Rurawhe Adrian: Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 11 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5666. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te W’are oti noa “Piki mai kake mai hōmai te wai ora ki ahau e tū tehu ana te moe o te kuia i te pō hoi ka raru ka papaki kau ana ngā tai ki Te Reinga ka pō ka ao ka awatea ā tihei mauri ora!” E tuku mi’i atu kia koutou Ngāruahine ā ki ngā hapū Kānihi Umutahi hapū Ōkahu Inuāwai hapū Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū Ngāti Tū hapū Ngāti Hauā hapū Ngāti Tamahūroa Tītahi hapū. Anei ahau tētehi uri o Ngā Wakatauroa tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai whakatau mai. Ka mi’i atu anō ki ngā mate ngā mate katoa i runga i a koutou i a mātou i a tātou katoa. Ka nui te tangi o te ngākau te wehenga atu ō rātou mā i tīmata tēnei kaupapa nō reira e ’oki e moe e moe.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker of the House and so “Come up ascend here give me living giving waters for the lady sleeps in eager anticipation but there was deception as the tides broke at Te Reinga and the night and alas the night set in then came dawn and behold the breath of life!”. I welcome you collectively Ngāruahine and the subtribes Kānihi Umutahi Ōkahu Inuāwai Ngāti Manuhiakai Ngāti Tū Ngāti Hauā Ngāti Tamahūroa and Tītahi. I a descendant of Ngā Wakatauroa stand here to welcome you collectively; come hither come forth welcome. I also acknowledge the dead: those upon you us and everyone. There is much grief within me to those ones who started this proposal and so rest sleep slumber on.]It gives me great pleasure to speak in the first reading of the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill. Ka tāpiri atu taku mihi ki te mihi ka tukuna atu e koe ki te iwi nei [I add my tribute to the one that you accorded this tribe here]. I want to join my acknowledgment to the one that you gave first Mr Deputy Speaker because I think it is appropriate as you are in the Chair that you ought to have done that. So I acknowledge that you did that and I join my acknowledgment to yours.This settlement has been a long time coming like all settlements that arrive here. I talked about perseverance in the Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill and I could equally apply that to the Ngāruahine people—their perseverance in coming through all of the historical issues that have happened in Taranaki whānui and in particular in this case to Ngāruahine; the likes of which are still carried by the people of Ngāruahine to this day.I have spoken on these settlement bills on previous occasions and I have talked about historical and intergenerational trauma. If there was a historical account that I have read that describes the historical and intergenerational trauma then I would point to the historical account that is included in this bill. It is not easy for a generation to carry such trauma and then to address it with the perpetrators of the trauma that has been inflicted upon them. It takes courage to be able to do that so I acknowledge the whole iwi and I want to acknowledge in particular the negotiators and as the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has pointed out Daisy Noble who has been absolutely tenacious in getting Ngāruahine to this point today. I think that she ought to be mentioned for the very fact of carrying the hurt and the trauma of past generations so that it can be addressed appropriately through this settlement. And so I acknowledge that.This settlement is a significant one. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has outlined all of the parts that are included within this deed of settlement. I want to acknowledge his work in bringing this settlement to the House and also the Crown negotiators and the officers at the Office of Treaty Settlements. The kaitiaki instrument in particular drew my attention. It talks about the natural resources which are of course very important to Ngāruahine.I also wanted to spend a bit of time on the financial redress. I believe that the financial redress looks fairly significant of course but we all know that it is but a small proportion of what was lost. The total area lost in Taranaki was 1.2 million acres which includes all of the land of Ngāruahine. This gives an opportunity for the iwi to move forward to use that settlement asset to grow the economic base of the iwi so that the generations of today and the generations to come which bear the effects of those things that impact the iwi today will have a base from which they can restore or begin to restore their place within and on their lands.I think it is important that we acknowledge—and we have heard about this—the generosity of spirit. We have heard of it a number of times during debates on settlements but when an iwi has lost completely everything—absolutely everything—and then still survives today and finds it within itself to negotiate with the perpetrators of the hurt that has been inflicted upon it that generosity certainly needs to be acknowledged. The financial redress as I said provides a way forward for the iwi. I think that through this financial redress future generations will be in good stead.I have to acknowledge also that through this settlement the iwi of Ngāruahine will eventually be—and I am sure that they are well on their way to being—full participants in everything that goes on in their rohe. I point to the relationship mechanisms within this Treaty settlement and also to the letters that the Crown will write to ministries in order to encourage those relationships to move forward. I always think that those letters could be a bit more. I think that there could be more obligation on the ministries and departments to ensure that that relationship happens. It is something that I think should be discussed at the select committee and hopefully we can make sure through submissions that those letters are not just pieces of paper and that when there is engagement between the iwi and those ministries it is at the level where the decisions are made and not with officers—middle management—of those ministries.Nō reira koinā taku kōrero ā ka mihi atu anō ahau ki a koutou ngā uri o Ngāruahine. Ka nui te mi’i atu ki a koutou ko te tūmanako kia ūhia mai ngā manaakitanga ki runga ki a koutou katoa mō ngā wā katoa ā tihei mauri ora![That is my address and I acknowledge you collectively once again descendants of Ngāruahine. I admire you greatly in the hope that all that generosity will spread over you all the time; so behold the breath of life!]