Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā e tika ana kia huri atu anō ki a rātau mā i hinga mai nā puta noa i ngā moutere nei nō reira e ngā mate maha o te wā hoki wairua atu ki a rātau mā te tini me te mano hoki atu ki te wā ki a koutou nō reira e oki e moe e moe ā kāti mō tēnā! E tū ake ahau i tuatahi e Te Māngai o Te Whare kia tuku mihi atu ki ngā whānau me ngā hapū o Ngāruahine. Nō reira koutou mā kua tae mai ki Te W'are nei anei ahau e tuku mihi atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai whakatau mai rā ki roto i tēnei Whare e kīia nei Te Ana Raiona! Otirā i tēnei rā e tautoko ana ahau i ngā mihi o ngā mema o Te Whare nei. E tū tahi mātau ki roto i tēnei Whare ki te tautoko i tēnei pire nō reira koutou mā Ngāruahine tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ā tēnā tātau katoa![So thank you Mr Deputy Speaker but at the same time it is fitting that I turn to them the ones who have fallen throughout these islands and so to you the many dead of the moment return spiritually to them the innumerable and the multitude. Go back to the time that is yours so rest sleep slumber enough! I rise in the first instance Mr Deputy Speaker to offer a tribute to the families and subtribes of Ngāruahine. So to you collectively who have arrived at this House here I am offering a welcome to you. Welcome welcome and welcome into this House referred to as the lion's den! But today I am endorsing the tributes by members of this House. We stand as one in this House to support this bill. Therefore congratulations and accolades to you Ngāruahine. My appreciation to us all.]Today is a special day. Today is a day to celebrate a long long process. I want to acknowledge the perseverance and the tenacity of those who have guided Ngāruahine to the House today for the third reading of this claims settlement bill. It is a journey that did not start with the signing of terms of negotiation or mandate. It started very much before then. It actually started on 6 February 1840 and almost immediately—probably on 7 February—that Treaty was being breached. For that length of time our people throughout the nation not only have tried to make the Treaty of Waitangi a living document one with substance and one that we have upheld but have had to face the challenge that it was being breached.Today we find ourselves here to have the third reading of this bill. Supposedly it is a full and final settlement. If I may add a few words to the words that Marama Fox has just said to the rangatahi: a day will come when you must surely relitigate this settlement like every other rangatahi and their iwi must do. That is not a challenge to the Crown or even to us passing this today; this is just an acknowledgment of the reality of this process. It is a negotiated process. I want to congratulate as I said before the tenacity of those negotiators who have brought this settlement to this House. It has not been an easy settlement like every other settlement that has come to this House. The process requires that all whānau and all hapū of every settlement group of every iwi that makes a settlement must be in agreement. Of course we all know the reality of that. The reality is that not everyone will be happy. But I think the majority will be with this settlement. In the days and months and years to come there will be the opportunity to reconcile those differences. That is something that only Ngāruahine can do. But we are all here to support that process to support the many mechanisms within this Treaty settlement that will enhance and benefit all of the whānau of Ngāruahine. It will take time though. It will take time because the settlement mechanisms and in particular the financial redress—it is but a fraction as we have heard already in this House of the loss that was sustained by Ngāruahine.I want to read again the first line in the historical account. It says: Before 1860 Ngāruahine were prosperous and economically successful and retained ownership of their lands and resources after consistently opposing the sale of land in their rohe to Europeans." I think that really does outline the strength and the foresight of the people of Ngāruahine in 1860 and that is evident in the people today.The financial redress is but one part a very important part of growing the Ngāruahine nation. I take my hat off to the post-settlement governance entity for the work that it has done already in growing that asset and the work that it has done in contributing to our nation. I have noted a number of bills that are currently before the House where Ngāruahine have made submissions. These are really important issues and really important things for this House to acknowledge.All of these things mean that Ngāruahine in moving forward will be a greater nation through this settlement and so I stand here before you to fully endorse this settlement in its entirety. My kōrero today is to really celebrate along with you all this settlement. My hope for the future is very much the same as has been expressed in the House already today and that is that this settlement is less about my generation and the generation today but is for generations to come. Those rangatahi in the Whare today will bear witness on behalf of all future generations of Ngāruahine that they have witnessed today the passing of this bill into law. So I congratulate all of them. I want to acknowledge also the presence of the New Plymouth District Council in the gallery and other members of the public who have also come to witness this day.I do want to briefly touch on the cultural redress mechanisms within this bill. They are a very important part of acknowledging the mana whenua of Ngāruahine within their rohe and in particular the statutory acknowledgments of which I think there are around 20. These are really significant mechanisms that allow whānau hapū and iwi and even individuals to go into the likes of the Environment Court and quote from these statutory acknowledgments about their connection to these lands. This is no small thing for the people of Ngāruahine.It is a real pleasure for me to stand here to speak to this bill today. Taku mihi w'akamutunga atu ki a koutou tuatahi ki a koutou ngā rangatahi kua tae mai ko te tūmanako kia ūhia mai e ngā tūpuna i te wāhi ngaro ō rātau aroha ō rātau manaakitanga ki runga ki a koutou nō reira koutou mā me ō koutou mātua me ō koutou tūpuna tēnei te mihi ake ki a koutou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātau katoa.[My concluding tribute to you firstly to you the young people who have arrived the hope is that the ancestors at the place out of sight bestow their love and care upon you and so my congratulations and accolades to you and particularly to all your parents and grandparents. My appreciation to us all.]"