Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Tēnā koe te Arikinui o Ngāti Tūwharetoa Tā Tumu Te Heuheu tēnā koe nau mai haere mai. Ki ngā whānau whānui o te iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai ki Te Pāremata ki runga i te rā whakahirahira tēnā koutou katoa.[Greetings greetings to the paramount chief of Tūwharetoa Sir Tumu te Heuheu welcome. To the families of the Tūwharetoa tribe I greet you and welcome you to Parliament for this special day.]I'm honoured to stand to make a small contribution to the first reading of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill. Before I start my contribution I just want to acknowledge some people. I want to acknowledge the Hon Chris Finlayson whom I believe will go down in the history of many iwi and hapū kōrero as the most effective no-nonsense Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations that any Government has seen over the many years that this Government has stood here. I want to acknowledge the new Minister the Hon Andrew Little. I think that the shoes that have been left behind for you are very big and it's going to take a wee while I'd say before you actually ever get to fit them but I wish you all the best. I really look forward to working inside the Māori Affairs Committee as we work through these bills.Many of the contributions today have already touched on the historical events that happened with Ngāti Tūwharetoa and each time I stand here in this House after reading the information that we get and listening to the kōrero that I get to hear at a number of hui—I do sit here humbled that so many of our tūpuna have been such courageous fighters and that for all of us that are in this House and throughout Aotearoa New Zealand we're very lucky to actually be here. It has been our tūpuna that have fought vigorously for us to survive.And so I'm very humbled again to stand here on another Treaty settlement bill one of our biggest and most important for me—my auntie married into Ngāti Tūwharetoa. I just want to say that this is a bill that I look forward to listening to the contributions on from the many submitters and I would dare to say that there will be many submitters for this bill. I do look forward to actually hearing their stories and to making sure that the Crown does do its duty to redress all of the ills that it caused for Ngāti Tūwharetoa tūpuna and whānau.Coming back to the select committee because I came off the select committee at the beginning of the year and I'm pleased to be back with it I want to say to Rino the chair that I look forward to your chairmanship for the rest of this term. I think that we will do a number of great things for iwi and under your chairmanship I know that we will fight to get as much as we can for our people.So without any further ado I just want to say that I pay tribute to you all up there in the gallery for all of you coming here today. Some of you would have woken early in the morning. I pay tribute to your tūpuna. To your mokopuna yet to come and that are here already I think that they will have an amazing piece of history and legacy that you have pulled together today and into the future and I can see that the treasures that you already have will actually grow exponentially once this process is finished. So without any further ado I commend the bill to the House. Kia ora.