Wagner NickyHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Ki ngā uri o Ngāti Rangi tēnā koutou katoa. He nui aku mihi mahana ngā mihi maioha me ngā mihi aroha hoki ki a koutou. Nau mai ki tēnei Whare ki Te Whare Pāremata. [Greetings Madam Speaker. To the descendants of Ngāti Rangi greetings to you all. I have many warm greetings affectionate greetings and loving greetings to you.]Today is a celebration. It's a huge milestone for Ngāti Rangi but it's also a huge milestone for the Crown and a huge milestone for New Zealand. It's a culmination of 28 years of negotiations but more importantly it's a stepping off point for Ngāti Rangi to a new relationship with the Crown after nearly 180 years. Like everyone today I want to welcome you warmly to Parliament. It's wonderful to see so many of you here and to see you in the legislative Chamber—all sizes all shapes all ages. From the most respected elders to the youngest it's fabulous to have you all here. I really want to acknowledge every single person those that are here with us today and those that have passed who have been involved over those 180 years on this journey to get here today. You know when there's a long road of struggle we often talk about standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before. We talk about drawing strength from our ancestors from our tīpuna. Today we recognise that and we thank every single one of them for the contributions that they've made. I want to think back to the strength of those first rangatira those rangatira who signed the Treaty back in 1840. Those rangatira who signed that Treaty they signed it with mana and with good faith. Their signatures reflected their powerful position. They were leading a prosperous community; they were embracing the future with confidence and preparing to work with the Crown as equals. As leaders they could see the benefits in a strong partnership with the Crown; the strong partnership that was promised by the Crown. And in good faith they saw opportunities of welcoming new settlers to the rohe of leasing their land to them. From the very beginning they had a very strategic and forward-thinking way of how they would manage the whenua but they were let down. They were let down and sorely disappointed. During the difficult times of the 1860s and 1870s they maintained their mana motuhake they protected the rohe and strategically they aligned themselves with the Crown. But the Crown did not repay their loyalty. The failures of the Crown have been well-documented—the stripping of land rights the fraudulent use of compulsory acquisition the lack of compensation and the lack of consultation all of which resulted with a decimation of landholdings; hundreds and thousands of acres were reduced to 13500. Today in Parliament the Crown publicly acknowledges all those betrayals and the Crown apologises for the many years of distress. So today as we pass the bill Ngāti Rangi and the Crown look to a new relationship and look to a new future. At last Ngāti Rangi will be able to exercise their kaitiakitanga their manaakitanga and their whanaungatanga and all their customary rights and responsibilities over the land and their resources now and for the many years to come. I just want to conclude by acknowledging the work of the Ngāti Rangi Trust who have worked so diligently for this settlement right through the 28 years and the leaders and the negotiators—in particular Che Wilson and his negotiating team and for the Crown Dr John Wood and his team. I'd also just like to make comment and support the Ministers who have supported this bill from the Hon Chris Finlayson who got the ball rolling to the Hon Andrew Little who has completed it and everybody actually for completing it in record time once they started that negotiation.So today we celebrate. We celebrate in the words of Shar Amner another step towards healing the mamae between Ngāti Rangi and the Crown. We celebrate a negotiation well done by so many and best of all we celebrate a vision of an exciting future for Ngāti Rangi starting today—starting today for this generation and for many more generations to come.Ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou a Ngāti Rangi e te rōpū rangatira huri rauna i tēnei Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [Many greetings to you Ngāti Rangi the esteemed group right around this House greetings greetings greetings to us all.]Kia ora.