van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Kia ora. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. Welcome Ngāti Hinerangi to this place to your place to our place. I'd particularly like to acknowledge the CEO of the Ngāti Hinerangi Trust Tony Harrison and the chairperson Phil Smith—thank you both for making the journey along and the rest of your team as well. It's great to have you down with us today for the second reading of the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill.Now before I get under way there have been a few errors made by some of the speakers today—well intentioned but errors none the less. There were claims that Matamata is the second best part of the country when quite clearly it is the best. For anyone who has travelled there they will be well aware of this. The Māori Affairs Committee I'm sure experienced that when they travelled down to the mighty Waikato. They would have been struck by the majestic beauty of the place and absolutely gobsmacked at the awe of the mighty Wairere Falls the Kaimai Range and the beautiful rolling foothills and the magnificent productive fertile farmland of that rohe. Ngāti Hinerangi understand that. I have the pleasure of representing that area as the member of Parliament for Waikato as well and so I am blessed to understand that as well. I grew up in Te Poi which is within the rohe and I absolutely acknowledge and understand the importance of that place and the beauty of the region.We've traversed already today—pretty well I think—the details of the peculiarities within the bill the particular aspects as it pertains to this particular settlement bill but there are a couple of bits that I just wanted to touch on. I really wanted to acknowledge first of all the journey not just in the claims settlement process but actually prior to that and regaining the voice regaining your identity regaining your mana and re-establishing Ngāti Hinerangi as its own separate iwi. So well done for your pride in your own history for your passion in pushing for that and your perseverance in actually continuing and seeing that through to the reality where we are now. So I'd like to acknowledge that. I know that journey wouldn't have been easy but you can be very proud of that.So we've got to this position now where there has been some redress made and obviously those details we've heard a bit about already. For me when I was speaking recently with Tony we talked a lot about what this means but actually one of the things that struck me out of that conversation was around the fundamental that this is really a catalyst for positive change. This is a nice line in the sand that we've had some challenges in the past that has been incredibly difficult we've got to where we are now and actually the future looks positive. There are some challenges of course—there always will be and success takes time—but I have no doubt that with the passion within Ngāti Hinerangi you will achieve many wonderful things. I look forward to seeing that within our wider community.Now that area as I mentioned has been home for me and I'm very proud of that. I've always enjoyed the Wairere Falls—and for anyone who hasn't visited it's the largest waterfall in the North Island it's a beautiful part of the country there's a fantastic walk up there—it takes me a bit longer up and back down now than it used to 10 or 15 years ago but politics does that to you! Chris Penk: Don't blame politics; it's the pies!TIM VAN DE MOLEN: Ha ha! Well perhaps I can't blame politics yes—but that's all right.So look it's a beautiful part of the country. I saw earlier on Facebook today—and members of the iwi here today may have seen it too—Hinerangi Lilo I think it was did a post on the Matamata-Piako District Council Facebook page talking about the importance of the area for her as a member of Ngāti Hinerangi and incorporating that and building that into the plan process that Matamata-Piako District Council are going through as well. So it's really fantastic to see that voice being heard to see strong advocacy for your passion and your rohe your iwi. So I'm proud to be standing here helping to shepherd this second reading through. A lot of that hard work has been done. There are still some points to progress through this House. The select committee has fixed up a few of those little tweaks. But largely now we have the remaining couple of stages and then finally—finally—we tick that box and Ngāti Hinerangi can move forward with this as a positive catalyst for change and I look forward to seeing that. Kia ora.