Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe ata mārie koutou katoa ōku hoa kaimahi o tēnei Whare Pāremata tēnā tātau katoa. Ā huri noa ki a koutou tēnei te mihi ki a koutou e ngā iwi e toru o Taranaki whānui kua tae mai nei ki tēnei Whare ki tēnei whenua ō koutou i Te Ūpoko-o-Te Ika nō ngā rekereke o Te Maunga Tītōhia. Ka tautoko ahau i ngā mihi kua mihia kia whakatau i a koutou ki roto i Te Whare nei. Ka tuku au i ngā mihi aroha o Te Rōpū Kākāriki ki a tātau i tēnei rā whakahirahira rawa atu. Hari koa tēnei te uri o Te Rarawa Ngāpuhi o Ngāti Porou hoki ki te kite i a koutou! Ka kīkī mai tēnei Whare i a koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātau katoa. E ai ki te kōrero a Tītokowaru: e kore au e mate ka mate ko te mate ka ora taku toa!".[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. A peaceful morning to you all my work colleagues of this House of Parliament; acknowledgments to you all. Turning to you collectively I greet you the three tribes of greater Taranaki who have arrived here in this House from the heels of Barren Mountain to this land of yours at the head of the fish. I endorse the tributes accorded to welcome you collectively into this House today. I extend the empathy of the Green Party to us on this day of huge significance. This offspring of Te Rarawa Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Porou as well is rapt to see you collectively. Your presence fills this House. Well done congratulations and accolades to you and to us all collectively. According to the aphorism of Tītokowaru: "I won't die; it is death itself that will and my gallantry will survive!".]I shall not die I shall not die. When death itself is dead I shall still be alive. Long after I am dead my deeds will echo through time. This was spoken by Tītokowaru who was the rangatira of Ngāruahine and one of the greatest military strategists ever and we had a few of those in our history. I reference Tītokowaru in relation to raupatu and that he eventually laid down his arms at Parihaka. It speaks very clearly to the enduring strength and mana of tangata whenua through raupatu through serious deep injustice and indeed through the working through of this very settlement that we are here for today the third reading of the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill. I want to tautoko my colleague my tuahine Nanaia Mahuta when she speaks of the anxiety and the incredible honour that is on our shoulders as Māori MPs as Māori members of Parliament in this House when we are surrounded by the mana the strength and the tūpuna of all of you from Taranaki iwi whānui who have come here today carrying both the generations of mamae and also the generations of resilience of strength of courage and of generosity going forward as we here honour the settlement today for your people.It is always with anxiety and incredible honour and responsibility that we stand here that I stand here among our people with these settlements. The Green Party has long understood that these settlements can never be full and final. We know that you yourselves have acknowledged that these settlements barely cover any of the injustice that has happened but in the spirit of generosity and in the spirit of the strength to continue forward—because we shall never die—you are here with all of that to do the best that you can for your mokopuna and for your tamariki in generations to come. To do our jobs properly as representatives of Te Ao Māori we want to acknowledge that difficult process. I recall fondly—like many of my colleagues have in earlier readings—in particular Peter Moeahu of Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū who embodied the length of time that these processes take as well as the burden that is carried by hapū and iwi through the settlement processes. When he spoke at the beginning he presented his seven children and his first mokopuna to the tribunal and said: "This is who the Crown steals from and has stolen from." Then at the hearing for Ngāruahine which was my very first hearing ever for the Treaty settlement processes he appeared having accumulated seven children 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren and he said: "This is who the Crown settles with." So I acknowledge you Peter. I acknowledge you as an example of the generations that happen through these processes for our iwi and I acknowledge the people we lose—and there are many—through these processes for settling a Treaty claim. We know that the injustice can never be settled. So I acknowledge those submissions that I heard that day. We know how fraught this whole process is. I do want to acknowledge that the Greens have always been very clear about the wedges that happen and have happened in every single Treaty settlement process—every single one. The large natural groupings that are preferred through this Crown process mean that we have—and I do want to acknowledge and recall as an example that we heard from Āraukuku that day as well. They felt aggrieved by this process.I want to acknowledge that this is part of why Te Pāti Kākāriki knows that the generosity of our people far exceeds the fact that hardly anything that was taken is actually returned. But in this process those wedges happen and they have happened around the country. As I said in I think the first reading I am not one to stand here and cast any sort of judgment on those wedges because you wait till Ngāpuhi happens. So I want to acknowledge that I understand and that it is important that we are clear about that process.I quickly want to pick up on when Minister Finlayson referred to the absurdity of some of the comments about the representation clauses to allow Ngāruahine representation on the Taranaki authority and I completely agree with him that it is absurd to think of it as anything less than upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership. Actually the heart of upholding Te Tiriti is something quite different from some of the fear of the representation of Māori on authorities that we did have in a couple of the submissions that were opposed to that particular clause of representation. I want to pick on that representation on authorities and although it is not the be-all and end-all of honouring mana motuhake under Te Tiriti it is an important part of upholding the relationship and we all benefit when we can ensure that mana whenua do have that representation at that decision-making level.I recall events around waste water sewerage in particular around the regions around Aotearoa actually and in Taranaki where if we had had iwi representation from the get-go—30 or 40-odd years ago at the planning stage when our own people were saying "This is not going to end up well for the mauri of our water."—perhaps better decisions would have been made that would benefit all of us. I am very pleased to see the Crown acknowledge that representation through this settlement also.As I sum up I am happy to see all of our Taranaki iwi whānui here today. They will continue to pick up the ongoing threads. I want to finish off with the acknowledgment of the importance of our historical Parihaka context. It is relevant through all of these reconciliation processes and I thank the Crown for having a separate reconciliation process to come. Nā reira taku mihi ki a koutou o Ngāruahine. Tēnā tātou katoa."