki. Ēngari nā Te Kāwanatanga i mea mai i roto i te pire Māori kore rawa rātou e whakapāha i te mea kei roto i ngā pire take Tiriti katoa e hē ana tēnā i te mea horekau he whakapāhatanga kei roto i tēnei pire nā reira tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr AssistantSpeaker. Acknowledgments to you Ngāti Pukenga I rise at last to address you this morning and so I endorsethe plaudits bestowed upon you this morning. So in order not to use up my time applauding you I will go directly to the substance of this bill.In the first instance my thoughts turn to that one of the ancestors Te Kou-o-Rehua. It states in this bill that he held firm and continued to be committed to the Treaty ofWaitangi. That aside I was shocked to hear that he was killed by a pākehā bayonet in the battle at Pukehinahina. Now I’m wondering if he was a humble and peaceful man why did he die in the battle at Pukehinahina? Why did the Pakehā kill that chief kill on that pā?This bill asserts that Ngāti Pūkenga did not enter into the wars of that period because you stuck firmly to the view of Te Kou o Rehua to hold on to the Treaty of Waitangi. So despite that I note that you have lost all your lands it has all gone! So since then the Crown has continued to plunder and confiscate land. Even though it was no longer yours you did not set upon the Pakehā but rather they set upon you. All of your lands were stolen plundered and confiscated! I note that when the lands were returned it was only a fragment of the original. It wasn’t all of the land only 98½ acres were returned to you! It wasn’t returned to everyone but to three persons only! What that Government did was to subdivide the lands and make it easier to acquire portions of it until it was gone totally. Those have been the actions of the Crown way back to you and indeed to all of us!And so because of that all of us feel your pain but are delighted that you have arrived at this moment to remedy these problems but what my relative that member of New Zealand First Pita said is correct! Pita you pinched the essence of my words because I wanted to speak about the children. You are right; those children sitting in this House. They don’t really understand the gist of the matter. They go to schools they learn about the histories of other countries instead but they do not learn the histories about here about New Zealand. I don’t know where these children are from but irrespective of that they are living in that area affected by these circumstances mentioned here. And so I urge you Ngāti Pūkenga to go back to your schools your Māori-medium or mainstream schools. Tell them your stories and teach it to the teachers so that it is not lost to the generation that is coming. Create resources to teach this aspect about Te Kou o Rehua Pukehinahina and other related aspects. Create resources that can be taught in your schools so that future generations are not forgotten. You have the stories! The Government is unable to tell schools that they must teach it. So never forget the integrity and ability of all the ones going to the schools. Tell the schools in your areas to teach these things.I note the Government has built a road to separate you from the foreshore. You have found the seafood but cannot access it because of that road it built. What is the reason why Māori can see the ocean but are unable to reach the seafood? It is better to have my arm cut off than being denied access to seafood. I also note that between the years of 1953 and 1974 an Act that empowered the Māori Trustee to confiscate land if it deemed it unproductive. What is productive to Māori revenue? Maybe but I know that I don’t want to make money from my property of perhaps two acres at Karetu where a stream runs along it and it is surrounded by bush. I don’t want to build a factory on my land.The important thing to me is for my family to go and pitch our tents during Christmas time spend several weeks there and to go into the bush and to do all of those things. Those are the benefits that accrue from that land! To me it is not about receiving money from all lands. But this legislation is proposing that if a land is deemed unproductive then it is fine for the Māori Trustee to confiscate it! That is absolutely wrong! It is wrong it is another law and I must read that in English: “The Crown acknowledges the compulsory status changes to Māori land titles carried out under the Māori Affairs Amendment Act.” Who does the Crown think it is to overturn land status? Who is it? We the Māori have that responsibility. We are the only ones who can speak for our lands. But the Crown assumed that they are permitted to overturn land ownership.To end my contribution a comment about the apology. It is fine for the Government to apologise for their wrongdoing against you and I support that. However I also support the comments by my colleague Peeni Hēnare that an apology was not in the Māori Language Bill and that the Government did not apologise for administering corporal punishment upon children who spoke Māori in school. I didn’t see an apology in this bill for the punishment your children suffered. However the Government said during the debate on the Māori Language Bill that they will not provide an apology because there is one in every Treaty claims bill which is incorrect because there is not one in this bill; so my appreciation to us all.]JOANNE HAYES (National):Tēnā koe ā tēnā koutou te whānau me te iwi o Tauranga Moana ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou. Ki ngā whānau whānui o Ngāti Pūkenga nau mai haere mai i runga i tēnei rā hītori he rā ka tae mai tā koutou pire kia kōrerotia hoki i te wā tuatahi ahakoa tō koutou haerenga roa ko te mutunga i roto i te titiro nō reira nau mai haere mai![Thank you and acknowledgments to the family and people of Tauranga Moana much appreciation to you collectively. Welcome to you the extensive family of Ngāti Pūkenga come hither on this historical day and one where your bill arrives here as well to be addressed for the first time. Despite your lengthy journey its final scrutiny is nigh so welcome welcome.]I am pleased to take the last call on this really important bill. I am privileged in that I get to speak with a large contingent of whānau from Tauranga Moana. When I look at the bill I see so many things that have taken a long time for the iwi to get to this place. As a member of the Māori Affairs Committee I really look forward to the next stage of the process for this bill to go through. Once it hits the Māori Affairs Committee I look forward to hearing from whānau from within Ngāti Pūkenga but more important from some of the ones who do not belong to you who will come along and give their submissions to the select committee. I look forward to hearing those submissions.As I said in my mihi it has been a long journey for you. I am hoping that you are now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with this process. We have got there because we have a hard-working and determined Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson. I have been privileged to be part and parcel of some of his rōpū as we have gone around various iwi throughout the motu signing deeds of settlement to get to this place today.Today I have sat here and as the last speaker I have heard the many great contributions from our members of Parliament and members of our Māori Affairs Committee. They were great contributions. The speakers have weaved their way like a weaver weaves her kete. They have talked about the many things that are contained in the bill about the history—the atrocious history—of your past and about all the mahi that you have done to actually get here today. They have also talked about the future and who will hold that future—the future being held by the mokopuna of your iwi—and where that will go to.It might not be a great amount of money but it brings an opportunity for you to start your economic development journey or—that was an assumption—to carry on your economic development journey.So without any further ado as I said I look forward to the next process for this bill. I am very very confident and am very happy to support it and commend it to the House. Kia ora.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.WaiataNgatikahu ki Whangaroa Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingHon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I move That the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill.I want to begin by welcoming the representatives of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa who are in Parliament today to attend this first reading and I want to set out some of the background to this very important deed of settlement. It was 18 December of last year when I signed the deed of settlement on behalf of the Crown with Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. The deed and this Treaty settlement bill put to rest some very very longstanding grievances of this iwi.Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa are the descendants of Kahukuraariki. They describe their ancestral lands as being between the eastern side of the Mangonui Harbour and the Whangaroa Harbour. I have only been to their rohe a couple of times but it is a truly beautiful part of the country. The road to settlement has been very long and tortuous. It was as far back as 20 September 2001 that the Crown recognised the mandate of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Trust Board to negotiate on behalf of the iwi. On 19 October 2004 the Crown and the trust board signed terms of negotiation and on 22 December 2007 the Crown and the trust board signed an agreement in principle for the comprehensive settlement of the historical Treaty claims. Stony Creek assets which comprise approximately 3000 hectares including Stony Creek Station and the Thomson and Clarke Blocks stock and plant are Crown property. They are key features of the settlement package.Since the signing of the 2007 agreement in principle progress on the settlement was stalled because of an occupation of the station by some dissenting members of Ngāti Ōkiwa a hapū of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. Between 2007 and 2013 the Crown attempted to resolve the occupation of the station so as to facilitate an outcome that would lead to this settlement. On 7 June 2014 the Crown and Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa signed the 2014 refined Crown offer. On 5 June 2015 the Crown and Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa initialled the deed of settlement and after the initialling of course the iwi took the settlement package back to the wider community for ratification. Hui were held and following a vote 78 percent of those who voted indicated their support for the settlement. The Minister for Māori Development and I agreed that the ratification result demonstrated sufficient support from the claimant community given the very deep and longstanding internal divisions within Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa regarding Stony Creek Station. So it was great to be able to sign the deed of settlement after that very long and as I said tortuous history.The settlement assets will be administered by the Kahukuraariki Trust the post-settlement governance entity that was approved by iwi members. Given the length of time and the hard work that so many people have undertaken to get to this stage it is appropriate to acknowledge the perseverance of the lead negotiator Dr Ella Henry and kaumātua Pita Pāngari and Dave Hēnare. Through our negotiations we had to traverse a number of very hard issues. Ultimately we resolved them thanks to the work of the negotiators and I know that this will be to the benefit and the durability of the settlement. I also want to acknowledge those who have passed away and are not here today. Finally behind the negotiators have been the trustees of the trust board and I particularly acknowledge Dave Manuel and the trustees Roger Kīngi and Manaaki Poto who have really worked so very hard to see the iwi’s grievances addressed.The settlement addresses the historical grievances that the iwi has carried for so long including the Crown’s failure to properly investigate pre-Treaty land transactions its failure to adequately protect reserves set aside for Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa large-scale land purchases that did not take customary interests into account—once again the third time this morning—compulsory takings for public works and a scenic reserve and the impact of the surplus lands policy and the Native Land Court. The Crown’s actions and omissions have had a very severe impact on the well-being of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa and have left them virtually landless with most iwi members now living outside the rohe. The settlement package includes an historical account the Crown acknowledgments and importantly the Crown apology. It also deals with the issue of Stony Creek Station. The station will be vested in the Kahukuraariki Trust and post-settlement the trust is going to run an open process to ensure that every adult member of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa has an opportunity to take part in determining the future ownership of the station. This is very important as it empowers the iwi to decide who will ultimately own the land.The Crown will pay the post-settlement governance entity financial redress of $6.2 million in lieu of the Crown’s commitment in the 2007 agreement in principle to maintain the plant and stock of Stony Creek assets in substantially the same condition as they were at the date of the 2007 agreement in principle of which $3 million was paid on account to the post-settlement governance entity after signing the deed of settlement. Secondly there will be interest on the financial redress from 7 July 2014 to the day before settlement date and adjusted for any on-account payments. The settlement also provides for a cultural fund of $300000 for the development and the implementation of an historic reserve management plan for the Kōwhairoa Peninsula property.Cultural redress provided to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa includes the vesting of 15 culturally significant sites totalling approximately 3400 hectares. The balance of the cultural redress package includes an overlay classification over Whakaangi Scenic Reserve statutory acknowledgments a deed of recognition 11 geographical name changes and other redress that is culturally significant to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa.So I say on behalf of myself and I am sure on behalf of Dr Cullen who worked very hard to get to the agreement in principle stage how delighted we all are that this bill is having its first reading this morning and will hopefully be with the Māori Affairs Committee. I ask that committee and its excellent chair if it could get the bill back to the House just as quickly as it can. I commend the bill to the House.KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau):Kāti rā tātou mā ka huri ake ahau i te tuatahi ki a koutou o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa nā koutou i takahi mai i Te Tuarā o Te Ika-ā-Māui ki a tātou i konei i Te Ūpoko nā reira nau mai haere mai ki roto i tēnei Te Whare o Te Motu. Nā reira Roger mā haere mai haere mai whakatau mai!Hari koa ana ahau ki te kōrero mō tēnei pire ēngari ko tāku e hiahia ana kia mea atu ki a koutou ko tēnei pire kua pūmauhia kua mau ki roto i te ture. Ko tēnā tāku tino hiahia ēngari i te wiki kua pahure ake nei kite ake mātou i tērā o ngā raruraru kei runga i te pouakawhakaata e pā ana ki Te Rangi Tāhuahua. Kua takahia te kirimana i whakapāhotia e Te Peremia ki tāwāhi i runga i te ture kua whakamanahia e tēnei Whare i te tau 1992 arā e pā ana ki ngā hī ika. I pōhēhē tātou katoa Te Māori he mea pūmau tēnā ture kore e neke mō āke tonu atu! Ēngari e kite ana mātou mehemea e hiahia ana te kāwanatanga kia tahuringia ai ngā ture ka taea e rātou!Takatakahia ai tīnihia ai ngā ture kua pahuretia! Nā reira e hiahia ana ahau kia mea atu kua mau tēnei ki roto i te kōhatu. Koia taku tino hiahia! Horekau ahau e hiahia ana kia kite i te 20 tau ka whakarite Te Kāwanatanga kia kāhorengia tēnei o ngā ture i te mea kua rongo mātou i ngā kōrero o Te Minita mō te roa o te wā e wānangahia ana tēnei tohetohe ana whawhai ana!Ngā mea i kī mai mō te rā 22 o Tīhema i te tau 2007 kua hainatia Te AIP i Taimārō i reira ahau i taua rangi kore rawa tērā e taea e au te warewaretia! Tērā i mua atu i te 21 o Tīhema ko taku rā mutunga hei Tumuaki o Te Kura o Kaitaia. Nā Shane Jones i mea mai ki ahau:“E hoa mena e hiahia ana ahau ki te tū mō Te Paremata haere mai i te mea ko ō kaipōti kei konei kei Taimārō.” Nā i runga i taku kūware nāku i haere atu ki Taimārō i te mea ka tae mai a Michael Cullen i taua rangi ki te haina iTe AIP. He rangi ātaahua e tū ana te tēneti tini ngā tāngata kei reira!Ēngari kīhai ahau i te mōhio te pukuriri o ētahi o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa mō te hainatanga o taua AIP. I te mutunga i waenganui ahau mātou ko te tamaiti a Shane Jonesme wētahi atu e whakarārangitia ana kia haukotihia tētahi rōpū pukuriri o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa kia tae atu ki a Dr Michael Cullen.Nā rātou i te hiahia kia tahuringia ite toparere i rere mai a Michael Cullen mā runga. Nā i runga i tēnā kua neke rātou kua haere a Michael Cullen ki Kerikeri ko taku whakaaro kua hainatia Te AIP ki reira nā reira koia taku rā tuatahi i roto i te ao tōrangapū ēngari pai ana tēnā i te mea i te mōhio ahau i taua rangi tuatahi ki te kaha o ngā whakaaro te kaha o te mamae o wēnei tūāhuatanga ki runga i a tātou Te Māori.Ka tahuri ahau ki wētahi o ngā kaupapa kei roto i te pire. Kite ana ahau i te tini te nui o te whenua kua murua koia te tuatahi. Me pēhea rā Te Māori e whai oranga mehemea horekau he whenua hei whakatipu i ōna māra. Hei whakatū i ōna whare! Pēhea Te Māori e tangi mō ōna mate mehemea kua murua ngā whenua kei reira ngā kōiwi ngā ana kōiwi ngā tōrere kōiwi ngā wāhi tapu. Pēhea Te Māori e tū hei Māori mehemea horekau he whenua? Ko te mutunga ko te pōharatanga te rawakoretanga o Te Iwi Māori nākua mea atu ki a koutou o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. Mōhio ana tātou i ēnei rangi e ruarua noaiho ngā mahi hei mahi mō te whānau. E memeha haere ana tēnā mō ngā tamariki e haere ana ki ngā kura i te mea horekau ō rātou mātua taea te whai mahi kei roto i Whangaroa. Mai rā anō tēnei āhuatanga i te mea nā ngā mahi a Te Karauna i wērā tau i mua.E kite ana ahau ko tērā wāhi whenua i tae mai a Lord Ranfurly ki roto i te Whangaroa i pikiniki a ia i tētahi pito whenua. I runga i tēnā whakaaro i te hiahia rātou i tētahi wāhi whenua hai whakamaumahara i tōna pikiniki.Nā i whakarite