Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare otirā e whakapiri ana ahau aku mihi ki ngā whānau ngā hapū o Ngāti Tūwharetoa tae atu ki Ariki Tā Tumu Te Heuheu. Anei ahau e tuku mihi atu ki a koutou katoa kua tae mai ki te whare Pāremata i tēnei rā ki te whakarongo ki te pānuitanga tuatahi o tēnei pire nō reira tēnā koutou.[Greetings to you Mr Speaker. I would also like to acknowledge the families and hapū of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and also the paramount chief Sir Tumu Te Heuheu. I am here to greet you all who have come here to Parliament today to listen to the first reading of this bill. So greetings to you.]It's a great pleasure for me to stand and speak to this bill first of all as the member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauāuru. The area of interest for Ngāti Tūwharetoa extends all the way into my electorate as far as the Rangitīkei. So I acknowledge my whanaunga at Ngāti Waewae. I also acknowledge the part of me from Kākahi: Ngāti Manunui. My great-grandfather was from there. I acknowledge all of my connections directly to Ngāti Tūwharetoa.I always make a point of trying to read the historical account—not just the summary in the bill but going back to the deed of settlement. There is a 100-page historical account within the deed of settlement. As others have mentioned in this debate it looks at the events that have taken place over a long period of time. My colleague Rino Tirikatene got up to 1860—it goes a lot further. It talks about every major incident and interaction between the Crown and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Like other historical accounts it's a sad history but it's one that needs to be acknowledged.Within the bill under the acknowledgments of the breaches of the Crown—I don't think I've ever read so many acknowledgments—there is a total of 32 acknowledgments in this bill and if I can just read one of them the very first one: The Crown recognises that every generation of Ngāti Tūwharetoa since 1840 has been adversely affected by the Crown's failure to uphold its obligations under te Tiriti o Waitangi".That kind of summarises the other 31. The other 31 go into particular detail about the breaches by the Crown of the Treaty of Waitangi which have impacted on every generation of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. I say it's only right that this bill comes to the House and that we have this first reading of the bill so that we can specifically acknowledge what is actually in this bill.I reflect upon the day on which the deed of settlement was signed at the Waitetoko Marae and I mihi atu to Ngāti Rangiita [I acknowledge Ngāti Rangiita] for their hosting of that event on that date. On that day I had the privilege and pleasure of speaking to some hapū representatives. This has been a long journey this settlement process and for some hapū the journey takes longer than for others it would be fair to say. I spoke with one representative in particular whose hapū had only recently made the decision to sign the deed of settlement. I think it would be fair to say that she was feeling a little bit anxious about whether they had made the right decision or not. I hope that I was able to give her some confidence and I shared some stories with her about what that process means and what it would mean for the future generations of her hapū and for Ngāti Tūwharetoa. As has been said in this House before this is an imperfect process but it's the one that has been accepted by this House and more importantly it is one that has been accepted by iwi that are settling their historical claims. I shared with her my thoughts that this settlement will provide an opportunity for the future—being future focused around addressing all of these acknowledgments that are in this bill and finding a way to address these issues so that the next generation can have a better life so that when the Crown in the bill says that it recognises that every generation of Ngāti Tūwharetoa since 1840 has been adversely affected: let this be the last generation.It's very important not only that we have those acknowledgments but that the Crown apologises for that as well. The apology really means that the Crown will no longer adversely affect another generation. So I find it a real honour to be able to acknowledge that. The test of that will come in the future. The test of that is that we never ever see Ngāti Tūwharetoa having to come back to this House to have any breach of the Treaty addressed ever again. I think that's a challenge for every single member of this House regardless of which party is in Government. That's a challenge for all of us.I don't want to take too much time but I do finally want to acknowledge every single hapū that has agreed to this settlement. I hope as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee that I get to hear submissions from many many hapū and many many whānau and individuals about what their thoughts about this bill and this settlement are. One thing I would like to encourage everyone that has an interest in this bill to actually make a submission so that when your descendants come to find out about the history of this the submissions will be recorded in history for ever and they will know exactly what their ancestors thought about it.Nō reira kāore e roa tēnei tū otirā e tika ana kia tuku mihi anō ki a Ngāti Tūwharetoa nō reira tēnā tātau. [So I will not go on any further and it is right that we acknowledge Ngāti Tūwharetoa. So greetings to us all.]"