Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): E Te Mana Whakawā. Nei rā mihi hōhonu ki ngā uri o Te Arawa. Ka huri te titiro ki ngā tapuwae o Ngātoroirangi i takatakahia o koutou whenua. Ngā uri o Tūwharetoa ki te Aupōuri tū mai tū mai tū mai koutou. E mihi kau ana ki a koutou Tūwharetoa iwi i tae mai ki te Ūpoko o te Ika ko te tautoko o te kaupapa nei. Te muru o te hara o te Kāwanatanga e mahia te kōrero tū hui te tuarua o te pire i te pire nei. [Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I respectfully acknowledge the descendants of Te Arawa. I turn my gaze to the footprints of Ngātoroirangi who traversed your lands. The descendants of Tūwharetoa i Te Aupōuri stand proudly stand proudly stand proudly. I acknowledge you the tribe of Tūwharetoa who have made the journey to Wellington to be part of this prestigious occasion. The sins of the Government can be addressed in this second reading of the bill.]I'm honoured to stand here once again to acknowledge Ngāti Tūwharetoa and the people who've come today to witness this second reading. In the preceding six months since the first reading occurred there's been a lot of activity. The Māori Affairs Committee are now around halfway through this particular process and most of the elements of the select committee and the settlement are in place. It's now about ensuring that we continue to keep the progress moving forward to the third and final reading.The bill is set out in five parts. Part 1 is the summary of the historical account and includes the parameters of the Crown apology to Tūwharetoa. To me the apology is the most important part of the bill because a Crown apology is an acknowledgment that you Tūwharetoa iwi have been heard and that the hara committed against you is now in the stage of muru. The other parts of the bill relate to cultural financial commercial and other redress. In the period since the first reading the Māori Affairs Committee received 36 original submissions. Fifteen supported the bill in full or in part 15 had no position and six opposed the bill. We also received 44 supplementary submissions and heard 29 oral submissions in Taupō. In the process of working through the provisions of the bill we were notified that we would need to amend clause 14(3)(a) which was a list and it had to list 24 Wai claims relating to Tūwharetoa that are not currently listed in the definitions claim part within the bill itself. To ensure the integrity of the bill and the settlement with Tūwharetoa these 24 Wai claims have to be included within the bill itself. Other amendments are nothing more than minor technical changes that do not affect the integrity of the settlement in any way whatsoever.A settlement of this magnitude with the number of iwi that border and at times cross over into other iwi rohe raises the inevitable cross-claim issue itself and this particular bill was no exception—and particularly with 20 neighbouring hapū and also iwi within the greater rohe itself. There's been an extensive consultation particularly between Ngāti Tahu Ngāti Whāoa and also Tūwharetoa and I know personally how difficult cross-claims can be and how the perception of the imposition of mana is felt by Māori. And yet cross-claims preceded the arrival of Pākehā. Our old people had to find ways to live with each other in our competing demands on local resources as was done here. And our tīpuna understood the need though to negotiate and it was they who said: waiho i te toipoto kaua i te taio [let us be close together not wide apart].My own Ngāti Waewae people a part of Ngai Tahu often speak of te tatou pounamu or the greenstone door. What that actually means is that the pounamu was gifted to seal peace between people and particularly within those issues around overlapping claims within the rohe. So I acknowledge the hard work of Tūwharetoa—and it was hard work—and particularly with their whanaunga iwi of Ngāti Whāoa and Ngāti Tahu in reaching a kind of broad consensus on what the Tūwharetoa settlement would actually look like.So I still have really great faith—I think we all do in the Māori Affairs Committee—that an agreement can be reached particularly around the Rotokawa conservation area and then also where you look forward to that actually being concluded. I think one of the other difficulties that we have is that once a deed of settlement is signed we're actually bound to look only at the terms of the deed itself. So when we looked at Te Kotahitanga o Ngāti Tūwharetoa when they requested the bill include a number of new provisions for the settlement including the Motutere Recreational Reserve we unfortunately were constrained by our own legislative boundaries and could not consider those matters outside of which is contained within the bill before the House. So this also included the Waitete Landcorp farm and the Ōnekeneke property as well. That said the provisions of the settlement have remained pretty much intact within the bill itself: the cultural funds totalling approximately $3.95 million and then also the financial redress of $25 million.I just want to take the time to acknowledge the hard work of my colleague the Hon Christopher Finlayson who progressed so much of this settlement and equally our previous speaker the Hon Andrew Little who has kept the integrity of the settlement and is working really diligently to bring the settlement to a conclusion. In National's time at the helm of Government we signed 59 deeds of settlements. To see these deeds progress to legislation is deeply really satisfying because the sooner we settle Treaty claims the sooner iwi and all New Zealanders can begin to reap the benefits these settlements bring.I think it's important though because of those from Tūwharetoa that are here today that we acknowledge their ongoing patience and their true aroha that they have shown in all these years of loss that they have suffered. The Tūwharetoa humility and manaaki to this whole country stands as a testament to the mana of a truly great iwi like Tūwharetoa.Finally I think it's important though as has been done by the previous speaker just to acknowledge the work of the Māori Affairs Committee our chair Rino Tirikatene and the fact that we travelled quite extensively in some ways to Taupō and we heard very passionate submissions in regard to a number of the issues that I have highlighted today. I think the important part of it though was actually the mana of Tūwharetoa and also the way that they sat there and listened to the concerns. One thing about the Māori Affairs Committee is the fact that it's always good to hear submissions that support a bill but it's most important actually to hear the submissions that do not support the bill. So that was something that I think was really a great hallmark in the hearing of these submissions and the work that has been done.On that note e te Mana Whakawā huri noa i te Whare nei [on that note Madam Deputy Speaker to one and all in this House] for that reason of honouring this iwi I hope that we can get through as quick as we can to that third reading and to the final legislation being passed in the House. On that note I commend the bill to the House. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.