Volume 690 Week 44 - Wednesday 5 June 2013(continued on Thursday 6 June 2013)Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVolume 690 Week 44 - Wednesday 5 June 2013(continued on Thursday 6 June 2013)[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10799. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Wednesday 5 June 2013(continued on Thursday 6 June 2013)Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement BillFirst ReadingHon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Māori Affairs)on behalf of theMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: I moveThat the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill be now read a first time. Tuatahi kei te mihi au ki a koutou kua hara mai nei ki tēnei Whare o tātou i tēnei rangi. He rā nui tēnei kia tīmata ai tēnei wāhanga kia haere ngā kōrero i roto i te Whare Pāremata mō ngā wā e toru. Nā reira nau mai hara mai rā. Hara mai rā me ngā tini mate kua pā ki a tātou anā ko Tino Moana tētahi i hinga mai nā i te pō te tama a Thomas Moana. Tana tama a Tino. Nā reira ngā mate kua pā ki a koutou otirā ki a tātou takoto haere ki ngā tīpuna mātua hei whāriki mā mātou. Ehara mā mātou e whakaroa te kōrero ki a koutou ēngari ko te mea pai ki ahau kia haere tika ai koutou ki reira ā ki mua o Te Kaihanga. Nā reira rātou ki a rātou tātou ki a tātou tēnā tātou. Nā reira nau mai hara mai. He rā nui tēnei mō koutou. Kei a tātou nei i roto i te Whare ētahi kōrero e tautoko ana te huarahi e pai ana mō koutou kua whakatakotoria e koutou. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ngā iwi katoa o Te Tau Ihu nau mai hara mai rā.[Firstly I greet you collectively who have arrived here in this House of ours today. This is an important day which allows this session to commence so that the debates in Parliament can proceed throughout the three readings. Therefore welcome come hither. Come forth with the many deaths that have touched us such as that of Tino Moana son of Thomas Moana—his son Tino—who died last night. And so to the deaths that have touched you and indeed all of us collectively lie there in state and go forth to the ancestral forefathers as a mat for us. We will not prolong the tributes to you but the nicest gesture from me is for you to go directly there to be before the Creator. And so they the dead remain there among themselves and we the living to ourselves. Salutations to us welcome welcome. This is a great day for you collectively. We in this House have statements to make that support the best way forward for you in respect to what you have placed before us. So congratulations and well done to you all the tribes of the Prow of the Canoe. Welcome and indeed welcome.]At the appropriate time I intend to move that Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill be considered by the Māori Affairs Committee. Today we turn south from Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara. We look across Raukawa Moana past the resting place of Te Wheke-a-Muturangi to the lands of Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka Māui the prow of the great canoe of Māui Tikitiki-a-Taranga. It is my honour to welcome to the House the sons and daughters of Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia Rangitāne o Wairau Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui and Ngati Toa Rangatira.All eight iwi of Te Tau Ihu had valid customary rights that should have been protected honoured and guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi when it was signed in 1840. But within years of the Treaty being signed the Crown illicitly acquired millions of hectares of Te Tau Ihu lands and resources. The Crown failed to obtain the full and free consent of the rightful landowners. These massive land acquisitions were invalid in both British and Māori law. They were clear breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.We are here today because the Crown failed to protect honour and guarantee the rights of Te Tau Ihu iwi Te Tau Ihu whānau. For us in 2013 to even try to comprehend what this loss meant all those years ago and what it means today we need tounderstand how Te Tau Ihu whānau were living at that time. In the mid-1800s the waters around Nelson Golden Bay Marlborough Sounds and Kāpiti were the equivalent of our modern-day motorways. They were expressways for trade and the merchant ships cutters and vessels plying the waters of Raukawa Moana were owned by tangata whenua iwi of Te Tau Ihu. The flax pigs tobacco meat potatoes timber and maize on board those ships were grown on Te Tau Ihu lands and cultivated harvested and processed by Te Tau Ihu people. They owned the lands the storehouses and the ships that carried their produce throughout New Zealand and abroad.Even before Europeans arrived on these shores the people of Te Tau Ihu were trading across Aotearoa. When you take millions of acres from people who have only ever known a life of enterprise and self-determination you are not just taking away land; you devastate an entire way of life. You are taking away an identity; you are taking away a birthright.The Crown governors and officials acted ruthlessly sidelining the Treaty and deliberately giving new settlers advantages over Māori. As a result the Crown’s purchases left Te Tau Ihu Māori in poverty. Today the Crown stands before the families of Te Tau Ihu and acknowledges the social economic and cultural devastation carried by generations of families. But through it all the peoples of Te Tau Ihu remained steadfast they remained at the helm of Te Waka-a-Māui and they did not leave. Their identity was intact but never destroyed; their way of life devastated but never wiped out.In the face of incredible injustices generations of Te Tau Ihu people have made an incredible contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand; they always have.Ngā mihi ki a koutou. Archaeological evidence from this rohe proves that our ancestors’ epic voyages were planned purposeful and often were return journeys. Hemi Matenga of Whakapuaka literally connected New Zealand to the world in 1876 swimming out in dangerous conditions and dragging to the shore our first undersea telecommunications cable. Te Tau Ihu has produced countless Olympic champions sports stars and All Black greats. Māori businesses in this region are industry leaders across a range of sectors including wine hospitality and tourism. And who can forget that Te Tau Ihu leaders were at the forefront of the historic foreshore and seabed battle—an iconic moment for Māori who marched in our thousands to this Parliament on a freezing cold day in 2004.Te Tau Ihu people have always punched well above their weight and when it comes to our country’s political cultural historical economic and sporting history today is another of those milestones. Many of the things these people have lost due to the actions of the Crown can never be totally replaced yet the people of Te Tau Ihu still wish to settle their grievances with honour and with mana. Although only one settlement bill is being considered by Parliament today the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill gives effect to eight deeds of settlement. This is an amazing milestone and a testament to the determination and leadership shown by the eight Te Tau Ihu iwi who have managed to overcome their differences to get to thispoint. Tēnā koutou.The Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill will provide redress to three Kurahaupō iwi—Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne o Wairau. These three iwi signed their deeds of settlement in 2010 and for them today has been a long time coming. I acknowledge their patience and their pragmatism. In a region with extremely overlapped iwi interests and where Crown redress was becoming increasingly scarce the three Kurahaupō iwi have shown great leadership by foregoing their claims to forestry interests in exchange for other commercial redress. This extremely bold decision unlocked the regional stalemate and enabled negotiations of other Te Tau Ihu groups to progress.The Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill will also provide redress to four Tainui Taranaki ki te Tonga iwi—Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu and Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui. I also commend the patience and resilience of the Tainui Taranaki iwi whose negotiations were put on hold while the Crown addressed other issues raised in Te Tau Ihu.Last but certainly not least Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill will settle the claims of Ngati Toa Rangatira. In many respects the Ngati Toa negotiations presented new challenges to the Crown in particular because of the geographical spread of the rohe of Ngati Toa straddling both sides of Te Moana o te Raukawakawa includingcultural redress of extreme significance to the iwi and in New Zealand in general. Redress over the maritime interests of Kāpiti island and Ngati Toa as well as the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill which recognises “Ka Mate” as the taonga of Ngati Toa are extremely innovative forms of redress and I acknowledge the determination of Ngati Toa in getting to this point.The Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill is the culmination of years of hard work and tough decisions not only for the Crown but also between yourselves. You should all be proud of what you have achieved. The journey to get to this day has not been easy or brief. We remember the many who have passed on but whose determination has led this legislation to this House.Mā whero mā pango ka oti te mahi.[By chiefs and commoners the work is done.]There are many whakataukī about Māori working together—countless proverbs all about putting differences aside for the greater good. Today we witness the wisdom of our tīpuna who coined these whakataukī and we see those words into action. Today we witness a milestone in a journey that is not just about the wonderful idea of Māori working together but will be a transformative step for the people of Te Tau Ihu. Today we see this taking place before our eyes as we introduce legislation to resolve the historic grievances of eight iwi. I support this bill. Māku e tū nei i roto i tēnei Whare ki te whakamana ki te tautoko i ngā iwi o Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka-a-Māui me ō rātou hiahia kia whakaoti pai tēnei kaupapa. Ka nui ngā mihi ki a koutou.[I stand in this House to empower and support the tribes of the Prow of Maui’s Canoe plus their wishes for this matter to be completed well. My acknowledgments to you collectively are huge.]I consider that the bill should proceed without delay to the Māori Affairs Committee. I commend this bill to the House. Tēnā koe.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Kāti tihei wā mauri ora ki te whaiao ki te ao mārama. E Te Wai Pounamu takoto rapua te mea ngaro. Hoki ake nei ahau ki te rū o Waitaha he roimata tōku kai i te ao i te pō. E ngā iwi o Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka tēnā koutou. Rangitāne Ngāti Apa Ngāti Kuia Te Āti Awa Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama Ngāti Kōata Ngati Toa Rangatira tēnā koutou. Haere mai haere mai haere mai. Nō koutou tēnei rā ko tēnei te rā whakahirahira. Haere mai nunui mā teitei mā nau mai piki mai ki Te Ana o te Raiona ki te Pāremata i tū ai a nunui mā a teitei mā ki te whakatutuki i ngā wawata ō rātou mā. Tēnā koutou i ngā mate e hinga atu rā e hinga mai nei. E te rangatira Amohanga Stafford haere haere atu rā. Moe mai i te ringaringa o Te Ariki. Āpiti hono tātai hono ko te hunga mate ki te hunga mate. Āpiti hono tātai hono tātou te hunga ora ki te hunga ora tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Speaker. Well then to the world of light life and enlightenment behold the breath of life. To you the South Island lie there seek that which is lost. Allow me to go back to the Canterbury earthquake where tears consumed me day and night. To the tribes of the Prow of the Canoe greetings to you collectively. To youRangitāne Ngāti Apa Ngāti Kuia Te Āti Awa Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama Ngāti Kōata and Ngati Toa Rangatira welcome welcome welcome. This is your day and a very significant one at that. Welcome the great and illustrious. Welcome and come aboard the Den of the Lion the Parliament where the great and the famous stood to fulfil the aspirations of those who have passed on. I acknowledge you the deaths that have fallen there and here. Esteemed elder Amohanga Stafford farewell depart. Rest there in the arms of the Lord. The lines are joined; let the dead be among themselves. The lines are connected; let the living be among themselves so greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you and to us all collectively.]It is a pleasure to speak in support of the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill at its first reading. The northern portion of the South Island is known to Māori as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Māui—the prow of Māui’s waka. It is an area steeped in European as well as Māori history. English explorer James Cook called into Tōtaranui—Queen Charlotte Sound—seeking directions. One of the local chiefs took him up a hill and pointed out Raukawa Moana and then the cheeky bugger went and renamed it Cook Strait. That was back in 1769.In 1819 the war parties of Ngāpuhi of Northland and Ngāti Toa of Kāwhia took part in Amiowhenua—the encircling of the land. They split in two and went down both sides of the North Island. It was while raiding here in Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara that a Ngāpuhi chief pointed out a whaling ship to Te Rauparaha and told him of the advantages of being close to Pākehā. It was while on this journey that Te Rauparaha started to formulate a plan to bring his tribe who were under pressure in Kāwhia down to the Kāpiti coast.In 1820 Ngāti Toa and their confederates Ngāti Kōata and Ngāti Rārua under extreme pressure from Waikato-Tainui were forced from their ancestral lands at Kāwhia Taharoa Marokopa Kiritehere and Waikawau. These defeated tribes headed for north Taranaki to seek refuge with their relations Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga. That in turn put pressure on Ngāti Toa’s hosts. After spending the season growing crops Ngāti Toa with Kōata Rārua and now Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga left to come down to Kāpiti. From 1822 through to 1839 these tribes engaged with the original inhabitants and tribes in what became known as New Zealand’s civil war. It was during this period that Te Tau Ihu became settled—and I use that term relatively as it was quite an unsettled settlement.In 1839 we had more Pākehā interaction. This time the Wakefields and their New Zealand Company were in town looking for land and it is at this juncture in our history that things start to go wrong. The reason we are here today is that story of resettlement. It covers a period of 40 years of history from 1820 to 1860.Roughly 20 years of northern Māori trying to settle a new land were followed by 20 years of Pākehā doing the exact same thing. The problem for these two sides was that they were playing with different rules. This led to misunderstanding and eventually conflict—cue the introduction at this time of the cleverest Pākehā of all the Pākehās who had come to the new colony of New Zealand up to that point: one George Grey. This man who led the colony as both Governor-General and Premier had a very big hand in why we are here today.Throughout these settlement readings the theme to all of my kōrero has been that to understand Māori history is to understand whakapapa and with today’s bill I will declare my own interest in that whakapapa and history. Most will know of my Ngāi Tahu connection but that part of my whakapapa also includes the blood of the northern raiders of Te Tai Poutini the Ngāti Rārua chief Niho and his confederates Pikiwhara and Horomona and others who made their homes in Te Tau Ihu in places like Motueka Golden Bay Pākāwau and West Whanganui Inlet who decided to invade the WestCoast. Tūhuru my Ngāi Tahu ancestor an ariki of Te Tai Poutini made peace with Niho through the marriage of his daughter Nihorere in an effort to bring about peace for his hapū. I am a direct descendant of that peace deal that tatau pounamu the jade door of peace—something my whānau hold precious. As the saying goes grandchildren bring common sense to fighting grandfathers.The bill before us covers the eight iwi of Te Tau Ihu and legislation for the Ka Mate haka. What this bill and other historical reports have shown is the way many families of the northern alliance missed out on a share of payments for having land sold from under them and the subsequent failure of the Crown to sort the problem out during inquiries of royal commissions. Grey’s willingness to do deals with Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa went a long way to alienating whānau and hapū from Ngāti Tama Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Awa from payment for their lands at Tai Tapu and Pakawau as well as being left out of the Nelson Tenths and the Motueka Tenths and the Wakatū Incorporation and other such organisations that have come into being since the days of Grey.In this bill there are stories of land being granted to the Crown for the purpose of educating Māori children of the time. In Nelson the Crown opened a school for a couple of years but it was soon closed and the land that was gifted went not back to the owner but was alienated from Māori by the Crown. The Ngāti Toa case of Whitireia Park is an even worse case of the Crown’s broken promises. Ngāti Toa never got their college for Māori education; they lost the land completely. Petitions and inquiries were of no avail.Then came the famous case ofWī Pārata v Bishop of Wellington. Wī Pārata was a chief of Ngāti Toa a former member of this House and an MP for Western Māori. He retired from Parliament to take up the land cases that affected his iwi namely Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Toa. This case was famous for those famous—or infamous—words uttered by Judge Prendergast: “The Treaty is a nullity.” when summing up the Whitireia case that Wī Pārata ultimately lost. That is the way Pākehā New Zealand fought back in Wī Pārata’s day and even before. Māori had no rights and the Treaty meant nothing to Pākehā. The Church of England paid the price with some Ngāti Toa accepting Mormonism as their religion. The Crown saw this ruling as justification to ignore the principles of the Treaty.And so today here we are on Thursday 6 June although in Parliament time we are actually still on Wednesday. But this day sees the Crown starting that process to say sorry and to reimburse these eight iwi as best as the Government can with what little resource is at its disposal. It is at this point that I take up my late colleague friend and chief Parekura Horomia’s plea for more money. I implore Minister Finlayson and his Office of Treaty Settlements because without fail in every bill that came before this House Parekura Horomia wanted just a little bit more for Māori. He had been a Minister of Māori Affairs at a time when Treaty negotiations were handled a bit more slowly they were handled a bit differently from the way negotiations are handled today. But be that as it may he never failed in asking Minister Finlayson for a few million more for a few more yards of earth or a couple more trees. So I leave you with those words from beyond the veil.This bill and settlement is nearly 500 pages long. It covers eight iwi in the kaka kamate. I have touched on only a few subjects close to my whakapapa. In subsequent readings I look forward to debating other parts of the bill that affect other iwi such as Ngāti Kuia Ngāti Apa Rangitāne and Te Ātiawa. These people have a story to tell and over subsequent readings their story and history will come out. Again may I acknowledge all representatives from ngā iwi o Te Tau Ihu who have travelled here today and the teams of people negotiators past and present from both sides who have worked so hard to bring us to this historic day. Ka nui taku kōrero i tēnei wā nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[That is enough from me for now so acknowledgments and greetings to you and to us all.]I commend this bill to the House.Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): Rau rangatira mā tēnei taku mihi atu ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.[To the leaders of a hundredfold this is my acknowledgment to you collectively. Welcome welcome welcome.]I am tempted to begin by saying “Alleluia the bill is finally before the House” but I do not want to sound like an evangelist preacher or like Mr Auchinvole from the West Coast so I am going to confine my comments to saying I am absolutely delighted that the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill is finally in here. It captures years and years of work on the part of all of those represented in the gallery today and their advisers and the good work—the great work—of the Office of Treaty Settlements.After I became the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations at the end of 2008 I was told that the agreements in principle for these iwi were getting to a stage where they could be signed. Well in February 2009 they were signed. Then I was told: “Well we should be able to get them through to deed of settlement and then to legislation reasonably quickly.” It became something of a Homeric epic. The first deed of settlement was signed with Ngāti Kuia at Labour Weekend as I recall it then the Rangitāne o Wairau settlement was signed on a very important day 4 December 2010—and I am still grateful to Richard Bradley for the birthday cake—and then the Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu deed was signed just a couple of weeks ago to conclude the signing of all the deeds of settlement. In between those dates there has been a huge amount of work put in by all the people in the gallery to seeing that this legislation could be introduced today.There are so many people I wish to acknowledge and I think it is entirely appropriate that they be acknowledged inHansard for their contributions. The two previous speakers the Hon Dr Pita Sharples and Rino Tirikatene have referred to what the legislation is about and I will say a little bit more in a couple of minutes but I just want to say this. Earlier in the week we signed a deed of settlement with Ngāi Tūhoe. I said and it was reported on television and in the papers that if people doubt the validity of the exercise we are undertaking they should read the facts—read the historical facts. The historical facts for these iwi are set out in various parts of the legislation.As always happens over the last few days I have had some unpleasant emails saying: “Well where are the facts?” “There is no basis for this claim” and “Tūhoe don’t deserve things”—and no doubt I will get it after this legislation. But any fair-minded person who reads the facts of what happened at the top of the South Island will understand exactly why this legislation is necessary and why this historical process that we are working through is absolutely necessary for the future of our land.So I do want to stand here and acknowledge the iwi negotiators who have worked so very hard to get to this stage. As I said the negotiations have been long. They have been very very testing. There have been numerous stops and starts. It is only because of their commitment the commitment of the negotiators of the trustees and of the iwi members that we are here today. You have my sincere respect and I salute all of you.As has been said eight settlement bills are going to be enacted through this omnibus bill so there are numerous acknowledgments. If I miss out anyone then I apologise. The Ngāti Apa settlement would not have been possible without the dedication of the Ngāti Apa Ki Te Waipounamu Trust. Peter Mason Brendon Wilson and Paia Rīwaka-Herbert are just a few of the people who represented Ngāti Apa over these years.I particularly want to pay tribute to the late Kath Hēmi a wonderful woman a strong woman who was instrumental in leading the charge in the tribunal but sadly who is not with us today to witness this occasion. Taking the deed to her on the morning we signed the deed settlement when she was in Wairau Hospital so that she could sign it was a real honour. Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Kuia charitable trust through its wisdom and patience has made a settlement possible for its iwi. Mark Moses Ray Smith and Waihaere Mason represented Ngāti Kuia throughout the settlement negotiations and their commitment deserves mention today. Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau Inc. has made the Rangitāne settlement a reality through the hard work dedication and perseverance of Judith MacDonald the ever-optimistic Richard Bradley and Jeffrey Hynes—he wanted me to say that.The Ngāti Koata Trust with its intelligence and commitment has made the Ngāti Kōata settlement possible. Roma Hippolite Allen McGregor Hippolite and Jeanette Grace have proudly represented that great iwi and have to be recognised for their hard work. It is because of the dedication of the Ngāti Rārua-Ātiawa Iwi Trust and its efforts and determination that Ngāti Rārua have achieved this milestone. Rōpata Stevens Lee Luke Barry Mason and Molly Luke whom I see in the gallery today carried the Ngāti Rārua flag through the negotiations and have to be mentioned for their fantastic efforts.The Ngāti Tama settlement would not have been possible without the zeal and perseverance the hard work and commitment of Robert McKewen Fred Te Miha and Jo Westrupp. Through the hard work and diligence of the Te Ātiawa Manawhenua ki Te Tau Ihu Trust the Te Ātiawa settlement was made possible. I salute Harvey Ruru Sharon Gemmell and Glenis Payne who have championed Te Ātiawa’s interests. Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Inc. through Te Kaha their negotiations team have secured the Ngāti Toa settlement. I particularly acknowledge Matiu Rei this morning. He has fought the good fight for his iwi for well over a quarter of century. Tiratū Williams Iwikatea Nicholson and Te Ariki Wineera Jr staunchly represented Ngāti Toa.It is appropriate—I have mentioned Kath Hēmi—to mention others who began this journey and are no longer with us: people like Chris Atutahi and Janice Manson. But most important I acknowledge those who suffered because of the acts or omissions of the Crown and those tribunal claimants who have carried the burden of their tīpuna’s claims. So thank you very much for all you have done. Thank you for your patience. There were many times when I said the bill was just around the corner and for some of you it became one of the great litanies of the time but we are here and I acknowledge all of you for your tremendous work.There are some other people I want to mention before I briefly traverse the bill. I want to acknowledge the Crown negotiators. Ross Philipson started it. Paul Swain such a good fellow helped with the negotiations. I also acknowledge the Parliamentary Counsel Office. It is increasingly in my mind the unsung hero of the legislative process. Without its dedication this leviathan bill would not be able to be introduced so to Bill Moore and his team I say thank you.It is an omnibus bill. It brings together a number of settlements as is well-known and it will come out of the select committee as four bills. I particularly want to say something about Part 11 which will become the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill. That is a really interesting piece of legislation. As Dr Sharples said a lot of work needed to be spent on that because it is new territory. We have had Wai 262 and we have had the World Intellectual Property Organization looking at how we go about protecting traditional cultural expressions and this is a very first step. The important thing is that that legislation contains a review clause so that in 5 years’ time we can have a further look at it in light of recent international developments. So I am very very pleased thatwe have reached that stage and that we will be able to look at traditional cultural expressions such as the haka and this is the first step.I always recall the day that we signed the agreement in principle in the Legislative Council Chamber. There was no headline in the paper dealing with the amount or the land or the history but simply the headline “All Black Haka Goes to Maoris”. I wondered about theDominion Post then and I wonder about it now.So finally I want to commend this bill to the House into the safe hands of that great New Zealander Mr Tau Henare. I know that he is as keen as mustard to get on to this bill and to get it back to the House as quickly as possible so that it can be legislated and so that the people of Te Tau Ihu can get on with building their pūtea.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. E tāpiri ana aku mihi ki ngā iwi katoa o Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka-a-Māui. Tēnei ka mihi atu ki a koutou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou.[Thank you Mr Speaker. I add my acknowledgments to those accorded to all the tribes of the Prow of Māui’s Canoe. I salute you all greetings greetings and greetings to us.]It gives me great pleasure to be able to stand and continue to support the Treaty settlements process in a way that will ensure the safe passage of this bill the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill through the Māori Affairs Committee and back into this House. I want to acknowledge our former colleague Parekura Horomia. This will be the first time that a settlement bill has gone through without his purview over any part of it and it is with some sense of sadness and I guess nostalgia that we will be having a less colourful debate on all parts of Treaty settlements without him here.I want to acknowledge actually the former Te Tai Tonga members of Parliament. In the gestation of getting to this point I am sure that their stewardship and support of the ambitions of the iwi within Te Tau Ihu helped get this bill a little bit further towards where it is today—namely Mahara Okeroa Rahui Katene and now Rino Tirikatene. It is a satisfying point in your own history and certainly as a member of Parliament representing a rohe when iwi are able to get their historical Treaty claims settled. We certainly understand more than many within this House that it is not only recognising the hurts of the past but restoring opportunity for the next generation.I want to acknowledge all those who are not here and who have sadly passed away and who contributed in some small or great way to pulling this settlement together. We have got eight iwi sitting amongst us and they will all know the names and they will all feel that they are here today. I too want to acknowledge the contribution of those who are not with us.Sitting in Parliament and reflecting on how the Treaty settlement process has evolved over time I have seen a fair few bills come through this House. It is with some regret that moving towards comprehensive claims and large natural groupings as a matter of pragmatism can in some part be the point of contention for many. But we have all moved on. Parliament has moved on in terms of improving the process. Iwi have seen to some extent the necessity of trying to ensure without losing their sense of unique identity within a large natural grouping process in a comprehensive claim that they can still get through the business.So with that said I note that members before me have pointed to the detail of the bill. The parliamentary process has evolved to the point where I believe all members in this House have understood the huge value New Zealand’s history gains in rewriting and recording the historical record. We have learnt through the select committee process the briefings that we receive and the submissions that we gain around the particular aspects of each settlement what it really means. We can never underestimate the importance of that public education role of members in this House to be able to then goback to their own rohe and be able to combat a lot of criticisms that always come towards Treaty settlements much in the same way that the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Finlayson spoke about in terms of some of the negative narrative around the recent Tūhoe settlement.So in ensuring that this bill gets safe passage through the select committee process I look forward to being able to understand the more unique aspects of each of the eight iwi and their requests within the context of their settlement. I look forward to understanding in more detail advice from officials where they will maybe point out some of the more difficult aspects of trying to get to the point of agreement. I look forward to noting those things within the next debate in the second reading of the bill in the House so that people are mindful that there are still areas where we have to be ever-vigilant as parliamentarians and also on the other side of the ledger as iwi to ensure that the main clause of every settlement bill—that this “Act binds the Crown”—is upheld over time. To be an enduring settlement it is critically important that it is one that locks the relationship in to a longer view than just today just tomorrow but for the next generation.The settlements that have been reached within the context of the bill I think foreshadow a new era of opportunity and change. As I said the pillars of the settlement undertake to rewrite history to correct history and to restore a sense of natural justice to a history that was preserved within the context of each iwi but not well known within their wider community. I believe that the issues around statutory acknowledgments that are all contained in various aspects and ways for the eight iwi will ensure that when we walk this land people will see that there is a whole other sense of belonging that is affirmed to a whole other generation of New Zealanders. That will be a positive thing certainly for our kids and certainly for their kids and we would not get it without a settlement of this nature.In terms of the cultural redress often in Treaty settlements all the detail hidden within the cultural redress can reveal some very unique and innovative things. So again I believe that some of the most powerful opportunities for new things like new recognition of rights have actually been contained within the cultural redress area. Commercial redress—well a bird cannot fly without feathers without wings. The commercial redress will obviously be an opportunity for the iwi to have an economic base to be able to build from and to be able to grow from. But they go hand in hand. One does not go without the other. I know from reflecting on settlements within my own rohe that more and more another generation is trying to fuse together the cultural and the commercial redress in a way that holds integrity for the next generation.The rights of first refusal can be a fairly technical part of the bill. I have just been looking through it at how it hinges together. I know from our own experience back home that there are fish hooks in it. You can bet that before the select committee I will certainly be putting my eye over that to ensure that the right scrutiny that you deserve as iwi and the way in which this process is anticipated to work do work in the way we want them to.In terms of the Ka Mate attribution I again agree with the Minister. This is the attribution that will be a template at the front end of what the protection of intellectual property rights for Māori could start to look like. It will evolve over time but we have started somewhere. I want to acknowledge the work that has gone in to this from Toa Rangatira around the attribution. Depending on whether you lived in Kāwhia or came down on the heke there are two parts to the story. Because I can whakapapa to it I will tell the versions that I have heard. Those who stayed back in Kāwhia said thatTe Rauparaha was too big for his boots and he got booted out. Those who went on the heke said thatKāwhia was not big enough for them and they needed to move on.But really the here that I guess I wanted to connect to with my Toa Rangatira kinsmen was that there is a proud history of connection there which in some small way is recognised through the heke throughTe Rauparaha through the fact thatToa Rangatira has had footprints all the way down through the heke intoTe Tau Ihu. Again I want to ensure that from an intellectual property protection point of view we utilise this model of a template as an opportunity to see what more could be done in terms of the restoration of Māori knowledge and rights and intellectual property that could be furthered under theWai 262 report.I will not take up too much more time except to say that in the second reading of this bill I expect to report back more substantially on the detail of some of the considerations of the Māori Affairs Committee. I want to acknowledge the huge step forward that together the iwi of Te Tau Ihu have taken to reach this point. I also want to acknowledge the huge amount of effort that all the technical advisers for the iwi all the kaumātua all the people and all the negotiators put in to ensure that we can stand here today again reaffirming how proud we can be to live in a country that wants to try to set the record straight. Kia ora mai tātou.DENISE ROCHE (Green): Tēnā tangata whenua o Te Tau Ihu te rā ki Ngāti Apa ki Te Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia Rangitāne o Wairau Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui me Ngati Toa Rangatira. