Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Te Paati Māori—Waiariki): Tēnā tātou tēnā tātou e te Whare. Otirā tēnā koutou e hika mā. Tēnā koutou kua haramai ā-tinana nei ki tēnei Whare i runga i te āhuatanga o tēnei kaupapa. Ka roa nei koutou e whawhai nei. Ngā uri o Hei tēnā koutou. Karanga mai ki tēnei uri o Houmaitawhiti o Tamatekapua heke iho heke iho heke iho. He uri anō hoki tēnei nō Paikea Ariki i ū rā ki Ahuahu ka moea a Te Āhuru-moa-i-raka arā koia anō hoki he honohonotanga i waenga i a tātou. Ngā mihi nui anō hoki ka tangi tonu ki a rātou kāre i konei i tēnei wā: ngā pakeke ō koutou tīpuna ka roa nei i roto i te āhuatanga o Ngāti Hei e whawhai nei mō ō koutou whenua mō tō koutou mana motuhake mō tō koutou rangatiratanga. Nei rā Te Paati Māori e mihi nei ki a koutou i tēnei rā.[Greetings to us all greetings to us all to the House. Indeed greetings to you my friends. Thanks to you who have come here in person to this House under the auspices of this initiative. You have been fighting for a long time.The descendants of Hei greetings. Call in welcome to this descendant of Houmaitawhiti of Tamatekapua and on down through the generations. I am also a descendant of Paikea Ariki who landed at Great Mercury Island and married Te Āhuru-moa-i-raka and that again is another connection between us.]Ngāti Hei has a profound history. On 12 November 1769 the first written account of a pō'hiri between Māori and Pākehā occurred when Captain Cook was invited to Wharetaewa Pā at Wharekaho in Whitianga. He spent 12 days at Te Whanganui a Hei measuring the transit of Mercury across the sun trading and resupplying his ship. But within 50 years of his arrival Ngāti Hei numbers would be decimated to less than 100. Ngāti Hei would lose their land their language their culture. Te Paati Māori does not accept that settlements are full and final; we've said that in the past and we say that today. Our trauma does not lie in the past. Inequality poverty the desecration of Papatūānuku and the separation of whānau and whakapapa is happening in the present and will continue to be our future if we continue down this track. We also know too well the divide and conquer tactics of the Crown the ignoring and sidelining of whānau and attempting to pit each other against each other. That is not our tikanga. Ehara nā tātou tērā tū āhuatanga. [That phenomenon is not ours.]That comes from a Crown process that we have to try and navigate our way through. It's difficult; it's difficult for this claim and it's difficult for other claims. Divisions that are engineered by the Crown negotiation policies like large natural groupings and the fiscal envelope that was based on the monetary stipulations in 1991—it's now 2023 but they continue to use the same fiscal envelope that was in 1991-1992. The settlement as others have also done includes a particular insulting practice of vesting properties—just give it all back.Koina te kōrero: whakahokia atu. I riro whenua atu; hoki whenua mai. Me pērā pea taku kōrero.[That's the assertion: return it. Land was taken; land returned. Perhaps that should be my statement.]Never mind all this other rubbish. I can't wait to go to the select committee and have that discussion because it is unjust it is dishonourable and that is what this Crown is—always has been always will be. These types of practices—the honouring of the Tiriti o Waitangi say Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not for settling". Āe it is not for settling; it's for honouring. Koina te mahi. [That's the job.]Honour Te Tiriti not settle Te Tiriti. And that's a message to everybody in this House: we didn't sign that Treaty for you to settle it we signed that Treaty for you to honour it. So it's now time to honour it and ensure that we don't just get 1 percent of our due. Where's the 99 percent? So full and final settlement must never ever be something that we settle for because our mokopuna must be around to fight for the other 99 percent. Koinei te kōrero ki a tātou e hika mā; koinei te tū a Te Paati Māori.[This is what I have to say to us all my friends; this is the position of Te Paati Māori.]Our mana motuhake policy ensures that the Treaty settlement process is not full and final; ensures that everybody gets relativity as Ngāi Tahu and Waikato did because it's about mana ōrite; ensures that we don't just get 1 percent and that our mokopuna are there to fight for the other 99 percent. These are the roadblocks that the Crown puts in front of us; these are the injustices. I can't wait to have this argument within the select committee because I have the honour of sitting on that committee to ensure that our voice is heard on that particular space.E Ngāti Hei kua pau te waho ki a au engari nei rā te mihi atu ki a koutou ki a koutou ka roa nei e whawhai nei ki tēnei kaupapa. Anei rā i runga i te ara whanaunga e mihi nei e tangi nei tēnā koutou katoa.[Ngāti Hei my time has run out but I'd like to acknowledge you you who have been fighting this fight for a long time. Here on the path of kinship I acknowledge you I grieve with you thanks to you all.]"