Wall Louisa: Te Urewera-Tūhoe Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWall Louisa: Te Urewera-Tūhoe Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17651. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Ngā mihi Tūhoe. Kia ora for your contribution to your settlement bill the Te Urewera-Tūhoe Bill within the context of a May 2010 decision by the Prime Minister not to include Te Urewera. I actually want to focus on the leadership within Tūhoe to stay focused on one of the most important acknowledgments within your settlement legislation and so I mihi to the leadership of Tūhoe for getting us to this place where you are satisfied with this bill. I have every faith and confidence in your ability to work with your uri and other iwi groups on your border—so your whanaunga.I actually believe that there is some integrity in the settlement process that means that Māori collectively will be able to move forward into the space that you want to take your people. One of the challenges moving forward for us as a House though will be to ensure we monitor the implementation of this legislation with the utmost of good faith because one of the things that we recognise is that the historical relationship between all of our iwi groups and the Crown has been abysmal. It has been shocking. It has been terrible. In fact it was the Crown that perpetrated a lot of the conflict confiscation on our mana whenua and it is only in what happens post - these settlements that will actually make the partnership—that relationship between the Crown and mana whenua—real.So I acknowledge your mana motuhake agreement. Tūhoe and the Crown have a Nā Kōrero Ranatira ā Tūhoe me Te Karaunga relationship agreement. The intention of that agreement is to ensure that Tūhoe and the Crown post-settlement will negotiate about how education is delivered in Tūhoe and how social services are delivered in Tūhoe. It will be founded on Tūhoetanga. It will be driven and delivered by Tūhoe people. I think actually that the most significant part of this settlement agreement other than the return of Te Urewera is the relationship agreements the memorandums of understanding that have been established within the context of this piece of legislation. We are looking back to go forward but I think that it is the forward-looking remembering of our past that will actually create the partnership that the Treaty envisaged and guaranteed for us as a country.I have faith in the process—not only our parliamentary process but our Treaty settlement process with the involvement of all the different organisations including the law and the legal aspects—to us to get to this point of resolution. What these settlements are all about are truth and reconciliation processes. They are really about how we move forward positively as a nation ensuring that our mana whenua and our iwi are recognised in terms of the historical relationship they have had with the Crown. But as I have said before the most important aspect of these settlements is the going forward.What I want to conclude with finally is that Tūhoe for me have always been incredibly staunch. Whenever I have gone to kapa haka they are the fiercest most staunch proponents of kapa haka. And what does that mean to me? It means that they are very loyal very committed to Tūhoetanga. I commend Tūhoe for their projection always of their Tūhoetanga and I thank them. I agree with my colleague Metiria Turei that we have to thank our mana whenua our iwi leadership for enabling us to move on. Yes we also should acknowledge the Māori Affairs Committee and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations—and in this particular bill I think the Hon Chris Finlayson has done a fantastic job—but for me it is always about the steadfast resolve of our iwi who have got us to this point in time. So I thank you for your generosity and I look forward to the third reading of this bill when I know that this place will be packed. Nō reira thank you to those who have come. Safe travels home. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.