SpeechHARETE HIPANGO (National): Tēnā koe. Tākitimu te waka. Ngā uri ngā hapū o Ahuriri tēnā koutou.[Greetings to the Tākitimu canoe. The descendants of the sub-tribes of Ahuriri greetings to you all.]It's always a privilege to stand to address the House and also the people who are listening in from afar on these Treaty settlement bills. Minister Willie Jackson tēnā koe. Ngā mihi ki a koe.I have the good fortune and will never take for granted that I've been called back to this place with a list of things to do. It just happens to be again fortuitous that I've been called back timely to speak to this bill because I had the distinct opportunity and privilege to be a member of the Māori Affairs Committee at the time that this came to the committee after its first reading on 12 March 2020.It's always helpful for those who are listening in from afar to understand what a second reading means because not everybody does. The introduction of a bill to the House is the first reading and as is known it gets referred to the select committee for those members to go through and to see whether there should be any changes after hearing submissions or evidence from the people who have an interest in that bill in this bill. So the second reading today is about this bill having gone to the select committee and coming back to the House no sooner than the third day after the select committee has reported. Now the select committee reported on 10 August 2020 so we're well out of that time frame of the third day but the purpose of this debate is to look at what the main principles of the bill are and also any changes that have been recommended by the select committee to be factored in and included by way of amendments to the bill which I now turn to in this brief call that I have remaining.The select committee reported back on 10 August 2020. We heard the evidence of some nine oral submissions out of a total of some 34 written submissions. The Minister Minister Little earlier today talked about the fact that 16 submissions were in support and three were opposed. The select committee report notes that there are proposed amendments amendments which are minor and technical. In summary those are firstly that clause 88 of the bill as it reads ensures that the language in that bill is consistent with current legislation and therefore the recommendation is to amend that clause to take into account the changes Parliament imposed in 2019 to the Local Government Act 2002. That was one of the amendments and that's what's recommended for the change to this bill going through to the third reading.The next amendment is to clause 65 which provides for three properties to be vested in the trustees and those are outlined in Schedule 3 of the bill. It's recommended that those small technical amendments are to add those additional interests to the bill to remove the expired interests and to remove the listed interests that have no direct effect on the property and are therefore not required in the bill. So those the amendments as were recommended by the select committee for this second reading to take it through to the committee of the whole House and to the third reading in time.We've heard members in the House today talk about the history the components of the bill but important was the process that had been engaged. Often as members of a select committee particularly with Treaty settlement bills we are privileged because we hear not only the mamae which is the hurt that's associated with the history and the journey of the peoples who are uri who are ancestors direct descendants of those who started this journey and have traversed it all the way through to the legislative passage of being before the House but also we hear the raruraru the problems the internal conflicts and tensions that are there. That was presented to the select committee and it was for the committee to defer on that because our duty and obligation was to address those matters within the bill. Minister Little has appropriately dealt with that. When this matter comes back before the House it will do so taking into account the mamae the raruraru and the due process has been amended and is now to be effected with the elections for us to bring this bill back to the House for the third reading. In closing on the second reading of this bill I commend it to the House. Kia ora.