a Motukiwi Honetua kia hoatu e te 10 eka! Tekau eka noa iho! Ēngari i te mutunga e 706 ngā eka kua tangohia mō taua wāhi whenua! He wāhi whenua hai whakamauharatia i tētahi pikiniki mō taua rohe. He aha te take e hiahiatia ana te 706 eka mō tērā wāhi maumahara tērā wāhi whenua?Kite ana ahau te tini o ngā whenua kua murua i runga i te surplus lands neke atu i te11 mano eka kua murua i raro i tēnei āhuatanga ngā surplus lands. Ki te kore te motu i te mōhio he aha te surplus lands e meangia ana e te Pākehā ō 2 mano eka ki konei nā ka roherohengia ō neke atu i te e hia mano kē ngā eka? Ēngari kīhai rātou i whakahoki mai te excess o ngā whenua ā kua pupuritia e te kāwanatanga. Ēhara tēna e tika ana! Mehemea ka meangia ai ahau i ēnei rangi tērā āhuatanga ka whiua ahau ki roto i te whare herehere! Ēngari aua rangi pai ana mō te kāwanatanga kia pupuringia ngā surplus landsmō rātou anō hei hokohoko atu hei whai pūtea.Wēnei āhuatanga horekau e whakaakongia i roto i ngā kura. E pōhēhē ngā tamariki Māori e matapiko ana e hiahia ana mātou ki te kapohia ngā whenua ngā rawa katoa mō tātou anō nō tātou aua rawa! Nā Pita Paraone i kōrero i mua mō Ngāti Pūkenga i mea ai ko te wāriu o ngā mea e hoki mai ana ki a koutou e 2 paihēneti pea o te wāriu o ngā mea katoa kua tangohia kua murua kua raupatuhia kua tāhaengia!Tua atu i tēnā hei kupu mutunga nāku hoki i kōrero i roto i te kerēme o Ngāti Pūkenga mō te whakapāhatanga mō Te Reo Māori. Horekau te whakapāhatanga mō Te Reo Māori kei roto i tēnei pire. Nā te kāwanatanga i mea mai horekau ka whakapāhatia mō te wepuhia o ngā tamariki kino i roto i ngā kura pēra i a Dover Samuels mō te kōrero Māori i te mea kei roto taua whakapāhatanga i wēnei ture ēngari horekau kei roto i tēnei pire tēnā whakakapāhatanga!Nā reira koia tāku e whakapae ana me whakapāha te kāwanatanga Te Karauna ki ngā iwi katoa i te mea horekau i roto i tēnei pire he whakapāhatanga mō aua murunga o ngā whenua te tāhaetanga o ngā whenua. Koia hoki tētahi o ngā take kore ā tātau tamariki e taea ana te kōrero i Te Reo Māori i te mea kua pāhorohorongia ngā whenua ō tātou tikanga wērā āhuatanga katoa tae atu ki Te Reo! Nā reira i runga i tēnā ka mihi anō ahau ki a koutou tēnā rā koutou i Te Whare tēnā rā tātou katoa.[Well everyone I turn firstly to you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa who travelled over the back of Māui’s Fish to us here at the Head so welcome come hither welcome into this House of the nation. So to you Roger and others welcome come hither welcome.I am happy to talk about this bill but what I wanted to say to you is that this bill will be fixed firmly and permanently as an Act. That is what I really wanted to tell you but just recently in the week just past we noted on television a problem concerning Raoul Island. The Prime Minister has overridden the agreement that was announced overseas about a law that this House validated in 1992 about fisheries. We of Māoridom all thought that law was durable that it was permanent for ever. However what we are seeing is that whatever the Government wants to do in regard to overturning legislation it can do. Walk all over it and change laws which are exposed! So that is what I really wanted to say. I did not want to see the Government abolishing this Act because we heard the Minister saying how long it took to debate argue and fight over.Some stated that the agreement in principle was signed on 22 December 2007 at Taimārō.I was there that day and will never forget it because the day before 21 December was my last day as principal of KaitaiaIntermediate. Shane Jones said to me: “Hey mateif youwant to stand for Parliamentcome because your voters are here in Taimārō.” Because of my ignorance I went to Taimārō because Michael Cullen was to arrive that day to sign the agreement in principle. It was a beautiful day and the marquee was up and there were a lot of people there.But I was unaware that some of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa were angry about the signing of that agreement in principle. In the end there I was among them; we and Shane Jones’s son and others were lined up to intercept an angry group of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa trying to get to Dr Michael Cullen. Westoppedthe angry groupfrom overturningthe helicopter that Michael Cullen had arrived on. Because of that they moved and Michael Cullen went to Kerikeri. I think the agreement in principle was signed there. So that was my first day in the political world but that was fine because I knew on that first day just how powerfully the thoughts and hurt from these situations impinged on us the Māori people.I turn now to other matters in this bill. I note the vast amount of confiscated land—really huge—that is the first thing. How can Māori possibly survive without land for its gardens and to put up houses on? How can Māori mourn its dead if land with their skeletal remains burial and sacred grounds have been confiscated? How are Māori able to be Māori if there is no land to stand on? Eventually poverty and lack of resources will prevail amongst Māoridom and for you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa. We know these days there is not a lot of employment around for family and it is not getting any better for the children who are going to school because their parents are unable to find employment in Whangaroa. This situation has always been there because of Crown actions in former times.I note that the piece of land that Lord Ranfurly visited to picnic on was at Whangaroa. With that in mind they wanted a portion of land to memorialise his picnic. Now Motukiwi Honetua determined that 10 acres just 10 be granted. But in the end 706 acres was taken for that place to memorialise a picnic in that region. Why was 706 acres required for that memorial place? I note that very many lands were confiscated as surplus lands in excess of 11000 acres were confiscated under this surplus landsmechanism. If the country is unaware of what this surplus land being used by Pākehā is about or if 2000 acres is being subdivided here or how many more acres exceed expectations it should be noted that excess lands have not been returned by Government but retained. That is not right! If I did that sort of thing today I would be jailed! But in those times it was alright for Government to hold on to surplus lands for themselves so that they could sell it on later for financial benefit.These kinds of situations are never taught in schools. Māori children think mistakenly that we are being greedy grabbing the lands and all the resources solely for us—all those resources belong to us! Pita Paraone commented on this earlier on in regard to Ngāti Pūkenga and said that the value of everything coming back to you would about 2 percent of the value of everything taken possession of plundered and stolen.Further to that and in conclusion I commented on the Māori language apology in the Ngāti Pūkenga claim. There is no apology for the Māori language in this bill. Government said that it would not apologise for administering corporal punishment to bad children in schools like those that Dover Samuels attended for speaking Māori. So that indeed is why I am asserting that Government and the Crown must apologise to all tribes because there is no apology in this bill for those confiscations and thefts of land. That surely is one of the reasons why our children were not able to speak the Māori language because our lands customs all those things including the Māori language have fallen away. So on that note I acknowledge commend and congratulate you collectively the House and us all.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā otirā e Te Whare tēnā koutou katoa. Ā tēnā koutou Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa anei te mihi ki a koutou.Ka tuku whakaaro ki a rātou kāre i konei rātou kua mate ngā mate kai runga i a koutou i tēnei wā i ngā tau kua hipa anei nā ētahi Taeporohēnui Day Selma Day Jerry Hēnare Ching Heta Kātera Manuera Heta Te Pānia Tūroa Te Pānia Hākopa Adams me Mere Kei atu i a rātau he maha kē atu.I i tuku text mai taku hoa a Peeni i te tīmatanga o te rangi nei. I mea mai ia kāre ia i te kōrero i runga i te tata whanaungatanga ki a koutou. I mea mai ia ō māua whanaunga ēnei nā he aha ai? Ā ko taku hononga ki a koutou i roto i te whānau Heta. Ko Connie Heta tēnā te tamāhine a Joe Heta i moe i a Ririwai Fox ka puta ko Ben Fox. I Ōpape te kuia e noho ana i haere atu te koroua ki reira. Nā reira koinā ia i kī mai ā ko tō māua whānau tēnā. Nā reira ka text atu au māua e noho kei ngā taha e rua o Te Whare text atu au me te kī: “Ina hiahia koe ki te whārikihia i tētahi kōrero ki ō māua whanaunga he aha tāu e kī nei?”. Māmā noa iho te whakautu nāna i kī mai: “Hoki wairua mai ngā mate hai ārahi i a tātau i ēnei rangi te hunga ora hai tutuki i ō rātou nā wawata.” Nā reira e aku whanaunga kai te mihi ki a koutou me taku hoa Whare a Peeni i runga i ngā āhuatanga ō tātou mā Te Māori tēnā koutou.Ā kai a koutou tētahi kōrero e pā ana ki tō koutou maunga ātaahua. I roto i ngā pukapuka o ngā kāpene o ngā waka Pākehā e hara mai ana ki Aotearoa i te tau 1822 te tūtakitanga tuatahi o koutou mā o Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa ki te Pākehā. Kai roto i ō rātou pukapuka o ngā kāpene e kī nei e whakahua nei i te ātaahua ō tō koutou wāhi te moana i reira o Whangaroa e pīataata mai me te tihi maunga o Taratara. Nā reira he kōrero tā koutou e pā ana ki a Taratara. Pīrangi au hai whakahuatu i tēnei wā ahakoa he rerekē ētahi ki ētahi koinei te mea ka mōhio nei au. E hiahia au te whakahua i tēnei pūrākau ki roto i Te Whare kia mau ki roto i ngā pukapuka mō āke tonu atu.Ā ko Taratara tēnā he Atua tūpuhi ā tāroa te āhua pūrotu he tangata ātaahua maha ōna pūkenga e rua hoki ōna hoa wahine. [Interruption] Hā kia ora! Kāre au i te kōrero ki tō hoa wahine ēngari anō nā tētahi atu e noho ana ki Ōtangaroa Valley ko Maungataniwha tēnā. Ā he Atua pukuriri te āhua harawene hoki. E kite atu ia i ngā hoa wahine a Taratara ko Ōkahahīria me Tūrou. I te hiahia ia ki tētahi hoa wahine ātaahua pēnā ki ngā wahine nei a Ngātikahu. Kātahi whakaaro ana ia kai te haere au ki te pātai atu ki a Taratara mō tētahi o āna hoa wahine. I a ia e hīkoi ana i runga i te ara rūrū ana te whenua. Haere atu ia ki reira i runga i te kaha kātahi ka karawhiu atu i te pātai. “E Taratara kai te pīrangi au i tētahi i o ō hoa wahine. E rua āu hoa wahine he raru kai te puta waiho tētahi māku!” Ā whakahē nei a Taratara ki a ia ka hoki pukuriri atu ki tōna whare.Ā wai rā i ngā marama kua hipa atu ā pahure ake e whakaaro ana ē kai te noho mokemoke tēnei kai te hoki anō au ki Taratara. Haere atu ia ki a Taratara anō na whakakorengia e Taratara i tana tono. Ēhe hoki atu rā pukuriri anō pupū ake te raru! Wā tuatoru haere atu ia me te kī: “Ē hōmai rā tētahi o ō hoa wahine mōku hai whakamahana i taku whare!” I runga i te whakahē me te katakata o Taratara i wēpua kahangia e Maungataniwha a ia tangohia tana māhunga kai reira taua māhunga e noho ana i tēnei wā ki Ōhākiri.I roto i taua kōrero e toru pea ngā āhuatanga i puta mai ā te kaha te māia o te tangata! I a koutou e whawhai ana mō te whenua e whārikihia ngā kerēme kua kite taua tūāhuatanga kai roto i a koutou te māia te kaha ki te whaiwhai atu i ngā hiahia ngā nawe ngā āwangawanga aua take katoa ki Te Karauna ā-kanohi kai mua i a rātau. Anō nā kai roto i te kōrero ō Taratara rāua ko Maungataniwha kua puta mai i tētahi atu whakaaro te ngākau māhaki te whakaiti i te wā tuatahi i haere a Maungataniwha i runga i te hiahia ēngari ma te whakaiti pātai atu. I kite anō mātou i tēnā kai roto i a koutou he aha ai? Kāre Te Karauna e taea te whakahokia te katoa ki a koutou! Ēngari i runga i tō whakaiti whakaae ana ki tēnei wā. Ā he koha tēnā ki te whenua o Aotearoa me maumaharatia! Kāre e taea rātau te utu i te katoa o ngā rawa kua tangohia kēngia mai ēngari i runga i tō whakaiti tō koutou whakaiti ā tākoha atu ki Aotearoa nei te toenga whenua kāre i whakahokia mai.Tuatoru te whakahīhī o te ngākau o Taratara me ana hoa wahine nāku wēnei! Ko ēnei te ātaahua o te tangata! Kāre au i te hoatu i tētahi ki a koe! Ā kua kite i taua whakahīhī kai roto i a koutou ēhara i te mea te whakahīhī ā hoatu manawa nei ēngari te whakahīhī o ngā tikanga kua mautia tonutia kai roto i a koutou Te Reo te kōrero ngā pakiwaitara o tō koutou wā hai aha? Hei tākoha atu ki ngā tamariki mokopuna o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. Ā ko ērā ngā pūkenga kua kite nei au i roto i te kōrero mō Taratara me Maungataniwha kua pupū ake kai roto i a koutou! He rangi whakahirahira tēnei anei te mihi atu ki a koutou kua tae a-tīnana mai! Kua kōrero kē nei Te Minita i ngā take kua kōrero kē nei a Kelvin i ngā tāke ēngari ngā pukenga kai roto i a koutou kai roto i a koutou mō āke tonu atu ā kai roto i ō koutou uri whakaheke! Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou katoa.[I thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and at the same time my acknowledgments to us all in the House. I acknowledge and salute you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa.My thoughts go to those who are no longer here those who have passed away recently and in past years. Here are some: Taipoherenui Day Selma Day Jerry Hēnare Ching Heta Kātera Manuera Heta Te Pānia Tūroa Te Pānia Hākopa Adams Mere Kei and many others.At the beginning of this day my colleague Peeni texted me and stated that he would not be speaking due to his close connections to you. He mentioned our connections and why. My connection to you Ngātikahu is through the Heta family. Connie Heta is a daughter of Joe Heta who married Ririwai Fox who begat Ben Fox. The elderly woman was living at Ōpape and the old fella went there and met her. So that is why he mentioned it it is our family. So I texted him back as we sit on different sides of the House and said: “Do you want me to make a statement about our connection; what areyou implying?” The reply was simple. He said: “Ask the dead to come back in spirit to lead us the world of the living to fulfil their aspirations!” And so my kin and parliamentary colleague Peeni I greet and acknowledge you in regard to the circumstances that confront us of Māoridom.Now you have a tale about your beautiful mountain. In the records of the captains of early non-Māori sailing ships that travelled to New Zealand in 1822 are accounts about how you of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa first met non-Māori. It states in the captains logs how beautiful your place was how the sea there at Whangaroa reflected the peak of Taratara. You have a tale relating to Taratara that I want to tell even though it might differ from what others know. This is the version that I know. I want to relate this tale in the House so that it is recorded officially in the records for posterity.That Taratara was a deity; he was lean tall handsome admired talented and had two wives.[Interruption] Who was that? Thank you! I will not tell your wife you said that! However there was another deity living in Ōtangaroa Valley Maungataniwha. He was a hostile and envious deity. He saw Ōkahahīria and Tūrou Taratara’s wives and wanted a beautiful wife like these Ngātikahu women. Then he thought: “I will go and ask Taratara for one of his wives.” As he walked along the path the earth quaked. He went on his way boldly stumped up to Taratara and fired off his statement. “Taratara I want one of your wives! You have two wives there is a problem brewing and I want one of them!” Taratara turned him down so he returned home fuming.After many months had passed Maungataniwha thought: “I am getting lonely so I am going back to see Taratara.” Back he went again but Taratara declined his demand and told him to go away. Empty-handed once again Maungataniwha scuttled off enraged and the solution to his trouble came to him. On the third try he demanded: “Give me one of your wives to warm my house!”. Taratara refused and laughed at him. At that the enraged Maungataniwha struck him a fierce blow and knocked Taratara’s head off and it remains there still today at Ōhākiri.From within that tale three aspects perhaps emerge: intensity confidence and the individual. As you were fighting for the land and setting out the claims those qualities were seen in you in terms of the confidence intensity and the ability to follow up on aspirations grievances and concerns on all those matters with the Crown on a face-to-face basis. Also emerging from the tale of Taratara and Maungataniwha is another viewpoint about personal qualities and being mild-mannered and humble which Maungataniwha displayed because of his desire. We noted that quality in you as well and why? The Crown was not able to return everything to you but because of your humility you accepted it at this point in time. And that is a gift to the country of New Zealand that must be remembered! They cannot compensate all of the assets that were confiscated but because of your humility you have gifted to New Zealand the remainder of the land here that was not returned.]Thirdly the pride of the heart. Because of that Taratara was moved to say: “These are mine!”. An admirable quality indeed in an individual which prompted him to say: “I won’t give either of them to you!” I sense that quality within you not in the sense of giving the pride of the heart away but rather the pride relating to the customs that you have retained—the language tales legends of your times—and why? So you can gift it as a legacy to the children and grandchildren of Ngāti Kahu at Whangaroa. Those are the skills I have seen in the tale about Taratara and Maungataniwha thatare embodiedwithin you. This is indeed a magnificent day and I commend you for your presence here today! Minister Flavell and Kelvin Davis have commented on matters but the skills that you have within you are there for ever for your generations to come. Well done and congratulations to you collectively and my appreciation to us all.MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green):Tēnā koutou huri noa i Te Whare. Ka tū au ki te tautoko i tēnei pire he pire nā te iwi o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa me tōna whakataunga Tiriti ā nō reira he mihi nui ki a koutou katoa.[Acknowledgments to you collectively throughout the House. I stand to support this bill belonging to Ngātikahu at Whangaroa and its Treaty settlement and so a huge greeting to you all.]It is right that we acknowledge this iwi and particularly all of the people who have struggled and negotiated their way through this settlement. It is right that I again acknowledge Dr Ella Henry Pita Pāngari and Dave Hēnare as some of the lead negotiators for this settlement. The Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa settlement has also given me the opportunity—I wanted to look back at some of the other beginnings from where this settlement came.I stand here as a neighbour—a Ngāpuhi mokopuna—to Ngatikahu so it was interesting for me to learn about how in the 1980s Pita learnt from his kaumātua and kuia about the specific grievances and specific land confiscations by the Crown and that these were longstanding. In the 1980s he learnt from his kaumātua and kuia exactly how that had impacted on their iwi on their people so that in 1983 the kaumātua and kuia came from the far north and actually held a hui in Auckland at Tūtahi Tonu the marae at Epsom Teachers College. Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa was the first group to have a hui at this marae which had only just been built. Our kuia from the far north came down to this hui and some of them I found out included Tom Thomas Haki Tātai Auntie Māta Wīroa Hēnare Tūroa Tepānia Hetā Tepānia Kātera Manuel and Sid Hōkai. I thought about our far north kuia and kaumātua coming down to have this hui in Tāmaki-makau-rau talking with the younger generations about the history and the absolute impact of whenua being cohenarenfiscated and what that meant. It went right back actually to Pita’s great-great-uncle Hēmi Rua Paeara who had consistently been taking grievances and drafting petitions to the Crown for redress.This is when I think about the beauty of the process. That is not something I often say about the process because the process was brought about by grievance and that is not beautiful at all.As an adult and as a mokopuna raised in Hokianga and learning about my own Treaty grievances from my own people I am also starting to understand that it is our people who have instilled the beauty of our history in these claims—and in the kōrero to talk about Pita’s great-great-uncle Hēmi Rua Paeara who embellished the fighting spirit of Māori by continually drafting and seeking redress and how that was then after his death taken up by Pita’s grandfather Hēmi Roha Paeara—and that the beauty of the strength that we can always see in these stories comes up through these processes.I am proud to stand for the Green Party in support of this bill and in support of the hard work of those still here and those gone. It is an honour. Also one thing that I have loved about my job as a member of Parliament as a spokesperson for Māori development and as our representative on the Māori Affairs Committee is the privilege of the depth and richness of what has actually happened in these negotiations—the rich history and the stories that have come out and the names that we honour here in this House today including the many names of the many people whom we may not honour specifically but who have been involved in this negotiation. It has been fraught—they are all fraught. By their very nature Treaty negotiations between iwi and the Crown due to the grievances and the generational impact they have had are always going to be fraught. But I want to acknowledge some of the specific fraught nature.Everybody recalls particularly Ngatikahu the protests that also happened around particular pieces of land. I think back to December 2004 for example to the occupations that happened over particular pieces of land that were up for negotiation. These create uncomfortable times during all of our iwi negotiation processes. We never fully agree on a nice soft simple process along the way—that is not how any of these negotiations happen. I want to acknowledge those difficulties. I want to acknowledge the hard raru that each iwi and hapū have to balance and contend with. I want to acknowledge that the Crown’s breaching of Te Tiriti partnership creates this faction creates the hardships and the raru that set hapū and iwi against each other in these very processes. I want to acknowledge the protesters but I also want to acknowledge how difficult that then made the negotiators’ jobs as well. I acknowledge all of that—all of it. We are dealing with the hardships of these negotiations as Māori not because of something that was in our control. That is the main thing that I want to acknowledge—all of our iwi and whānau who have come here to this House today to be a part of witnessing the first reading of their Treaty settlement bill.The Greens have always understood that this settlement is a deal. As my colleague Catherine Delahunty will have laid out for the previous Treaty bills on this occasion we are very clear about what this has done to Māori and about what it continues to do. We are very clear that those breaches continue. We are very clear that these are deals and not settlements. Like all of our Māori MPs in this honourable House we are in this predicament where although we acknowledge the incredibly hard and heartbreaking work that has gone into these negotiation journeys we also understand that it is never ever going to be what is rightful redress. It is my honour to stand here and feel really awkward about these Treaty deals—and I will continue to as some of my iwi in the north are coming up. I want to acknowledge my connection to this northern iwi—to Te Tai Tokerau. I want to acknowledge all of the raru. We cannot dress this process up but that is what makes this process what it is. I want to acknowledge all of the raru beforehand.I want to acknowledge some particular Crown acknowledgments like the 1863 Mangonui purchase and how we again see exactly how the Crown awarding individual title broke down our collective kaitiaki responsibilities and set us up against each other as Māori and as kaitiaki of those lands. I want to acknowledge the particular acknowledgments—and there are many—including the apologies as Kelvin Davis referred to that are not included that always should be.Te Reo is another thing that each of our iwi lost and underwent as well. But I want to acknowledge the apologies: what the Crown does own up to in these settlements is still important. It is still the Crown being able to say “We did wrong.” and that is important. But the real work as we all know is going to continue. For that I acknowledge our iwi who have come here to the House today. Kia ora koutou katoa. Thank you.NUK KORAKO (National):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa e mihi nei e tangi nei koutou ngā taoka whakahirahira koutou e tumanakohia koutou e hāpai iwi nei nau mai nau mai nau mai haere mai.[Thank you MrDeputy Speaker. I grieve and acknowledge you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa you wonderful and hopeful treasures who tribes find uplifting come forth draw hither welcome welcome.]I have only a short call to acknowledge the iwi the people of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. Particularly last December it was my honour to act as a witness at the signing of the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa deed of settlement. I want to thank you for hosting me that day at your beautiful Ōtangaroa Marae. Maururu koe mō tō manaaki atawhai kia ora.[Your hospitality and kindness is appreciated thank you.]It is also my pleasure on behalf of the Māori Affairs Committee to welcome you here to Pōneke and to welcome you here to this place. I have always enjoyed the opportunity to visit your beautiful rohe and I look forward to being there again particularly at the fish and chip shop. Kia ora.I know this settlement has not been an easy one. I really do know that and it was reflected when we were at your marae. We saw this. We saw the rawness that reflected the negotiations but what I also saw there was the mana. When Pita Pāngari was there he said to us that “Once upon a time I was there also.” So I acknowledge you for the way that this settlement particularly has been on a very very difficult journey. But the journey is actually in some ways coming to an end particularly around the Treaty settlement process and then another really important journey will start also—probably the most important one—and that is the post-settlement situation and how you will actually deal with that.I think the important thing that I want to acknowledge is one thing that is in this deed of settlement and that is the fact that Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa have said they will forgo full compensation to contribute to New Zealand’s development. That is mana. Also we need to highlight that it is not about just that. As someone from an iwi who settled very early as someone who has seen Treaty settlements progress—almost all of our people particularly our kaumātua will tell you that it is not about the money. It is actually about the apology because that there enables us to move on. But it is not only about accepting less because less in some ways is more particularly when we look at the fact that this is legacy. You are actually the people the rangatira the whānau who are trying to ensure that there is a better legacy for your rangatahi. It is also about opportunity—commercial yes but also social opportunity. It is also about that opportunity cultural and social. So this has been a hallmark really of an iwi that has shown mana. When I travel around the far north there is I believe a desire particularly from the rangatahi that they want their settlement settled because they can see that there is another life after grievance.Finally our Ūpoko Rūnanga of Ngāi Tūahuriri Pita Te Hōri said once in 1861:“Kia atawhai ki te iwi.”