Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. E rere haere ana ngā mihi ki a koutou o te Rohe Pōtae i tēnei wāhanga o te pire wakataunga. Nāku te whiwhi kia tū tēnei Whare kia tautoko Te Paati Māori ki a koutou i tēnei rā. Haere mai ki a au ki a Te Ua Haumēne haere mai ki a Rāwiri ki a Te Kooti kei te ara whanaunga kei mamao rawa e. [Greetings. Greetings abound to you of the King Country at this stage of the settlement bill. I am honoured to stand in this House so that Te Paati Māori can support you on this day. Welcome to me to Te Ua Haumēne to Rāwiri to Te Kōoti the kinship ties are recognised lest we become distant.]It's an honour to rise on behalf of Te Paati Māori to speak in support of the Maniapoto Claims Settlement Bill for the third and final reading. We would like to mihi to all of those who are watching today either here in person or here in wairua. We acknowledge the kuia kaumātua negotiators hapū leaders w'ānau rangatahi and specifically those no longer with us since this journey started over 30 years ago.I stand to celebrate our resilience. Here today stands the strength of a people whose tūpuna fought beside my own tūpuna in Taranaki to defeat imperial troops at Puketakauere near Waitara. Here our w'anaunga whose tupuna Rewi Maniapoto supported the resistance to our tūpuna land sales and muru raupatu and as an uri of Taranaki Tītokowaru and Parihaka I know this process to reclaim our relationship with the Crown puts our own relationships at strain. So let today be one of those days you ease that mode and celebrate yourselves. Celebrate that you created traffic jams in rail systems never seen before—traffic jams in bus systems that brought Pōneke I understand to a halt—as everyone arrived here today everyone who are either urban ahikā rangatahi ma.I also declare my conflict as a wahine with a hoa rangatira that I love to the moon. I also declare my tautoko to our tuāhine Nanaia Mahuta for her mahi in this kaupapa and for her w'ānau.I stand as Te Paati Māori as the only party 100 percent in attendance actually but afforded the smallest amount of minutes to talk which is five minutes to be actual—which is why Willie Jackson could never be with us—so I'll be very direct. I'll be very direct. Here today Aotearoa stands the generosity of the koha of Ngāti Maniapoto to our nation accepting this settlement to enhance our nation's peace. We believe Te Tiriti is to be honoured not settled so it's no surprise that we don't believe settlements are full and final—don't listen ACT—and we look forward to supporting you coming back for the other 99 percent that Willie and Peeni Henare are still holding back. Today we celebrate you and that you honour us with Maungārongo. You reminded as a nation and a Whare that our poropiti use Maungārongo as an action and a way of being as a living kaupapa with living mauri and as a consistent reminder of our enduring relationships and responsibility to each other and to our mokopuna.Kia mau kia rongo is about being a calm collector. It requires patience a patience like you've never seen before such as that seen in Ngāti Maniapoto and tangata w'enua throughout the motu—a patience of those who tolerated the atrocities of imperialism the imperialism that punished you for hiding King Tāwhiao after he'd passed. But you still show the utmost aroha today continuously contributing to the greatest human attributes ever gifted: the gift of forgiveness and the gift of hope.To us in this Whare to the Government today and the Government-in-waiting we have been charged with the koha of Maungārongo. We must now make sure the Crown constantly remembers the gift of Maungārongo: how we must hold on to the intent that is Maungārongo and what it means to be a true good partner in the terms of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and this new tiriti with Ngāti Maniapoto. We know the track record of the Crown and many of us are survivors of the breaches of that Crown and we look at this honour and challenge for the institution of the Crown and at how it holds on to the commitment which is this new tiriti with Ngāti Maniapoto—five years to be proudly looked after in Pāremata. It will serve as a constant reminder for this Whare. Minister Andrew Little said this morning that this was the beginning of a relationship not the end. Te Paati Māori as the Government-in-waiting will be here to ensure this Whare holds true to that promise. Nō reira kei runga kei raro kei roto kei waho rire rire hau pai mārire. [In closing above below within without goodness and peace.]