SpeechTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pika koutou mā o Taranaki maunga ngā whanaunga ōku whanaunga o Ngāti Maru. He mihi ki a koutou katoa ahakoa kei hea i Aotearoa nei.[Greetings to the Speaker and to you of Taranaki mountain to the relations my relations from Ngāti Maru. This a greeting to you all wherever in New Zealand you may be.]Kia ora Ngāti Maru. Today is your day. It was a while ago now that we stood in the House and we acknowledged you on the first reading of your bill. We've been through the submissions process through the committee and I want to take a moment to acknowledge all of those people that came forward from Ngāti Maru to put their whakaaro down on paper and to present to our committee. I am also regretful that we were unable to make it for the hearings and I want to put this back out to you guys that are listening: if you want to invite us at a time in the future when all is safe and well and we've passed this COVID pandemic then I know that on behalf of the Māori Affairs Committee we would love to be able to come to your marae to tie up a loose end actually to do what's right which is to acknowledge you on your whenua and hopefully—as our Minister indicated earlier—when he comes he will be able to read that apology as well and we'll be able to stand by his side and feel the wairua and feel those tears as well that I know that I talked about in my first reading speech in the House.In my first reading speech I commented on an article that had been written by Stuff and I wanted to acknowledge Tamzyn Pue who has been one of the leading lights of this Treaty negotiation. One of her comments summed it up really well. She said that This deed"—this bill; this settlement—"contains the tears of my ancestors the truths of the history that left Ngāti Maru landless with no reo no tikanga and no identity." I really do hope that this is going to help put Ngāti Maru back on its own journey as it should have been all those years ago.I want to just acknowledge that the work that's been done to get to this point has been a collaboration of many people many hours many documents. I want to acknowledge everybody that put effort into getting us to the point where we're at today: our Crown officials Crown negotiator but also I thank the people of Ngāti Maru for whom this means the most.Ngāti Maru is the final of our Taranaki settlements and rightly so. This was the final piece of the puzzle that needed to happen before we could say that Taranaki Maunga have settled their historical grievances with the Crown. But let me remind you: Taranaki whānui the journey's not over. We are currently in a space where we're talking about co-governance and in our media all around the country there are people that are pushing a political narrative that co-governance is a very bad thing and co-management is a bad thing as well and I'm going to need your help on this one Ngāti Maru to be able to fight back on that kōrero. I need you and many of our iwi to be able to stand up and acknowledge that the historical wrongs and the Treaty settlement process will never truly account for everything that has been lost.So what we've got to look for—and I've said this in other Treaty settlements and I'll say it again in your one—what we need is for the Crown to constantly remember the hurt and the pain that's been caused through Treaty settlements and also through the historical injustices that have happened and look for every opportunity to allow our iwi to be able to gain rangatiratanga for themselves. Ngāti Maru today we recognise your rangatiratanga over your whenua and we hope that in the future with our support we can continue to support you into arrangements—whether it's co-management opportunities co-governance opportunities but ultimately to be able to allow you to have a seat around that decision-making table; those decision-making tables because there are many as you well know. I look forward to travelling to your rohe. I know that we will do it and I know that finally we'll be able to see the final process of these settlements be able to heal the past wrongs by hearing that apology which I'm going to save for our Minister to be able to deliver because it is a very important moment to be able to have the Crown—to be able to have representatives of the Crown—stand there on your whenua and acknowledge the hara the mamae and the aroha your people that have passed and that stand here and that will be creating generations of Ngāti Maru for generations to come. I acknowledge you all today we see you we hear you we stand by you and we look to support you in your future endeavours. Nei rā te mihi ki a koutou aku whanaunga o Taranaki maunga. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou mauri ora ki a tātou katoa.[This is my acknowledgment to my relations from Taranaki maunga. Greetings greetings and life to one and all.]I commend this bill to the House."