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. It is my privilege to rise to speak to this bill Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill. It is a privilege to be a representative in this House when these settlements are being brought here to enshrine them in the history books and in the legislation of our country Aotearoa New Zealand. Before I go much further I should declare my interests like my colleagues have already in that I whakapapa to Raukawa and claim connection to Ngāti Toa through Te Rauparaha’s mother Parekōhatu. So those are my interests declared. But this is your day.In bringing these settlements to the House I recognise and pay tribute to the many people over very many generations who have bravely fought for justice for their peoples for their lands and for their resources. It has been a long journey to gain recognition of the wrongs that were done and for the Crown to attempt to address the wrongs and also apologise for its acts and omissions.The legislation as it appears in the bill states that this is a full and final settlement. The Greens’ position has always been that although we will of course support this bill we also believe it is not a full settlement. How can it fully compensate for the injustices heaped since 1839 upon the iwi represented here today in Te Tau Ihu rohe?We do not agree that it is a final settlement either. We know that even now the Crown may intrude on the rights of iwi and we uphold the right of iwi to challenge the Crown when that happens and to seek further compensation. Furthermore how can a settlement be final when the coming generations of these people may still suffer from the losses that have happened over the last 180 years or so? How can this be a full and final settlement when we know that this is a Crown-driven process—that the Crown really determines who is recognised and who is not? This will come out more I am sure during the select committee process. That is not really so very different from the actions of the Crown in the early 1900s when it allowed the division of land and placed ownership of collective land in individual hands.This stance is not to undermine in any way the enormous amount of work that has gone into getting these settlements to this place. However the Greens must state clearly that we maintain that this is a deal. It has come with much blood sweat and tears and we must never underestimate its importance and we certainly do not undervalue the worth of the Crown’s apologies. I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations his staff and the staff of the Office of Treaty Settlements and their workin delivering a full apology to the people of these iwi. Even so this settlement is a deal. It is the best that could be negotiated at the time and the settlement deeds themselves say that they could never possibly compensate for the full costs of the losses suffered.As others have already mentioned these settlements include financial and commercial redress. For Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu for example that amounts to just over $12 million and other amounts for the other iwi. It frequently saddens me that many New Zealanders and indeed some parties in this House see settlements as some kind of largesse from the Crown—that somehow these settlements are undeserved.Sadly a lot of people in New Zealand do not know our history. Most people in New Zealand do not visit the website of the Office of Treaty Settlements and read the historical accounts that have been painstakingly researched and they are included in the deeds of settlement. The details I have found can be harrowing to read. They must have been far more harrowing to have lived through as these iwi have. For those who gripe about the financial redress they need to bear in mind that this Government bailed out a South Island finance company to the tune of $12 billion and that finance company did not even lose the names of their places or their land.The impacts of the losses have been huge. This is an excerpt from the Ngāti Rārua’s settlement about the socio-economic impacts and cultural loss: “By the late nineteenth century Ngāti Rārua had retained interests in the Nelson Tenths estate including the occupied Tenths at Motueka a handful of Mohua reserves and the Wairua district reserves. Most of these reserves were either too small or of poor quality for their owners to participate in the colonial economy … As settlers took up the land around the reserves Ngāti Rārua and other Māori owners were hemmed in losing the option of grazing their stock on Crown wasteland and of accessing traditional food resources located outside of the reserves. This development and the inadequacy of the reserves often led to inter- and intra-iwi competition creating rifts within communities … In the late twentieth century the Māori population of Te Tau Ihu including Ngāti Rārua still registered poorly across a range of social and economic indicators and the position of Māori culture and language was weak.”These settlements return some land to iwi but will never return the land that was lost. They do provide for cultural redress and some of that redress includes vesting lands and returning wāhi tapu overlaying classifications in some areas the recognition of the particular cultural spiritual historical and traditional association that iwi have with some significant areas deeds of recognition of iwi in relation to areas of Department of Conservation - managed land and the changing of some names to their original names and some unnamed areas being granted their original names. I note that some of the settlements also give important areas of land back to iwi which they will keep for a week before handing back to the Crown for the enjoyment of all New Zealanders.I acknowledge that this is a day of celebration and that iwi wish to move into the future with hope and with their pride restored. I acknowledge the huge generosity of those iwi who are part of this settlement because it benefits us all.I will finish my speech by quoting one part of the apology in the settlement deeds. It says: “The Crown hopes this apology and settlement will mark the beginning of a renewed and enduring relationship … based on mutual trust co-operation and respect for Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles.” and I guess that highlights the dishonour that the Crown did to itself.It is my sincere hope that as a country we will abide by the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and this bill is a huge step towards that. Congratulations. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.Hon TAU HENARE (National): E aku rangatira e aku kaumātua e ōku kuia tēnā koutou ā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Tēnā koutou i haere mai i tēnei rā ki te whakarongo i ngā mema o te Whare Pāremata o Niu Tīreni nō reira nau mai haere mai ki taku Whare. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[To my leaders elders respected women elders greetings greetings and greetings to you collectively. Acknowledgments to you who have come here today to listen to the members of the Parliament of New Zealand. Welcome welcome to my House. So compliments acknowledgments and congratulations to you all.]Most of the speakers here have some relationship with Te Tau Ihu iwi. I too have a relationship with Te Tau Ihu. One of my flatmates was from there. She is a woman. As a Ngāpuhi my job is to make sure that we do not get blamed for stuff that we did not do. But can I start by saying: another day another dollar. When I picked up the bill I thought to myself: “Woo hoo! What a good settlement.” But then I realised that it was for eight iwi. Although I laud every Labour settlement and every National settlement—and I emphasise “National settlement” in a couple of ways—I think our side has done an extremely good job of ploughing through the settlements. I also use the word “national” in terms of our country.Something still tells me that we the Crown have gotten off reasonably lightly. But then I also think to myself and I note that of all the Commonwealth countries around the world we actually lead the list in reconciliations in a reconciliation process so my hat does come off to the negotiators on the iwi side and on the Crown side. My hat does come off to the Minister and to all those people who play a role. And yes there are legs on the old dog Paul Swain whom as an Opposition member of Parliament I had a lot of time for and still do. It is good to see that the skills that we learn here can be used by everyone when we do leave here.I was ploughing through the bill looking for an apology from theMarlborough Express but I could not find one. We sit down and do these settlements and we can think that only last week a media organisation decided to use its editorial power—because that is what it is it is power—to poke fun at this country’s indigenous people. I want to say and put it on theHansardrecord of the House that I find the actions of theMarlborough Express and also the ChristchurchPressto be utterly disappointing.I want to name a few things and put them into this context: Wounded Knee Cochise Geronimo Chief Joseph the Trail of Tears and Sitting Bull. Those are all names of places and people who have been memorialised not only in the United States but also around the world. I wonder why we do not memorialise our own indigenous people. I wonder why we do not memorialise the areas of significance to this nation. There are areas of significance throughout all of our nation. I will not go into them because that might condemn me to talking about my Ngāpuhi heritage too much and I do not want to get into that area. But I do think that as part of the reconciliation process this has to be the first part. This has to be where we go in terms of reconciling our past.I love the fact that my colleague and my friend the Hon Nanaia Mahuta said that it is not about rewriting history but it is about correcting history and that concept of history that we in our school years in our formative years in the education system did not learn about all of this. That is another part that I hope one day this country can bring itself to—to memorialise and to educate our next generations about what actually happened to whom and by whom and the reason why we are all here. I think if we get to that space that would be great. That is a promise from me as the chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee.Make no mistake these days are what I live for in this House. It is not about a taxation bill or an industrial relations bill or whatever. That is boring stuff although they have to happen. This is what gets me going because it shows that our nation is anation of leaders throughout the world on indigenous issues. We can pat ourselves on the back and we can say congratulations to each and every one of us.I agree with my colleague from the Greens that it is not enough. But just like anything it will never be enough. The sentence for a crime that happens in our community will never ever be enough.I want to promise as the chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee that we will visit every area affected in the bill. We will listen. We will have fun. We will have laughter. There will be tears of joy and tears of sadness. That is part of the reconciliation process. That is part of getting to know who our nation really is. Do not forget that our nation is only 160-odd years old so we still have time to fix what is to come and make this a truly—truly—bicultural nation. You cannot have a multicultural nation unless you go through the process of biculturalism.I do want to end by saying a few words about the attribution of Ka Mate not so much about Ka Mate itself but what we are doing is hugely significant. Never forget that we did it first. New Zealand did it first—again. We seem to lead the world in race relations and we seem to lead the world in the treatment and the reconciliation process so I am over the moon that that is actually a step right out of left field. I stood in the House as the Minister of Māori Affairs and put through the education amendment bill aboutkura kaupapa andTe Aho Matua which was right out of left field. This again is something that I think our nation can be proud of and laud to the world that this is the way to go in terms of reconciling our past with our present which will become our future. Kia ora.LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora Mr Speaker.E ngā mana ngāwhānau o Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka-a-Māui. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. It is my pleasure to add my voice to the celebration of today and to congratulate Te Tau Ihu and all the whānau who have been involved in getting us to the point that we are at now. I also want to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and his team who have brought us to this place.There are two parts to this process. There is the part of us trying as the Hon Tau Henare has said to go through the truth and reconciliation of the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. What I want to highlight as always is the generosityfrom our hapū and iwi who are settling as Denise Roche has said for a lot less than what was taken from you. That spirit of generosity always has to be acknowledged because without it we would not be able to move on. For me this process that we are in signifies us moving on it signifies a maturing of our nation and it also signifies a strength in Māoridom. We will take some of our whenua back we will take some pūtea back but we will also take which I want to highlight the opportunity for us to take some of our names back and to have customary use of eels which is in subpart 8 of Part 2 of the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill. We will take back statutory kaitiaki and customary use of tītī.What I want to say about these developments is that in some ways they are constitutional recognitions. It is quite interesting that at the moment we are having this constitutional dialogue and certain things are off the table but in fact what these Treaty settlements are doing is recognising hapū and iwi as first sovereigns of Aotearoa because you will participate in processes and on boards in partnership with the Crown. I actually think that the most significant aspect of these Treaty settlements is that you are being recognised as hapū and iwi specifically for your kaitiakitanga your guardianship your right to be involved in these processes forevermore. So that for me is the major significance of these settlement bills.I also wanted to say that this signifies the crossing of a halfway point in terms of the Treaty settlement process. I saw some information earlier in the week that said that we have had 62 settlements totalling $1.4 billion. So the fiscal cap that was rolled out inthe 1990s trying to limit this truth and reconciliation process is well and truly over. I want to acknowledge the fact that we have not been constrained financially in terms of that redress. We have got about another 60 to go.I also wanted to specifically highlight “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!” and thank you on behalf of New Zealanders—and thank you on behalf of Māoridom actually—for the use of “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!”. I cannot wait to go to the rugby on Saturday night. I am going to go and watch the All Blacks beat France but what I will also enjoy is the fact that “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!” will start that match. I think that that significance can never be underestimated. I know that Ngāti Toa Rangatira have been fighting since 1998 to trademark the haka and what this legislation does is essentially cut out that legal fight and recognise for ever that Te Rauparaha was the composer and Ngāti Toa for ever are the legal owners of “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!”. I think that is hugely significant and I think it is hugely significant that there is a 5-year review clause in this legislation because who knows what will happen in the future? So there will always be through this bill protection of your ownership in some ways of “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!” or a recognition that it originated from your tūpuna.I do not want to hold up the settlement process today. I am no longer on the Māori Affairs Committee. One of the things that I have loved about being in this House is having the honour of hearing the submissions from whānau and visiting all the areas that Tau has talked about. It is an incredibly humbling experience to share this day with all of you. I hope that you take some sense of satisfaction from it. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnātātoukatoa.COLIN KING (National—Kaikōura): It is indeed a pleasure to take a call in the later stages of the first reading of Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill and I want to thank the other members who have curtailed their speeches to give me this opportunity to speak as the member for Kaikōura which includes the Marlborough Sounds and Marlborough. It is indeed a pleasure to stand in the House before those people whom I have called friends—and I have enjoyed their wisdom and direction and guidance as I have been in that role as a member of Parliament—and to talk on this first reading. I recognise the wisdom of the other speakers and the size of the bill which the chairman of the Māori Affairs Committee alluded to. There is a lot of work.I just want to talk principally about the Kurahaupō grouping and what they have achieved. We were here in 2009 with the signing in principle. We had those occasions out at the maraes in Marlborough where we signed the deeds of settlement and of course the way that time moves on is quite remarkable. But what I want to put on record is the already tremendous contribution that Ngāti Kuia Ngāti Apa and Rangitāne are contributing in the way forward in that region. I just see that although this legislation is to work with the Crown it is in actual fact supporting and reinforcing the mana and the opportunity of that grouping of iwi.So just to put on record Kath Hēmi that tremendous woman who never failed to back off from the way forward in ensuring that there was redress and also Laurie Duckworth a tremendous man working in the background there to ensure that everything was kosher and that those iwi remained healthy. Of course today with the leaders Richard Bradley and Judith MacDonald along with the Smiths the Masons the MacDonalds the Hyneses—and I also want to put on record the support that the Hon Doug Kidd had for the marae at Ōmaka. So much has to come out and will do so during the process at the select committee and I look forward to the time that we get back in the House here for the second reading. Kia kaha. What a wonderful occasion and I want to see more smiles on the faces of the people in the gallery. Thank you.BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): Ka tangi te tītī ka tangi te kākā ka tangi hoki ahau tihei mauri ora. E ngā iwi e ngā reo e ngā mana e ngā mātāwaka tēnā tātou tēnākoutou tēnā koutou katoa. E rau rangatira mā ka mihi ake i runga i te karanga o te rā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō koutou katoa.[The muttonbird calls the parrot calls and I call too behold the breath of life. To the tribes languages authorities and ethnic groups salutations greetings and acknowledgments to us and to you all. To the leaders of a hundredfold I commend you on the call of the day. Well done and congratulations once again to you all.]As my esteemed colleague Nanaia Mahuta said before I would like to acknowledge that although Parekura is not here in person he is very much here in spirit and how sad it is that he is not here today to weave his special magic. But as I said I am sure he will weave that magic in spirit.I would like to acknowledge the many many people who have worked so hard. It has taken many many years and much hard work so I acknowledge all of those who have worked hard to get us to this stage. There is only a short way to go but it is very very important that it is not rushed. I should say I look forward along with my fellow members of the Māori Affairs Committee to looking at the submissions on the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill and working out the small details because the devil is always in the detail. It is very very very important that these final stages are looked at under a microscope so that we have something that all New Zealanders can be proud of and so that it unites not only the eight iwi involved but all of New Zealand.I would like to also say that Minister Finlayson has done magnificent work and I would like also to highlight some of the words that he spoke. It is so lovely to have a Minister who when he gives an apology you can tell that he means it. The other day when we were there for Ngāi Tūhoe Minister that was such a magnificent day and a magnificent apology and it is a shame that some members of the media chose to denigrate it in some way. Our Minister Finlayson spoke of the great courage of Māori and of their generosity and compromise. We see that in every settlement—the compromise that Māori have made. It is a tribute to all Māori in New Zealand how we can look at something and go: “OK we are going to do the best we can here. We are going to reach settlement and we are going to move on.” So I would like to honour all of the iwi involved and the negotiators for the hard work that has been done but also again the hard work that is still to come.The Minister said that this is an omnibus bill—and it is—and as alluded to again by my esteemed colleague Nanaia there is also a uniqueness here. It is lovely to see the uniqueness of each iwi preserved within this settlement. Then we come to something that I would like everybody to consider and that is the importance of lasting education. We must educate New Zealanders about these settlements what has happened before the courage the strength the tragedy the pride the loss and the devastation and therefore through all that through the recognition of that through the education that continuing education we will have true healing in New Zealand. Let the pounamu work and weave its healing magic.I would also say that it is fitting that our haka’s origin home and guardianship are recognised. And as “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!” has presented a synergy and united all New Zealanders for many years on battlefields in sport and for New Zealanders who are overseas feeling lonely I think that it is very fitting that “Ka Mate! Ka Mate!” can unite all New Zealanders with the settlement of this bill. I look forward to seeing the bill in the select committee. Good luck. Thank you.STEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. E ngā tangata whenua o Te Tau Ihu kia ora. Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia Rangitāne o Wairau Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Ngati Toa Rangatira. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. To the home people of Te Tau Ihu hello there. To Ngati Apa of Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne of Wairau to Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Tama of the Tau Ihu to Te Ātiawa of the South Island and to Ngati Toa Rangatira salutations acknowledgments and greetings to you all.]I feel privileged to be a representative here today while this settlement bill is introduced. Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill is a bill that reflects some redress—just some redress—for the tangata whenua of the rohe of my childhood and much of my adult life with Pelorus Ōpawa Kaituna and Wairau being the awa of my rohe.I would like to acknowledge those who have passed on. There are far too many whom I have known enjoyed the company of and respected and just some of the families were the Staffords and the Walkers. I remember Kath Hemi and there are others.I like it that the bill recognises Rangitāne’s historical association in the Endeavour Inlet just over the hill but on the slopes of the same maunga Aorere—Mount Stokes—my maunga where I lived in Anakoha Bay for 6 years. Thanks to Uncle Peter—Peter Waaka of Ngāti Kuia. At 300 metres high on the slopes of Aorere I looked out at TīTī Island and the Chetwode Islands and again their association to Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne is given recognition in this tome of a bill. I looked further out of course to Takapourewa—Stephens Island—and I think it has been part of previous settlements. I note the number of other islands and places that are given historical recognition at this point too for Te Ātiawa Ngāti Apa and others.I recall during my childhood in Blenheim being at school and hearing the stories of the archaeologists at the Wairau boulder bank—the Wairau Bar. It was the place I used to bike out to to look at lizards and katipo spiders. Those stories enthralled us but what we were not getting when we were there was the real history. What we were not getting was the substance of mana whenua which this bill at last acknowledges.This bill acknowledges the mana whenua of other friends and of many of course whom I do not know. It is essential that we have the Crown apology. I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and those who have dealt with this bill and the fact that there is the apology as part of the settlement.As my colleague Denise Roche has said this is a deal; it is not really a settlement. But it is some redress as we go along. Some hapū may not feel that this is for them and some—and I am thinking of my good friend at Kaituna—may have some variation—[Interruption] Ah ha Rangitāne behind me. My friend has been probably the best educator for me about the history of what has happened through this area that has been covered. It has been fantastic—far too late at night many a time through to the small hours through to the daylight hours even.I look forward to this bill progressing through the House. I am pleased to be in a party that has an overlay of Te Tiriti o Waitangi before its other principles of stewardship and social justice as we do in the Green Party. I look forward to this bill progressing. This is a great day of celebration. I am really really pleased to see you all here and to be part of it. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): I am very pleased to stand here perhaps as the last speaker in this first reading of the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill. To the iwi of Te Tau Ihu kia ora greetings. Welcome to this House which is our House and your House. I would like to acknowledge you here today. I would like to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson who I believe has been a great leader in the processes of bringing settlement to the different iwi of Aotearoa New Zealand. I think that we can be very pleased and even proud to say that in these last two parliaments we have seen greatprogress being made and all on important issues which are very important not only to you but to the people of New Zealand.So I acknowledge you today; you who have carried remembrance of the past and also carry a vision for the future you who stand at this gateway with this legislation about to go to the Māori Affairs Committee. This is legislation that will in some way redress the past but will also release your future—a future that I believe will be great a future that is full of promise. I am a member of that select committee and I am very pleased to serve on it under the leadership of the Hon Tau Henare. I acknowledge also the work of the Office of Treaty Settlements and the great work that it has done in this process. Kia ora. May it go well. Thank you.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: The debate now having concluded I think for the purposes of explanation to the whānau in the gallery I will outline the process. We will vote on the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill. That will be one motion. Presuming that the bill passes we will then vote to deal with the bill which is to send it to a select committee. That is the second motion. If the whānau in the gallery wish to respond with a waiata that would be the time and I will indicate that. Then because we are moving on to other business it would be helpful if the bill for which you are present here is finished that you make room for the Ngāti Whātua people. So as efficiently as possible you might like to move from the gallery at that point after the waiata to make room for the Ngāti Whātua people.Bill read a first time.Billreferred to the Māori Affairs Committee.WaiataNgāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement BillThird ReadingHon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Māori Affairs)on behalf of theMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: I moveThat the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill be now read a third time. Tēnā koutou. He rā nui tēnei mō tātou katoa ngā Māori katoa o Aotearoa nā reira koutou Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara nau mai whakapiri mai. Tēnā koe e Doc. Tō kaha ki te haramai i tēnei rangi tēnā koe hā ngā mihi nui ki a koe. Naida koutou katoa i tae mai nei i tēnei rā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.Ko ētahi kāre i konei—haere. Kua hinga rātou kua tukuna atu nā reira kei te mihi tonu ki a rātou ngā mate kua pā ki a tātou i ēnei rangi i ēnei tau kua pahure ake ā kei roto i ō tātou whakaaro i ngā wā katoa. Nā reira ko Parekura tētahi ā i hīkoi i waenganui i a koutou ā kua tukuna atu ki Te Kaihanga i te rangi. Anā kua hinga mai tētahi o Tainui i tēnei rā arā ko te tama tētahi o ngā tamariki a Tom Moana ā te ahiahi nei ka haere tōna tūpāpaku ki Horahora Marae i roto o Tainui. Nā reira ngā mihi ngā tangi ki a rātou kua ngaro atu. Haere koutou okioki pai mai.Ēngari ki a koutou kua tae mai Ngāti Whātua ki—[Interruption]—Kaipara whānui hari koa taku ngākau. Kia ora Naida. Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara ngā tamariki mokopuna o Haranui Rēweti Kakanui arā Araparera ā me Puatahi marae tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. He nunui ngā mihi ki a koutou i tēnei rangi kua hara mai nei mai i Te Hiku o tō tātou Ika-a-Māui.[Greetings to you collectively. This is a great day for all of us Māori of New Zealand so to you of Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara welcome draw closer. Hello there Doc. I admire your strength to come here today. Well done and a huge welcome to you indeedto you too Naida and all of you who have come here today acknowledgments greetings and congratulations.There are some who are not here—farewell. They have passed away and have been released but we continue to acknowledge them the deaths that touched us recently and in years past. They are in our thoughts at all times. Parekura is one of them. He walked amongst you. He has been given up to the Creator in heaven. Now another has fallen in Tainui just today. He is one of Tom Moana’s children the son whose body will be taken to Horahora Marae in Tainui this afternoon. So tributes and laments to them who are lost from us. Depart and rest well there.But to you collectively who have arrived here Ngāti Whātua of—[Interruption]—Kaipara at large I am elated. Thank you Naida. Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara the children and grandchildren of Haranui Rēweti Kakanui and indeed Araparera and Puatahi courtyard salutations and greetings to you all. My tributes to you collectively who came here today from the Tail of our Maui’s Fish are enormous.]I would like to acknowledge all those who made claims on behalf of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and began this journey. I would also like to pause to remember and pay tribute to those who began the journey but are no longer with us in particular te rangatira Sir Hugh Kāwharu ā me ērā atu me ērā atu [and so on]. Moe mai koutou ngā rangatira moe mai rā.[Rest there esteemed ones. Sleep on.]We are here today to complete our consideration of a bill to resolve an injustice that began 169 years ago. It has been a long and arduous journey to get to this point. This bill settles the Treaty claims of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara by giving effect to the deed of settlement that Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara have negotiated with the Crown. This bill includes the Crown’s acknowledgment that it breached the Treaty of Waitangi and it apologises for those breaches and their consequences. This bill also provides for cultural financial and commercial redress in compensation for these breaches. He hōnore māku ki te pānuihia ēnei kaupapa nā te mea nā Minister Finlayson tēnei pire ēngari kua homai tēnei hōnore ki a au nā te mea kai te noho tahi tātou i Tāmaki—tēnā koutou.[It is an honour indeed for me to present these matters because this bill actually belongs to the Minister Christopher Finlayson. But he gave this privilege to me because we live together in Auckland—greetings to you collectively.]In 1992 Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara’s claim Wai 312 was lodged with the Waitangi Tribunal with hearings from 1999 through to 2001. Negotiations began in 2002 but little progress was made until serious discussions began in 2008 with Sir Michael Cullen. He was then the Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. It was not until December 2009 that an agreement in principle was signed. Then finally in September 2011 Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara signed their deed of settlement. So 21 years later we mark a significant milestone for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara as I move the third and final reading of their settlement bill.This bill will settle the grievances arising from the Crown’s persuasive and unrelenting land-buying policies that began with the purchase of large tracts of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara land bordering on the upper Waitematā in 1844. The Native Land Court exacerbated land loss by individualising titles so that by 1900 and within a single generation Ngāti Whātua had lost 90 percent of their lands in southern Kaipara. The 10 percent of land left for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara was fragmented uneconomic and hard to live off. This land loss also meant that the right of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara to uphold their own mana motuhake to exercise their own rangatiratanga was denied.But the people of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara survived and although it has been a long journey they are here in this House today pumping seeking justice and takingownership of their own destiny. Some also are here in spirit. An injustice that began in 1844 with the Crown takeover of vast tracts of lands in the upper Waitematā will soon be addressed by this Parliament the people of Ngāti Whātua and the people of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. All those things the families of Haranui Rēweti Kakanui Araparera and Puatahi have lost due to the actions of the Crown can never be totally restored and yet today Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara seek to settle their grievances with the Crown. We need to recognise that. In coming to this agreement to resolve past grievances we honour all of our ancestors. Importantly we also honour our descendants and we plan for the future.I stand to acknowledge Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara whose tenacity and leadership will soon see settlement for the hapū and marae of southern Kaipara. I commend the trustees of the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Committee and the trustees of Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Development Trust for their passion and commitment. They have shown incredible leadership by working alongside other iwi and hapū of Kaipara Tāmaki-makau-rau and Hauraki.The support of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara people for the settlement negotiated on their behalf is clear. Two ratification processes held in August 2010 and August 2011 returned approval rates of 96 percent and 92 percent respectively—amazing. The Treaty settlement journey for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara has taken over 21 years and although it is not possible to provide full restitution to Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara for the losses suffered the settlement redress provided for in this bill seeks to recognise the seriousness of their grievances and build a positive foundation for the future generations of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.The Hon Tau Henare made the point in the last settlement speech that perhaps New Zealand leads the world in terms of actually trying to do something to reconcile with its indigenous people. We looked at what is happening in America and other places—there are still signs up saying that Sitting Bull was a treacherous Indian and things like that. We have moved forward and it is really good to see. It is not just a mere apology; at least there is some real effort to embrace what happened in the past own it and make some sort of recompense for that. So we are really happy to be part of this process today.The legislation before us is much more than a new law; it is a history of a people and it is the future of a people. What was taken from these families can never be replaced—90 percent of the ancestral lands can never be replaced—and yet here they are willing to settle with the Crown. I acknowledge the sacrifice pain and injustice. I thank Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara for their leadership generosity and mana without which we would not be here today. I believe this settlement will support the healing of the relationship between Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and the Crown and I hope that the apology which forms part of the settlement will also assist with the healing. Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara acknowledges that the Crown’s apology represents its commitment to build a positive relationship with them and to honour its obligation under the Treaty for the good of this and future generations.This bill acknowledges Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara’s relationship with their whenua. As part of this acknowledgment nine reserves and conservation sites of significance will be transferred to Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara as cultural redress. These sites include Atuanui Scenic Reserve Mairetahi Landing Mauiniu Island Moturemu Island Tīpare Makarau Makarau Bridge Reserve Parakai and Ten Acre Block Recreation Reserve. This settlement will be a key step in allowing the iwi to move forward economically and culturally. The $22.1 million plus interest through their settlement and financial redress including the transfer of Woodhill Forest will provide Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara with anability to focus on and develop their future. I am very proud to stand and support this bill. Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Ngā whakamoemiti ki a Ihowa o ngā mano matua tama wairua tapu he whakahōnore ki ngā anahera pono ko te māngai anō hei tautoko mai aianei āke nei āe. E te tini e te tā o ngā maunga whakahī o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Nau mai haere mai ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei. Nau mai ki “Te Ana o te Raiona”. Ka nui te harikoa o te ngākau kua hara mai tātou i tēnei wā. Nō koutou tēnei rā. Ko tēnei te rā whakahirahira harihari koa te ngākau. E aku rangatira e te āpōtoro e Doc ka nui te mihi ki a koe. Ki a koutou e te whānau tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Praise to Jehovah of the multitudes father son and the holy spirit. Honour the faithful angels. The spokesperson will support once again now and for ever yes. To the many and the elite from the illustrious mountains of Kaipara greetings and salutations to you collectively. Welcome come hither to Parliament standing here in readiness. Come hither to the “Den of the Lion”. I am full of joy that we have come here at this stage. This is your day. This is an outstanding day and the heart is rejoicing. To my esteemed elders and to the apostle Doc I am full of admiration and to you the family salutations greetings and congratulations to you all.]This is a very historic day today and I am so delighted to be able to speak at the final reading of the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill. This is such a historic day. I think I might adopt the tone of our Minita over there Pita Sharples. We do not need to go through all the formalities. I know that I would like to acknowledge the history and the whakapapa and the significant achievements of the rangatira of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara—I have spoken a lot about that in my earlier speeches—but today is a day for celebration. It is a day to acknowledge the journey that has been taken and all of the great leaders and people who have taken Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara on this historic journey right up to today and the passage and the final passing of this bill.Just like our Minister here I would like to do a roll-call of all the marae of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara: Puatahi Arapārera Kakanui Haranui and Rēweti. Welcome to them all. It is just wonderful to have you all here. I know you might have—excuse me Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sorry; I am straying off the protocol. But it is wonderful to be here and to see you here kanohi ki te kanohi all of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.Can I particularly acknowledge the claims committee and all those wonderful kaumātua who have awhi-ed andtautoko-ed this very big passage of the bill and the mahi and the claims to this point. In particular I would like to acknowledge Takutai Moana Wikiriwhi whom I see up there in the gallery—Āpōtoro Doc Wikiriwhi as I know him. It is so wonderful to see him here. I remember as a young lad playing my cornet for the Reo from Pōneke when we used to travel up to Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei. Uncle Doc is the hardest-working āpōtoro throughout the whole of Tāmaki. We went on many a tour of duty through the hospitals seeing rangatahi to the prisons and through a lot of the duties that we were doing I was at his side playing my horn for all of our ceremonial whakamoemitihīmene. So it is wonderful to see him here today on this celebratory day.Can I also acknowledge Naida—Naida Glavish whom I see up there. Tēnā koe e te whāea rangatira [the matriarch figure]. It was wonderful to see her just a couple of weeks ago down at Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura celebrating my cousin Mark—Tā Mark sorry—Tā Mark Solomon’s investiture. It was wonderful to see her there. Can I also acknowledge all of the other trustees—GloriaTīmotiHaahi Walker andWaataRichards—who have so amazingly led Ngāti Whātua through the passage of this settlement.I do want to take a moment because this is such a historic day and I do want to acknowledge the influential rangatira chief of Ngāti Whātua o KaiparaPaora Tūhaere. I have spoken of him before and I want to take this opportunity to speak of him again because he was the paramount leader ofNgāti Whātua o Kaipara when his uncle Apihai Te Kawau passed on. But I do acknowledge Paora Tūhaere because I would not be here in this Parliament had it not been for him because he suggested—it was his idea—that we have Māori seats in Parliament. But it was not just four Māori seats at that time; it was that if there were 50 seats for Pākehā there would be 50 for Māori. So I acknowledge his great foresight and his great leadership that we are still here today some 160-odd years later representing our Māori electorates. There are a few more of us now. There are seven of us. I would like to encourage our whānau to really get involved and get on to that option. Use the option to get on the Māori roll so we might be able to get more seats. I know through the reports yesterday that it was not looking that promising with the numbers but I have trust in our whānau that they will do the right thing and get on the Māori roll.I do acknowledge Paora Tūhaere and I also do acknowledge the history ofNgāti Whātua o Kaipara because Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara were very loyal to the Crown—very loyal to the Crown. Not one shot was fired in anger at the Crown. They were so loyal to the Crown that the Crown robbed them of their land. There was no way that Pākehā New Zealand was going to let Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara share in the growth of Auckland. I have mentioned that in my previous speeches but I do want to put it down there on the record. You would not get an iwi that was more loyal more supportive or so enthused about the future promise that Auckland offered than Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. And they were so let down. The Crown as we know failed in so many ways to protect Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara as it has done to all iwi as we have heard earlier this week with Ngāi Tūhoe in the signing of their deed of settlement and as we have spoken about earlier today with my relations from ngā iwi oTe Tau Ihu o te Waka. The Crown has failed in so many ways.Like other tribes Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara gave up land for the building of railways towns and schools. When this land was not used for its purpose the land was alienated and never returned to the original owners. That was standard modus operandi of the Crown. It is great that after the passage of time and through the Treaty settlements—which I am proud that we have been a part of when we have been in Government and also I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Chris Finlayson for his work while being in Government—we have seen progress happening over the last 20-plus years in terms of Treaty settlements. We see the redress and the statutory recognition of sites and financial redress which are now going to flow through to Ngāti Whātua through this settlement. But I want to stress that perhaps you can have the financial packages and the commercial redress and the like but what is the most important aspect of these settlements and every iwi will agree is that it reaffirms the presence of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara the permanence that they have to their community to their whenua and to their ancestral landscape. That is very important and I am pleased that measures are being taken in this Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill to do that.Finally can I just acknowledge the Hon Parekura Horomia because Parekura Horomia and I we spoke at the second reading of this bill. It was the last time that he spoke in this House and I just acknowledge that. I am pleased to be able to step up here now and mihi to you all and I do acknowledge our chief Parekura Horomia. Just to conclude I would also like to give an apology from Shane Jones. He tried very hard to be here today for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. Unfortunately he is a bit māuiui today but he promises to apologise to you. I understand he is going to apologise with crayfish atthe hākari. I will leave you to follow that up with him. Ka kitea taku kōrero i tēnei wā. Ki a koutou Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[I have found what I wanted to say now. To you Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara greetings salutations and congratulations to you all.]I commend this bill to the House.Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): Shane always makes those promises. I am really pleased to be here today. I want to begin by offering an explanation to those in the gallery because when Dr Sharples stood up to speak I shot out the door. It is not because I do not like listening to Dr Sharples or working with him—he is a fantastic Minister of Māori Affairs and I work with him very closely as his Associate Minister of Māori Affairs—it is just that I am responsible for the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill and for some peculiar reason I am not allowed to be here if someone else is giving the first speech. Let it be clear that I have the greatest of respect for Dr Sharples who has worked with me very closely on this settlement but the rules are the rules and if I disobeyed them the Speaker would scold me. Anyway it is a great day today.As I said in a speech that I gave at the signing of the Ngāi Tūhoe deed of settlement it is not the end because this is not a deal. This is a very sacred settlement but it is the beginning of a new relationship. There are going to be ups and downs there are going to be irritations but the Crown and Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara have committed to work together to address those difficulties going into the future. It is a great day for Ngāti Whātua generally because with this third reading we now have concluded settlements with Te Uri o Hau and Te Rōroa last year we had Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei and of course today we have Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.The acknowledgments have been given and it would be repetitious to go through all the names again but I particularly want to acknowledge Margaret Kāwharu for all her wonderful work. I see that great leader of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua Naida Glavish in the gallery. She does so much for this country. She is on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. I look her in the eye and I say: “I know we have unfinished business. We have the harbour.” She said to me some years ago that we have to deal with issues relating to the Kaipara and I am very keen to get on to those. I give her and Ngāti Whātua my undertaking that that is a very important piece of work. It is about this time that the Office of Treaty Settlements staff start cringing because they will say: “Oh he is making promises again.” But that is the way it is. It is important work not to do a deal but to do a settlement with Ngāti Whātua in relation to the harbour.Treaty settlement days are wonderful days for Parliament. They have become a regular occurrence in the House. It is because of cross-party arrangements to facilitate what are called extended sitting hours. We do not like dealing with Treaty settlement legislation in urgency because that would be disrespectful in terms of what we are trying to achieve. So through the agreement of the House we have Thursday mornings in some sessions when we can debate these issues. Every settlement is unique. Of course there are common features but every settlement is unique and is tailored to address the uniqueness of the relationship and the failings between the Crown and the particular iwi.We all know the history here because Mr Tirikatene has mentioned it. Ngāti Whātua signed the Treaty when it was brought to Tāmaki in March 1840. From then the Ngāti Whātua community of the south Kaipara adopted a strategy of inclusion and engagement. They transacted large areas of land with the Crown to be made available for settlers. They welcomed the settlers and then they were let down. A meeting house was erected by Ngāti Whātua at Aotea and a plinth was placed in front of the house with the words of the Treaty of Waitangi inscribed on it. When the rangatira Te KeeneTangaroa wrote to George Grey about the plinth he explained it was meant as “a sign for us and our European friends to see”. So the tragedy which this important settlement bill seeks to put right is that despite their endorsement and their open and willing engagement with the Crown by the early 20th century Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara were in a position that was no better than that of other iwi. They were effectively landless and of course with landlessness came poverty and destitution.The tribunal as part of its historical work undertook an inquiry into your claims just over a decade ago. You describe living conditions for Ngāti Whātua in the 1950s and 1960s as resembling rural slums. The history is set out in the introduction to the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill and in the deed of settlement as are the Crown’s acknowledgments—and they should be. I say what I said in the previous debate: it is very important that people who doubt the validity of what this country is doing with its historical claims work should read the historical account should read the acknowledgments and should acknowledge the facts because the facts speak for themselves.I do not want to talk at any great length about the economic and the cultural packages. I believe the economic package puts you in a very great position to work with other iwi in the area to develop a good strong economic base and I believe that with the work that is being done in the wider Tāmaki area there are great opportunities.I want to acknowledge the Department of Conservation because it will be working with you in years to come on a co-management framework. The Department of Conservation has some wonderful policy people at its head office and it has some really great people on the ground who care for this work and I know that they are going to do a good job with you into the future.There are some people on my side whom I want to acknowledge. The Parliamentary Counsel Office does a great job drafting the legislation often in conditions of great urgency. The Māori Affairs Committee chaired by Tau Henare does a wonderful job in going out hearing submissions on bills and then reporting the bills back to the House. Tau frankly makes mincemeat of those who get in the way. There was a submission on the Ōrākei bill that he did not like and I think the submitter left the worse for wear.I want to acknowledge the Office of Treaty Settlements which does a great job. I particularly acknowledge my chief Crown negotiator in the Tāmaki area Mike Dreaver. He has done fabulous work over the last few years. Whenever there is an adjournment he has me in the general area working and meeting people. In the last adjournment I had 3 days of meetings in Hauraki. He is a very hard-working and dedicated individual and I am pleased to place on record my admiration for the work he has done because it was he who started this work with Sir Douglas Graham a couple of years ago and no one would ever have imagined that we would get this far.But today is your day and I acknowledge the presence of so many of you in the gallery. Thank you very much for your hard work the hard work of your lawyer Grant Powell and the hard work of your negotiators. So many people have done a great job to get to this stage. I have to say that in Treaty settlements terms it has worked very very well indeed. I signed the agreement in principle on the eve of Christmas a couple of years ago and because of the dedication of the Kaipara team we are where we are today so thank you very much and all the very best for the future. As I say there is some unfinished business in relation to a certain harbour and once again I give my undertaking that we are on to it.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Ā tēnā koe tēnā koutou. Tēnei e tū ana ki te tuku aku mihi maioha ki a koutou Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara. Tēnei taku kitenga i a koe taku tau te rangatira te matua ka hoki ngā mahara. Ka hoki ngā mahara ki a rātou katoa e kawea ana i tēnei kaupapa i mua i te aroaro o te Kāwanatangai mua i te aroaro o te Karauna. Ahakoa kua ngaro i te tirohanga kanohi kei konei rātou i tēnei wā hei ārahi i ngā whakaaro o te ngākau e pā ana ki ngā kōrero ka puta mai. Ki a koe anō hoki Naida koutou katoa.[Thank you and greetings to you collectively. I rise to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you of Ngāti Whātua at Kaipara. My sighting of you my beloved esteemed leader and fatherly figure make the memories go back. The thoughts go back to all of them who brought this matter before Government and the Crown. Although they are lost from view they are here at this point in time to guide the feelings of the heart in respect of the stories that will emerge. Thank you once again Naida and indeed to all of you.]It gives me great pleasure to be able to support the third reading of the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill. I will take a brief call but it is not to disrespect Ngāti Whātua; it is to affirm something very interesting that is happening today. We have debated a lot of settlement bills in this House. I would say that this bill in two words is smart and agile. It is smart because it recognises that the context for its historical Treaty claims exists within actually something big that is happening within New Zealand and that is the growth of Auckland. There is no doubt about it that Ngāti Whātua in Kaipara and in Ōrākei will have a deep impression on the way in which Auckland will grow now and into the future. It is agile because some of the pillars within this particular bill affirm the ongoing interests that Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara will seek to have established and recognised within the context of our modern legislative environment. For example the recognition of conservation covenants and the interplay with the Conservation Act are very much a here and now issue. If Auckland wants to continue to maintain green space within the isthmus there is no doubt that within the rohe of Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara they will have some very strong views about how that could happen.I would invite any member who has a representative interest in Auckland who is listening to this debate to get themselves acquainted with two things: the deed of settlement for this particular bill and the legislation that we are currently affirming here today. Why? Because they have to be understood within the context of an ever-increasing and ever-evolving Auckland isthmus. There will be no doubt about it. The interests of Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara and Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei will ensure that they have an ongoing role in the way in which that city continues to evolve and grow.The other pillar within the context of this bill links to the Resource Management Act. We cannot get away from the fact that the assertion of rights and interests will be determined by how this particular law giving effect to the settlement will interplay with the Conservation Act and the Resource Management Act and by extension influence what is happening within the context of the local government legislation.I understand that Ngāti Whātua is well represented on the Māori advisory board. I suspect that the next step will be a seat around the council table—two seats probably. We will certainly be pushing up from the south for a couple of seats. The general purview of interest is that our largest city in this country will be heavily influenced—heavily influenced—by the footprints and the handprints of the ancestors who have traditionally walked the Auckland isthmus and their descendants will make sure that they will be at the forefront of modern urban development while retaining some of the strong values that they have as Māori.I applaud Ngāti Whātua. I applaud them for again a smart and agile settlement. I applaud them for recognising that this is a gain for now and that there are many other gains to come. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations himself has recognised some of the outstanding issues that will be gains to come. I applaud the way in which the commercial redress will put some very strong interests in some key properties within your rohe—key properties—some of which the Crown as the major tenant isprobably not likely to move its tenancy of for quite some time. We would hope at the positive end that none of our people end up in the whare herehere. But at the other end it does not look like the Crown is going to resile from its tenancy of that particular premise.Also in the education space I would hazard a guess that in 10 years’ time when we look to review some of the gains of Ngāti Whātua in the education space they will show themselves to be strong leaders in showing a different way of doing things in education but for the betterment of their people.This is a brief call but it is not to disrespect Ngāti Whātua; it is just to say well done. It is a smart and agile settlement. I do not say that often. I am hoping that we might learn from you when we advise other people about settlements to look to and models to gain from. I hope that in the spirit of the settlement progress and post-settlement opportunity we can all learn from one another because your gains will be our gains and hopefully our mistakes will not be your mistakes. Nō reira kia koutou katoa tēnā koutou.DAVID CLENDON (Green): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Kei te mihi nui ki ngā manuhiri ngā hapū o Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou katoa.