Hayes Jo; Tolley AnneJO HAYES (National): Kia ora e ngā maunga Ruapehu Ngāuruhoe Tongariro tēnā koutou. E te moana Taupō tēnā koe e rau rangatira mā o te iwi o Ngāti Tūwharetoa tēnā koutou. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei Whare Pāremata i te rā whakahirahira. Kia ora. [Greetings to the mountains of Ruapehu Ngāuruhoe and Tongariro I greet you. To the lake Taupō greetings my esteemed elders from the tribe of Ngāti Tūwharetoa greetings to you. Welcome to Parliament on this important day. Thank you.]I am truly blessed to be standing here—honoured in fact to be standing here—to take this call in the third and final reading of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill. I want to acknowledge the leadership of Ngāti Tūwharetoa specifically Te Arikinui Tumu te Heuheu and our dear friend and colleague Dame Georgina te Heuheu and also Sir Michael Cullen sitting up in the gallery today.I want to acknowledge the many hands that have made this possible today: the negotiators both on the iwi side and the Crown side and all of you in the gallery today. You all helped in getting this bill to this place today and I want to thank you and acknowledge you and I pay my respects to you all. I know that once this time is over and the bill reaches its Royal assent then whānau mokopuna will be able to add to the economic wealth of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and really at the end of the day this is about the future of the mokopuna of Ngāti Tūwharetoa.I too want to add my acknowledgments to the Hon Chris Finlayson. I will miss him. He has got such a big brain on his little body and I have learnt so much from him. I will miss the way that he does his debates in this House. So yes without any further ado I just want to pay respect to the Hon Chris Finlayson.Finally I do want to acknowledge the chair of our Māori Affairs Committee Rino Tirikatene. He has worked tirelessly on completing this bill as our new chair and I also want to acknowledge Nuk Korako my colleague who chaired the Māori Affairs Committee when we started out on this journey with Ngāti Tūwharetoa and also the other select committee members as well.We can't do this stuff without the kaimahi in behind us: the clerks the advisers the Parliamentary Counsel Office—all of them. They've all worked really hard. We had quite a lot of demands on them and they came through and we sent them back and they kept coming through. So I do want to acknowledge them.I remember the day that we travelled to Taupō for the hearings. We were all very excited coming up to Taupō to do this and I also remember the numbers of people that actually supported this bill. There were those that kind of sat on the fence and had neither way and those who were definite that they weren't supporting the bill and it's been very good that we've been able to work through these processes to actually get to today.I think that the actual sweetness of this whole process of claims settlement is actually in the submission process and listening to the kōrero that comes from each and every one of you and your views on what you think about the bill whether it resonates with you or whether it doesn't resonate with you and this third reading actually is a culmination of all of those views that you have had over the time that this bill has been traversing its way through the House.I just want to also acknowledge the past of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Your ancestor Tūwharetoa ki Te Aupōuri—he was from what I have read a very strong warrior. I think that also through his ancestry back through the captain of the waka of Te Arawa—the priest I think—he was able to actually guide Ngāti Tūwharetoa through the many ups and downs that you faced.Every time I get up and speak here about our Treaty claims I'm always saddened by the way that our whānau was treated and for no reason. And I'm always saddened by the fact that the Crown through their so-called understandings of what we meant as to what they meant always misunderstood and we always ended up on the sticky end of the stick and we were always treated this badly. So many times I've stood here and almost felt like I've wanted to cry because of the treatment but today is really no time for crying. Today is a celebration and as I said I'm humbled to be part and parcel of that and to put into the Hansard the history of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and what has happened here over time.I think that even though there's been some areas as the Hon Chris Finlayson talked about that we weren't able to progress forward I think that post-settlement there will be opportunities especially around the Landcorp farms. I mean I totally agree with the Hon Christopher Finlayson that those Landcorp farms should go back to iwi to let iwi have a good go at it. It's your land and this is what we should be doing.In closing I just want to say to Ngāti Tūwharetoa: congratulations. I want to wish you all a safe and happy Christmas with your whānau. I want to make sure that you do have a good travel home. You've all travelled a long way today. I was talking to one of your rangatahi in the wharepaku and I said to her You look a little bit flustered." and she said "I've been up since 6 o'clock and my door got knocked on at 5 o'clock." and I said "Oh well at least you're here." The most important thing is to be here. Without any further ado if you're leaving tonight or if you're leaving tomorrow morning I wish you all a very safe journey. It is my pleasure to commend this bill to the House. Tēnā koutou katoa. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just to advise the House I understand there've been three power cuts in the interpreter booth and that is why some of you have not been able to hear the interpretation of some of the speeches. I hope it's fixed."