Horomia Parekura: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Horomia Parekura: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
[Sitting date: 19 September 2012. Volume:684;Page:5477. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
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 E mihi kau ana i a koe te Minita Maori mo to tuku korero mo te ahua nei o Ngati Manuhiri i a koutou nga mea pakeke nga uri o Ngati Manuhiri e whai kaha atu ki te tae mai ki konei ki te whakatikatika atu i tenei nawe. Te roaroa hoki o te tu nei te hoki atu ki te kooti te whakahoki atu i te korero me te timata i roto i a koutou e mahi atu nga mahi mo te whakatikatika no reira tena tatou. 
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I acknowledge you the Minister of Maori Affairs and your sentiments about this situation relating to Ngati Manuhiri and you as well the elder ones and descendants of Ngati Manuhiri who worked hard to get here to rectify this grievance. It has remained unaddressed for a very long period of time. It has gone before the court it has been returned for further consultation and now your efforts to begin rectifying the situation are at hand so congratulations to us. 
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This is an interesting settlement—very interesting. Of course it is based in the area called Omaha where some politicians have some big houses. Ngati Manuhiri are based at Omaha Marae Pakiri north of Auckland. Ngati Mauhiri descend from the tipuna Manuhiri. They are part of the Kawerau-a-Maki confederation and also have close ties to Te Uri o Hau and Ngati Wai. 
I think one of the principal issues that is very relevant in this settlement is that they have had a stressful time with the Crown. They did not agree in the beginning and they went away and they came back. I do want to recognise that great supporting soldier—who is an uri of Captain Cook—Sir Douglas Graham for the effort that he put in to whakawhitiwhiti and help get the conglomerate to get their organisation to move forward. 
Alongside that there are key figures. It is always difficult in naming people because you leave people out and a lot of them are here now. I see Clint and I see Mooks up there. I never knew what Mooks’ real name was till I had a look at the paper here. E mihi atu i a koe matua me koutou katoa e noho atu i konei. No reira tena koutou e Tame. 
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I commend you uncle and all of you seated about here. So congratulations to you Tame and everyone. 
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And there is Laly Haddon who is an old warrior. One of the great things about Maori leaders is you know—there is nothing like it—you see how great they are by counting the knives in their back! I want to recognise Laly Haddon—[ 
Interruption 
] For whatever reason. I have watched this tall sterling character with ailing health stand true all the time. That is what I have got out of Treaty settlements. It is recognising and seeing some of these characters who have stood steadfast against all odds—against all odds. 
I do not think people in Parliament and some of our colleagues ever appreciate that tension. It is a lot different in the sense of the pressures that they have to take just to get here. On one side they have to try to be relevant and agree with the Crown even though it is putting right what was wrong. On the other side they have tried to appease some of the differences amongst their people. I got hoha when I was listening to the radio this morning and it was talking about Ngati Manuhiri that you know they have got to come to a general agreement. Well I have actually seen it in the churches and the “cossie clubs” around this country where the factions do not agree. They still go there because they all drink the same ale but they have different opinions you know? There are a whole lot of people who praise God—bless their souls—yet they do it in different churches in different ways. Yet it is OK. So it is OK to have a difference but it is better and bigger still that we get here as the Crown—and I want to mihi to Minister Finlayson; he is the supporter—in relation to getting to this day for the people of Ngati Manuhiri. 
They have had a real go. They did not accept in the first instance what was put on the table. They went away and they came back. The negotiations and the negotiators on both sides need to be recognised and commended for that. It has not been an easy settlement. We saw and heard that at the rugby league—or rugby club. I had better be careful. I am not sure what sort of club it was but it was one of those up there. 
Hone Harawira 
: Rugby league. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: Rugby league. The Warriors should be sacked! 
I want to recognise Laly Haddon Peri Watts and everybody else. These negotiations did arise out of Sir Douglas Graham’s efforts in June 2009 for all groups in Kaipara Mahurangi Tamaki-makau-rau Hauraki and Coromandel including Ngati Manuhiri to enter into direct negotiations with the Crown to settle all the historical Treaty claims. These days as the Minister said earlier should be labelled as Treaty settlement days because that is what they are. They are not days of urgency. This urgency has been a long time coming. It has been so urgent it has taken 150 years to get here! So on these Treaty settlement days like today it is great that we can come together to ratify and consolidate the initialling of the deed of settlement. 
The Ngati Manuhiri claim relates to the failure of the Crown to create adequate reserves for Ngati Manuhiri during the purchase of Mahurangi and Omaha in 1841—native land laws and the operation of the Native Land Court in the Crown’s acquisition of Te Hauturu-o-Toi Little Barrier Island. We have certainly heard—under the stewardship of that great leader of the Maori Affairs Committee Tau Henare—100-odd submissions in relation to the tensions and people’s world view of that. So it is appreciated that there are differences there but it should be said that at the end of the day it is not going to disappear and it is something they could work together to manage for the benefit of having it under their guidance. 
The Crown’s actions left Ngati Manuhiri virtually landless. It had devastating and enduring effects on the spiritual cultural and economic well-being of Ngati Manuhiri. You know I drove up along this well-funded highway north of Auckland to this holiday camp place. I saw these incredibly sized houses and I asked: “Who owns that house there?”. No no it was not the locals. It was not the locals. Whose is that house over there? It was Glen Osmond’s. Somebody was talking about a planet the other day—he had one there. I do not want to sound jealous about the wealth that is there and whatever else so I think Minister one thing is that some of those houses should be returned to Ngati Manuhiri even at this late stage! 
 As part of the settlement package in addition to the Crown apology and acknowledgments Ngati Manuhiri will receive financial and commercial redress to the value of $9 million which includes $2.498 million cash and the Warkworth District Court and Pakiri School sites which will be leased back to the Crown. I am really encouraged about this Warkworth District Court because they really could have a look at the skyrocketing rates which the people of Ngati Manuhiri tell me are hurting them. This is a serious issue because where some of them live it has always been valued as their hau kainga where their tipuna might have been or their families have been for generations. All of a sudden because of this prosperity of other people from other planets who have built there their rates and values skyrocket—not because of them. I would strongly suggest that it is considered as we go along towards finalising this settlement. Cultural redress which includes Hauturu is recognition of Te Hauturu-o-Toi to Ngati Manuhiri. There is the vesting and gift back to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand within 7 days of the Hauturu-o-Toi nature reserve in the Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust. I am always fascinated by the returns. 
I just want to quickly go to some interesting points in the bill. There is one here about the statutory acknowledgments in clause 36 “Application to river or stream”. It provides that “If any part of the statutory acknowledgement applies to a harbour that part of the acknowledgement also applies to the bed of the harbour and everything above the bed.”—everything above the bed which is water. That is a really good pointer for where we may be going in the water discussion. I am pleased that it is in this document—I am pleased that it is in this document. It is no good ducking and diving so well done the negotiators. The flowing of the fresh water—oh it applies only to flowing water fresh water. Well it is all water anyway so that is great. 
In clause 52 “Actions by Director-General” it says “The Director-General must take action in relation to the protection principles that relate to a whenua rahui site including the specified actions.” I think that is great. What it means is that recognition or understanding is being given to the mana of Maori. Maori have mana over water. Maori have mana over all of those issues and this is one way of giving it relevance. Fix it in here. It is already done—well done Minister. You need to travel this past those people on the roadshow. 
In the general provisions clause 68(2) says that “Subsection (3) applies if a cultural redress property vests subject to an interest that is not an interest in land” and clause 68(3) says that “The interest applies in respect of the cultural redress property …”—blah blah blah. It goes on to say there are qualifications modifications in the status of the land and “despite any change in status of the land in the property.” So those are the three important parts— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Sorry to interrupt the honourable member. His time has expired.