Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (National): Tēnā koutou Ngāti Hinerangi. Rau rangatira mā ko aku mihi atu ki a koutou nau mai haere mai. Kua tae mai ahakoa te roa o te wā o te hīkoi kia tae ki tēnei wā kua tae mai.[Greetings Ngāti Hinerangi. Greetings and welcome to the many chiefs of Ngāti Hinerangi. Although it has been a long journey you have finally arrived here.]Greetings Ngāti Hinerangi. Rangatira kaumātua all—a warm welcome. We have arrived here at last even though it has taken a long time—too long—for the journey to make it here. We have arrived and today is a momentous day. For Ngāti Hinerangi too long forgotten and ignored today your identity rights interests and mana are rightly acknowledged—never again to be ignored. Today Parliament makes law a deed of settlement that acknowledges and apologises for acts and omissions by the Crown that provides for cultural redress and that provides for financial and commercial redress.I want to focus on the law that we are signing today and the apology it contains that will now be set out in our statutes and our law books forever more because in this law we set out the Crown's failures to uphold its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi. We outline the Crown's responsibility for the outbreak of war in Tauranga in 1864 for the terrible injustice of the raupatu that followed for the scorched earth tactics of the 1867 bush campaign for the ongoing promotion of laws and policies that facilitated and speeded the loss of the remaining lands of Ngāti Hinerangi and that contributed to the economic and social marginalisation of your people that deprived Ngāti Hinerangi of access to the maunga the awa the Waiariki the wāhi tapu the mahinga kai that had sustained your people for generations. Today the Crown acknowledges this history and says to the hapū and whānau of Ngāti Hinerangi to your tūpuna and mokopuna Sorry." The Crown has again and again fallen short of principles of mutual respect and partnership promised by the Treaty of Waitangi and it did not respond adequately to past generations who sought to obtain justice for your people. We honour those people today. We honour their perseverance and their commitment to seeing justice be done. Today the Crown seeks to restore its honour and in some way alleviate the justifiable sense of grievance felt by generations of Ngāti Hinerangi but today we also look to the future and from here forward may the Crown and Ngāti Hinerangi go forward in a spirit of cooperation of mutual trust of respect for the promises of the Treaty of Waitangi. May potential be unlocked and may a sustainable future be forged.In closing I want to acknowledge the leadership of those who made today possible. The Ngāti Hinerangi Iwi Trust today is a vindication of the struggle that you have had and of the commitment you have shown. I want to honour former Minister Finlayson who signed the terms of negotiation back in February 2014 and the first agreement in principle back in 2015. I want to acknowledge Minister Little who signed the deed of settlement that we put into law today and his officials. And I finally want to put into the Hansard an acknowledgment of the chief Crown negotiator of this settlement my dad James Willis. I have negotiated with him on many occasions and not all negotiations have ended in settlement! I asked dad for his reflections on the settlement process and he said that this was an example to all other iwi engaged in Treaty settlements about how to resolve overlapping claims and issues with neighbouring iwi. And he said that Ngāti Hinerangi are lovely people good people who have shown great patience and resilience. "Far too long forgotten and ignored they have shown perseverance and struggle. Forgotten and ignored once but never again."—and I will leave you with his words. Kia ora."