Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Ā tēnā koe e Te Whare i tēnei rā. E rau rangatira mā ko tēnei taku mihi ki a koutou katoa kia ora mai tātou.[And so my appreciation to you the House on this day. Esteemed ones and others this is my acknowledgment and accolade to you and us all collectively.]It is a pleasure to speak to this bill the Iwi and Hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa Claims Settlement Bill in its first reading. I would like to acknowledge and reiterate some of the pathway that brings us here today. This body of work started many years ago but it has actually made quite good progress in this past decade. If we look back to February 2011 the Crown first recognised the mandate for this bill and then a year later the terms of negotiation were completed. In June 2014 there was agreement in principle and in May 2016 the deed of settlement was initiated by the Crown. The post-settlement governance entity and the deed of settlement were then ratified in August 2016 and in November 2016 the deed of settlement was signed. I would like to also acknowledge the Minister and all the officials who made such good progress once the legal formalities were commenced. The settlement has the standard three parts to it: the historical account the cultural redress and the financial and commercial redress. I would like to briefly talk to each of those headings. Under the historical account there are four main components in and amongst the breadth of the agreed historical account. Specifically there is the Crown's apology for the war it fought against those members of the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa it deemed to be rebels; secondly its unjust attack on the Omaruhakeke kāinga in 1865; thirdly the summary execution of prisoners in 1866; and fourthly the detention without trial of some members of the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairua on the Chatham Islands from 1866 to 1868. Within that redress there is also the cultural redress and it has three components to it—three main themes if you like. There is the vesting the statutory acknowledgments and the deeds of recognition. The vesting is around a number of sites that are vested in the iwi and then gifted back to the Crown for the benefit of the people of New Zealand and these sites include the Māhia peninsula Morere Springs Te Reinga Scenic Reserve and a number of others. So this is the vesting. There are also the statutory acknowledgments. Statutory acknowledgments recognise the association between the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa and a particular site or area. They enhance the ability of the iwi and the hapū to participate in specific resource management processes and there are a number of conservation areas and reserves that are included in the statutory acknowledgment. The third tool under Cultural redress" is the deeds of recognition. The deeds of recognition oblige the Crown to consult with Tātau Tātau o Te Wairua Trust on specific matters and to have regard to its views regarding the special association of the iwi and hapū with certain areas and again these are well specified in the deed of settlement. The financial and commercial redress as has been commentated is the fifth-largest settlement—$100 million. On settlement date Tātau Tātau o Te Wairua will receive a cash sum of $88964250 and the right to purchase 24 properties from the Treaty settlements land bank. It is a pleasure to commence the parliamentary proceedings on this bill. I very much look forward to it coming to the Māori Affairs Committee where we can scrutinise it further and see how much more we can do for this iwi. Therefore I commend this bill to the House."