Hipango HareteHARETE HIPANGO (National—Whanganui): Tēnā koe hoki. Ki ngā hapū me ngā uri o Heretaunga Tamatea; e mihi ana ki a koutou i haere mai nei i tēnei wā.[Greetings to you also. To the tribal entities and the descendants of Heretaunga Tamatea I greet all of you who have come here today.]I stand to take a brief call. I acknowledge you of Ngāti Kahungunu here today and I look forward to when we move this through to the final reading when you will gather in force and in strength as you are today. I also acknowledge the former Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson and the Hon Andrew Little for the mahi the work that's been given towards progressing this matter and also fellow members of the Māori Affairs Committee.I acknowledge you Ngāti Kahungunu Heretaunga Tamatea as myself uri of Wanganui and also MP of Whanganui. I acknowledge you because I connect and relate to the journey that you have endured—you but also your tūpuna. I acknowledge that the connection that I have with you is not only as one who's endured that journey with my tūpuna with the reaching of the settlement of Te Awa Tupua but also the relationship that I have as uri of Ngāti Tūpoho of Wanganui and my marae Pūtiki W'arenui a Tamatea Pōkai W'enua. Ngā mihi Ngāti Kahungunu.I also had the privilege for the first time as an MP a National Party member of Parliament to partake in my first hearings in participation as a Māori member of the Māori Affairs Committee at your hearings in your rohe. I listened intently to all who spoke and also to those who didn't. The nature of the hearings and the journey that we embark on and our tūpuna is fraught and mixed with so much emotion. So your journeys and your emotions I acknowledge I sense I feel I know. However I listened to the mamae and the distress and the frustrations as to the process and that which was felt due. I listened also and observed the hope and the goodwill that was at your hearings. And I know because I believe in your abilities that in your journey despite the anguish we will move forward and we will progress and we embrace that opportunity.Your stories his-stories her-stories—they are yours. And it is that in your knowing. And from this I believe and I know that you have the confidence and the ability to move forward. Simply we must do; thus we do.As a member of the Māori Affairs Committee for the first time participating and listening I heard the mamae I heard the anguish and as members of the Māori Affairs Committee we took heed of that. That has been noted in the amendments and they've been stated as being a small number of technical changes but may I just encourage and say that those small technical changes are significant. And I trust that you will embrace that accordingly.There's been the kōrero about the Glasgow leases—Te Aute College. As I sat there and I listened to the anguish of that my connection with you at Te Aute was through a tupuna of mine Porokoro Pātapu Pohe flight officer of the Royal Air Force. He was an old boy of your school. The connection that I have as uri of Wanganui and the whenua that was there for the laying of foundation of Wanganui Collegiate School. Te Aute College and Wanganui Collegiate School have had an enduring association not only through the Anglican churches but through our tūpuna and that enduring relationship is one that over the decades I've had the privilege of attending as a parent of a schoolboy of Wanganui Collegiate School who expressed that he would liked to have gone to Te Aute College. However he attended Wanganui Collegiate School because we are of Wanganui nē rā.So Te Aute College the Glasgow leases: fraught with difficulty but in hearing my colleague Lawrence Yule talk about that there is a way forward—and in hearing the Hon Nanaia Mahuta addressing that also. We will endure and we will continue the good fight.I had the privilege also of listening too. And I hope that in some small way I was able to contribute to clearing the pathway to facilitate the issue of the Wai 401 Renata Kawepo Estate Claim the people who also had that link to Taihape and keeping that claim open. That too is my link; that is part of my whakapapa.I turn briefly also to the significance of Wai 574 the Karanema Reserve Claim about that not being included. However I acknowledge that it is not for the Crown to say how things should be done. You know how to resolve those issues amongst yourselves and you're entrusted to do so.So in closing may I just conclude that this is the second reading. I commend this bill to the House for its passage to its final journey to the third one and I look forward to embracing you all in your attendance that day. Kia ora.