Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): E te Māngai Madam Speaker it's a pleasure to rise to take a call in the second reading of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill. I'd like to start out by acknowledging the officials from Te Arawhiti for your work. Thank you very much. Michael and Glenn the negotiators; the Ministers past and present; Mr Goldsmith and Andrew Little. I'd like to acknowledge the hard-working Māori Affairs Committee past and present for their work in getting this bill to the second reading today.The Ngāti Paoa area of interest is quite expansive. It covers a vast area from the Kaimai Ranges to the Waikato large parts of Auckland up to Wellsford Waiheke and even parts of the Coromandel. And I might be biased but perhaps the area of interest that is probably most good is the area of Northcote which comes under that area—the mighty area of Northcote. But it is a vast area of land and the purpose of this bill which really has been canvassed by the House today is to acknowledge the past through an apology acknowledge the past wrongs from the Crown over 160 years ago and to try to make amends so that this iwi can focus on the future. Now acknowledging that this iwi has three competing or additional claims that they've got before the Waitangi Tribunal and they've got other interests that they're wanting but this bill seeks to make amends and address some of those wrongs. A part of the select committee process—which we picked up as a 54th Parliament but actually the 53rd Parliament was part of—the committee received 351 submissions and there were 25 oral submissions that were heard. There were a bunch of technical amendments to the bill but two major changes which I wish to highlight for this House today. The first was with respect to claim Wai 968 and the recommendation from the select committee to remove the clause to remove Wai 968 from the bill. The second area of change was with respect to moving Wai 365 from one clause of the bill to another and this was to reflect the fact that Wai 365 is only partially settled by this bill before us today.The other issue I wish to talk about for the House which I must say we received quite a lot of correspondence on was with respect to the Waiheke Station Trust. Now there is a provision in this bill that transfers the assets that are in this trust to the new post-settlement governance entity. We received quite a lot of correspondence that this should not be done and that the assets of this trust should stay with the current Waiheke Station Trust. We received much correspondence from the Ngāti Paoa Trust Board to that effect and essentially we rejected their claim to do so under the grounds that—and I wish to remind the members who are coming in and hearing this online that the beneficiaries of the same trust the Ngāti Paoa Trust Board are the same descendants of Ngāti Paoa. So transferring the assets from one trust to another doesn't change in fact the people who benefit from that trust which is descendants of Ngāti Paoa.Now the iwi trust that was designated as a post-settlement governance entity was ratified in 2013 and the trust board didn't actually participate in this process. They did challenge this process in the courts and that failed. So the members of the select committee were satisfied that the impact from transferring the assets from the Waiheke Station Trust to the new post-settlement governance entity will actually be beneficial for all those descendants of Ngāti Paoa. That is probably the biggest issue that I wanted to talk about today. Other areas that I wish to just remind the House of are the main provisions of the bill which essentially vests 12 cultural heritage sites significant to Ngāti Paoa. There's also some commercial and financial redress just roughly about $24 million. I'd like to remind members and this House that it is a small pittance that doesn't actually give justice to the confiscation and the mamae that has been impacted but this amount hopefully can enable Ngāti Paoa to focus on the future. Who knows what that asset base can be 10 years from now after this bill goes through and is signed into law?So that is with respect to the financial redress. There is an apology as part of the deed of settlement that is given effect to in the bill and also a whole bunch of other—perhaps minor in respect to what I've talked about—provisions of the bill. It is with pleasure to report that this bill was passed in select committee unanimously reported back to the House and it is my pleasure to commend this bill. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.