Hayes JoJOANNE HAYES (National): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. E koro mā e kui mā e rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou. E ngā mātua e ngā mokopuna hoki ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. To the elderly men and womenfolk and to esteemed ones and others of a hundredfold acknowledgments to you collectively. To the parents and grandchildren also a huge appreciation to you.]I stand here proud as punch today for my whānau of Wairarapa and Tamaki nui-ā-Rua. I stand here proud as punch because today we finally get to the third reading of the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā (Wairarapa Tamaki nui-ā-Rua) Claims Settlement Bill. As many of my colleagues in the House have expressed today it is the beginning of an amazing future for my whānau in Wairarapa and Tamaki nui-ā-Rua.It is an emotional day because I have waited for a wee while for this day to come and to sit there with my mum in the gallery and her kuia Hinerau as well. She is the last kuia for Wairarapa to witness this day because so many of my aunts and uncles who were part and parcel of getting this bill to where it is today have gone on passed over and I am sure their wairua sits in this House and watches the proceedings as we move forward.I want to acknowledge Jason Kerehi. I am sure that it has not been a very easy task for you Jason to be able to hear and listen to the whānau as they all started to contribute to the things that you needed to talk to the Crown about for redress for Rangitāne o Wairarapa. I want to also acknowledge Rick Barker as the Crown negotiator and I am sure Rick at many times many people tried to talk to you about some of the things that they wanted in the bill. I am sure of that. I got plenty of phone calls myself to have a talk to you about a few things in this bill and so I just want to say well done. Well done to both of you for getting the bill this far.I want to add my acknowledgments to Mavis and to the rest of the board members and the committee members. I am proud of you Mavis. You have done our iwi and Māori women proud in every aspect of the work that you do in representing us and the iwi. I want to acknowledge Tīpene Chrisp and John and Richard for the work that they do on the committee. I also want to acknowledge our Mikaere Kāwana who was I think very influential in the actual waiata of Tū Mai Rā and the waiata that comes with this bill. Mikaere is a very talented composer of waiata for Wairarapa and I am very proud to have him as part of our family married to my cousin Ērena.As I said I am very proud to stand here. I am humbled because my whānau in the Wairarapa are the Karaitianas and the Rīmenes and the many others but it is through the Karaitiana whānau that I come into Wairarapa through my mum. I want to also acknowledge my long-time friend who—we have walked through many many journeys her and I and I remember when the first negotiation meeting started: with the iwi she rang me up and she said: Are you coming to the meetings to do with our bill?". And I said to her "Where is it and when is it?" and "I don't know whether I can." That woman is sitting in the House. She has been in here for all of the readings and her name is Oriana Paewai and she sits up there in the gallery and I want to acknowledge you Oriana. She has been the one who has been keeping me up to date when I was not home to be part and parcel of whānau negotiations.I want to say to Rangitāne Wairarapa Tamaki nui-ā-Rua—the generosity of being able to gift Pūkaha / Mount Bruce back to the people of New Zealand. It is a beautiful reserve and I am sure that in times to come many other New Zealanders and tourists will come to understand the beautiful gift that you have given back to this country and to the world.So my kōrero is not going to go on much longer because I am very emotional about today because it is a special day for everybody in the House and especially for the mokopuna sitting up there in the gallery. This is your future. This is something that you can have input into how you want your lives to reflect through this bill and through all of the things that are coming back to Rangitāne. And I hope that you take it and you grab it with both hands and you help to set the future for you and yours because that is what our elders up here have done. They have come so far and now you mokopuna—it is now your turn to step up and help to shape the future of Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Tamaki nui-ā-Rua. So without any further ado I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora."