McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is a privilege to be able to speak on these Treaty settlement bills and the other thing that I think is a great privilege is that as the previous speaker Nanaia Mahuta suggested it's very seldom the whole House agrees on everything we do. I think that's one of the things I really enjoy about the Treaty settlement process—it's that we get to a point where we agree. And I want to make one other point about the Treaty settlement process for those who go into this negotiation process. When you think about it you must go in there with huge trepidation because you're really negotiating on behalf of every generation that follows you and that's the thing that really I think is amazing. You've got to be pretty brave to do that and to get to a point where you settle I think is amazing.I too want to warmly welcome all members of Ngāti Tūwharetoa who've come all the way to Wellington today. And believe me I know how far it is because I've got to be in Taumarunui first thing in the morning and you can't fly there. It's a long way so I think you're pretty special. That so many of you have come down here I think is pretty cool.As the Minister Andrew Little and the Hon Chris Finlayson have said—and many others have too—this is a historic day for both the Crown and for Tūwharetoa. There's an amazing amount of work that goes into these things and I'm not going to go back in history and talk about too much of the history of this because that's been mentioned by so many people today but I do want to talk about the uniqueness of your place. I think that there's no other part of New Zealand that's been invaded or infiltrated by a couple of million effectively foreigners every year who traipse through your territory and the most beautiful part of New Zealand. I was thinking when Shane Jones was talking before that it's a great opportunity for you to go and see him and get a bit of the pūtea he's handing out around New Zealand and take it back to Tūwharetoa because he's clearly got plenty of it. But when you think about the massive tourism industry which of course wasn't there 100 years ago there are some significant challenges in your part of New Zealand that are caused by that tourism industry which is pretty amazing.I want to talk about one or two other things too because you effectively supply power to half of the North Island. Not only that they then introduced a whole lot of fish which ate the fish that you liked to eat. But the frustrating thing for me about those fish is that they'd be beautiful if we could farm them. We don't farm them. Let's get on and farm the fish that live in your place. I think that'd be pretty cool. So there's some interesting things about you and the other thing I wanted to particularly mention was the timber industry. If you look at the timber industry of the central North Island it's—I could use a fairly strong term but I probably won't—effectively been raped and pillaged for the first 100 years of our coexistence in New Zealand. It's not until you see the remnants of that amazing bush left there that you realise how majestic it must've been 150 years ago. So there's some interesting things that I think have happened in your part of New Zealand that probably haven't impacted on other people to nearly anywhere near the same point.The Hon Chris Finlayson talked about the overlapping claims and many of those overlapping claims are right in the area that both our Speaker at the moment Adrian Rurawhe and I share a lot of the representation of. And there's a number of those claims still to be settled and I think that will be hugely positive and I look forward to the time—and I don't imagine I'll see it but I look forward to the time—when they're all settled because I think that'd be pretty amazing. It will make a difference to what happens in our part of the world and it will be very significant for all of us. So I think that's the thing that's really exciting.So I want to congratulate you on the immense amount of work that's gone into getting to the point you've got to. I want to congratulate you on bringing such a great contingent down to Wellington today and I think the other special thing about you all coming here is that this place is our place effectively and I think it's so cool that these things are done with so many people from around New Zealand coming into the Parliament to witness it happen. So that's my lot and I just want to fully support and endorse the process and hope that we can get a whole lot more of this process done under Minister Little in the next couple of years. Thank you Mr Speaker.