Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Te papa e tū nei e takoto nei tēnā koe. Ngā mate haere haere haere. Ngā reo ngā mana tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Dan Bidois tōku ingoa. Ko Tainui te waka. Ko Ngāti Maniapoto te iwi. Ko Te Kauae te marae. Ko Michael Bidois tōku pāpā. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Greetings Madam Speaker. The House that stands before me greetings. The ground that stands before me lies before me greetings. Those who have passed go go go safely. The spokespeople the authorities greetings to you all. My name is Dan Bidois. Tainui is the ancestral canoe. Ngāti Maniapoto is the tribe. Te Kauae is the marae. Michael Bidois is my father. Greetings to you all greetings one and all.]It's a real privilege to be speaking on the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill in its first reading. I do have a connection to Ngāti Hinerangi: my late grandfather Lawrence Bidois is buried in the hills of the Kaimai Ranges and he hails from Ngāti Tokotoko. So I'd like to acknowledge everybody who's come down here from Ngāti Hinerangi. It's a pleasure to welcome you here in Parliament today. I grew up in Maniapoto. I didn't really have a strong connection to Ngāti Hinerangi. My grandfather married a Searancke and we ended up in Maniapoto. I would have liked to have spent more time in Ngāti Hinerangi but we didn't have a marae to go to so I look forward to visiting Ngāti Hinerangi throughout the course of this bill. My grandfather was a very very hard man as stubborn as they come and very very pig-headed—it's just lucky that there's a lot of pigs up in the Kaimai Ranges. Certainly his Te Reo was good but that didn't flow through to my father or myself so I blame possibly my father for my lack of Te Reo. But the Kaimai Ranges is a fantastic part of New Zealand. It's a natural border of the waka of Tainui and it's a fantastic place to visit. There's a lot of history some of which we've heard today and some of which we haven't. There are eight hapū that are signatories to the settlement and that includes my grandfather's hapū Ngāti Tokotoko.This bill addresses many wrongs of the past and grievances that stem from the Crown's actions or inactions where villages were attacked where land was confiscated where land was purchased without the consent of Ngāti Hinerangi and as a consequence the people of Ngāti Hinerangi were alienated from the land causing a loss of culture and a social and cultural marginalisation. This bill and the settlement that this bill gives effect to goes some way to addressing these grievances. But I'd like to acknowledge that this does not fully encapsulate and can never fully address the grievances of the past. In itself $8.1 million is a tiny sum of the amount that was taken from Ngāti Hinerangi and the people of Ngāti Hinerangi but it is I think symbolic of the desire to acknowledge the grievances of the past and in some way offer some form of compensation. The bill also allows for 14 sites to be given back to the people of Ngāti Hinerangi an acknowledgment of 10 areas as well as a level of consultation between the Department of Conservation and two sites in particular and the people of Ngāti Hinerangi. I'd like to acknowledge that the road has not been easy to this point. Of course the people of Ngāti Hinerangi started this process with the former National Government back in 2014 and I do want to acknowledge that there have been lots of arguments along the way as is very common in Māoridom. My uncle Rawiri Bidois has of course been sparring with David Thompson who I understand is up there from Ngāti Tawaki and I think it's been interesting talking to my uncle about the sparring of course. We've come to an arrangement here today and I am very very supportive of the outcome and where we're at today. But I would like to take a step back and take some lessons and reflections from this process because I think that going forward the way we're going to address settlements that have not been settled yet I think there are certainly some lessons to learn from this. The key principle of the Treaty of Waitangi settlements is that these are enduring. As my colleague Matt King said these are supposed to be the final settlements on offer. But these can only be enduring if these settlements benefit all members of Ngāti Hinerangi no matter where they come from. And talking to my uncle who certainly had some grievances about the process there were two hapū in particular that didn't feel like they wanted to sign up to the settlement because of the process. It was too cumbersome and it was too expensive for them to actually mount any successful attack. And I say this in a very genuine sense because we all want to get to a stage where Māori have settled and there are no grievances left unturned or unsettled. I think that in the spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi in the spirit of the Waitangi Tribunal it's really important to make sure that we engage with iwi in a structure that allows for all hapū to feel like they are benefiting from the final settlements that are in fact brought to the House through a bill. So it is I think in that spirit that I will be looking forward to as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee engaging the people of Ngāti Hinerangi more and to work out whether this bill in fact does fully benefit all people of Ngāti Hinerangi because I think that we want to get to a stage where if we pass this bill and we disperse the money everybody who is a member of a hapū benefits equally from these settlements. I just want to take a step back and acknowledge everybody who has brought this bill to fruition in the House today: of course the former Minister the Hon Chris Finlayson; I'd also like to acknowledge the current Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Andrew Little; the staff at Te Arawhiti; and of course the people from Ngāti Hinerangi who are here today. Thank you for coming down making the trip down to Wellington. I would just like to say that I am supportive of this bill. National supports this bill. We support the kaupapa. So it is my pleasure to commend this bill to the House. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.