Tirikatene Rino: Taranaki Iwi Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Taranaki Iwi Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 15 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9766. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker ā tēnā koutou e ngā rangatira huri rauna i tō tātou Whare. Ā Taranaki iwi Taranaki Maunga Taranaki tāngata tēnā koutou nau mai hara mai ki Te Whare Pāremata e taka tū nei. Ka huri ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia haere haere koutou ā ka hoki mai ki a tātou te hunga ora tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to the esteemed ones throughout our House. To you Taranaki tribe Taranaki mountain and Taranaki people I acknowledge congratulate and welcome you to Parliament House standing here in readiness. I turn now to pay tribute to those who have been immortalised as stars in the night sky farewell depart. I come back to us the living to acknowledge salute and commend you and all of us.]Just to make a brief contribution I stand in support of this settlement bill at its first reading. The Taranaki iwi is very closely related to Te Atiawa whom we have spoken about earlier today. They are closely related and we know that a lot of the grievances and the hara are shared. But I do want to focus on probably one of the darkest episodes in our country’s history and that was at Parihaka which is central to the Taranaki iwi claims.I do acknowledge the kōrero from Marama Fox earlier where she mentioned that recognition should be given to Te Whiti and Tohu. It is great to have a statue of Gandhi on the forecourt of the Wellington Railway Station but it would be wonderful to see greater recognition given to Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. They were leaders. They were the pioneers of peaceful resistance of standing up for yourself in a peaceful way. It behoves us I think as a country to give greater recognition to the world-leading stance that they took. We have had many many leaders many prophets who have followed in their footsteps and adopted the same peaceful resistance kaupapa that they established. That is world leading.For all folks who have had the privilege of going to Parihaka it is a very special place. You feel it when you visit there and you see the places where these two great leaders lived and when you meet the people the whānau there. This settlement bill I know goes a way to recognising that and re-establishing Parihaka and that really is the hope. I believe that all whānau who are connected to Taranaki iwi and Parihaka would love to see a thriving community celebrating their tūpuna and their teachings once more because it was very much a thriving community back in the day. I know that I have only a short contribution but I did want to acknowledge Te Whiti and Tohu.I also want to acknowledge my whanaunga Tūtehounuku who mentioned the ploughmen who were interred in Te Wai Pounamu. Certainly whenever I am in Ōtepoti or over Te Tai Poutini and around the wonderful great southern island I do say a little internal mihi and acknowledge those tūpuna and the places where they were cruelly treated as a consequence of the stance that they took in following the wonderful teachings of their leaders. That concludes my brief contribution. I am looking forward to seeing the progress of this bill through the House. Kia ora tātou.