Yule Lawrence; Tolley AnneLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): It gives me great pleasure to rise and speak to the Heretaunga Tamatea Claims Settlement Bill second reading and I acknowledge the people in the gallery who are from Heretaunga Tamatea who have actually been instrumental and drivers in getting to this point. I also acknowledge Havelock North High School who are in the gallery and all three Hawke's Bay MPs are in the gallery so this is a great day for the mighty Hawke's Bay to signify this significant second reading.I do want to thank the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Andrew Little for getting it back into the Parliament. I want to particularly thank the Hon Chris Finlayson for the significant work he did in shepherding this bill from the initial deed through to the signing which I attended in September 2015 at Te Aute College. At that stage I had no idea I would be a member of Parliament.This claim effectively affects people from south of Napier right to Takapau—and is the majority of the electorate I represent. It is made up of fine people people who are represented in this gallery with tremendous vision courage mana and integrity. As previous speaker Chris Bishop said I expect this will go through the House in a unanimous way and that's largely because of the way it's been handled to this point the way in which the Hon Chris Finlayson shepherded it to this point and also the way in which those negotiating the claim for the people from Heretaunga Tamatea stepped up to the mark.There is a lot of history here. People have spoken about Te Aute College and while the $5 million is nice and is a great contribution to the integrity and sustainability of the college it actually does not deal with the real issue that is behind this. I want to say in this House that while I'm heartened by what's being done here we actually need to find another way to deal with the Glasgow leases. I say this deliberately in front of my fellow Hawke's Bay MPs. I don't think we will find a cute legal solution. I actually think the Crown will have to buy those leases out or otherwise Te Aute College will be forever shackled by unfair disadvantage.The reason I know this is just before I became the Mayor of Hastings the former Mayor of Hastings Jeremy Dwyer who had substantial connections with Te Aute College brought to me a lease agreement because he didn't know anything about farming and at the time I was a farmer. He said Lawrence have a look at this." I did have a look at it and I was horrified at the terms and the cheapness of the leases and the terms in which they were under—to the complete advantage of the farmer and the complete disadvantage of Te Aute. That continues to this day and it simply is not fair. Even since I've been a member of Parliament I've had conversations with the Hon Christopher Finlayson about options for this. But it in the spirit of what we're trying to do I'm asking this House to think about outside of the Treaty settlement process whether there is a way the Crown can actually make this right because without it this grievance is going to continue.I want to say to the people from Heretaunga Tamatea who are here today I understand and I get that. It is completely unfair and I will do all I can while I'm in this position I have to work with colleagues on the other side of the House to find a solution. It is great that $100 million or thereabouts has come out as part of this settlement. I also acknowledge the courageous decision to spend part of that $100 million on individual marae; in other words $1 million roughly I think to each individual marae. That is a huge decision and I applaud the decision makers for that.As a member of Parliament it's actually an absolute privilege to stand up and say these things in front of representatives of the claimant group at this second reading. To you please keep coming. I don't think this will be taken off its rails. It will go through its process but there are some things to tidy up and you should have confidence that we are doing all we can to address the longstanding grievances one of which is the Glasgow leases that still remain. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call—five minutes each."