SpeechPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Kia ora Madam Speaker and it's a pleasure to be able to speak on this bill the Ngāti Rangitihi Claims Settlement Bill. Can I acknowledge all members of the iwi Ngāti Rangitihi and for many reasons primarily COVID they are watching online today. Can I acknowledge you all. I want to just also acknowledge the Hon Andrew Little the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. The Crown and iwi negotiators—these people do an amazing job to bring these arrangements together and present them for us to process through the parliamentary system. I want to also while we're on the acknowledgment section just give some warmth to the Māori Affairs Committee. It's a good cross-Parliament group of people who work constructively to ensure that these are worked through with the spirit mana and mauri that they deserve. Can I acknowledge the chair there Tāmati Coffey. Those who submitted—20 submissions on this particular bill. Look it could have just been one but it's always good I think that we get a range of views from across the iwi the whānau the hapū that express a whole range of concerns. Sometimes it's a bit late to include them in. Sometimes they're just alerting us to history that often we don't know about and seven came in to express that orally.It brings us to be a step closer to giving effect to the deed of settlement. Each time these come to be I'm always quite excited. I'm horrified at the history and so any historical redress that records Crown breaches is very important and what I've learnt is that it's really important that we get that accurate and recorded into the settlement. There's also cultural redress too which in this situation acknowledges those connections to land and resources of significance to Ngāti Rangitihi. Part of that too when you look at redress is also about relationships and building new connections because often this is about resetting the relationship with the Crown with iwi with whānau with local government and with other groups and then moving forward. Of course to finish that off some part of that will be financial and commercial redress.I want to move to that because when I look at the summary of that package there's a few things I just want to point out. I don't think the money is everything here. At just under $12 million it's very important to not only show a tohu or symbol of the horrific history here but also as I said it allows them to work with their post-iwi settlement—to a post-settlement entity to move on. It's interesting when you look at those 19 sites of deep significance to Ngāti Rangitihi which will be transferred of course the learning for me was that former site of the Pink and White Terraces which is tied up into that Tarawera Awa group. That settlement will help establish the Restoration Strategy Group as it's called and they'll be a permanent joint committee of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. That just ensures that that gets into the local governance structures of the rohe and ensures that this has some enduring and permanent decision-making capability. There's a good sum there of half a million to get that up and running and it's great to see that that's being worked through and provided in terms of those statutory acknowledgments and recognition of the four areas—sorry seven areas—that form that relationship.When I look at the apology—and I think this is important—and when I first looked at one of the Treaty claim settlements I found that this was normal in terms of making an apology for those breaches and then reading back on what that's covering it really does. It's painful to read out but the Crown acknowledges it breached its Treaty obligations when it failed to protect things like the tribal structures of Ngāti Rangitihi to act in good faith to protect the iwi from becoming virtually landless the Tarawera River te reo Māori and increasing or encouraging its use and to just protect the iwi from the impact of high survey costs and act in good faith in terms of taking the excessive land at Te Ariki for public works purposes. These are just a range of things that that redress will cover.I'm really proud that we've worked through this as a committee. We certainly did when it reported back to the House on 17 December last year. There were a small number of minor and technical amendments. We worked through those and although—in conclusion—no settlement can truly make up for this wrongdoing and compensate for the hurt I know the Crown hopes that this will be the starting point for a new and strengthened relationship between Ngāti Rangitihi and the Crown. I look forward to seeing this back for the third reading. I commend this bill to the House.