Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour—Northland): E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe otirā tēnā tātou katoa e noho nei i roto i tō tātou Whare i te ahiahi nei. He hōnore tēnei mōku tū hei kaikōrero whakamutunga mō te pānuitanga tuatoru o tēnei pire i tēnei ahiahi. Ko taku mihi tuatahi ki ngā iwi o Rangitāne o Wairarapa o Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua o Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua. Nō koutou tēnei rā. Ko koutou te kaupapa i tēnei rā mō tēnei pire kei mua i te aroaro o te Whare i tēnei ahiahi nō reira tēnā koutou. Ki a koutou i roto i te Whare i tēnei ahiahi ki a koutou tēnā pea e whakarongo mai ana mai i te kāinga mai i ngā tōpito o te motu tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings Mr Speaker and greetings to all of you here in the House this afternoon. I am honoured to stand as the final speaker for the third reading of this bill this afternoon.Firstly I wish to greet the tribes of Rangitāne o Wairarapa Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua and Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua. This is your day. You are the focus of the day regarding this bill in front of the House this afternoon therefore I acknowledge you. To you who are in the House this afternoon and to you who are perhaps listening at home right around the country greetings one and all.]It is an honour and a privilege to be the final speaker on the third reading of Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill. Like the speaker prior to me Ian McKelvie I think I have spoken on this at the various stages but I have not been intimately involved with this particular redress bill. I have subbed in and out of the Māori Affairs Committee at times but I just really want to acknowledge those members across the House who sit on the Māori Affairs Committee who have followed this bill through its various stages from first reading to the select committee process second reading—we didn't have the committee stage—and the third reading this afternoon. I know I was listening to the contributions of the member Arena Williams where she spoke about actually attending a hearing of the submissions at the marae and it was lovely to hear her recount the most memorable parts of that visit and those submissions from—I think it was about 21 submitters that she referred to.Like others I want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Andrew Little who has now left although he was here earlier for much of the debate. I want to acknowledge the Minister for the work that he has done. But also I want to acknowledge the contribution made by the Hon Judith Collins—Hon Judith Collins: Oh don't worry about me.WILLOW-JEAN PRIME: Yes well she actually mentioned that this whole settlement has been through the previous Government as well as this one and I think the point that she was making is about the length of time that this has taken to get to this point.What this bill does is it is giving effect to the joint redress that is in the various deeds of settlement that have been signed by the iwi. It is noted here that the deed of settlement signed between Rangitāne and the Crown was on 6 August 2016 and the deed of settlement signed between Ngāti Kahungunu and the Crown on 29 October 2021. And it has been noted in the contributions to the debate this afternoon that we have the Ngāti Kahungunu settlement bill third reading shortly so it is important that we pass this bill and then we are then able to pass that one. That will then conclude the settlements for all of the iwi involved in this particular one.I know that previous contributions have outlined some of the nature of the redress. This is to give effect to the cultural redress in particular which is the overlay classifications customary fishing—I heard the contribution of Rino Tirikatene regarding that—and also the vesting of cultural redress properties and the Wairarapa Moana framework.This will be a short contribution because I'm the final speaker and we've got everybody here in the gallery to witness the passing of this. So once again I just want to acknowledge the Minister; the officials; the negotiators; the iwi who over a long period of time have been negotiating this settlement; and that with the passage of this legislation we'll be able to give effect to the joint redress and then we will have the final deed of settlement pass through legislation when the Ngāti Kahungunu bill passes its third reading. So with that e tautoko ana ahau i tēnei pire pau te kaha [I wholeheartedly support this bill].