Willis Nicola; Dean JacquiNICOLA WILLIS (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. E ngā mana e ngā reo e ngā iwi tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. National supports this bill as it gives effect to the deed of settlement that settles the historic claims of Moriori and it records the acknowledgments and an apology by the Crown to Moriori. In this contribution I want to acknowledge the history behind this settlement and those who have contributed to us being at the second reading.I acknowledge Paul Eagle the member in this House with perhaps the most familiarity with the Chatham Islands. Madam Speaker you referred to him as Paul Little" accidentally and I'd say that that's because he's put such great efforts into his health of late. But I would also like to acknowledge the Crown negotiator the Rt Hon Dame Fran Wilde and the preceding National Party efforts to get this negotiation going: Minister Chris Finlayson who in 2016 kicked this off again after an unsuccessful period of negotiation from 2004 to 2008; former Prime Minister the Rt Hon Sir John Key who in 2017 signed the agreement in principle; and today the Hon Andrew Little who has brought this bill to the House. I make those acknowledgments noting that these sorts of agreements I think carry particular weight in this House due to the fact that parties across the House have contributed to them and stand by them.In this particular case there is a long history. We could look to 1988 when the Moriori claims were first formally filed but I think Moriori would rightfully say that we need to go back to 1862 which was when Moriori representatives first wrote to Governor George Grey seeking release from enslavement and return of their lands. So it has been a long time getting here today—more than 158 years. The redress which the Crown offers today and which National stands in support of is an apology. It does include cultural and commercial redress of lands of money but I think perhaps most importantly it's an agreement of a corrected historical account of the history of the Moriori and the historic breaches that they have been subjugated to. Other speakers have mentioned the School Journal history which so wrongly articulated the history of the Moriori people and I think for myself it wasn't until I read Michael King's history of New Zealand that I saw just how wrong and harmful that myth that Moriori were somehow an inferior race of people that had been driven out of New Zealand and away on to the Chatham Islands was. In fact Moriori had lived in Rēkohu the Chatham Islands undisturbed for centuries until Pākehā came in 1791 and it was in 1835 that they were displaced by Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama who came not in peace but in war and who enslaved large numbers of Moriori and wiped out about a sixth of the population. At that time the Moriori stood strong in their culture which was one of peace. They adhered to what they called Nunuku's Law and they didn't fight back. While there is honour in that obviously much damage was done and in 1870 that wrong was compounded by the Native Land Court handing recognition of all of those lands away from the Moriori. So National supports this bill—for the apologies it contains for the correcting of the historic record for the acknowledgment of Moriori as tangata whenua in the Chatham Islands and for redress for those grievances. And finally we acknowledge the efforts of all who've helped bring this agreement into being and all those leaders who have fought for this moment. Thank you Madam Speaker. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I call Willow-Jean Prime—five-minute call."