Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Tuatahi ka tika me mihi ki a koutou o Ngāti Hinerangi; koutou kua tae ā-tinana mai ki tō tātou Whare i tēnei rā. E mihi atu tēnei mema o Te Waiariki ki a koutou te whānau o te pae maunga o Te Kaimai nō reira ka tika me mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora anō tātou katoa.[Firstly it is only right to acknowledge you of Ngāti Hinerangi; you who have arrived in person to our House on this day. I the member for Waiariki would like to thank you all the families of the mountain ranges of the Kaimai; therefore it is only right to acknowledge you all. Thank you thank you thank you one and all.]You're an elusive lot. Why? Because actually many have never heard of you before. But today let the minute takers let the Hansard know that Ngāti Hinerangi is in the House. Let us tell your story. I also understand that you too are also finding your own stories your own footsteps retracing the steps of your tīpuna as well and to that I say kia kaha kia māia kia manawanui. Though your battle has been long your story is still getting out there and today we bring your story to the House and what a story you have: your struggle your determination your loss of land your humility. I mihi to you today.I want to in the short time that I have to address you acknowledge the overlapping claims process. That was something that negatively affected the relationship between the Hauraki Collective and the Tauranga iwi through Hauraki's Treaty settlement negotiations. But you will become the first iwi to co-govern land as well as gift some land to another iwi—something that this House has never seen before. For those that don't know Ngāti Hinerangi has been given some land through the settlement in Tauranga Moana. Two pieces in particular are the tracks which run from the west to the eastern side to Tauranga: the Te Tuhi Track and Te Ara o Maurihoro Track. I understand that he made an agreement with Tauranga Moana iwi that they will co-govern the land.Another block called Ngāti Hinerangi Waipapa is also in the Tauranga Moana area. Ngāti Hinerangi has decided that when they receive it as my colleague said earlier they will gift it to Tauranga Moana iwi as a way to maintain a connection with the iwi and with the whānau. I found a quote from a Stuff article that was written in May this year. The quote comes from Dianna Vaimoso and here it goes: It's been a huge talking point for other iwi and certainly the Crown. In the old days if you wanted to create a bond with another iwi you would normally gift a virgin bride otherwise known as a puhi to the iwi. Of course we don't do that these days but we thought we would work in the same way. We wouldn't gift a puhi but we would gift our land. It's been a mana enhancing process for all of us where we will all walk away feeling happy about the process and I think the day we get that land back it will be a huge deal in the history of New Zealand." and that is something that our Government is quite passionate about.You may or may not have heard but just last week we announced that by 2022 we will be teaching New Zealand history in all of our schools in all of our kura and we want to make sure that it's got a local flavour too so hopefully your story gets taught in amongst that as well. Hopefully—and I want to quote from that same article—we won't hear other stories like the one from Hari Smith who said in this story that he was very young when the Treaty negotiations began but remembers feeling his parents' and his grandparents' excitement. He said "When I was younger up until the age of 11 I never really knew about Ngāti Hinerangi at all. It wasn't until our kaumātua told us that I actually belong to this iwi on my grandma's side. When they started the treaty process I thought it was cool but it wasn't until I got older that I realised the gravity of this situation." Now that the Treaty has been settled he said it's important to educate our mokopuna and discover our own customs and our own traditions.Today we acknowledge you Ngāti Hinerangi. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa."