Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Tuatahi e tika ana ki te maumahara te kaiarahi tuatahi o Te Rōpū Kākāriki Jeanette Fitzsimons. Nō reira Jeanette maumahara tō kaha ki te kōkiri i te kaupapa i ngā wā katoa. He wahine toa. He wahine ū ki te kaupapa he wahine i kōkiri i te kaupapa taiao me te kaupapa kākāriki nō reira e te whaea moe mai moe mai moe mai rā. Ka huri atu ināianei aku whakaaro ki te rangatira Tā Robert Fenwick. Ahakoa he Pākehā ia he tangata i tautoko i ngā kaupapa Māori i roto i Tāmaki Makaurau. Ko ia te tiamana tuatahi mō te irirangi Mai FM nō reira Rob te rangatira moe mai moe mai e koe ki ngā ringa huia o ngā matua tūpuna kua riro i te pō. Ā ka nui tēnā. Ki a koutou ngā rangatira i tae mai nei i tēnei wā i whakarangatira i a mātou i tēnei wā tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou. He honore nui ki te tū i mua i a koutou i tēnei wā. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou mō ō koutou kaha ki te kōkiri i tēnei kaupapa. Ki a koe e te matua Piri ngā mihi ki a koe e te pāpā. I tahuri koe tō korowai rangatiratanga i runga i a mātou i tēnei wā. Tēnei te tino mihi ki a koe e te pāpā. Koutou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa.[Hello Madam Speaker. Firstly it is only right that we remember the first leader of the Green Party Jeanette Fitzsimons. Therefore Jeanette I remember your strength to fight for the cause at all times. A woman of courage. A woman who was dedicated to the cause who drove the environmental cause and the green cause therefore may you rest in peace.I now turn my thoughts to that great man Sir Robert Fenwick. Although he was Pākehā he was a person who supported the Māori cause in Auckland. He was the first chairperson of the radio station Mai FM; therefore Rob you who were a great man may you rest in peace and return to your ancestors who await you. I leave it there.To you all the leaders who have arrived at this time who have honoured us at this time we are immensely grateful for your attendance. It is an honour to stand before you at this time. I would like to thank you for your dedication in driving this forward.To you Piri my elder thank you. You have cloaked our occasion with honour. My unending thanks to you my elder.To you all thank you and greetings to one and all.]It's an honour just to have a little bit of a kōrero to celebrate this day because you would think it would never have come. Thirty-two years. How long do we wait for justice? Thirty-two years. So many of our people have to wait and wait and wait for this and we lose so many along the way—in particular Ruruarau Heitia Hiha. You know one must never forget the commitment that some of our rangatira have given.But of course I always mihi to our groups who come in here because I always have aspirations of partnership. We know how the partnership was breached all those years ago. When I look back at 1840 and the breaches that Ahuriri have gone through—not receiving the full ongoing benefits from the European settlement that they were led to expect when they agreed to sell the Ahuriri block for the price the Crown offered. We're talking about 1851; here we are in 2020 hoping and praying that that partnership that the former Mayor of Hastings Lawrence Yule talked about will be honoured. I mihi to him for some of his kōrero today because we want a partnership that reflects justice—that reflects justice.As Minister Andrew Little said this settlement does not—if you looked at it financially—reflect the justice and the millions that you should be getting; $19.5 million as the Minister said doesn't reflect justice. It is an acknowledgment of the pain and the mamae that you've gone through—just an acknowledgment.I think the beauty of these types of days is that we are united in the House in terms of the compensation that should be given to our people. I've said this before and I say it again: if you want to look at real compensation in terms of Ngāi Tahu in terms of Tainui—Minister Nanaia Mahuta knows better than anyone. Her father was the main negotiator for Tainui negotiating at $170 million yet the Tainui claim could have been $15 billion plus—$15 billion plus. The Ngāi Tahu claim the same again—$18 billion that claim was rated at. These are the sacrifices that our people make—these are the sacrifices that our people make.Bob Mahuta Tipene O'Regan they set it up they made the sacrifice and look what they're doing today. Look what Tainui's doing today. Look what Ngāi Tahu's doing today. I look forward to what you're going to be doing in the next few years.So tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Rawe ki te kite i a koutou i tēnei rā.[So thank you all. It is wonderful to see you all today.]It's the start of this process. Thirty-two years ago it began. Justice now will happen over the next few months or the next year or so or hopefully before the year is up. We'll get this across the line so that all of our people and all of your rangatahi can benefit. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā nō tātou katoa.