Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Ā tēnā rā koutou o ngā pūāwaitanga o ō tātou mātua tīpuna. Nei rā ngā mihi hōhonu ki ngā uri o Takitimu waka. Ka tū au hei uri o Tamateapōkaiwhenua nāna i whakaingoa tōku mauka Te Poho-o-Tamateapōkaiwhenua kei te wāhi o Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa i Whakaraupō. Nō reira ka tū te mihi ka ōku whanaunga o ngā iwi hapū o Te Rohe o Te Wairoa.[Greetings to the descendants of our forebears. My heartfelt greetings to the descendants of the Takitimu canoe. I stand as a descendant of Tamateapōkaiwhenua who named my mountain Te Poho-o-Tamateapōkaiwhenua in the region of Te Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa i Whakaraupō. So I stand to greet my relatives of the iwi and hapū of the Te Wairoa region.]I do stand to acknowledge the iwi and hāpu of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa and ngā uri o [the descendants of] Rongomaiwahine and her husband Kahungunu. These tipuna are acknowledged and respected by my Ngāi Tahu iwi as our tipuna as well. To the iwi and the hāpu of te rohe o Te Wairoa I extend my humblest greetings.I had the privilege of chairing the Māori Affairs Committee during the submissions phase of this bill. On that note I want to again acknowledge the new Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Andrew Little but also the new chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Rino Tirikatene. I think the good thing there is that we have a continuation of like-mindedness when it comes to the Māori Affairs Committee and the fact is that we continue the congeniality the collaboration across the House. Earlier we spoke very much about that collaboration and how important it was that we work as Māori members of Parliament for the benefit of Te Iwi Māori and the wider New Zealand.So on that note I want to cover off some of the things. We travelled to Wairoa and I acknowledge the manaaki that we received in Wairoa. Also we travelled there as the Māori Affairs Committee to hear 17 of the 29 submissions—20 of which supported the bill and gave no position and one gave conditional support. A number of the issues that were raised I think I want to just highlight here in the second reading. There was one around Morere Springs. The other one was the Hereheretau Station as well. Then also there was the issue that the Hon Andrew Little has actually covered which is the Te Urewera and the Waikaremoana situation.We did consider the Hereheretau Station in some detail. In September 2016 the then Minister the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell and officials from Te Tumu Paeroa the Māori Trustee visited Whakakī Marae to discuss the future of the station with the iwi there. I think the outcome was that the redress in relation to the station would not be considered in this Treaty settlement because it was actually under private ownership. Talking about the Hereheretau Station what we actually hope is that there is continual kōrero so that that particular issue can be sorted not within this Treaty settlement but outside of that. But what this Treaty settlement did is it actually created a catalyst for ongoing kōrero about Hereheretau Station to actually happen. So we wish them well there.I think the other part was around the Morere Springs. The committee actually considered the request from the mandated negotiators that the springs be taken out of the cultural redress in the agreement in principle and changed to a vest- and gift-back property instead. The committee was happy to agree to this change. The negotiators preferred that the cultural properties not be invested as part actually again of any settlement. So that was agreed actually by the committee.In the final part of this highlighting of the submissions process I think one thing that's really important here is that when submitters come to the committee to submit or when we go to them to hear their submissions the important thing is that you not only listen to all submissions but listen very hard also to those that actually dissent particularly within the Treaty settlement process because there are very important messages that actually come out of that.What I want to highlight in this particular settlement is around the Te Wairoa Tāpokorau Cluster 1 because they opposed the bill unless various conditions were met. One of the conditions that actually stood out for me was—OK there is the real loss in dollar terms. What they actually wanted though is they wanted recorded in the Treaty settlement the actual loss the monetary loss that they believed they had been subject to or are subject to. They actually put a number on it of $1.5 billion. It is actually quite a unique thing that there is a particular group within the Treaty settlements—since I've been here anyway—that have actually required or asked for a figure to be put on what they actually lost.Look there's no doubt that the real loss here in this particular settlement like most or all of them is substantial. I'm not going to quibble over the figure but rather point out that virtually no settlement can fully address the harm that Treaty breaches have caused iwi throughout the country. We all acknowledge that; we know that particularly as parliamentarians. I think the fact that the iwi are prepared to settle for cents in the dollar speaks to the level of forgiveness that Māori actually continue to offer in this particular country in our country.I note the various conditions and I wanted to highlight them here around Te Wairoa Tāpokorau Cluster 1 and what they've put forward. In essence what they also recorded was that all their land should be returned to them and that a true partnership should not leave the hāpu subject to the whims of the Crown. The other part was that the Crown should provide all the resources required for the hāpu to create their own social services to better provide for their people in need. So the committee and also myself had really great sympathy for this particularly for them coming as dissenting voices within the submission process. But at the same time the responsibility to the Crown is to settle with the iwi. So this bill before the House is our effort to discharge that duty under the Treaty of Waitangi. So there I think: acknowledge it but we need to continue to move on so that we can continue to move to the third reading to settle this particular settlement once and for all.On that note just to acknowledge then all of the fine work that's gone into this Treaty settlement to date; also the understanding and working in the spirit of kotahitanga with the negotiators both on the Iwi and Hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa side and also the Crown negotiators as well. On that note also to acknowledge those who came to submit because they actually represented a huge part of those members right across the board. On that note again to the Māori Affairs Committee of the 51st Parliament: a lot of the kōrero the discussion that took place; the input particularly from the local member of Parliament there the now Hon Meka Whaitiri to also give us that local view as well on how people were feeling and what they were doing. Acknowledging also the work that Tā Wira Gardiner did particularly around the Waikaremoana issue as well. On that note look I really do look forward to this bill moving through this particular process and then on to the third reading. Nō reira e koutou rā e mihi e mihi e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa kia ora.[So I thank you all.]