Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister of Forestry): Before I speak in Māori as the former Minister Christopher Finlayson leaves the House and gives that speech dimness arrives in the Whare Pāremata.Me reo Māori e Te Māngai o te Whare. Ngāti Kahungunu tēnā koutou katoa. Ko au ko Muriwhenua e mihi atu tēnei ki ā koutou tō koutou pā i waenga tonu i a mātou o Tinotino te wāhi i whānau mai ai tō tāua tupuna a Kahungunu—i roto i ahau ko Kahu-hunu—me tana tuahine a Hinetapu. I heke mai ai mātou o Muriwhenua erangi rawa tō koutou hoa tōku matua a Hekenukumai Busby he uri tūturu o taua kuia a Hinetapu. Tēnā rawa atu koutou tā te mea he mōhio nōku i waenga tonu i ā koutou he kōhine e hia rānei ōna tau ināianei—kei te 40 pea tēnā kōtiro ka whānau mai i te wā i tū ai te hui-ā-tau mō ngā Wāhine Toko i Te Ora ki Kaitaia ka noho a Kahungunu me ō koutou mātua te Okenga Paraire mā i runga i tōku marae. Nō tērā wā i whānau mai ai te pēpi nei a tētahi o ā koutou kōhine ka huangia tēnā pēpi ki te ingoa o tōku marae ake ko Māhimaru. Nā me ngā pānga i honohono nei tētahi pito ki tētahi kē atu nā reira e Te Wairoa—Te Wairoa Hōpūpū Hōnengenenge Mātangi Rau papaki pai nōku te whakahuhua i tēnā ingoa engari te ingoa rangatira o tō koutou awa tō koutou rohe tēnei te mihi i roto i tō tātou Reo Māori ki ā koutou katoa; me te hīkoinga ka hia rānei te roa kia tatū mai ai koutou ā-tinana me ō koutou moemoeā ki konei i tēnei rā. Hei wāhanga whakamutunga māku i roto i Te Reo Māori me mihi ahau ki tā koutou kōhine ki a Meka—tana manawaroa kia tatū mai i te aroaro o tōna iwi i tēnei rā i waenga tonu i ōna hoa ngā kaitōrangapū i roto tonu i te ana o te raiona. Koia tēnei tētahi ao pakeke rawa atu—whiua tētahi whakapae kārawarawa pai kī ana te tangata; engari māku te kī atu ki a koutou e hia rānei ka whakawhiua ka utaina mai ki runga ki ahau ko tāku ki tā koutou kōhine ki a Meka kia manawaroa kia mōhio koe nā Te Tai Rāwhiti koe i whakatū ki tēnei Whare ki tērā tūranga—ehara nā tō rōpū ehara nā mātou ngā kaitōrangapū engari nā te marea i ngākaunui ki a koe kia tū ai koe hei Mema Māori. Ko koe e whai ana i ngā tapuwae a Timi Kara. Ko koe e whai ana i ngā tapuwae a Ngata ko koe e whai ana i ngā tapuwae a Tiaki Omana e whai ana koe i ngā tapuwae o ērā o ā tātou mātua a Takamoana a Karaipiana ō mātua ake o roto i a Kahungunu. Kia ū kia manawaroa.[I shall speak Māori Madam Deputy Speaker. Ngāti Kahungunu greetings to all of you. I Muriwhenua stand to pay our respects to you all and the relationship that we share given that Tinotino is the place where our ancestor Kahungunu was born—where I'm from we say Kahu-hunu—and his wife Hinetapu. We from Muriwhenua are descendants but your friend and my elder Hekenukumai Busby he is a direct descendant of that ancestress Hinetapu.I particularly greet you knowing that among you is a young woman aged how many years now? Forty perhaps. That girl was born during the Women's Health League annual conference held in Kaitaia when Ngāti Kahungunu elders including Okenga Paraire and others stayed at my marae. This baby was born at that time and one of your young women named that baby after my own marae Māhimaru. It is these kinds of relationships which connect one side to another therefore Te Wairoa Hōpūpū Hōnengenenge Mātangi Rau—what a job to pronounce that name albeit it is a noble chiefly name that you have for your river your district. This is me paying respects to you all in our Māori language; you have been on this journey for how many long years now and you have finally come here today in person bringing with you your hopes and dreams. My final point to make while I am in Māori is to give respect to your kinswoman to Meka. It is very courageous of her to front up to her people today in the midst of her parliamentary colleagues in the lion's den. This can be a really harsh environment—vicious accusations levelled against people occur often. I say to you as someone who has had his fair share of being on the receiving end I say to your daughter to Meka be staunch safe in the knowledge that it was Te Tai Rāwhiti who put you in this House in that position—not your party not us politicians but the public who wanted you to be their Māori member of Parliament. You are following in the footsteps of James Carroll. You are following in the footsteps of Ngata you are following in the footsteps of Tiaki Omana you are following in the footsteps of those of our elders such as Takamoana Karaitiana indeed of your own elders from within Kahungunu. Do not flinch be staunch.]The points that I have made in our Māori language really are an affirmation of not only the work that's taken place but the longstanding lengths because if I'm not mistaken after the Ngāpuhi tribe Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngati Porou are probably the most numerous of the iwi. But Kahungunu's story which is partly told in this settlement is the story not only of Donald McLean but of the Māori Land Wars to borrow a hackneyed expression. Indeed Te Wairoa was in its time a garrison town and you hailing from that part of the country politically Madam Deputy Speaker would appreciate the significance of this day.This particular settlement whilst it endows capital on behalf of the taxpayers—via Mr Finlayson via Mr Little and via this Parliament—into the ownership of this part of Kahungunu the sad reality is that now is the challenge in an area where mainstream New Zealand services are infrequently seen in our more distant provincial areas. So it's a doubly challenging task in both an economic sense and a social sense to bring back vitality when mainstream investment is hurtling off in a different direction.The assets that are represented in this settlement are not only cultural because that's important. They give strength to identity and identity for iwi is going to grow in importance as the multiracial and multicultural nature of our society changes. That's just the reality of globalisation. But there's one reality that this settlement does build on and that's the fact that the Māori tribes who signed up to the Treaty of Waitangi had a set of expectations not fully realised in any manner or form but today we are trying to restore honour to the Crown and opportunity to Kahungunu.So celebrate your leaders who led what was undoubtedly a challenging and in some respects unrewarding experience—having been one of those figures myself back in the days of Māori fisheries. These kinds of things are not careers; they are a mission. So for those of you who mandated your leaders for those of you who have come today—as I said in our Māori language—guard the interests of your member Meka Whaitiri. You are the people that send the Māori members in Māori seats to this House and whilst she is wading her way through a process—having suffered several of those processes unfortunately my good self—they do require the backbone of iwi and whānau. It's only appropriate that I should acknowledge her given that you've done a great deal of work in an earlier phase Minister Meka Whaitiri.The opportunities going forward are that the settlements this settlement in particular now need to join with other forces and stakeholders and pots of capital so that it can turn around the fortunes of these parts of Aotearoa where we need to think very differently as to how we extract value. But the opportunity is there and in the event that you feel that your bank is not looking after you I'm your man. Kia ora tātou.