Flavell Te UruroaHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Co-Leader--Māori Party): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Kia ora tātau katoa ā tēnā tātau e hui nei i tēnei rā ki te kōrero ki te wānanga i ngā take Ngāti Hineuru Hineuru te aumangea Hineuru te pūkeke Hineuru te mārohirohi tēnā koutou haere mai haramai ki Te Whare Pāremata. Haramai ki ngā auē haramai ki ngā kōrero ki ngā hītori haramai ki ngā tangi e tangihia ana. Nō reira tēnei te whakatau atu ki a koutou kai ngā pakeke kai te iwi tēnā koutou haramai! Haramai haramai! Kua rongo ake i ngā kōrero e kore au e hoki ki ngā kōrero a Te Minita.Kua oti i a ia te whakatakoto i te hītori ngā kōrero katoa e pā ana ki a koutou ēngari ka rongo ake i te tangi o taku tuahine ē ka hoki ngā mahara ki tana matua kēkē ki a Hoani Wall otirā ki a Emmy ko Te Whetū koinā ngā mea i mōhio nei au i te wā i a rātau. Ka rongo ake i te tangi o tōna ngākau! Kua tae mai tēnei āhuatanga ki a ia ki tōna ngākau! ki a mātau katoa ngā Māori nei! Ēhara tēnei āhuatanga i te āhuatanga hōu i te mea koinei te āhuatanga o ngā kerēme i ngā wā katoa ka ngaungaua te ngākau ka tangi te ngākau! Nō reira kai te tuahine ka mihi rā ki te āhuatanga o tō kōrero he rawe tonu ēngari he pōuri anō hoki ki te rongo ake i te ngaungau o ngā pēhitanga kua utaina ki runga i a Ngāti Hineuru otirā ki tō rahi i tēnei rangi tonu nei. Koinei te pānuitanga whakamutunga ā e tika ana kia tuku roimata! Nō reira e kore au e hoki ki aua kōrero kai aku rangatira! He tū poto noa ake tēnei ki te kī atu kai te tautoko Te Pāti Māori i ēnei kōrero katoa kai te tautoko ake i te hiahia kia anga whakamua. Āe he wāhi anō rā ki ngā hītori ēngari ko te painga ake arā ko te iwi e noho nei ko tā rātau ko te tuhi i ngā kōrero kia noho ēnei kōrero ki roto i tēnei Whare Pāremata mō ngā rā e hia kē nei kei mua i te aroaro. He wā pea tōna ka hoki mai ngā mokopuna ka taea e rātau te kī mai kai hea ngā kōrero i kōrerohia ā i tēnei rangi tonu nei ā ngā whā tekau tau kei mua i te aroaro! Pēnei i a mātau o tēnei whakatipuranga ka wātea mātau ki te hoki ki ngā kōrero i kōrerohia e Apirana Ngata mā i te wā i a rātau. Nō reira koinei te painga ake kia kōrerohia ngā kōrero i roto i te Whare Pāremata kia tuhia ngā kōrero ka mutu ka noho tonu ki konei mō ake mō ake nei! Ēngari waiho tērā ki reira. Ko te tino pūtake o taku kōrero ko te kōrero mō te āhuatanga kai mua i te aroaro kaua mō ngā uauatanga kua pā mai kai tōwaitia katoatia ngā kōrero. Hoi anō ka mihi rā ki a koutou me tā koutou māia ahakoa ngā uauatanga kua pā mai ki a koutou i noho angitū nei māia nei ā ahakoa ngā pēhitanga e kōrerohia ake nei ā kua hāngai tonu tā koutou titiro kia eke kia tū mana motuhake nei i roto i ngā kōrero i ngā hītori kia whai wāhi koutou ēhara koutou i te hapū he iwi tonu ā ka mutu he hiahia anō wā koutou he tūmanako anō rā wā koutou. Nō reira kia hāngai tonu taku kōrero ki tērā o ngā kōrero.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and to us all and acknowledgments to us gathered here today to speak and debate matters concerning Ngāti Hineuru. Hineuru the tenacious strongminded and brave; greetings welcome and come forth into Parliament. Welcome to the groans the contributions and the grieving being shed here. I therefore welcome you the adults the tribe welcome welcome welcome! I have heard the contributions and will not be revisiting the statements made by the Minister. He has outlined the history and all that relate to you collectively but I heard my sister colleagues' sob and hey my recollections go back to her uncle John Wall but at the same time to Emmy and Whetū to those ones whom I knew in their time. I heard her heart-rending sob! This came from within her a situation that wells up within us all Māori here!It is not a new one because this is the situation with claims every time the seat of emotions is chewed at the heart laments and so I commend the tenor of your contribution sister colleague. It is quite nice but sad also to hear as a consequence of the bite of the burdens placed upon Ngāti Hineuru but at the same because of your massive number here this very day. This is the final reading and yes it is apt for tears to be shed! Therefore I will not revisit those stories my esteemed ones. This is but a short address to simply advise that the Māori Party support all these accounts and the real desire for it to move forward. Yes there is a place for history but the benefit is there in the people seated here. Their job is to report the contributions so that they remain here in this Parliament for the many days ahead in the future. A time will come perhaps in the future when the grandchildren will be able to say to us: where are the contributions that were delivered on this very day 40 years ago before us! Just like us of this generation we are able to go back to the accounts delivered