Hipango HareteHARETE HIPANGO (National): Ngāti Paoa nau mai haere mai i tēnei wā. E tū au e karanga ki te pānuitanga tuatahi o te pire Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill. [Ngāti Paoa welcome welcome at this time. I stand to take a call on the first reading of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill.]I take a brief call mindful that Ngāti Paoa will be taking flight very shortly so we are on a limited time span for our kōrero our karanga to all gathered here in the gallery. Importantly this is an opportunity. Ngāti Paoa this is the journey that your people have been on but this is televised so it's an opportunity for us in the Chamber to put out to Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealanders to join in part of what your journey and your story has been which will be captured in this legislation. In the short call that I take Madam Speaker and to New Zealanders who are listening in the stories that many of us as Māori have traversed through the course of generations—a number of us in the Chamber here have sat where Ngāti Paoa are with our people our tribal peoples with the passage of legislation through to the completion. My parliamentary colleague Rawiri Waititi we share that journey when we sit on the Māori Affairs Committee with other members in this House. So we know the mamae. We are aware of the grievance. We are aware also of the heaviness but the hope that comes with these settlements. There is contention about it being full and final and that is korero that we are subject to and we listen to on the Māori Affairs Committee—always cognisant of this. But what has been captured in the bill? And I will keep this brief. Importantly my eye is drawn to clause 8 the summary of historical account and I invite New Zealanders to go to this bill to read the story of Ngāti Paoa; clause 9 which is the acknowledgment from the Crown in terms of those transgressions and what the redress will be; and clause 10 the formal Crown apology. In this bill what's particularly noted is that it is captured in te reo Tauiwi in te reo Māori te reo o ngā mita o Ngāti Paoa [in the English language in the Māori language the language of the regional variations of Ngāti Paoa] and that is so important because this is the journey the story of Ngāti Paoa. And I invite New Zealanders to take the time to read this to take the time to listen to take the time to feel. So we will have the opportunity and the privilege sitting on the Māori Affairs Committee to listen to the further submissions from the interested parties the stakeholders Ngāti Paoa. And it is our duty and responsibility of care to take cognisance of those concerns further to what has been inscribed here.Also my eye is drawn to the interpretation section where there is an acknowledgment of those of you gathered here and those who have gone before—in terms of the hand the imprint and what will be inscribed and captured on parchment in paper for time to come. So it is with a sense of heaviness that many of us do stand here but it is with a sense of hope in the journey moving forward. And I see our young ones our future. Today is a present—it is a gift to the future bearing in mind the journey that Ngāti Paoa have carried through the generations from the past to arrive here today. It is a privilege that I stand as the last speaker of the National Party to commend this bill to the House.