Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister for Regional Economic Development): Reo Māori i te tuatahi. Ko Takitimu te waka engari ko te ingoa rangatira ko Te Wairoa Hōpūpū Hōnengenenge Mātangi Rau ko koutou ngā uri kua tatū mai ki waenga tonu i a mātou ngā kaitōrangapū e noho e whakawhitiwhiti e whakahāngai nei i ō mātou whakaaro kia whiwhi ai koutou. Nā reira Kahungungu ki Wairoa ngā hapū katoa Rongomaiwahine koutou katoa kei roto i tēnā pito o te whare tapu o Takitimu tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātau katoa.Kei ahau kei a Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu he waiata. Ko tētahi whiti o tēnā waiata e pā ana ki tō koutou tupuna ki a Timi Kara; he pēnei kē tēnei waiata: waiata. Te kaupapa te tikanga o tēnā waiata te haerenga mai o tō koutou matua a Timi Kara ki waenga tonu i a mātau o Te Whare Tapu o Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu. Ko te take ōna i tatū mai ai tēnā hautupua o te ao tōrangapū i taua wā he whakahoki i te tūpāpaku o tō mātau tupuna a Hone Heke Ngapua ka mate ki Te Whare Pāremata i a ia e mana ana hei mema mō Te Taitokerau ki tēnei Whare. Ka mate ka whakahokia ka takoto ki tētahi wharehui ko tōna ingoa ko Te Kotahitanga. I reira e auē ana e uhunga ana a Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu. Nā ka tanumia te tūpāpaku ka tū mai te māmā o Hone Heke Ngapua he wahine taipairu nō Ngāpuhi tana ingoa ko Niurangi Pūriri. Nāna i kī mā wai te pouaru e manaaki kāhore he wahine wā Hone Heke Ngapua kotahi anake tana wahine ko te tūru Māori ko te tūru o Te Taitokerau.Tere te tū mai o te kaumātua rā a Timi Kara me te nui o tana mana ka ngohengohe mai a Ngāpuhi ki a ia. Nāna te kī kei ahau te tangata hei whakakapi i tēnā tūranga ko tōna ingoa ko Te Rangihīroa. Ko Te Rangihīroa o Taranaki he rata i tērā wā. Me i kore a Timi Kara mai i Te Wairoa i hari i te tūpāpaku ki waenga tonu i a Ngāpuhi ngaro ai kua kore a Te Rangihīroa e tū hei māngai Māori mō te tūru o Te Taitokerau ki tēnei Whare huango. Nā reira ahau ka mihi atu ki a koutou ngā uri o ngā hapū katoa i puta ai tēnā kaumātua rongonui a Timi Kara. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā tātou kia ora tātou katoa.[I will speak in Māori first. Although the waka is Takitimu the name of significance is Te Wairoa Hōpūpū Hōnengenenge Mātangi Rau you are the descendants that have arrived amongst us the politicians as we sit dialogue and focus our thoughts so that you may benefit. Therefore Kahungungu ki Wairoa all of the hapū Rongomaiwahine and all those from the many places of the sacred house of Takitimu greetings greetings to us all.I Ngāpuhi have a waiata. One verse of that waiata addresses your ancestor James Carroll; the waiata goes like this: waiata. The purpose and meaning of this waiata is of the time that your elder James Carroll travelled to be amongst us the people of the sacred house of Ngāpuhi. The reason that this great man of the political world travelled there was to return the body of our elder Hone Heke Ngapua who died in Parliament during his time as a member of Parliament for the North. Upon his death he was returned and laid in state at a meeting house called Te Kotahitanga. All of Ngāpuhi had congregated there to mourn and weep for him. After the burial the mother of Hone Heke Ngapua stood up her name was Niurangi Pūriri and she was a woman of high rank in Ngāpuhi. She asked who will now look after the widow as Hone Heke Ngapua had no wife the only wife he had was the Māori seat the Northern seat.James Carroll was quick to stand and respond he was respected in Ngāpuhi and they had a lot of time for him. He informed them that he had someone who could fill the vacant seat whose name was Te Rangihīroa Sir Peter Buck from Taranaki who was a doctor at the time. If it was not for James Carroll from Te Wairoa who returned the deceased back to Ngāpuhi Te Rangihīroa would never have become the Māori representative for the Northern seat of this House. So I thank you all the descendants of all the hapū that gave us this renowned elder James Carroll. Greetings greetings to all.]This is the second time that I have followed the former Minister of Treaty settlements the Hon Christopher Finlayson. Much of what he has done has been truly profound and nowhere did he do anywhere as well as what he did with Tūhoe. For those of us who have been on this journey since we were teenagers—of the Treaty Māori rights activism and on and on it goes—what he managed to get the then National Government to do for Tūhoe was