Wall Louisa; Rurawhe AdrianLOUISA WALL (Labour): Tēnā koe te Speaker o te Whare. Ngā mana o Ngāti Hinerangi ngā reo o Ngāti Hinerangi rau rangatira mā o Ngāti Hinerangi tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[I acknowledge the Speaker of the House. Greetings to the authorities of Ngāti Hinerangi the voices of Ngāti Hinerangi and the many chiefs of Ngāti Hinerangi.]I'm going to follow my colleague the Hon Nanaia Mahuta in focusing on aspects of your settlement that are contained in your settlement legislation. I particularly wanted to focus on the historical account and I acknowledge my colleague Jan Logie for doing so. Essentially one of your tūpuna signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi and then in 1860 you joined the Kīngitanga who we formed ngā iwi o te motu to negotiate with the Crown because we were very worried about what was happening to our way of life and what was happening to our whenua.So you joined the Kīngitanga in the Tararanki wars. We went and fought against the Crown and in doing so essentially made ourselves a target. And what the Crown did was to stop the supply of fighters. So they went to Tauranga to disrupt you and we've had these two big events firstly at Pukehinahina—Gate Pā—which we won and then at Te Ranga where we didn't win. And then they actually did try to destroy you. They literally tried to exterminate you and they also stole your land and obviously by stealing your land they stole your resources and your opportunity for the future.So I want to acknowledge the 1300 survivors or uri of Ngāti Hinerangi today and I'm sure there's more. And I see on your website you encourage people to register. But I want to acknowledge your tūpuna who through their Wai claims have held this Government the Crown to account for what we did. In the acknowledgements in your Treaty settlement legislation I think the worst thing we did was implement the scorched earth policy which was a military tactic—tried to burn you out tried to burn you tried to destroy all your assets and actually we didn't care about you one bit. If you all died we didn't care. We just wanted to get you out of the way so we could take your land. And that's actually what the settlement legislation represents—your history and your experience of colonisation through our Crown.I imagine all the tūpuna who died through that process and you who are left today who stand strong staunch—couldn't kill you. Couldn't take you out. Then I look at what's written in the settlement legislation. We talk about the sham of the provisions in the Native Lands Act and we talk about failing to account fairly for the value of timber on your land and all the acknowledgments. It's very interesting language because it absolutely minimises what the Crown tried to do which was a form of genocide. That's what they tried to do—they tried to eradicate you. We tried to eradicate you—parliamentarians the Government. So the fact that you even exist today is a testament to your tūpuna who gave you and instilled in you a fighting spirit and we will never ever go away. We will forever be the mana whenua of Aotearoa. You will forever be the mana whenua of your Ngāti Hinerangi land.As part of our truth and reconciliation process as colleagues have articulated you have some land back. You have some resources back. But actually I think going forward it's what type of relationship Ngāti Hinerangi wants to have with the Crown and within that space there's a lot of kōrero to be had. What partnership do you want in terms of the public provision of resources that the Government provides to you and what role you want to play within that context? There's a lot of discussion at the moment about our babies for example about where we are scattered amongst the Public Service so in terms of a beginning I think that if the Crown was genuine then it would look at what those partnerships mean going forward to empower you to take your mana within the context of what the Crown does—because Jan Logie's absolutely right; you never lost your mana. No one can take mana from us. They took our land but it doesn't mean that we don't retain our mana.So like everybody else here today I join in saying sorry. We can say we're sorry—we're parliamentarians and there's quite a few Māori in the House now and we can say we're sorry and that we find what we did abhorrent and disgusting. And this is trying to rectify all that history of colonisation in our country. So I hope that there's a sense of satisfaction today. It's always bitter-sweet because you think of all the whānau that aren't here those that started this journey on your behalf. But the reality is you are here you'll never go away and our focus now needs to be on our tamariki on our mokopuna and what opportunities we want to provide them. Just like Tāmati I went on to your website and one of the first things it does after encouraging you to register is ask who needs help during the lockdown because of what's happened with COVID and actually that's the beauty of us as a collective people. We will āwhi and manaaki and tautoko each other because we love each other and we have a sense of responsibility to make sure that our needs are met.So I say to you kia kaha kia toa kia manawanui and know that there are I believe opportunities for you to continue as I said before to develop the relationship you want with the Crown and to enable us to create that space that you want to happen going forward because that's what we can do as parliamentarians—help create the next phase for Ngāti Hinerangi. So safe travels home and it's an absolute honour and a privilege to be here today to speak to your settlement legislation. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call Nicola Willis—five minutes.