Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēna koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Ngā uri o Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā (Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua) ngā hapū Ngāti Hāmua Ngāti Te Rangi Whakaingoa Ngāti Mutuahi Ngāti Pakapaka Ngāti Parakiore Ngāi Tamahou Ngāti Te Reitia Hineteaōrangi Ngāti Te Noti Ngāti Te Whātui Ngāti Tangata Hou Ngāti Mātangiuru Ngāti Te Hina o Ngāti te Hina Ariki Ngāti Te Koro o Ngā Whenua Ngāti Te Rangitotohu Ngāti Ruatōtara Te Kapuarangi Ngāti Matutapu Ngāti Whakawehe Ngāti Taimahu Ngāti Tūpoko Ngāti Te Atawhai Ngāti Te Whakamana Ngāti Mīroiti Ngāti Hinetauira Ngāti Tauiao Ngāti Moe Ngāi Tahu o Ngāi Tahu Mākakanui Te Hika o Papauma tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[To the authorities languages and esteemed ones of a hundredfold acknowledgments accolades and salutations to you collectively and to us all. To you the relatives of Rāngitāne Tū Mai Rā (of Wairarapa and Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua) and the hapū Ngāti Hāmua Ngāti Te Rangi Whakaingoa Ngāti Mutuahi Ngāti Pakapaka Ngāti Parakiore Ngāi Tamahou Ngāti Te Reitia Hineteaorangi Ngāti Te Noti Ngāti Te Whātui Ngāti Tangata Hou Ngāti Mātangiuru Ngāti Te Hina o Ngāti Te Hina Ariki Ngāti Te Koro o Ngā Whenua Ngāti Te Rangitotohu Ngāti Ruatōtara Te Kapuarangi Ngāti Matutapu Ngāti Whakawehe Ngāti Taimahu Ngāti Tūpoko Ngāti Te Atawhai Ngāti Te Whakamana Ngāti Mīroiti Ngāti Hinetauira Ngāti Tauiao Ngāti Moe Ngāi Tahu o Ngāi Tahu Mākakanui Te Hika o Papauna acknowledgments accolades and salutations to you collectively and to us all.]I would also like to acknowledge the origins of this Treaty settlement. When we think about the 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act and the 1985 amendment Act that enabled us then to go back to 1840 there are some Wai claimants that I would also like to acknowledge. Those people are: Wai 166 Mānahi Paewai on behalf of Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-ā-Rua Incorporated Society; Wai 171 Hēnare Matua Kani on behalf of descendants of Hēnare Matua; Wai 175 James Rīmene and Pirinihia Te Tau on behalf of Rangitāne o Wairarapa Incorporated Society; Wai 943 Lance Tuiārangi Rātima on behalf of the descendants of Horomona Rātima; Wai 1008 Kerylee Jan Ānaru on behalf of the descendants of Pāhia Ānaru; Wai 1634 Hepa Tātere Mānahi Paewai and Lui Paewai; and Wai 1950 under the name of Jocelyn Pattison. I acknowledge these people because they started this process so many years ago. In addition to these Wai claimants we also have some overlapping claims that relate to Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-ā-Rua and they are Wai 97 Wai 161 Wai 420 Wai 657 Wai 741 Wai 770 Wai 1568 Wai 1928 Wai 2211 Wai 2213 Wai 2225 Wai 2241 and Wai 2269. The whānau have through these Wai claims created an opportunity to negotiate with the Crown. This bill gives effect to the deed of settlement signed on 6 August 2016 in which the Crown and Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Rangitāne o Tamaki-nui-ā-Rua agreed to the final settlement of the historic Treaty of Waitangi claims. So today is an incredibly special day. I would like to acknowledge all the whānau here in the House and all the whānau that are not here. I know at times like these we remember the past as we always focus on the future and there will be people who are not here anymore. I have probably made a few people cry because I feel like crying myself as we remember our tūpuna who fought so hard and so long for this day. In preparing for today I got a piece of research and I want to refer to an extract of a letter that Judge Wainwright wrote about the Wairarapa ki Tararua report. She wrote this to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and these were the key points from her perspective: that this is a historically complex and difficult relationship between Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne that the severe loss of Te Reo Māori in the district needed to be highlighted that there was vulnerability of many important Māori heritage sites that it was important to recognise Māori rights in and around the Wairarapa Moana that the rapid pace at which the Crown purchased the significant tracks of Māori land left the claimants landless and the ongoing struggles the claimants have in terms of being able to meaningfully engage in and to have any influence on what goes on in their rohe. I would also like to highlight that the issue of becoming virtually landless meant that we could not maintain our tradition. We could not live communally. As a result of that we lost our traditional homes our customary knowledge and our language.What I want to highlight about this bill that is before us today is that if you read through it it is intermixed with Te Reo Māori and te reo Pākehā—English. I am not sure whether the whānau have seen it but all throughout the bill you have the Māori text and then you have the Pākehā text. So I want to acknowledge that this is a bilingual bill and it really is quite significant in terms of the prioritisation I think of Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā that impacts on our cultural identity. So having a piece of legislation that is both in Te Reo and in Pākehā I think is incredibly important and it is an incredibly symbolic sign in terms of how you see yourselves going forward. Would it not be wonderful if we could all read this in Te Reo and in English? Maybe that is the aspiration for the future that we can have texts like this in our schools and our babies our tamariki can read it. I have not really got much more to add other than that this piece of legislation is universally supported across the House. I hope Minister Finlayson that we can have another expedited session where we can have some second readings Committee stages and third readings. I do think that it is really important the work that you are doing. I do want to acknowledge you because the leadership that you have shown in prioritising these bills is something that I think not only the iwi appreciate but we appreciate too. So we stand with you 100 percent in the full resolution of all our Treaty grievances. So nō reira safe travels home whānau. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.