truly staggering.But I can assure him if he has been adopted by Tūhoe that pleasure will never await him in the land of Ngāpuhi. It's highly likely that Ānaru Paku" our new Minister may achieve that status but as I said in my last speech that would require him to duck and be very agile.Naturally I stand to support this bill. These settlements amongst our iwi in the more isolated parts of Aotearoa New Zealand are very challenging. I say that as someone who comes from north of Kaitāia equally as isolated as Te Wairoa. But for the people of Wairoa who have whakapapa to this area I want to make you a promise. The provincial fund - regional development Minister with delegated authority for KiwiRail is coming to work with your regional council and reopen the railway from Wairoa to Napier. Now when that happens I expect the Rātana band to be in Wairoa to welcome me. And when that happens we will make a tremendous day of it because the challenges for these groups in provincial New Zealand don't diminish just because we are affirming both the ills and the course of our history but they carry on well after the passage of this legislation.Recently I had occasion to go to Wairoa and to meet with the mayor—I think his name is Mr Craig Little if I'm not mistaken. Am I correct Madam Deputy Speaker?Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes.Hon SHANE JONES: Right. He described me as the first politician who had been there with the right spirit since Muldoon—both a curse and a blessing. But to the whānau from Wairoa please seize the opportunities to work with whoever is in Government—whoever is in Government—to work in such a way that we build upon these historical redresses and that we collaborate and work with our neighbours.As you know formerly I was the chairman of the fisheries commission and there were two elements that were never fully dealt with when we settled the historical fisheries claim. One was the interests of Rongomaiwahine and second was the desire of the Ngāti Hine hapū to become their own people like Ngāti Wai as a broader part of the Ngāpuhi. The Rongomaiwahine to the best of my knowledge was finally settled between the Kahungunu people themselves. To the extent that that's actually the truth I salute you because there are huge challenges when you look from Te Wairoa up to Tūtira from Wairarapa through to Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa.We are very keen to see these developments take place on the back of historical redress but we cannot provide the leadership as parliamentarians. We can highlight things we can advocate for things but after the settlement is done the leadership lies fairly and squarely with the people who are the descendants of the tūpuna who were wronged and are the owners of the resources. That leadership will grow in its richness when we think beyond the shadow of our own mountains and we take a wider more expansive view about how these settlements can actually enrich the broader area. So I salute the mahi that's been done acknowledge the leadership of the former Minister and acknowledge also our new Treaty Minister Mr Andrew Little.These things—occasionally we do get excited as politicians. Certain things might annoy us about them but broadly speaking all parliamentarians realise that it's coming to the end of an era that can be traced back to when Dame Whina Cooper led the great hīkoi called the matakite. After that the Treaty of Waitangi legislation emerged and it was gradually improved and once one of three of the big remaining groups are settled that portion of our recent legal social cultural history will not so much come to an end but morph into something else.We are adamant that as Māori endeavour grows on the back of these settlements it has to enrich not only us as Māori but the overarching country. That's why we're doing this and that's why it's important that Māori leadership through these settlements contribute to enriching our overall identity. If we don't do that what was the purpose anyway? It's certainly miles away from what I'm sure the ancestor Timi Kara—who I've just referred to in our Māori language—would have had in mind or Sir Apirana Ngata or indeed my matua the Hon Matiu Rata who was the architect of the original Treaty of Waitangi tribunal legislation.We salute the people the hapū of that part of Tākitimu waka. We wish you well and acknowledge the work that was done by the Māori Affairs Committee and in particular the former Minister. Tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa."