Coffey Tāmati; Dean JacquiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Pīka o tēnei Whare. Tūtawa mai i runga tūtawa mai i raro tūtawa mai i roto tūtawa mai i waho kia tau ai te mauri tū te mauri ora ki te katoa. Haumi e hui e tāiki e. He mihi tēnei ki a koutou o Ngāti Paoa kua huihui mai nei i tēnei rā ki te hāpai i tēnei kaupapa i tā koutou kaupapa. Anei tētehi uri o Te Ātiawa o te Arawa waka o Te Aitanga a Hauiti e mihi atu nei ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou mauri ora ki a tātou katoa. [My thanks to the Speaker of this House. Materialise from above from below from within and from the environment so that vitality and wellbeing settle upon everyone. Unified connected and bound together. This is an acknowledgment of you from Ngāti Paoa who have assembled here today to support this initiative your initiative. Here is a descendant of Te Ātiawa the Arawa canoe and of Te Aitanga a Hauiti that greets you. Thanks greetings and wellbeing to all of us.] I've been thinking a lot and things change in this House like you wouldn't believe. I've been thinking a lot this week about the subject of race and the subject of ethnicity. It's been a hot topic. We have talked yesterday quite a bit in the media and in our own conversations. Maybe some of our whānau at home have been talking about the plight of Māori actually and whether or not the bad health statistics that we have are a result of us drinking too much too much KFC that kind of stuff. There is actually a demographic of the population out there that believe that it's true. They don't like hearing the uncomfortable truth about the history of Aotearoa—the really uncomfortable truth that the Crown set up systems and structures and courts and laws to completely marginalise Māori. For that reason it's really sad because there's a whole demographic of New Zealanders out there that believe that Māori get too much. They think that Māori shouldn't be put to the front of the queue to be able to deal with health inequities. They believe that Māori should jump in the line when it comes to housing and all those things that Government here attempt to try and do for Māori. But unfortunately sometimes in this House especially things get politicised and it's kind of gross. It's kind of gross because actually what happens is that these kinds of conversations end up being like political footballs. They get kicked around and especially in these years like election years.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Can we come back to the bill.TĀMATI COFFEY: Madam Speaker I am talking about the bill. I want to refer to page 11 actually of the bill which talks to Ngāti Paoa's plight. It says in clause 8(8) By the end of the twentieth century only 27% of Ngāti Paoa spoke te reo Māori. The decline of Ngāti Paoa tribal structures and the loss of te reo Māori contributed to a loss of Ngāti Paoa mātauranga Māori. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Ngāti Paoa like other Hauraki Māori generally experienced poorer health including lower life expectancy … higher infant mortality than Pākehā [as well]. Ngāti Paoa also experienced higher unemployment than the general population and a lower median annual income."It's really the point of all of this because we heard in the whaikōrero earlier from the koroua from Ngāti Paoa who got up and addressed the room and he spoke of the fact that what we're talking about in terms of redress on this settlement is very very small. Heck there are houses in the plush parts of South Auckland and the Coromandel that cost as much as the settlement that you're going to get as a result of the Crown trying to address this past wrong—there are. You know again it's an absolutely uncomfortable truth but I want to acknowledge you for still despite that despite the history despite the historical account that my colleague Joseph Mooney read out before despite all of that despite the Crown taking your land you're still willing to go through this. You're still willing to go through this because there's a sense of social justice that needs to take place in this.The Crown as represented by those of us in this House right now we need to hear your story. It's lovely that it's written down here and we need to talk about it a bit more and we need New Zealanders to talk about it too so that they have a deeper understanding of exactly what happened to Ngāti Paoa in the story of the history of Aotearoa.I often say that in this place Treaty settlements are one thing and when we finally get this out of the House and enable you to go on and start your journey post-settlement I often ask myself "What more can we do? What more can we do over and above the quantum? Over and above that what more can we do to be able to help iwi such as Ngāti Paoa to be able to achieve their tino rangatiratanga?" To some of us especially on this side we believe that there are lots of opportunities whether it's in housing or health or co-governance opportunities that the Opposition get really freaked out about. But there are opportunities in that none the less and I hope that through that—Hon Willie Jackson: Disgraceful really.TĀMATI COFFEY: —over and above—my colleague down here you just can't turn him off. But there are opportunities. There are opportunities that are coming up. As long as I'm a Labour member which isn't for that much longer but as long as I'm a member of the New Zealand Labour Party actually I'll continue to ask that question: what more can we do post-settlement for our iwi to be able to achieve their own tino rangatiratanga?So I leave that today. I look forward to listening to some of the kōrero. I too sit on the Māori Affairs Committee at least for the next three months. Then I look forward to watching one day maybe from home with my little boy and my little girl in my arms watching the third reading of your bill through this House turning it into an Act and allowing you to move forward so that you can create a better future for Ngāti Paoa tamariki mokopuna kei te heke mai. [the children and grandchildren of Ngāti Paoa of the future.] Nō reira ki a koutou ngā rangatira ngā kuia ngā kaumātua kua huihui mai nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [So to you the leaders the matriarchs the patriarchs who have assembled here my thanks and greetings to all of us.]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Tama Potaka—a five-minute call."