[Hello Mr Speaker. I acknowledge the Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara visitors and subtribes greatly. Greetings to you all.]I am pleased to take a short call just to affirm the Green Party’s support for this legislation the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill as we endeavour to support all of the settlement bills.I would like to begin by simply taking a moment to acknowledge as others have done rather a large gap in the Labour benches this morning. We reference of course our late and much-lamented colleague Parekura who always brought a distinct flavour to these debates. He is missed but his legacy continues and will do so far into the future.One of the mixed benefits of being an MP and particularly a northern MP is that I travel routinely. My journey to work each Tuesday morning literally gives me a bird’s-eye view of the Kaipara Harbour and the landscape that surrounds it. It is an extraordinary landscape—our largest harbour—and a very rich landscape historically an enormously productive landscape. The richness of that place both culturally after 300 years of occupation by ngā hapū o Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and of course ecologically—the richness of the land and the sea—attracted people to live there so many years ago. Of course sadly over time that landscape both culturally and physically the environment has been degraded and it is an unfortunate reality that now the work begins again—or continues I should say—to restore the quality of both the cultural landscape and the physical landscape the ecology of that place.This settlement bill we are debating and will pass unanimously today I am sure is a significant step towards that restoration and for that we applaud the work of those at Government level who have contributed to that. I must commend Minister Finlayson—something I must confess the Greens do not routinely do—for his stated commitment to continue to put energy and time into the Kaipara.I mentioned degradation. It saddens me to think back to my childhood when driving around the countryside you would routinely hear people sneeringly remark about Māori land and how one could identify Māori land because that was the land growing gorse and with broken fences and no sign of much work being done. Of course what was missing from those statements is captured in the text of this bill which notes that the Native Land Court established in 1862 was intended to—and did very successfully—alienate Māori from their land. It goes on in the bill to say that the law did not provide a way for the owners to collectively manage their land. This meant it was difficult forowners to accumulate capital and make improvements and frequently owners had little option but to use sale proceeds to meet their immediate needs. That has been part of the history of the Kaipara rohe as indeed it has been of the entire motu of New Zealand generally.Now is the time to celebrate the fact that we see in the course of these settlement bills a significant step towards restoring the integrity of the land as we restore the integrity of the mana—recognise the mana whenua for who they are and what they are. In that sense it is a genuine pleasure to be part of the process albeit in a small way.A week or two ago one of our Labour colleagues used a word that was not familiar to many of us and in that spirit I am going to introduce a new word and talk about the palimpsest of Kaipara. That is a word that has many meanings but in landscape terms it is one I came across in a former life. It talks about the marks the impressions that are left by human interaction with the land over time. Those marks can sometimes be erased. They can be the contours of a hill where once there was a pā. It can be a kūmara pit. It can be the remnants of a stone wall. But what we see around the Kaipara as in so many other places is lines that reflect dispossession alienation and degradation.I believe that the passing of this bill will make a contribution to restoration so that in future people will look at that land and they will see impressions they will see marks on the landscape that speak of productivity of richness of quality of life and of integrity of the environment. That is the challenge that lies before us all to ensure our ongoing support beyond the speeches and the goodwill of today to ensure that we put our energies into supporting the ongoing recognition of mana whenua throughout the country and in this specific case of course the mana whenua of Kaipara Harbour and their surrounding land.A year or so ago—in fact probably longer; 2 years ago perhaps—I was fortunate to be at a hui at Puatahi Marae that was a getting together of a group called the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group. That is not a title that flows from the tongue but it is an extraordinary and admirable coming together of Māori interests of local hapū and whānau of farmers of conservation groups of ordinary members of the public and of local government. The common cause the common purpose of that group is the restoration ofthe whenua and of the moana of Kaipara. The ambitious and worthy goal of that group is to plant 2 million trees around Kaipara by 2015. That is an extraordinarily ambitious goal and one I am sure it is well on the way to fulfilling.We know that as we restore the land we are restoring people because people and their land are interwoven inextricably. If one is degraded the other inevitably is degraded. As we restore the land the rivers and the harbour we are also restoring the quality of life of the people who live in it and on it and whose tipuna have lived there for such a long time. So I can say that community ground-upward initiatives like the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group indicate to us that communities often move faster than does the legislativeprocess. In a sense we are catching up with where the community is leading us and notably where ngā hapū ngā iwi katoa are leading us to restore this place and to restore this country to the richness and to the quality that it deserves to have.Once again I extend to the people of Kaipara our greetings our goodwill and our ongoing support from the Green Party. Kia ora koutou.Hon TAU HENARE (National): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. Te mea tuatahi anei taku mihi ki a koutou katoa. E aku rangatira e aku kaumātua e ōku kuia nō te hau kāinga nō Ngāti Whātua tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Hello Mr Assistant Speaker. First and foremost here is my tribute to you all. To my leaders elders and elderly womenfolk from back home and from Ngāti Whātua acknowledgments compliments and regards to you all.]I have been told to keep my comments brief because we are running out of time—not that an extra 160 years would not go amiss. Can I say thank you to Ngāti Whātua for putting up with my family—or putting my family up—in your rohe for the last 30 years. Thank you for allowing me to swim at Parakai. Thank you for allowing me to fish your waters. I will not tell you where but suffice it to say that it was in Ngāti Whātua territory.It really is funny when you look at history and you look at as my colleague Nanaia Mahuta said the changing face of Auckland. One constant is Ngāti Whātua. One thing that remains the same is Ngāti Whātua whether it is through the simple ownership of land or whether it is our looking at Ngāti Whātua and I suppose taking our hats off every time we go through the area of Ngāti Whātua. I love history and one of the things that bugs me about New Zealand is that we have not embraced our history. We have not—Māoris do. They love to sit around and talk about who did what to whom whether it is good or whether it is bad but the nation does not spend time dealing with its history.One of the sad things in Ngāti Whātua is I suppose the nation’s forgetfulness about the people who perished in a bus accident when the Queen was out here in the 1960s. As a kid I read the story and I was fascinated that these people were from just up the road. They lived up the road from me. Who else in New Zealand knows that other than Ngāti Whātua and students of New Zealand history? It has not been emblazoned on our psyche and it should be because we should never forget you know the whole story behind where those people were travelling to and where they were coming from—it was actually Waitangi. Those are the stories that create our history and a history to be proud of—the prowess. Like my colleague Rino says where did the Māori seats come from? I used to be a Māori seat holder until they decided they wanted somebody else. I will not hold that against them. They were from Ngāti Whātua but I will not hold that against you fullas.In my last Treaty settlement speech I mentioned the horrific cartoons that we saw last week from theMarlborough Express and the ChristchurchPress. Seven days ago there was an interview on TV3 with my colleague Hekia Parata. You can have your views on the National Party and the Labour Party and the Green Party and whomever else but one of the questions asked of her—of her—by the interviewer was: “How Māori are you?”. I find that the most insulting most verging-on-racist question I have ever heard a reporter ask of someone—not just of an MP but of someone in this country. Can you imagine a bill like this and a question being raised in the bill of how Māori Ngāti Whātua are or how Māori Ngāpuhi are? How Māori are you? How Māori are you? It beggars belief.When we are dealing with this sort of bill—and let me be blunt—we get off lightly. The Crown gets off lightly for what it did. When Ngāti Whātua jumped up doing the haka we pulled their land out. We are apologising for that with a few morsels—with a few pieces of silver. It is what we do and we accept that that is what we have to do but let no one forget that we are not the enemy—well actually Ngāti Whātua are not the enemy. They allowed New Zealanders to live in their area. I know that over time the other side got quite bigger numbers and things did not turn out in the way that Paora Tūhaere and our tūpuna thought they would but their wish was to invite these people in these newcomers. We are giving these people a pittance as far as I am concerned. I am not arguing the quantum Minister Finlayson.But I want to leave you with this question: what have Māori done to deserve cartoons like that? What have Māori done to deserve being asked: “How Māori are you? Are you a real Māori?” What the hell does that mean in this day and age? I do laud the fact that New Zealand is a leader in its treatment of indigenous people but hell we have got along way to go. I am glad that I work in an environment where we all work daily to move closer to reconciliation—to true reconciliation. So I doff my cap to Ngāti Whātua and thank them once again for allowing me to live in their area. Kia ora.LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. E ngā mana e ngā reo ngā whānau o Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Ngā mihi matua Doc Whaea Naida ā tēnā koutou.[Thank you Mr Speaker. To the authorities languages and families of Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara greetings salutations and acknowledgments to us all. Greetings to you Doc Madam Naida and also to you collectively.]And tēnā koutou to all the whānau who have travelled here today. This is a very special day for you. I acknowledge the efforts of the tribe over the last 21 years to get to this point of having your own Treaty settlement legislation the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill and I hope that today brings a lot of satisfaction. What you need to know is that within this House we come from different parties but on this issue we have absolute consensus.We also have absolute consensus about the fact that you have forgone your true settlement if we were to give you back exactly what was taken from you. When I think about that generosity it sometimes makes me cringe. I have just done some maths. Nanaia said “Don’t do it!” but I have. You had 340000 acres and you ended up with 3 percent of the land that you originally had. I have just worked out that with the $22 million that you are getting back we are basically giving you $66 per acre. I have just looked at some land on the internet. Five acres of land in North Auckland is worth $565000—$565000. So when people think that we here in the House are giving you too much I think New Zealanders really need to wake up and actually acknowledge the leadership of Māoridom in this settlement process because it is you who have brought us to this position. It is not us here; it is you. And what I want to recognise is that it is Māori—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order!LOUISA WALL: I am not talking about you Mr Assistant Speaker and I think the context was pretty clear; I was talking about the whānau from Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. It is the whānau who actually want to look to the future in a positive manner. They want to look to a future that provides opportunities for our mokopuna and our tamariki who are the future of our country. So I thank you on behalf of New Zealanders for that generosity and for enabling us as a country to move on.What I do want to reiterate is some of the kōrero from the Hon Parekura Horomia. It has been really sad being here today and not having Pare and I think everybody would acknowledge the contribution that he has made to the process. So I thank Parekura but I also thank everybody who has been involved in bringing us to where we are today.He focused in the first reading particularly on names. He talked about how important names were and he basically said that a lot of the names that we have around the motu but particularly in your settlement were photocopied and basically imported. What I want to highlight is that within your deed of settlement what you have done is reclaim your names and the New Zealand Geographic Board is going to acknowledge it. So instead of Lake Ōtotoa it is going to be Lake Rototoa. Instead of Māori Bay it is going to be Maukatia Bay. Instead of Mount Auckland it is going to be Atuanui. Instead of Crocodile Island it is going to be Te-Motu-o-Marae-Ariki. Instead of Shelley Beach it is going to be Aotea Beach. Instead of Hatfields Beach it is going to be Ōtānerua Beach.Why is that significant? Actually it is incredibly significant because names are important and what it means is that Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara will for ever—for ever—be surrounded by and be part of the geography that is tūturu Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.What does that mean for us as New Zealanders? We are going to for ever recognise that status—the fact that you were and are the original sovereign of that area. I think those are incredibly significant developments within this Treaty settlement legislation because what it does do is for ever acknowledge that you and the whānau of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara have an imprint that can never be erased—it can never be erased.I am here to celebrate with you. I am so proud to be a Māori member of Parliament and to be able to be involved in these processes. I look forward to further engagement and also to looking at how you will take this settlement and what you will do with it because I think one of the critical challenges we have today is us providing ourselves with jobs for our whānau. How can we partner and develop the pūtea that we have to ensure that our tamariki mokopuna are going to be sustained by us but in partnership with others? I note that there is an introductory letter to the Minister for Primary Industries on your behalf so that you can look at what sorts of relationships you can start to develop with the ministry.I congratulate you. I congratulate all the people who have worked so hard and I just thank you again on behalf of the people of Manurewa but also the people of Aotearoa New Zealand for your willingness to move on and enable us as a country to look to the future with positivity and pride. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.KATRINA SHANKS (National): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It is my pleasure to take a call on this Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill today. I would like to welcome everybody here who is in the gallery for the settlement. It is great to see the young here because these settlements are about the future. It is great to see the elders who are here today because they have worked so hard so persistently and with such good faith to get this Treaty settlement here today.I was going to say it is great to welcome the rowdy because you have been one of our more noisy-spirited iwi in the gallery especially with the roll-call. It was good to hear your clear voices out there so proud and strong coming from the gallery today. I would like to acknowledge those who have passed away on this journey who have not been able to be here with you today in this long long journey you have been on and those who have worked hard—all of you—to make this a reality for your iwi and for your future.This is the first time I have spoken on a Treaty bill since the passing of Parekura Horomia and I would like to acknowledge his work and his commitment to this process that we have got here today as well. What I have learnt from these processes and these Treaty settlement bills is the stories that you tell and the history that you learn. I think that it is important that we tell these stories and that we hear them and it is a privileged situation that we are in as members of Parliament to do that.I would like to tell just a little one about Parekura today and about these Treaty settlement bills. I am not known for my great Te Reo skills at all. I would stand up here and I would do a settlement bill speech and I would see Parekura put his hand up and there would be a little note in it. The messenger would come over and pick the note out of his hand; I would be watching this as I am speaking and the messenger would walk around put it on my desk and Parekura in the note would write: “You’ve got the pronunciation all wrong. This is how you say it.” So I would be speaking away reading this note at the same time trying to work out how to pronounce better pronunciations of all the words I had been saying and speaking at the same time. He would be sitting there with a big smile on his face with a big thumbs up and here I am thinking: “Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness!”. But that was Parekura for you: loving and supportive and always there to make a difference. The irony of his giving someone lessons on speaking and pronunciation is not lost on me in any way shape or form but we did love him to death and we do miss him incredibly in this House andalso in our select committee because he was a very very very strong member of that committee.I have touched on how we are very privileged as members of Parliament to be part of the Treaty settlement process. It is only small what we do in this House at this stage but what we have the privilege of is going out to the maraes and listening to your history listening to your stories and getting a much better understanding of the journey you have been on and why and how we have got to where we are today. Part of that is understanding the wrongs that need to be righted and part of that is understanding what is actually in this legislation because we have a role to play in ensuring that it is the strongest it can possibly be for you. So this legislation is about acknowledging the wrongs. It is not about an apology. It is about cultural redress. It is about financial redress.I just want to finish by saying that Nanaia Mahuta in a previous Treaty settlement speech said the words that it is great to be a bird but you need the feathers to be able to fly. How true is that. I wish you all the best for your future and I look forward to the constructive relationship that you are going to have with the Crown moving forward. I commend this bill to the House.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): I understand this is a split call. I call the honourable member Brendan Horan.BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): Kia ora e rau rangatira mā. Ka mihi atu i runga i te karanga o te rā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa.[To the leaders of a hundredfold greetings. I acknowledge you in respect of the call of the day salutations greetings and congratulations once again to us all.]Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara—169 years to reach this point and there are so many people to acknowledge both past and present. Rather than single out many special people I would rather acknowledge all who have gone before us and also all who smile warmly when they cast their thoughts to this settlement of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara’s area of interest encompasses the entirety of the southern Kaipara region and what a magnificent land it is: from South Head to Muriwai on the west coast and from near Wellsford to the upper Waitematā Harbour to the east. Five marae in the south Kaipara are also affiliated with Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara those being Te Haranui Puatahi Araparera Kakanui and Rēweti.As you can imagine there has been an incredible amount of kōrero hard mahi compromise and enduring intellect and courage to reach this settlement. There is more work to do but it is now a working relationship with mana and reputation with spiritual dignity restored. Any partnership from here forward is as equals and it is admirable and just that Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara have genuine input into the future of our country’s largest city.Much has been said today and I am not going to repeat it because all of those sentiments are true. I will keep this rather short because it has taken so long to get here and I do not want to go on. I would just like to acknowledge and say to Shane Jones who is a little crook today that that is an awful lot of crayfish that you have got to come up with and it does not count if you eat half of it. Toitū te whenua toitū te tangata toitū te mana. The land endures the people prevail the mana is secure. Congratulations salutations and good luck.MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Kia ora Ngāti Whātua. I am proud as the member of Parliament for Rodney to take this call today in honour of the settlement reached between the proud people of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and the Crown. I was sitting talking to my friend and colleague the Hon Tau Henare last night reflecting on the importance of today and the significance of this settlement. I sought his guidance on how to make sure I spoke with respect ensuring that I observed any special protocols.His advice to me was: “Don’t waffle. You don’t have to make a grandiose philosophical speech. Don’t be a windbag.” I said: “But we’re politicians.” and Tau said: “Good point.” But he told me to speak from the heart.There are many people from the five marae who have been involved in this settlement who are no longer with us including members who were directly involved in the negotiations. They may not be here with us today in body but they are here in spirit and I pay tribute to them.I was lucky to have some time this morning alone with Richard and Pearl Nahi. Richard was one of the tribal negotiators. He told me that the tribe is focused on leadership and the development of its youth and that this settlement will allow this to continue to grow and happen. So I say to you: good luck Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. Please use your wisdom your patience and your fearlessness in the right measure at the right time to invest and grow this settlement to become stronger economically and culturally. We have been given powerful examples of what can be achieved by iwi such as Tainui and Ngāi Tahu. While I remain one of your representatives in this House of Parliament I make the commitment to serve and support you the best way that I can when called on. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.Bill read a third time.WaiataThe ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Kia ora and thank you. Can I ask Ngāti Whātua to leave the gallery efficiently as we have another iwi coming in and we have further legislation to debate. Thank you for your time. Kia ora.Waitaha Claims Settlement BillThird ReadingHon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Māori Affairs) on behalf of theMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: Kia ora Mr Speaker. I moveThat the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill be now read a third time. Ko Ōtawa te maunga ko Te Raparapa-a-Hoe te awa ko Hei te tupuna. Ko Takakōpiri te tangata koTe Arawa te waka ko Waitaha te iwi. Nā reira ka huri au ki te mihi atu ki a rātou kua hara mai nei ki konei ki tēnei Whare Pāremata kia whakatutuki ai i tēnei kaupapa ka whāia e tātou katoa. Nā reira tēnā koutou nau mai hara mai rā.Hara mai rā me te kaupapa e whakahuihui i a tātou i tēnei rangi he kaupapa nui. Nā reira kai te tangi atu ki a rātou kua ngaro atu ngā mate kua pā ki a koutou e tīraha tonu i ngā marae maha o te motu ā tae noa ki a rātou o te kāinga nei. Nā reira ko te kōrero rātou ki a rātou. Haere koutou me ngā hūpē te roimata kia okioki pai koutou ā i mua o te aroaro o Te Kaihanga.Nā reira kia hoki atu ki te kaupapa tino nui rawa i tēnei rā tātou mā he kaupapa harikoa te whakamutunga o te ara o tēnei pire i roto i te Whare Pāremata i tēnei rā. He rā nui tēnei mō koutou otirā mō tātou katoa nau mai hara mai rā.[Ōtawa is the mountain Te Raparapa-a-Hoe is the river and Hei is the ancestor. Takakōpiri is the manTe Arawa is the canoe and Waitaha is the tribe. So I turn to acknowledge those who have arrived here at this House of Parliament to conclude this matter that we are all pursuing. Salutations to you collectively welcome welcome.Welcome indeed in relation to the matter that has assembled us here on this day. It is a matter of great significance. Therefore I mourn those who are gone the deaths experienced by you collectively that continue to lie prone on the many courtyards of the nation including those from this place. So the statement is that they the dead to the dead go collectively and enshrined in mucus in tears so that you may rest well before the Creator.Therefore returning to this matter of great significance today fellow colleagues it is one of sheer delight and of final note in the House today. This is a great day for you and for all of us indeed so welcome welcome.]The story of Waitaha is hugely significant—an iwi whose members have never yielded to the Crown a people devastated by the cumulative effect of the Crown’s acts the Crown’s omissions and its breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles.As he stood aboard the deck ofTe Arawa waka and looked to Ōtawa maunga the tipuna Hei declared: Te takapū o taku tama ko Waitahanui-a-Hei. “Let this land be the living land of my son Waitaha.” Over time the uri o Hei settled along the coast extending from Katikati toŌtamarākau and to the island ofTuhua. Waitaha has close whakapapa links with Tauranga Waikato Ngāi Tahu Ngati Porou Ngāti Kahungunu and Te Arawa. By the 1840s Waitaha primarily occupied the land between Tauranga Harbour in the west and Waiari River in the east as well as staying inland. The people before us today are the living proof that the children of Waitaha have kept this ancient promise—a promise kept across generations through incredible hardship and in the face of unnecessary suffering. Te takapū o taku tama ko Waitahanui-a-Hei—these living lands of the people of Waitahanui. But it is has not been an easy promise to keep. Much of the unnecessary suffering borne by the Waitaha families took place after the Crown brought war to their homelands just a few decades after Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed.The Waitaha prophet Hakaraia Mahika blended Christian philosophies with Māori teachings and preached peaceful engagement with Pākehā for the first part of his life. However as he witnessed the loss of Māori lands and lives across Aotearoa as the Crown invaded Waikato and edged towards Waitaha Hakaraia the spiritual leader also became Hakaraia the warrior leader. He would spend the latter half of his life fighting against the confiscation of Māori lands and would ultimately die defending them. When his body was found in theWaiōekaGorge he was draped in the Kīngitanga flag.The reputation of this incredible New Zealander has been tainted in the so-called official history of this country. The Crown’s Tauranga confiscations were unjust and yet Hakaraia Mahika was killed because he opposed them. He was labelled a rebel. Homes crops livestock and belongings of Waitaha people were burnt to the ground under the Crown’s scorched earth policy. Survivors fled. Much of the ancestral andwāhi tapulands of Waitaha were confiscated and remain so to this day. Such was the loss of Waitaha families that the following lament would shape their dealings with the Crown over successive generations: Ko Waitaha te iwi he tāngata ngākau rua—Waitaha once powerful but due to the loss of land now divided.Without the land and without the resources to take ownership of their own destiny generations of Waitaha people were denied by the Crown the right to determine their own economic and their own social well-being. By confiscating sacred sites such as Ōtawa maunga the mountain of Hei seen fromTe Arawawaka the Crown also sought to deny the people of Waitaha their cultural treasures. This land loss this identity loss coupled with the stigma of raupatu meant that the Crown actively sought to deny the descendants of Hei and Waitaha the right to uphold their own mana motuhake the right to exercise their own rangatiratanga.Today’s settlement is made up of cultural financial and commercial redress. Cultural redress includes the vesting of cultural sites and reserves and a Crown acknowledgment of the Waitaha values regarding theirwāhi tapu referred to as their whakairingakōrero. The Crown will provide statutory acknowledgment of Waitaha’s statements of their particular cultural spiritual historical and traditional association with 15 areas including the peak of the maunga tīpuna Ōtānewainuku beds of severalwatercourses including theKaituna River and the coastal area betweenMauao andMaketū.He hōnore māku—it is an honour for me—and I am pleased to announce that $1.3 million has already been provided to Waitaha to prepare a full historical account of Waitaha and Hakaraia and for a contribution to the restoration of Hei Marae and other cultural support purposes. I look forward to that. Too many of our tīpuna who fought for their people died and were branded—not by their history books but by Pākehā history books—as traitors and yet they are the reason that we are still strong as Māori.The Crown will provide letters to Ministers encouraging support forMaranga Waitaha a link to Government initiatives to assist with the social economic and cultural needs of Waitaha. The Crown will also provide letters of introduction to local authorities. The Crown will institute three ministerial protocols relating to taongatūturu conservation and Crown minerals. Financial redress for Waitaha includes the payment of $7.5 million plus interest from the agreement in principle signed in March 2008. Commercial redress for Waitaha includes the right to purchase three land bank properties on settlement the right to purchase five sites on sale and leaseback provisions and a right to purchase land bank properties.But to me this bill importantly pays tribute to Hakaraia Mahika and the important legacy he leaves his descendants as a spiritual leader rangatira and warrior leader. As his name in the official history of our country is restored it is right that the Hakaraia Mahika endowment fund will nurture and support future Waitaha leaders. A rangatira who died fighting for his people’s rights—te rangatiratanga te mana motuhake—Hakaraia’s vision of peace for Waitaha will soon be fulfilled. From today it will also live on in New Zealand law and when the volume about the Māori history of Hakaraia is completed everyone will know he was a chief a rangatira and a warrior.All those things taken from the families of Waitaha due to the actions of the Crown can never be totally replaced and yet today the families of Waitaha seek to settle their grievances with the Crown with mana and with honour. Mai i Te Rae-o-Papamoa i Te Ōkere ō mua Te Ōpere-o-Tua i te wehenga whakamutunga o Tamatekapua ki Ōtawa-ki-Te Rangi Te Ūpoko-o-Hei ki Te Kikiri-o-te-Ūpoko o Taranui whakawhiti atu ki Te Ara-a-Hei ki Ōtānewainuku te maunga o ngā patupaiarehe he maunga tipua. Ka mihi ki a Pūwhenua ka mihi ki a Mauao te takapū o taku tama o Waitahanui-a-Hei—these living lands of the people of Waitahanui.[From Te Rae-o-Papamoa formerly Te Ōkere then to Te Ōpere-o-Tua the final departure place of Tamatekapua to Ōtawa-ki-Te Rangi to Te Ūpoko-o-Hei to Te Kikiri-o-te-Ūpoko o Taranui across to Te Ara-a-Hei to Ōtānewainuku the mountain of the fairy folk and a spiritual mountain. I acknowledge Pūwhenua Mauao and my son Waitahanui-a-Hei’s abdomen—these living lands of the people of Waitahanui.]I commend this bill to the House.RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Ā tēnā koutou e aku rangatira huri noa i te Whare. Ki a koutou Waitaha iwiTe Arawa waka ngā uri whakatipu o Hei me tana tama a Waitaha tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Nau mai hara mai ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei. Nō koutou tēnei rā ko te rā whakahirahira. Kāti tēnā koutou tēna koutou ā tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Speaker. Greetings to you my esteemed leaders throughout the House. To you the tribe of Waitaha the canoe ofTe Arawa and the descendants of Hei and his son Waitaha salutations and greetings to you collectively. Welcome welcome indeed to Parliament House standing in readiness here. This is your day and a significant one at that. Enough for now so salutations greetings and congratulations to us all.]It is a great privilege for me to speak at this final reading of the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill. Every iwi has a story and every story is very significant. One of the great things about being a member on the Māori Affairs Committee is that we have been able to learn a lot about the history of iwi right around the country. For me especially coming from down south I have been enlightened quite a lot with the work that we have achieved with the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill because Waitaha are in the South Island as well. I understand that the sons of Waitaha settled throughout Aotearoa. So I sort of think that there might be a connection there through the Waitaha that we have down in Murihiku puta noa i Te Wai Pounamu. For me it was nice to make the connection there with the people of Waitaha.Every iwi does have a story and regrettably the story for Waitaha is a very dark history. But it is wonderful to be here at this final reading to see the revitalisation and the re-emergence of the identity and the mana of this great iwi. Waitaha is an iwi that almost—almost—lost its identity along with its lands. We know that they are from theTe Arawa waka but their area of influence stretched from Mauao down to Maketū and inland past Te Teko. When the Crown invaded Waikato in 1863 and as caused by the pressures of those situations whānau had to side certain ways. So some sided with the Kīngitanga some fought with the Crown and some remained neutral but it caused great division between tribes and internal conflict as those situations must have done.Throughout that regrettably it was very unfortunate that the Crown punished Waitaha severely by confiscating 214000 acres as punishment. It said that it would retain a quarter of the land and return the rest but that never happened. I think it is important to never forget why Waitaha live in a place called Manoeka—and that is the beauty of the Māori language Manoeka which literally means 1000 acres—because that was the remnant pieces of land a few small areas of land that were the only pieces of land that were retained.As a result the iwi really struggled to retain its identity and to maintain its way of life because it had so much of its lands taken. But it had very prominent leaders and Hakaraia was one such leader who rose to prominence. He dared to challenge all of the terrible deeds that were going on or as Parekura used to say “the dastardly deeds of the Crown” in terms of the Crown’s surveys and the surveying of confiscated lands and all those other modus operandi as I call them of the Crown around those land confiscations. So Hakaraia the great rangatira rose up and as a result the Crown saw that as a threat and it harassed Hakaraia all the way to his death. At the time it was carrying out a scorched earth policy of the time. That really calls to mind the deed of signing that we had earlier this week with Ngāi Tūhoe. The same tactics were applied to Waitaha.That is a very dark and very blood-drenched history that is a reality for the people here of Waitaha and the same goes for many iwi around the country. So it is important that these stories can be told. I have spoken about them in my earlier speeches in greater detail but it is important that they are put into the statute book. It is great that there are Crown acknowledgments and apologies for those acts or omissions.There are many aspects to the settlement and I know the Minister of Māori Affairs has gone through them in greater detail than I have but I do like to focus on the future—as my colleague Katrina talked about—on our children and their children. That is definitely the tribal slogan I guess for Ngāi Tahu: that it is for us and our children after us. It is wonderful to see the activities that are happening throughout Waitaha through the renovations and revitalisations of their whare tūpuna Hei Marae. They have only one marae but I am really hopeful and I am pretty sure that there will be many more marae for Waitaha that will be re-established over the coming years and decades to come. There is also the new wharekai that is now gracing the marae there at Hei. Ithink it is wonderful to see what the benefits of a settlement can achieve for iwi. Likewise there is the recognition the documentation of the story of Hakaraia and also the creation of education endowments in Hakaraia’s name for his descendants and uri.So those are the aspects of settlement that I am really pleased to see—likewise to see all the happy faces that are here in the gallery today from Waitaha. It has been a long journey but we are almost there. Again I will not prolong my kōrero today only that I wish Waitaha all the very best. Feel free to come down to Te Wai Pounamu and make the hononga connections. I am sure our whānau down there would be delighted to make those connections. I wish you all the very best. I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou.KATRINA SHANKS (National): It is my pleasure to take a call on the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill today. I would like to welcome all the representatives to Parliament and to the House today. It is good to see so many of you in the gallery. I also would like to acknowledge the youth in our gallery today because actually these settlements are not just about recognising the past and what has happened in the past but they are about ensuring we have a strong foundation for the youth going forward. It is important that they are here today so they can tell these stories to their children and their children’s children—that they were here today and they witnessed this very historic moment for your iwi. And it is a historic moment and it has been a long journey. Many of you have worked very very hard to get here today and I would like to acknowledge that and also those of you who are not here with us today. I see some pictures in the gallery that have been brought along. I acknowledge those who have not got to this point of the journey and the work that they have done.Also I would like to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Finlayson and all the work that he has done to ensure that we have got many of these Treaty settlements into the House and into their third readings and getting out the other side of that and also the work that Tau Henare does. He is the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee. We sit on that select committee and it is a very hard-working committee. He is always very focused on getting these bills through the committee as fast as he possibly can. We always go out to the iwi we always go into the communities we always go on to the maraes. As members of Parliament we are privileged to do that. What it allows us to do is to hear your stories to hear the history to get an understanding of it so that when we look at this bill we have a much greater understanding of the journey to get to this bill to make sure that it is the best that it possibly can be for you during this process. So in this particular bill we talk about an agreed historical account—which is extremely important—an apology from the Crown cultural redress and financial redress which are all equally important aspects of this Treaty settlement.I am not going to take a long call today because it is important we get this bill passed today and we are time-limited for this session. So I want to wish you well. I want to thank you for everything you have done to get to this stage. I hope that we can work together—the Crown and iwi—in a constructive positive way to make a real difference to the people in your iwi the people in our community and the people in New Zealand. Thank you very much. I commend this bill to the House.Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Ā tuatahi tēnei ka tuku aku mihi ki a koutou Waitaha kua eke mai nei i runga i te papa nei i roto i tēnei Whare nō reira ki a koutou katoa e kaha ana ki te kawea nei i tēnei kaupapa i waenganui i a koutou kia whakatakoto i mua i te aroaro o te Kāwanatanga te Karauna hei tutuki i tēnei kaupapa tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Firstly I extend my greetings to you Waitaha who have arrived here on the floor in this House and worked so hard amongst yourselves to bring this matter forth and place it before the Government and the Crown to finish off. I therefore commend you all.]It gives me great pleasure to be able to speak in the third reading of this particular bill the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill. Having listened to the previous contributions I was trying to think what contribution—what small morsel of a contribution—I might make today. I would not hope to try to express and retell your history because much of it cannot be told within the context of this bill. Much of it really still lies within the hearts and minds of the generations that have descended from Hakaraia to this day. But we share a common thread. The common thread goes back to the 1860s—back to a time when our ancestors were labelled with the current lexicon of that day as “rebels”. Tame Iti would have called them “freedom fighters”. Today I would much rather prefer we were “sovereigns”—Māori sovereigns fighting for something that we knew defined us as who we were in our own country holding on to our land.So I share that connection to the extent that the label and classification of “rebels” from Hakaraia’s time down I think provided a bit of a stigma. I can say that because I went to school not so long ago when the history books told only one side of the story. In that story they said why Waikato were rebels. The effect that that had within the classroom was that every Pākehā child in my classroom stigmatised my value my worth and the history that I was told from my ancestors because the history books said we were rebels. I am pleased that there are young people here today because what this bill does is it shines Waitaha’s light on a dark day in history. The colonial Government had created some very dingy and suspect feelings towards our people and as Māori sovereigns who fought for our lands who fought to retain what we had who fought to ensure that nobody could critically take away what belonged to us today some part of that poor history has been redressed. So what it has done is it has shone Waitaha’s light on the Crown’s dark days in history that it created.What it has also done though is it has enabled the light to shine out because this is an intergenerational settlement. When I read the terms of the settlement in terms of the endowments for education the redress in terms of restoring a key marae for your people the redress in terms of establishing the endowment fund and all the statutory acknowledgments your financial and commercial redress—all that in total sum is by some small measure an opportunity to say to the next generation: “Hey if people said your tūpuna were rebels don’t you believe it. Your tūpuna fought for what they knew was right so that you would have two legs to stand on in your own rohe and on your land.” I am without a doubt assured by the fact that because there are so many young people here today your history has been carried quite proudly within your people. Now we have an opportunity to open that history up to the rest of New Zealand and it is an important thing to do as the speaker before me said. Once stories are told once the history is corrected then New Zealand can walk forward into a proud future that says: “Hey we’re trying to do things a bit better. We realise hurt was caused in the past but reconciliation begins with acknowledging that damage was done in the past and it was wrong. It was wrong and it was not right and it hurt a lot of people through the generations. Now is the time to heal and look forward.”I want to commend the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations because he has certainly taken it upon himself to be so ambitious around the aspiration of getting all the Treaty settlements done that we can only support it. In this House there are very few times when members of Parliament come together to support legislation with a huge majority but this is one of the times—Treaty settlements. We know that in order to heal the past and reconcile and move forward into the future the Treaty settlement process is absolutely critical. Once that is over and done with it goes back into your court andthat says that it is now our challenge to make it work. I am not fazed by the sums of money or the things like that and neither should you be because it is what you do with it. If a story of Treaty settlements can be told within New Zealand around our collective experience no matter what sum of money you are given it is actually what you do with it. It is how your people grow how you prosper how you ensure an intergenerational perspective to opportunities going forward. It is going to be how we as iwi collaborate and I think that is the real benefit of a Treaty settlement landscape that positions Māori the Māori economy and the Māori development future of our people in a far stronger position so that we can weather the storms now and into the future.I wish you well. I wish the young people well and tell them to remember this day. Remember this day because it is the day that your tūpuna and your kaumātua who are here with you have given you the opportunity to look forward unencumbered by the heaviness of the past. I wish you well because now is the beginning of another journey and another opportunity. I want to thank everybody who has been involved the negotiators on Waitaha’s side and certainly on the Crown’s side to be able to ensure we have got something to be able to acknowledge that Waitaha’s torch is now shining on the history that must be told and cannot be forgotten. Kia ora koutou katoa.DAVID CLENDON (Green): Ki ngā manuhiri ngā hapū ngā whānau o Waitaha tēnā koutou katoa.[Salutations to you all visitors subtribes and families of Waitaha.]I am pleased to take a short call on behalf of the Greens to speak to this important piece of legislation the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill and to reaffirm our support for the passing of this very significant bill. A couple of times this morning I have enjoyed my whanaunga Tau Henare speaking of his regret at the lack of attention that we as New Zealanders pay to our own history. He commented earlier that perhaps he and I were some of the exceptions to the rule having parents and family who enjoyed and revelled in learning and speaking about New Zealand history. But many New Zealanders of my age and even younger grew up knowing about Geronimo Sitting Bull and Robin Hood but knew next to nothing about Te Rauparaha Hongi Hika Kawiti and Te Kooti who were extraordinary men living in extraordinary times and doing extraordinary things.In that context I must confess that my own knowledge of the story of Waitaha was fairly minimal up until coming to grips with and reading this bill. It is a sad story it is a heartbreaking story but it is also a story that is represented in the doings of their tipuna Hakaraia who showed the leadership that was so common in Māoridom. The leaders at that time were warriors they were philosophers they were writers and poets but critically they were leaders. They took on the responsibility and the burden of leadership at a time of incredible change when an entire history of a people was under threat and they retained that. Their strength of purpose their example remains for us in the present day and for the descendants of those extraordinary people to remember their sacrifice and their efforts and to carry that forward into the future.The story is well told as ever in the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill. It is a very succinct story in the telling in this context anyway but it is one I recommend to any New Zealander who wants to know more about the history of this country and particularly of that area. It is noted that after the death of Hakaraia particularly the Tauranga raupatu took away the economic underpinnings of the people of Waitaha and that very nearly led to their demise entirely. Sadly that is a story that was repeated across the country. People families hapū and iwi can survive a great deal but cannot survive the complete loss of the land that sustains them and that had sustained them for many generations.We must acknowledge in entering into the settlement that as ever Waitaha are forgoing full reparation as have iwi and hapū throughout the country. I have heard a figure that typically the settlements in terms of value represent between 2 and 5 percent of what was lost. Again we must admire and acknowledge the generosity of ngā iwi katoa who take that hit who accept much less in return. Critically they hear the apology of the Crown they hear the acknowledgment of the mana whenua and that is equal at least in value to the land the resources and the financial redress that comes along with it.I would like to quote our late and much-lamented friend Parekura who in an earlier debate on this very bill in reference to Waitaha said: “there is a feeling in me that this is one of the most persistent tribes in all of Māoridom.” I think you could put up a lot of nominees for the award of the most persistent but I will certainly bow to Parekura’s superior knowledge. For an iwi to win that award from that gentleman is I think remarkable. Persistence is a quality that we all admire. It speaks not only to the determination of the people who have endured so much for so long but also to the integrity the essential rightness of their claims and their very justified demands for restitution over the generations.It is my pleasure on behalf of the Greens to acknowledge ngā tūpuna o Waitaha and the iwi hapū and whānau of today whohave worked so hard to get to this point whose objectives in their negotiations include cultural revitalisation social enhancement and economic and political participation. This legislation that we will pass today will make a contribution to enabling that.I would like on behalf of my colleague Catherine Delahunty—who unfortunately is unwell or else she would take an opportunity to speak today—to quote briefly from her speech in an earlier debate on this bill. She talks of meeting with some Waitaha people who laid out around the issue of Newmont WaihīGold and Glass Earth Gold their aspiration to mine Muir’s Peak. Catherine said: “I met then with some Waitaha people who laid out very clearly their passion for their maunga down to the ocean and their passion for preserving their waterways and protecting the area from mining. It was very humbling to have met those people and I want to acknowledge them.” So I greet Waitaha on Catherine’s behalf and I am sure she will continue in that shared battle toprotect the whenua.So Māori and the Greens share an essential concern for the well-being of people for the well-being of whenua for the well-being of ngā awa and ngā moana. We recognise that those are interwoven that they are interdependent that the well-being of one determines the well-being of another. Toitū te marae o Tāne toitū te marae o Tangaroa toitū te iwi.[The courtyards of Tāne and Tangaroa are permanent and so is the durability of the people.]To the extent that we damage the land and water we damage ourselves. Restoration of land and water is also restoring our own well-being and these settlement processes are a step towards that restoration and for that reason we welcome them.This bill provides acknowledgment and recognition of the mana whenua of Waitaha and as ever the Greens are pleased to see mana recognised and restored not only for the people of Waitaha but for the land and waters which we know they are making an enormous contribution to restoring and bringing back to life and to bringing back to the quality that is within them. We wish Waitaha well and with real pleasure we continue to support this legislation. Kia ora.BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Whatitiri ki te rangi ko Waitaha ko Maunganui ki te whenua tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Speaker. As thunder is to the sky so are Waitaha and Maunganui on earth. Greetings salutations and acknowledgments once again to you all.]This settlement as with other settlements of Māori grievances is long overdue. The devastation and deceit perpetrated upon Waitaha was so brutal and the deception soMachiavellian in its execution that it beggars belief. Men women and children massacred possessions burnt and land systematically taken stolen throughout the years—and what land it was that was taken. It was some of the most fertile land in New Zealand. We are talking about the Bay of Plenty and we only need to look at the importance of agriculture and horticulture to the Bay of Plenty and the revenue that it brings to our area.This settlement is an important marker for the identity of Waitaha. The real story needs to be told. Waitaha has so many strands with so many tribes linked to Waitaha that many have learnt and discovered their identity on the journey that has taken so long to come to this pathway but important nexus here today. These strands of knowledge are like the weavings of a harakeke kete basket that are still unfinished but strong and able to carry so much.It is important and right that Hakaraia is acknowledged in this settlement but I would just like to depart a little and talk about the education and acceptance of wider New Zealand. We do not have to cast our minds back so far; we can look at the disgusting cartoons that we saw a couple of weeks ago. But I want to take you back to about 5 months ago when Maritime New Zealand had a public meeting with some of the great brains of New Zealand there to talk about the effects and devastation of theRenaon the area. A question was asked about the knowledge that was there. One man a localkaumātua stood up and spoke of the kuakua a shellfish from the deep. The person who was running this meeting turned round and said: “Oh we’re working very closely with local iwi on this.” and yet that person did not recognise Maru Tapsell. If that sort of thing happens again the man to go and see is sitting right over there the Hon Chris Finlayson who is an honourable Minister and genuine. For Waitaha we need the education and continuing education of people throughout New Zealand and most certainly the authorities. The kuakua date right back to te ao-hau-pao-ua which is a wind that comes up and causes a cross-current in the ocean and created that tsunami. Those deep-sea shellfish would have brought us so much knowledge on the contaminants from theRena. If only they had listened to Māori eh?Moving forward Waitaha require a continuation of explanation to counsel the general public territorial authorities and most important the children and people of New Zealand and the Bay of Plenty so that those in the bay recognise the enormous debt of honour and gratitude that they owe Waitaha and most important the role that Waitaha has played in our history and our futures yet to come. Kia ora.Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): As Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations I take the last call in this debate. I usually take the first call but I deferred to Dr Sharples the Minister of Māori Affairs who is a great ministerial and parliamentary colleague as is the local Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell who has been advising me on many aspects concerning settlements in the Bay of Plenty. When Dr Sharples was giving his speech I left the Chamber not because I had the pip with him but simply because as the Minister in charge of the Waitaha Claims Settlement Bill I cannot be here if someone else is moving the third reading. So I just thought I should make that clear. Dr Sharples was most anxious that people not think there was any disagreement between us. He has shot away to do something else and I can assure you that it is not because he has got the stitch with me.This day signifies the end of a long journey for Waitaha. I want to congratulate all present here on your vision on your endurance and on your patience because settlement negotiations began in February 2008 in parallel with those of your close relatives from Ngāti Mākino. Waitaha signed an agreement in principle with the Crown on 16 October 2008 and finally on 20 September 2011 we signed the deed of settlement. So I am so pleased that we have now reached this legislative stage.I want to say this also: as Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations I am very lucky. You have heard some comments in the course of the morning about not knowing the history of this country—that too many people do not know it. Well I am very lucky because through being Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations I sure do learn the history of this country. So I can understand what drives Tūhoe who signed a deed of settlement here a couple of days ago in their yearning for reconnection with te Urewera. I can understand the hurt and the suffering of the iwi of the Taranaki arising from the land wars that started there a little over 150 years ago. I can understand the anger of Rongowhakaata over Te Hau ki Tūranga which is why Te Hau ki Tūranga—which of course they own—needs to go back to Tūranga.And so it is with Waitaha because Waitaha negotiations have sought recognition of their identity and particularly the acknowledgment of the tupuna Hakaraia. Hakaraia rose to prominence as a leader of the resistance to the Crown’s survey of confiscation land. In January 1867 Government forces assaulted Waitaha settlements near Te Puke. They destroyed houses crops and livestock as a special punishment for Hakaraia. Using scorched earth tactics the Crown pursued Hakaraia to his death in 1870. The fate of Hakaraia is central to the story of Waitaha and their claims. This settlement acknowledges that fact and will address the matter directly through for example an education endowment fund of $3 million in the name of Hakaraia funding for Waitaha to record the story of Waitaha and Hakaraia and as has already been mentioned the restoration of Hei Marae. The intention of the redress is to restore the mana and identity of Hakaraia and I am so very pleased to hear that the funding of the marae restoration has gone to building a new wharekai that is now in place at Hei Marae.The settlement redress also includes commercial and cultural redress. One of the important aspects of settlements particularly in the cultural redress area is to provide facilities for iwi to work with regional and local government for example on cleaning up canals lakes and rivers that have become polluted over the years. That is why I am so very pleased for example that my ministerial colleague Amy Adams has just announced this morning the investment of $2.4 million by the Government to clean up Kopeopeō Canal. It is in the Bay of Plenty and used to be a place where folk would swim and fish and hopefully in the not too distant future for the first time in decades that will be able to happen again. It is a priority site on the part of Amy Adams to clean up contaminated sites and it is but an example of the sort of work that can be done when iwi and the regional council and the Crown work together. I have to tell you that in the last couple of years about $28 million has been spent seeking to restore some of these sites around the country.This settlement which has its third reading today is not the end. These settlements are never “done and dusted” a phrase that irritates me considerably. They are never over and done with but they are designed to mark a relationship between the iwi and the Crown that will build on trust and cooperation and respect for the Treaty. A very important part of what now happens is for the Crown to audit the relationship between the particular iwi and itself to make sure that the mistakes of old are not repeated again. That is why we have established within the Ministry of Justice a post-settlement organisation under the guidance of the Secretary for Justice to ensure that if the Crown says it will do something then it does it—not just today and tomorrow but 25 years onfrom now. That is the very least that iwi who settle with the Crown can expect and I believe that if the Crown lives up to its promises then the relationship can be very good indeed.There is so much more that needs to be done outside Treaty relationships. For example the reform of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act is a huge task and doubtless will impact on many of the whānau in your iwi. There is good work being done on that and I am hoping that we will be able to have some reforms next year to make that legislation more user-friendly. But today we are concentrating on this great iwi its persistence its courage and its dogged determination to see the mana of Hakaraia restored. I end by echoing the great Waitaha whakataukī: Kua tau te rangimārie ki te Whare o Hakaraia ake ake ake.[Peace has settled upon the House of Hakaraia for ever and ever.]I commend the bill to the House.Bill read a third time.KarangaWaiataThe House adjourned at 12.43 p.m. (Thursday)