SpeechJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. E mihi ana ki a koutou Ngāti Maru. It is a beautiful sight to see some of you in the gallery today. It has been far too long where we've been without people affected by these bills being able to observe this process and I want to acknowledge the importance of this day and all of the work that has gone into getting to this point. I stand as the Green Party spokesperson for Te Tiriti to recognise the significance of this third reading for Ngāti Maru. This is a huge milestone in their journey towards the restoration of Maru ora that has been so attacked and undermined by the perfidy of the Crown over many generations.I want to along with everybody else in the House acknowledge the negotiators who have done the front of the work and all of the leaders behind and the people behind the scenes and in the kitchen who manage to hold tight to the vision of Tihei a Maru Ora [behold the vitality of Maru] that has brought us to this day and our wish I'm sure is a collective wish for that to take Ngāti Maru forward in strength. We remember too on this day the many who have died along the way but remain present in this work and this day.For those listening who don't know—and sadly there will be many because our mainstream education system has mainly taught us only colonial districts and cities and town names and not the nation States of hapū and iwi—the iwi rohe of Ngāti Maru stretches from the eastern side of Mount Taranaki to the source of the Waitara River across the Heao Stream and down to the Whanganui River and back across the Matemateaonga Ranges to Stratford. This is the nation of Ngāti Maru.It is worth noting that Ngāti Maru is the final iwi of Taranaki to complete the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process at this point. I want to draw attention to that because that is actually significant and note that in the general manager's report in the Ngāti Maru annual report during the settlement negotiations they pointed to the conflict that had arisen with whanaunga over the last few years because of the settlement process and how they had started work to re-establish links and connections based on whakapapa and a shared interest to see each iwi benefit and succeed.But I want to quote from that because I think it's really important for us to reflect on as we take responsibility for our part in this process where they spoke about using the term re-establishing" to describe what they're trying to achieve because these relationships did exist at one time and have fallen out of existence over the last few decades. This is a consequence of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process where iwi are required to differentiate themselves from their neighbours by claiming specific rohe and mapping these which in turn excludes others. This is an antagonistic practice that creates division and breaks down relationships.I want to acknowledge Ngāti Maru for their work to re-establish those links and those connections and to state again that the Green Party still holds to the possibility of a settlement process that is tikanga based—that actually is not full and final; does not force people into large unnatural groupings; and is led from the ground not from the Crown's self-interest which is still we recognise a large part of this process. The generosity—that has been acknowledged in this House—of Ngāti Maru in accepting this very hard-fought for settlement cannot be restated often enough.I do hope though that in this process something has been regained for Ngāti Maru from the process of uncovering your shared stories and having some of the wrongs acknowledged. I hope that this may help your moko to feel proud of being Ngāti Maru. My hope too is that tangata Tiriti will read this historical account and those of other settlements and understand how much our current way of life for good and bad may be a result of the failures of the Crown to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi. I think more often the value for us as a country for the future would be if we would learn those lessons as Pākehā. But today I thank you for the reliving of those stories and the collecting of those stories in the hope that we can have a better shared future together.In 1865 Ngāti Maru had 220000 hectares of land. The vast majority of this was illegally confiscated by the Crown or sold through dubious deals done without the permission of iwi members. Large tracts of this ended up in the conservation department holdings. We've heard the discussion and I will repeat it again because I don't want to be the only one who doesn't evoke that incredibly powerful saying of Ngāti Maru's that comes out of such grief and loss but feels as if needs to be said to be able to have a sense in this House of what happened of "Maru Hāhā. Hāhā te whenua. Hāhā te tangata." The English language doesn't seem to me to be able to compete with the sense of truth within that.I also want to point to a couple of other small parts of the apology from the Crown acknowledging as well as the confiscation of the land the imprisonment of Ngāti Maru men without trial following their participation in protests initiated at Parihaka which now with the benefit of hindsight we would say that as a country we should have been so proud of those people involved in those protests providing a vision for the world of peaceful resistance and community building. To see them imprisoned for that without trial is again the injustice of all of this—and then the subsequent invasion and destruction of Parihaka; also—and this has been outlined by the Minister—the failure to ensure that Ngāti Maru had and retains sufficient land for the present and future and the massive impact that has had on the entire Ngāti Maru society.I also want to point to what has been spoken about by others—that in many ways the power of the settlements is that they are hard-fought for but it is about the shifting in relationships for the future and providing even that small bit of an economic base to help people rebuild. But in this instance it is as the lead negotiator noted significantly about the return of land where Ngāti Maru started with 220000 hectares; that over the years was whittled down to less than 900. So the land-return aspects of this are profoundly important. The Greens would still say that this shouldn't be full and final and that there should be an opening for more but this is significant and that's not meant to undermine the negotiators by any means. It has been a great result.But I also just finally want to point to the settlement trust's vision and values of Maru Ora Maru Pae Maru Rota Maru Taha Maru Muri and Maru Tiketike and that summing up of what's wanted for the future and the attention on rebuilding society that comes now at this point of the process. From the Greens we wish you all the best and we will do everything we can to get the Crown out of your way so you are able to rebuild your connections. Kia ora."