Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Te Upoko o Te Whenua ka riro ngā ia o Te Awaroa whakaaria nei e kore e mimiti. Koropupū ake i Waitaraiti. Koia rā te waka o te atua kei Pūrangi. Tū ki te Arero te whare karakia. Maru pūmanawa. Kei whea ōku tumu makaurangi rā hei herenga mō taku waka. Upoko o Te Whenua te marae. Ko Ngārongo te whare. Kohia ngā maramara katoa o Maruwharanui. Tēnā koutou te Kāhui o Ngāti Maru. Tēnā koutou e ngā whanaunga.[Te Upoko o Te Whenua that receives the currents of the Waitara River never runs dry. Its source is from the hill of Waitaraiti. This is the vessel of God at Pūrangi. Tū ki te Arero was the church and the heart of Maru. Where are my spiral carved posts to which to tie my canoe? Upoko o Te Whenua is the marae. Ngārongo is the meeting house. Gather all the descendants of Maruwharanui. Greetings to the cluster of Ngāti Maru. Greetings to my kin.]I stand for Te Paati Māori to mihi to my whanaunga whānau that are there in Pāremata to our whānau that are at Tarata Pā watching to our whānau across the motu to our whānau across the ao watching this reading and supporting. I stand for Te Paati Māori in support of this third and final reading. I mihi to you all for your generosity to the motu acknowledging the unrecoverable hours; the tears the heartache; the advancing retreating advancing; and the many hui and the hui before the hui to those we have lost and to those who today carry this kaupapa the burden of the legacy. I mihi to your humility and acknowledge all that you have done to get to this point working with the Government trying to get the best settlement within fiscal envelope restraints.I want to use my five minutes to help the world understand what goes on behind the scenes to get you here today to share the extent of your commitment to developing a peaceful future-focused Aotearoa. I want to help the world understand that after years of Government systemic failures; legislation that worked against you nearly wiping out your history your stories your language; being educated in education systems that don't recognise you; your native language having to learn again; and local government that forgot your roles as kaitiaki Government that forgot your roles as mana whenua and us as whanaunga forgetting how we lived together here you are. To the songs and karakia you've had to relearn the wānanga you recreated to learn about our tūpuna the pain you endured and the huge hours outside of your normal jobs the time away from whānau the travelling and all you did to remember ourselves. The research you spent hours and hours finding to unravel the many stories the agreements agreeing to disagree walking away when you couldn't agree the need to reset and try again—all of that and it's all still related. Nowhere else in the legal system is the perpetrator allowed to determine the process yet here we are whānau mā.We are very clear: justice is not served by this House today. Do not kid ourselves otherwise. It is the pure love for our nation that sees Ngāti Maru accepting this settlement as many iwi before it and as long as our mokopuna thrive this will never be full and final just as relativity will never be off the table. Before you is a people—Ngāti Maru—who while negotiating with the Crown has focused on its post-settlement governance entity an entity to launch their rangatahi kaupapa Te Kōpae Whanake o Maru. How perfect to show the love of Ngāti Maru aspirations for their future reo and kaupapa. Before you is a people who focus on the Maru Taiao plan to reassert the kaitiakitanga that was never lost nor were their rights or interests ceded. Many improvements could have included the return of private land water and mineral rights or asserting tino rangatira as Te Tiriti states equally on everything even governing ourselves—imagine ACT's reaction to that. Elections will come and this will be a hard but an exciting era for Ngāti Maru because you will see before yourselves each other's strengths your mokopuna's strengths—those you have grown in spite of all odds. Hopefully there will be some that will be able to consider for Ngāti Maru local government and maybe Te Paati Māori. As you grow so too will your economy and to grow also is your political advocacy to fight for those who don't believe in your tino rangatiratanga co-governance and want to rewrite Te Tiriti. To Matua Pono Polly Kopu Tainui Tukatoa Poi Pue Ray Peri Hazel Peri Rata Pue Kauika whānau Puata and Patu whānau Anaru Marshall Karl Burrows Holden Hohaia all my whanaunga Jamie Tuuta Tamzyn and most of all to your tamariki. To all your tamariki and your whānau your partners thank you for all you did to share your mātua with Ngāti Maru to do everything they did for us. To all of our tamariki our rangatahi—Aroha Rākaiao Nuri—all our rangatahi our mokopuna that's in Te Upoko o Te Whenua watching this at the moment the sacrifices that your whānau have done will always be remembered and recorded in Hansard. Ko Maru tuatinitini. It speaks to the many Maru on earth. You are here Ngāti Maru you have arrived. Tihei a Maru ora! Kia ora koutou.