Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to speak to this Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill at its first reading. As it is with many bills you do the preparation you do the background and I learnt so much more around the bill. Of course I'm sure we'll learn more through select committee and through other readings. But this interests me particularly as the bill speaks to the Wairarapa and the Wairarapa Moana and particularly to the Ruamahanga River and its traverse through many electorates actually. I was speaking with my colleague Ian McKelvie and it turns out that this river actually traverses through his electorate and around through Masterton as well. So it's been an interesting exploration looking at what this bill is trying to address as it goes to select committee and looking back at the work that brings it to this point.Of course the deed of settlement was signed between Ngāti Kahungunu and the Crown in October 2021 so credit here to the Office of Treaty Settlements and the team who have brought the bill to this place today where it's ready to go through its first reading.The main provisions are relatively clear and concise. I know a number of bills sometimes as we talk to redress and acknowledgments can be quite wide-reaching. I found this to be quite concise. The main provisions talk to the deed of settlement for Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua and Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Rangitāne o Tamaki nui-ā-Rua as I've said. The key points of cultural redress—Castlepoint Scenic Reserve. This is what I mean by doing the background and preparation before you come to a bill. So I need to sort of then go to the geography and say now whereabouts is that? What do I need to know about that? I'm more informed and better here as I come today and will be more informed as we go through select committee—in fact somewhat distracted by oh is that where that point is? How did it get its name? What is this bill going to do that's going to change or improve that? How's it going to help the iwi?Regulations for the management of customary fishing in Wairarapa Moana as I said and the Ruamahanga River catchment and the vesting in fee simple of three cultural redress properties is what the deed of settlement is also talking to. There are three Schedules each which talk to the Wairarapa Moana and the river. I think as I look at this bill overall what we'll see more detail around is the cultural redress and the grievances. So it's quite skinny at this point in time. This is what the select committee particularly will flesh out with submissions and with select committee hearings and evidence. So far be it for me to stand in the road of this bill. I'm better informed than I was a week ago as to what this Treaty settlement is looking to do and I'm very encouraged and excited to see this go through select committee. Even though I don't sit on this particular select committee myself my colleagues who do—Harete Hipango and Joseph Mooney—will keep us up to date with the progress of this bill. It's fair to say I now have a knowledgeable interest to overview it as it makes its progress as well and I'm excited for the people—excited for the iwi who have been able to come here and to join us in the gallery which is an unusual event of recent days to actually have iwi here due to COVID. It adds an ambience and a wairua to the deliberations that we're making here today. So let's move this bill along. Let's get it to select committee. Let's do the work and let's give the benefits to those who should receive the benefits. Kia ora koutou.