Paraone Pita: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeParaone Pita: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 09 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1291. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Tēnā tātou o Te Whare aku tuākana ngā tuāhine hoki i tū ake i mua i a au ki te ‘hakatau i ēnei o ngā rangatira kua tae mai nei i waenganui i a tātou i te rā nei. Koutou o Ngāti Korokī Kahukura e Te Tumuaki koutou ngā kaikōrero ngā māngai ngā kaiārahi koutou hoki kua tae mai nei ki te ‘hakarongo i ngā kōrero i puta mai i tēnei wāhanga he wāhanga mutunga kia ‘hakamana tā koutou pire. Tua atu i tēnā e tika ana kia mihi atu ki tēnā o ngā whanaunga karanga maha i ngaro atu ki te tirohanga kanohi i te rā nei. I roto i ngā kōrero o rātou mā ki a koutou te wikitōria ēngari nā rātou te hōnore. Nō reira e tika ana te mihi atu ki tēnā o ngā rangatira a Wally me ērā atu. Me hoki te tuahine i ‘hakahuangia e Te Minita i te ata nei me ērā atu e kawe atu tēnei kaupapa mō koutou ki Te Whare nei. Nā reira e ngā mate haere hoki atu. Nā reira kua ea te wāhi mā rātou ka hoki mai ki a tātou te hunga ora nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Tēnā hoki koutou mō ō koutou whakaaro ki te whakaaengia i te pire nei ahakoa e tika ana te kōrero o taku tuakana ē te āhua nei kua tae mai a Hana Kōkō kua tukuna atu he rare. Kia aha tia? Kia aha tia? Ēngari ko te āhua o te kaupapa ko te āhua o te kaupapa. Nā reira tērā pea ka huri taku reo kia mōhio mai Te Kai’hakawā he aha rā ngā kōrero.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to us all: the House my elder brethren and sister colleagues as well who stood before me to welcome these noble leaders who have arrived here amongst us today. You of Ngāti Korokī Kahukura the head speakers representatives and leaders as well who have arrived here to listen to the contributions that have emerged from this part the final reading to formalise your bill. Further to that it is appropriate that I pay a tribute to that one of the relatives of many callings who is gone and no longer seen today. According to the sayings of many ancestors the victory is yours but the honour is theirs. So it is apt indeed that I acknowledge Wally that of the esteemed elders and others. I go back to the sister mentioned by the Minister this morning along with the others who took this policy to the House on your behalf. So farewell to you the dead go back. The part to them is therefore fulfilled and so I come back to us the living.Greetings acknowledgments and congratulations to you collectively. Thank you also for your thoughts in terms of agreeing to this bill despite the comment by my elder cousin it seems like Santa Claus has arrived to hand out lollies but what will be done to them? What? But that is exactly what the nature of the policy is about. Therefore I should switch to English so that the Speaker understands what is being stated.]This bill rectifies the wrongs imposed by the Crown on Ngāti Koroki Kahukura. I do not want to go to great length in repeating the history that has brought this bill to this stage but I think it is only correct that we should make reference to the bill and its recording of the history of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura and the apology proffered by the Crown to this iwi.Why the apology? It is for the operation of the native land and public works legislation the failure of the Crown to protect the traditional tribal structures of the iwi the Crown’s failure to recognise and provide for their relationship to Maungatautari and the Waikato River and the Crown policies and laws that led to the economic social environmental and cultural degradation of the iwi.Today this House will pass into legislation the Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill and New Zealand First will certainly be supporting this bill. I am aware that New Zealand First did not participate in either the first or the second stages of this bill but I am here today to ensure that we do participate in this stage.Like similar Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement legislation that has preceded this bill this is a combination of trial and tribulation. It is a trial and tribulation for those people involved in negotiating the terms of settlement and I have some sympathy for them because irrespective of what they have been able to negotiate with the Crown the people whom they represent will never be satisfied and rightly so—rightly so—but that is the challenge that negotiators have to make in this whole process.Not only have they had to contend with reaching an agreement with those representing the Crown but they have had the daunting task of getting the support of their iwi. We have heard today some of the reasons why there has been a reluctance on the part of iwi members not to be too overjoyed about accepting this settlement. But having said that I think it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. The Minister has had to face those negotiators knowing full well that his purse will never be big enough but again we see in this bill an example of an iwi making a contribution to this country making a contribution of the resources they have had and cherished for centuries. I make reference to Maungatautari and the sharing of the management of that sacred mountain with the rest of the community. Also we see the sharing of the responsibility for the care of the Waikato River.The Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Act of 2010 and the Ngāti Tuwharetoa Raukawa and Te Arawa River Iwi Waikato River Act of 2010 provide very important mechanisms for the care and well-being of the Waikato River and therein lies the blueprint for both the iwi and the community through the district council or local body to be able to work together to make our environment a better place to live in.So I say to Ngāti Koroki Kahukura today that I acknowledge the time and effort you have put into seeing this bill to fruition and more important the sacrifices you have made along the way. I say to you that if you thought this journey has been difficult the one you take from this day forth will be fraught with as many challenges as you have had to face so far. As my tūpuna our tūpuna have always said to us in Ngāti Hine: “You’ve come too far not to keep going. You’ve done too much not to do more.”I say to the leadership and I quote my father on this which he said when I was elected to be chairman of that great rūnunga Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Hine—Ron Mark: You had to get it in eh?PITA PARAONE: —yes—“Always look behind you because you have to ask yourself: if there is no one there then who are you leading?”.Koi nā te wero! Koi nā te wero mō koutou ngā kai’hakahaere kia anga mua tēnei kaupapa hei painga mō koutou. Nā reira e kore e tōroa ēnei tū ēngari tū ake tēnei ki te tautoko ngā kōrero i kōrerohia i mua i a au. E tika ana hoki kia tukuna atu ngā mihi ngā manaakitanga o Te Runga Rawa ki runga i a koutou. Ngā mihi ngā āwhero nui mō te tau hou. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai anō tātou.[That is the challenge. That is the challenge for you administrators to ensure this settlement goes forward to benefit you collectively. And so I will not prolong these sentiments by standing any longer but I rose to endorse the contributions by those before me. It is appropriate as well to acknowledge the Almighty above for His kindness upon us. Best wishes and aspirations for the new year. So greetings congratulations to you and all of us thank you.]