Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. E rau rangatira mā kia ora mai tātou. It is a privilege to speak to a Treaty bill at any time but particularly the third reading which is indeed a momentous occasion. I want to acknowledge the hapū and all the hard work they've done over many many years to bring us to this point today. I also want to acknowledge officials including the Hon Chris Finlayson for his diligence and preservice. I'd also like to very much thank the Māori Affairs Committee for their commitment to this cause for shepherding it along for being thoughtful in what they do that brings this to the third reading the last time this comes before the House before these enabling provisions are passed to Ahuriri Hapū.In brief the provisions by this bill include an historical account which I'll come back to in just a moment; acknowledgments and apology from the Crown; the settlement for historical claims which again I'll come back to; Ahuriri Hapū are acknowledged as tangata whenua for the rohe; and the Heipipi Pa is established as a historic reserve; and the conservation and management of the Ahuriri Estuary is also part of this bill. The settlement package I will come back to.For broadness and context—and certainly I was more knowledgeable once I had looked into this—Ahuriri Hapū comprised about 1505 registered members. The seven Ahuriri Hapū are: Ngāti Hinepare Ngāti Māhu Ngāti Matepū Ngāti Paarau Ngāi Tāwhao Ngāti Tū and Ngāi Te Ruruku. It is that hapū based around Napier and the Hawke's Bay as has been commented bounded by the sea to the east the Kaweka Ranges to the west the Ngaruroro River to the south and the Esk River to the north.The historical account gives us some purpose to why we're here and why we're actually going through this settlement process as has been commented by my whanaunga as much as one can do in modern terms for redress of the past acknowledging that it can never fully meet those claims and that mamae that has been done but seeking in modern terms some redress as far as possible. The historical account talks about the late 1840s with the Ahuriri Hapū around Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu and around the time they were considering how they might incorporate and promote and establish a relationship with Pākehā settlements. The Crown in 1850 opened negotiations with Ahuriri Māori to purchase large blocks of land and the Crown led them to believe that they'd derive considerable benefit from this relationship when they purchased the Ahuriri block for £1500. It's long been contested that Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu a place of high spiritual and cultural significance was not included in the Ahuriri purchase. This has been a point of contention. There have been other points of difficulty; most Treaty settlements actually have some divergence of views that eventually come to the middle and eventually get us to a third reading like we are here today. There were discussions around the mandate and some changes that needed to be made and officials from the Office of Treaty Settlements were eventually able to reach an accommodation that did establish that the mandate was valid.I want to just very briefly describe the settlement package. It is the acknowledgment and apology by the Crown for the Crown's acts and omissions. It is cultural redress of the historical account including natural resources redress $500000 to engage with the natural resources $15000 for the funding of powhenua and the gifting of three cultural redress properties; financial and commercial redress of $19.5 million including the purchase of Kaweka and Gwavas Crown forest land with Heretaunga and Tamatea and the right to purchase a number of Crown properties plus interest accrued on the financial commitments.A Treaty settlement like this is an enabler and as it's been pointed out it is not something that will immediately derive wealth for that particular hapū. But it does become an enabler for what it might become in the future. We've looked back collectively in the past and said We could do better we need to do better." This is our effort today in today's terms to do exactly that to enable to capacity build that whānau that iwi that hapū so that they might be able to live and maximise their expectations of what a good life looks like.So it's always a privilege to be in the third reading of a bill. Again I just acknowledge those who have got it to this point—many many people; some named some not. But this is a really important piece of work and I commend this bill to the House and thank everyone who's brought it here today. Kia ora mai tātou."