Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnei te mihi atu ki ngā whānau whānui o te iwi o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei Whare mō te pānui tuarua o tō pire Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill. Tēnā koe Tā Tumu te Heuheu tēnā rā koutou e koro mā e kui mā e rau rangatira mā. E mihi hoki ki ngā mokopuna ko te kahurangi o te iwi o Tūwharetoa. Ko Tongariro te maunga ko Taupō te moana ko te Heuheu te tupuna ko Tūwharetoa te iwi. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings Mr Assistant Speaker. I acknowledge the families from throughout the tribe of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Welcome to this House for the second reading of your bill the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill. Greetings Sir Tumu te Heuheu and greetings to our esteemed elders and leaders. I also acknowledge our grandchildren who are the real fortune of the tribe of Tūwharetoa. I salute Tongariro the mountain Taupō the lake te Heuheu the supreme ancestor and Tūwharetoa the tribe. Greetings greetings greetings one and all.]Words cannot describe how humbled I am when I speak on these Treaty claims bills—and I speak on many of them. Just trying to comprehend the struggles faced to get to this stage many times leaves me speechless. However taking the call in the second reading of this Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill is no exception to the feelings that I have whenever I get up to speak to these claims bills. I feel privileged to be recorded in your Treaty claims journey through this parliamentary process and I feel privileged that we are able to help you along the way towards some resolution.I want to pay respects to the many tupuna and the whānau who started the journey of settlement with the Crown and there are many many places throughout your rohe that shows those signs of where it all began and I pay respect to those people—those people who have now passed away and sit within your whānau in the wairua and the aroha as they oversee this process. I want to acknowledge that their efforts haven't gone unnoticed by us here by former colleagues that have been part and parcel of your journey and I just want to say that their efforts will be I'm sure for ever etched in the memories of the whānau of Ngāti Tūwharetoa.I want to acknowledge the iwi and Crown negotiators the advisers the Office of Treaty Settlements and staff and both the Ministers: the Hon Chris Finlayson who laid the groundwork for this and many other Treaty claims bills to get to the House. I also want to acknowledge the Hon Andrew Little the Minister of Justice who has picked up the well-honed—and I'm sure you get this—Treaty claims baton that the Hon Chris Finlayson has left behind and is completing this journey for you.As I said in an interview on the radio recently to do with Treaty claims bills—I said to the interviewer that the kinaki of a settlement process is actually not in the paperwork but it's in the process of the hearings: of hearing the stories of hearing those who are happy with the claims process those who aren't happy those who have had an opportunity to input in the directions and have their voices heard. And that to me is the most precious part of a Treaty claims process because once we hear those voices as a committee we can then go away and do our deliberations within the select committee process.I know that your claims—and my colleagues in the House have traversed the many parts of your bill in their contributions here today and I know that there were some key issues that have been hotly debated in the submissions process and within the Māori Affairs Committee itself: areas that my colleague Louisa Wall covered over in the reserves business sites farmlands—all of those areas have been hotly debated and will no doubt carry on through as we head towards the conclusion and the Royal assent of this bill.My kōrero will be short because the sooner we can get to the end of this stage the sooner we can get to the committee of the whole House and into the third reading. So I just want to end my kōrero by saying that the parliamentary process cannot resolve everything—as you are well aware. I have seen over time a lot of kōrero happen post - Royal assent between hapū and whānau between the iwi between iwi and businesses between iwi and local government and between iwi and central government to iron out some of those creases and to reaffirm the relationships that they have had with the iwi. So I have seen that and I am very confident that this will continue with Ngāti Tūwharetoa as well.So as I close my kōrero today I just want to finish with a whakataukī because I believe that this whakataukī epitomises the successes so far and into the future of all of those who have had some contribution in the Ngāti Tūwharetoa bill—your bill. It goes like this and you will most probably be familiar with it: ehara taku toa he takitahi he toa takitini [my strength is not from my individual effort but rather from the efforts of many].It was the success of a collective—a strong collective; a Ngāti Tūwharetoa collective. Tēnā koutou katoa. Kia ora.