—take care of the people. This Treaty settlement is the real essence of what these rangatira are doing here today and those who are at home listening. This is the essence of this settlement and I acknowledge you for that and I honour you and I commend your bill to the House. Kia ora.PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker tēnā hoki koutou nō te hau kāinga. Ā he wāhi poto tēnei ki te tautoko i ngā mihi i mihingia e aku hoamahi i roto i Te Whare nei ki te whakatau i a koutou. Ā e tika ana hoki kia mihi atu ki a rātou i ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohi. Tēnā pea i karanga atu ēnei o aku hoa ko au te kaumātua ēngari tino tamariki noa iho au ēngari kia ahatia. E mahara ana au ki ēnā o ngā kaumātua o te kāinga pēnei i a Piri Mōkena Pita Tarawau ā tae atu ki a Tim Heta Hākopa Āro mā nā rātou i kawe atu ngā kaupapa i hangangia e Te Tari Māori i taua wā. Nā reira e tika ana kia tukuna atu te kaha o waku mihi ki a rātou. E kī nei te kōrero nā rātou ki a rātou ka hoki mai ki a tātou e te hunga ora nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou! Ā tēnā anō tātou koutou ngā kaikōrero i tū ake i mua i a au e pā ana ki te pire nei.Horekau e whakahē i ngā kōrero i puta mai ēngari ko te mea nui i whakawhiti mai i mua i a au. Ki tetahi o ngā kōrero i puta mai i te mema mō Te Tai Tokerau a Kelvin e pā ana ki aua moutere i Rangitāhuahua koinā tētahi o ngā kōrero i roto te pire nei he full and final wēnei take. Ēngari māku e pātai atu ki a tātou me pēhea te kaha o taua kōrero? Pēhea te kaha? Tika ana tēnā koinā te take i mea atu ki a tātou i tēnei wā. Tēnā pea mā te wā ka kite ana i a tātou ēngari māku e mea atu ki te hunga kāinga koinā tetahi o ngā whakaaro i roto i a au i tēnei wā. Ēngari ngā mihi hoki ki Te Karauna kia tukuna atu te whakapāha ki ngā uri o Kahukura-ariki me ērā atu o ngā hapū i rārangitia i roto te pire nei.I tēnei wā ka hoki taku mahara ki tērā tetahi o ngā tangata i te wā e ora ana ko Bully Peters. Ko ia tētahi tangata tū kaha ana ki te whawhai mō te whenua Stony Creek. Ahakoa ngā piki ngā heke ko ia te tangata i whakaū ki tōna kaupapa. Nā reira ēhara tēnā wāhanga he mea hōu i roto i ngā kerēme. Ko te pātai kē ahakoa mēnā e tika ana e hē rānei ēngari i tēnei wā koinā te kōrero. Mēnā e tika ana kua riro aua whenua ki tērā hapū tērā whānau me pēhea mēnā kei roto aua kerēme i runga i te kerēme whānui mō te iwi? Koinā te āwangawanga a Bully mā i taua wā. Nā reira koinā te take e tautokonatia ana te kaupapa a Te Minita kia tukuna atu tēnei pire ki Te Komiti Whakawhiriwhiri i ngā Take Māori kia wātea ki ngā hau kāinga mēnā e whakahē whakatautoko hoki i te pire nei kia whakatakoto mai i wā rātou kōrero kei mōhio mai i a mātou o Te Whare nei he aha ngā āhuatanga i waenganui i a koutou e pā ana ki te take nei.Ēngari e mihi kau ana ki tēnā o ngā tangata e kawe atu i tēnei kaupapa mai i te tīmatanga o tēnei kerēme tae noa ki tēnei. I whakahuangia te īngoa o Ella rāua ko Pita me ētahi atu ngā mihi hoki ki a rātou. Ēhara tēnā mahi he mahi māmā nā te mea mōhio ana i a tātou ahakoa me pēhea te kaha o tō mahi me pēhea tō aroha ana ki tō iwi whānui kei reira ētahi ki te amuamu hoki i tō mahi kia ahatia! Koinā te āhuatanga ki a tātou![Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and acknowledgments to you from back home. This is a brief call to support the welcoming sentiments expressed by my parliamentary colleagues in this House to you. It is fitting indeed that I pay a tribute to those who are lost from view. While these of my collegues may have said that I am the elder member this is not so as I am very much younger by comparison but never mind. I think of those elders from back home like Piri Mōkena Pita Tarawau Tim Heta Hākopa Aro and those who were responsible for initiatives created by the Māori Affairs Department back then. Accordingly my tribute should be more in their direction. As the saying goes they the dead should remain there amongst themselves so I come back to us the living thereforegreetings acknowledgments and salutations to you collectively. I acknowledge us and those of you who addressed the bill before me.I do not oppose any of the statements made. The important thing is that they were made in my presence. One that caught my attention was made by the Te Tai Tokerau member Kelvin Davis about the Kermadec Islands—which is in this bill—about these matters being full and final. But what I pose to you is how powerful how strong can it be? That is right that is what I ask of us at this point in time. Perhaps time will tell us but nevertheless I will say to those back home that thought is in me right now. But I do commend the Crown for the apology to the descendants of Kahukura-ariki and other subtribes listed in this bill.At this stage I cast my mind back to one of the people who were alive back then Bully Peters. He fought hard for the land at Stony Creek. Despite the ups and downs he was committed to his cause. Therefore that aspect about claims is not a new thing. The question really regardless of whether it is right or wrong is that that is the situation right now. If it is correct that those lands have been taken by that other subtribe or family what happens if those claims are in an extensive tribal claim? That was the particular concern of Bully and others at that time. So that is the reason why I supported the Minister’s call that this bill be sent to the Māori Affairs Committee to enable those from back home to oppose or support this bill and to make their submissions to ensure that we of this House are informed of situations that you may have amongst you relating to this matter.But I really acknowledge those who took responsibility for this matter from the outset of this claim to where it is now. The names of Ella Pita and others were mentioned and so I commend them. That is not an easy task because we know that no matter howhard one works how much you love your extended tribe someone will always be there complaining about your work never mind. That is how it is with us.]I just want to say that the bill itself certainly articulates the reasons for the bill coming to the House. It also articulates those parties that are affected by the bill. And it outlines a way forward for the people of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa to progress their claim. I should say that they have the advantage of sitting on the fence and I am talking about the iwi fence: the Ngāpuhi fence and the Ngatikahu fence. They are right in the middle and I can recall when this whole issue of the claims first came about there was a lot of debate. In fact there was dissension that Whangaroa should enjoy that privilege of having their own claim. But through hard work and perseverance the trust board—ahakoa ngā piki ngā heke e pā ana ki taua rōpū [in spite of the ups and downs relating to that organisation]—persevered and today we see the fruits of their efforts. And do not be surprised that perhaps next year we have another bill called the “Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa” as part of the Ngāpuhi claim. But that is something that the people will need to talk about. I just give signal to those who might be listening and wave the flag for Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. Kei mōhio mai te iwi whānui ē horekau i mutungia tēnei mahi kia ahatia. [The extensive tribe might find out hey this job was never completed. So what?]But in respect of the land that they were entitled to and the return of land the last speaker from the Government benches Mr Korako talked about the fact that although land was being returned as part of this settlement it would not fully compensate the iwi. And again as I mentioned during the debate on the last bill these settlements can never be regarded as full knowing the history that has led to the bills’ coming before the House.I want to say also that the apologies that are being extended by the Crown I take those to be with sincerity. For the Minister to front the people at the time of the signing of the deed of settlement I think it is to his credit that he has done that. I think the people who are involved have really appreciated that fact given that during the negotiations—I do not know whether he was still in the House; he may have been a negotiator on behalf of the Crown—Dr Cullen attempted to attend one meeting and our relatives from Ngāti Aukiwa prevented that meeting from proceeding.I just want to notify the Minister that at the time part of the problem I think was that the bureaucrats involved were not taking advice from the local Te Puni Kōkiri office because the signs were certainly there and what needed to be done to avert that situation. That is part of the history—that becomes part of the history albeit colourful. The good thing about it was that no one was hurt. Perhaps pride may have taken a dive but never mind.Having said that I commend the bill to the House and look forward to receiving submissions from those interested in this bill when it comes before the Māori Affairs Committee. Tenā koe.