by Apirana Ngata in their time. So this is the advantage of delivering speeches in Parliament and reported eventually; they remain here and are recorded forever. The real purpose of my contribution was to talk about the situation in the future and not about the difficulties that have emerged as it will totally prolong discussions. Therefore I do commend you and your perseverance. Despite the difficulties that affected you you remained successful and confident. Despite the pressures that were referred to your focus has remained fixed on making it to the top and being independent in the contributions and histories and that you are able to participate; you are not a subtribe but a tribe in reality. Furthermore you have your own needs and aspirations. Therefore my address must remain focused on that one of the contributions.] This is just to congratulate Ngāti Hineuru on being here today although I hear the tangi of my sister Louisa Wall over there and of course of all of the iwi. For the recording of the history it is great that we have Hansard here so that it can always act as a record for the future and the generations to come will find a space to come back here and be able to look at the discussion that happened today in the third part of this third reading of the bill. Hopefully it will become law in a very short space of time. I have not gone back to the past history because it has been hugely covered by both of the previous speakers—by the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations himself and also by my colleague Louisa Wall. As I have said these are not good times to be a Māori in Parliament discussing these issues. It happens every time that you cannot but feel an element of sadness and yet huge respect for what our people tried to do in the face of huge provocation. The destruction of papakāinga the loss of land—that sort of stuff is pretty hard to get over. But I suppose today is about looking to the future and if I can in this short period of time—because I do not wish to go back over stuff that has already been mentioned—I will share with the House today a small excerpt from the Hineuru Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Hineuru 2040—a dream for the future". In that document it says: "Our people stand proud but humble in knowing who they are and their own individual whakapapa. … We have CEO's from across many sectors from land management business and new technologies always being asked to go and support other iwi and other peoples around the world … Our people are healthier and our kaumatua are livelier because they don't suffer from many illnesses. This is due to an increased quality of housing for our people. Our whanau are living longer and our tamariki mokopuna are not influenced by drugs and other aspects." Mēnā koinei te whāinga matua o tēnei iwi me mihi rā ki tērā āhuatanga! [If this indeed is the primary aim of this tribe then they must be applauded for that!]As I travelled many times between Taupō where I used to live and Napier/Ahuriri I went directly through the heartland of Ngāti Hineuru. You get to the top of the hill at Te Hāroto and you look around and you see the school and all the various papakāinga there. I just want to acknowledge the fact that hopefully this will set a pathway for Ngāti Hineuru into the future. This is the dream that they have set out for their people. Despite all the atrocities that they speak about it is noteworthy that they are here today to talk and in particular to pick up on the offer from the Minister to sit together and discuss that flag and what it might mean into the future. Most important they bring with them values that I think are hugely important—the values of whakaiti of manaakitanga of kotahitanga and of rangatiratanga amongst many more. It is a privilege to be here today as the Minister for Māori Development and as a representative of the Māori Party to absolutely support this bill to be law and to allow Ngāti Hineuru to go where they want to go for their futures and for their mokopuna. Ā ka nui taku mihi ki a koutou e hoa mā whakaritea mai ai tā koutou mahere mō ngā rā kai mua i te aroaro ka tupu ka rea arā e kōrerohia ake nei. Ko tāku ko te kī atu he whakatinana i ngā wawata. Kua ea te wāhi ki tēnei o ngā Whare Pāremata ēngari koinei te mihi o te ngākau ki a koutou i haramai i tērā o ngā Whare haere mai tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kai raro.[I commend you hugely colleagues; organise your future plan make it grow and multiply in other words as mentioned here. I say to you aspirations will be manifested. The part for the Houses of Parliament is done now. Nevertheless a heartfelt acknowledgment to you collectively from me who came from the other one of the Houses. Welcome welcome greetings accolades and congratulations to you collectively. I resume my seat.]"