Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. It is a pleasure to take a call on Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill. This bill gives effect to specific to the cultural redress shared between Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua and Rangitāne o Wairarapa as Rangitāne o Tāmaki nui-a-Rua and provided for in their respective deeds of settlement. I would like to begin by acknowledging the members of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne who have travelled to Parliament today and those who are watching and participating remotely. I mihi to you all.As others speakers have noted it is wonderful to have you all in the gallery today. Madam Speaker I'm not sure if Mr Speaker is watching but I wonder if he has made a ruling on whether we will allow waiata in the Whare today. One of the most special moments of participating in this Whare is the waiata when we finish a reading of a Treaty redress bill. Something I have had the privilege of learning is kapahaka as a member of the New Zealand Youth Choir and waiata in this Whare and that is something that I'm really looking forward to and I'm going to stay specifically for that. I hope that it will ring around this Parliament as something we haven't heard in here for a very long time.Today we're beginning this particular legislative process to further acknowledge you and the historical wrongs against your people but the work to get to this point was started a very long time ago. I want to acknowledge all who were involved in this process and who have passed since that time. This bill will give effect to specific cultural redress shared between Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne and provided for in their respective deeds of settlement. You may be wondering a little bit about why a Pākehā MP from Whakatu in Te Wai Pounamu would have anything to say on this particular bill. I consider this to be the first opportunity I have had to give a speech a kōrero in this Whare on a Treaty settlement bill. I'm really proud to whakapapa back to Wairarapa where my mother grew up and where members of my whānau still live and where I spent a lot of time as a child and I'm proud also to have grown up in Manawatū which is also a whakapapa to Rangitāne. As the MP for Nelson Whakatu we have eight iwi in our rohe one of which I spent a lot of time working with—Rangitāne o Wairau. My colleague Barbara Edmonds earlier in her speech today mentioned the Wairau Affray and what happened to Te Rauparaha and the history which is so important for the area that I come from and I know this is whakapapa that many of you here today will share.I just want to note that it is so important that these stories and your history—the history that has led us to this place for this kōrero so that we can right these wrongs—are shared properly in Aotearoa. We are currently in New Zealand having a discussion at times about the role that history plays in our country and it's because of times like this in my view that that history really matters so that we don't end up with Pākehā MPs like me standing up here today having had to do the research. This research and this history should be taught to our tamariki early in their lives because it's part of who we all are.As previous speakers have pointed out there are a number of things that this bill does. It provides for an overlay classification over Castlepoint Scenic Reserve. Castlepoint is a place I visited a lot as a child with my whānau in Wairarapa. It provides for the making of regulation for the management of customary fishing in Wairarapa Moana and the Ruamahanga River Catchment. It jointly vests the Mataikona property in fee simple with both iwi and it also jointly vests the Crown-owned parts of the Wairarapa Moana property in fee simple.The bill establishes the Wairarapa Moana Statutory Board. The bill sets up the functions membership procedure and committees of the board and it also sets out the preparation and approval requirements of the documents in a vision statement for the Wairarapa Moana.I want to make a specific point about the role that our local government and our territorial authorities have played. When reading through the bill I was particularly interested to see the contribution from local government—the Tararua District Council making available the Mākirikiri Recreation Reserve; the Masterton District Council relinquishing its control and appointment of the Mataikona reserve; and the fact that the Crown and the trustees of the Ngāti Kahungunu Settlement Trust and the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā Trust have agreed along with Wellington Regional Council and South Wairarapa District Council to be part of the Wairarapa Moana Statutory Board. Those parties together with Masterton District Council and Carterton District Council have agreed to be part of the Wairarapa Moana Statutory Board's committee for natural resources. Again I point this out for quite a specific reason. Again we are having conversations and kōrero in Aotearoa at the moment about the role of co-governance and the role of iwi and Māori relations in local government. Part of that conversation at times has gotten very ugly and inappropriate. In my view this is an example of the work that local government and iwi have been doing for so many years in such a positive way to work together in the true spirit of partnership. There is so much that the Crown can learn from that and there is so much that all of Aotearoa can learn from that. I wanted to point out specifically how good it was to see the inclusion of work by our councils in getting here today.This is the first reading today and from here we go through that select committee process. And from here we have an opportunity to hear from people further as this bill progresses through this Whare. I'm not here to hold this up any further. We want to hear your voices ringing out through this Whare tonight celebrating another step in this milestone. So I commend this bill to the House. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.