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Tēnā koe. Tēnei e tāpiri atu aku mihi ki a koutou Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa kua tae mai nei i waenganui i a tātau mō tēnei whiriwhiri kōrero mō tō koutou kerēme. Anei te tino mihi rawa atu ki a koutou katoa. I rongo au ki ngā kōrero o taku hoa a Kelvin me ngā āhuatanga e pā ana ki ā koutou kerēme ngā āhuatanga ki tō peka o te motu. Ka tika kei ngā whiti tuawaru atu ki te tekau o tō koutou tutukitanga ngā whakarāpopoto kōrero mō ngā hītori e pā ana ki te take tā koutou take ā me ngā whakaaetanga a Te Karauna.Kua mōhio pai koutou i roto i tēnei taupatupatu he whakaaro anō e pā ana ki ngā whakapāha atu a Te Karauna. Tēnā pea māku hei whakarāpopoto ētehi o aku nei whakaaro ki tērā ka tāpiri atu ki ngā kōrero a te mema a Nuk Kōrako. E tika ana ka tau ki tēnei wā ko te whakapāha atu te mea hei whakatōpū me kī ngā toimahatanga i roto i ngā kerēme pēnei i roto i ngā ture o te Pākehā kia kaua e wareware kia kaua e wareware! Atu ki tērā ko te mahi nunui hei whakatinanahia hei whakatinanhia kia kaua e noho he kōrero i runga i te pepa me whakahuatia ngā hua o ā koutou kerēme nō reira ka titiro ake ki ā koutou nei whakapāha i te whārangi 14 o ō koutou pire.Tēnā pea e Te Minita me whakatikatika te taitara i te tuatahi. Atu ki tērā tēnei te wairua o te kōrero. E hiahia ana au ki te pānui mō ngā tamariki mokopuna. Kei a rātau ngā mea nunui hei whakatōpū mai he aha ngā mahi a ngā mātua tūpuna kia haria mai tēnei kaupapa ki Te Pāremata anā! Tēnei te whakapāha atu a Te Karauna ki ngā whānau ngā hapū me te iwi o Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa ki ō koutou tūpuna me ō koutou mokopuna. E tuku whakapāha ana Te Karauna mō tāna kore whakatutuki i ōna herenga ki a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi.He tino roa rawa te wā i pau eTe Karauna he whakatutuki i runga i te tika o ō koutou whakamau roa tino ngau kino hoki. E āhukahuka ana Te Karauna he kino te pānga o taua hapa ki ngā whakatupuranga maha o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. E kaha whakapāha ana Te Karauna mō te mamae me te whakamau haere tonu ki a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa e pupū mai ana i tā Te Karauna tango i ngā whenua tūwhene me tāna whakatewhatewha auroa i ngā tauwhitinga whenua i mua i te Tiriti o Waitangi. E whakapāha hoki ana mō te pānga kino o ngā ture whenua Māori ki ngā whenua o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa me tā Te Karauna tango whenua mai i a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa mō ngā mahi nunui me te tohu i te tirohanga whenua. E kaha pōuri ana Te Karauna mō ngā pānga tāpiripiri o āna mahi tērā i tango i a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa ōna pae hira ngā wāhi tapu me ngā urupā o ō koutou tūpuna ā ko te mutunga iho tata kore nei ō koutou whenua.I whakatūria e Te Karauna ngā ture me ngā kaupapa here taka kino i tukituki i te oranga o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. I tīkai hoki te rangatiratanga o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. E kaha pōuri ana anō hoki Te Karauna mō āna mahi tērā i whai tākoha atu ki te ngaromanga o te tino rangatiratanga o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. I tūkino rā hoki i ngā hangahanga ā iwi o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. Tēnei te mea nunui ki a au nei. I rīpenata ana Te Karauna mō āna tūkino ō mua i whakawhiua ki runga i a koutou. Mā tēnei whakataunga e tūmanako ana Te Karauna ki te whakaora i tōna hōnore me te hiki i te wairua whakamau tika o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. E tāria ana e Te Karauna te hanga i tētehi whanaungatanga hōu mau roa tonu ki a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa. Ko te ngākau pono te wairua whakaute tētehi i tētehi te kōtuinga me ngā mātāpono o te Tiriti o Waitangi ngā pūtake.Nō reira kua kapohia ēnei kupu i roto i ngā pukapuka o Te Pāremata nei mō ō koutou tamariki mokopuna. Ka nui te mihi aroha ki a koutou. Ka tatari mātau ngā mema mō tēnei take kia haria mai ki mua i te aroaro o Te Komiti Whiriwhiri Māori kia āta titiro ki ngā wāhanga katoa o te pire nei. Nō reira tēnā tātau katoa.[Greetings. I add my acknowledgments to you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa who have arrived here amongst us for the debate about your claims. Here then are my profound congratulations to you. I heard the sentiments expressed by my colleague Kelvin Davis about the circumstances of your claim and those that relate to your part of the country. Quite correct! A summary of historical accounts relating to your issue as well as the acknowledgments by the Crown are in clauses 8 to 10.Of course you are very much awarethatthrough this debate there is another view about the Crown’s apology. Perhaps I should summarise some of my views and addthemto the contributionsmadeby the member Nuk Kōrako. It is appropriate that the apology is settled at this point in time as a mechanism to bring together burdens shall we say into claims and legislation like this so they are not overlooked and forgotten. Beyond that implementing it and making it a reality is the important thing so it doesnot remain as mere words on paper; make your claims bear fruit therefore examinetheapology to youon page 14 of your bill.Amending the title might be the first thing Minister. Beyond that this is the spirit of the statement. I want it for the children and grandchild to read. They have important things to bring together: what did parents and grandparents bring before Parliament about this matter? There you are! This apology by the Crown to families subtribes and people of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa to your ancestors and grand children. The Crown submits an apology for not fulfilling its obligations to Ngātikahu at Whangaroa under the Treaty of Waitangi.It has taken the Crown a very long time to address the situation because you have suffered and felt the hurt over a very long period. The Crown recognises how badly the omission impacts upon the many descendants of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa that welled up when the Crown took possession of surplus lands and held prolonged investigations of lands under the Treaty of Waitangi. It apologises also for how Māori land legislation has impacted badly on lands owned by Ngātikahu at Whangaroa and on how the Crown took land away from Ngātikahu at Whangaroa for important projects. The Crown is very remorseful for the roll-on effect caused by its acts of taking possession of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa’s significant sites the sacred places and burial lands of your ancestors that eventally left you virtually landless.The Crown establishedActs and policies that impacted badly on the well-being of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa. The Crown is also very remorseful that it contributed to Ngātikahu at Whangaroa’s loss of self-determinationwhich impacted badly on how Ngātikahu at Whangaroa could develop itself. This is something that I value greatly! The Crown records its past atrocities and casts these upon you. The Crown hopes that this settlement will restore its honour and in so doing fittingly uplift Ngātikahu at Whangaroa spiritually. The Crown plans to create a new and lasting relationship with Ngātikahu at Whangaroa with a sense of integrity and goodwill of one with the other interlaced with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.So these words have been captured in theHansard for your children and grandchildren. There is much empathy for you collectively. We the members await the arrival of this matter before the Māori Affairs Committee so that all parts of this bill can be examined. My appreciation to us all.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā kei te mi’i ‘oki au ki a koutou ngā uri o Kahukura-Ariki ngā whānau katoa o Ngāti Aukiwa Te Hoia Ngāti Kaitangata Te Pohotiare Ngāti Rangimatamomoe Ngāti Roha Ngāti Rua arā Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa tēnā koutou katoa nau mai haere mai tēnā koutou.Otirā e tika hoki kia mi’i atu anō ki te ā’uatanga ki ō tātau tini mate rātau katoa i hinga mai nā puta noa i ngā moutere nei ngā pīwaiwaka tītakataka ngā reo whakaoriori otirā te iti me te rahi te rangatira me te rawakore. Haere atu rā ki tua o te ārai ki te kāinga tūturu mō tātau mō te tangata. Oti atu te wā ki a koutou e ‘oki e moe e moe ā kāti mō tēnā.[And so thank you Mr Deputy Speaker but at the same time I acknowledge you the descendants of Kahukura-Ariki all the families of Ngāti Aukiwa Te Hoia Ngāti Kaitangata Te Pohotiare Ngāti Rangimatamomoe Ngāti Roha Ngāti Rua in other words Ngātikahu at Whangaroa welcome come hither and greetings to you collectively.But at the same time it is fitting for me to pay a tribute once again to the circumstances of our very many deaths all of those who have fallen throughout these islands:the song birds the fantails the insignificant the outstanding the privilegedand the impoverished. Depart beyond the veil to the place destined for us for mankind. Your part is done depart sleep and rest so enough in regardto that.]It is always a great honour to speak on Treaty settlement bills and this is no exception. I too am a descendant of Kahukura Ariki on the side of my grandfather Paki Rurawhe. He comes from a small marae called Te Huia at Pupuke near Kaeō just south of the area of interest that we are speaking about today. I want to acknowledge aku whanaunga my relations who have come here today for this reading of this bill.Treaty settlements are always difficult and I want to focus in on the historical account the acknowledgments and the apology in so far as they all fit together. The historical account is an agreed historical account—negotiated. It would be interesting to know what was left out of this because the Crown did not want it in there. In that historical account—and Marama Davidson in her contribution mentioned the acknowledgments the Crown has made in this settlement—it talks about acknowledging the compulsory taking of 700 acres for a scenic reserve. There are acknowledgments around public works around the taking of 6 acres at Matakaraka for public works and other acknowledgments as well.Then we come on to the apology and I want to repeat some of the words that my colleague the Hon Nanaia Mahuta read out in Te Reo Māori. I want to in particular read this part of the apology: “The Crown has promoted injurious laws and policies that undermined Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa wellbeing and disrespected Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa rangatiratanga. For its acts which contributed to the loss of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa autonomy and damaged Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa’s tribal structures the Crown is deeply sorry.” And so the Crown should be.We should be acknowledging this apology but the value of any apology is its sustainability. It says here: “The Crown has promoted injurious laws …”. The apology has value only if every single law from now on no longer injures Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. That is the challenge for this House—to ensure that we scrutinise every single piece of legislation to make certain that laws are no longer passed that are injurious to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa and indeed to every single iwi that has settled their claims through settlement Acts. I mention that and join with my other colleagues who have spoken about current issues which no doubt if passed through this House will be injurious to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa and every other iwi. So I just want to make certain that this is recorded and that we make certain that this House passes laws that are good laws for all of us.I also want to talk about the process. It is an arduous process and like others I acknowledge the negotiators from Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. I acknowledge the Crown negotiators as well and the officials who have worked on this settlement. The process is indeed another step towards reconciling those wrongs of the past. This bill will go to the Māori Affairs Committee and I encourage everyone who supports this bill to make a submission and to tell the select committee why they support this bill. Too often I think we make submissions only if we disagree with something and I think it is really important that the voices of those who support the bill are heard as well. It is an opportunity also for those who disagree with the bill to make their thoughts known to the select committee.I can assure Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa that from my experience the Māori Affairs Committee will look very carefully at all of the issues. Its members will ask the difficult questions and they will expect compelling answers from the officials and I am sure that those answers will come from the officials. That is really the final step in the process to be able to acknowledge those things that people have concerns about so I also encourage them to make their submissions.On a number of occasions I have said this and I am going to say it again: we are here today despite all of the difficulties of the horrendous history that is outlined in the historical account and despite the challenges faced by Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa. Despite all of this we find ourselves here today for the first reading of this bill and we are here today because Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa have performed an act of generosity to this country. They perform an act of generosity to this country because of the magnitude of what they lost in comparison with the settlement that they will receive. We should all be thankful to them for this act of generosity. But we should also always ask why you would do that. Why would you settle for much less than what you lost? You do that for the future generations. You do that to move on from being in that claimant phase into a development phase. Sotaku kōrero w’akamutunga ki a Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa tēnei ahau tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou e kaha ana kia tae mai ki tēnei wāhanga o tēnei whakahaerenga kia whakatau tō koutou kerēme ngā mi’i nui ki a koutou. Kāore e kore mai i ō koutou mahi ka whai hua ngā tamariki mokopuna o Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa nō reira koutou mā tēnā koutou otirā tātau o Te Whare nei tēnā tātau katoa.[So in my closing remarks to you Ngātikahu at Whangaroa I commend you for working so hard to get here for this part of the proceedings that settles your claim and does so greatly. Without a doubt your work will benefit the children and grandchildren of Ngātikahu at Whangaroa therefore well done to you collectively but at the same to us this House my appreciation to us all.]Dr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei):Ā e rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou e ngā iwi katoa nau mai haere mai nō reirā kia ora mai tātou.[And so acknowledgments to you esteemed ones; welcome come hither all tribes; my appreciation therefore to us collectively.]It is a pleasure to speak to this the first reading of the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Claims Settlement Bill. I want to start by commending Minister Finlayson the Office of Treaty Settlements and ngā iwi katoa for getting this bill here today to its first reading. I have had the pleasure many times of enjoying the natural bounty that this settlement recognises primarily in the Whangaroa and Mangonui harbours. To that end I want to remind us of the area of geographical interest within which the overall settlement is located—the rohe area—and many of these placesare of course included in the settlement itself. We start at Taemaro an important starting place when one looks at the attention Taemaro gets in the settlement itself. You then move up the coast to Te Whata around the corner to Hīhī and then down into Mangonui Harbour. Then the boundary actually heads through Oruaiti the head of the stream there and passes inland bordering Ngāti Kahu and Ngāpuhi making its way past Maunga Taratara Otangaroa. Then it reaches back into Whangaroa Harbour at Waihapa Bay makes its way up past Totara North Taupo Bay and back to Taemaro.Within the overall settlement within this area the Minister has commented that the return of the Stony Creek Station 2275 hectares is a key part of this settlement. We know that this has been challenging but it is important and it comes now to a resolution. I want to observe that if one stands today on the ground of Stony Creek Station it could be considered that one is metaphorically standing on an island—an island of negotiation collaboration and leadership that is returning the land to iwi through the process of settlement. I use the metaphor somewhat as a segue to my colleague Pita Paraone who also raised this issue. I used the metaphor of an island because all around the rohe iwi land remains in limbo and it is our hope that others will observe the realness of Crown intent and the tangible benefits that will accrue to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa and that they will also come to the table with pure intent. I commend the leadership of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa for getting us again here today.In detailed documents like this I have particular interest in the final statements the closing statements in some of the major sections for the overall substance that they might convey to me and the guidance they might give me. The closing statement in the acknowledgments clause 9(8) reads thus: “The Crown acknowledges that the cumulative effect of its acts and omissions including Crown purchases public works takings and the operation and impact of the native land laws left Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa virtually landless. The Crown’s failure to ensure that Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa retained sufficient land for their present and future needs was a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles.” I think the closing statement under “Apology” clause 10(e) is also important: “The Crown seeks to atone for past injustices it has inflicted upon you. Through this settlement the Crown hopes to restore its honour and relieve Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa’s justified sense of grievance. The Crown looks forward to forging a new and enduring relationship with Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa based on good faith mutual respect partnership and the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi.” I have talked about the realness of Crown intent and I think in these statements that realness is laid bare.In this then the first reading I want to conclude as I basically started by commending the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Office of Treaty Settlements and ngā iwi katoa for getting the settlement to its first reading. I look forward to its progress through this House. Thank you. Kia ora.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.WaiataThe House adjourned at 12.43 p.m. (Thursday)