Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. He mihi tēnei hoki ki te hau kāinga ngā uri o Rongokako [This is also a greeting to the home base to the descendants of Rongokako] that are listening right now. I just wanted to extend my mihi to all of the people that welcomed us to Papawai Marae to be able to hear the submissions in beautiful Greytown. And it is beautiful—we got to learn about the history of that place and it's a very significant place. It was the place where back in 1897 and 1898 it became a focus of Kotahitanga and at that time there was a desire to form a Māori Parliament to respond to some of the big issues that were happening in this Parliament all those years ago. There were real issues around Māori land being sold off left right and centre; there were Māori that were coming forward saying We don't want our land to be sold"; and there was a resolution that was passed at Papawai Marae in Greytown in 1898 to be able to talk about that very issue.Through this process it's been really interesting—being the Māori Affairs Committee travelling out to Papawai Marae to go and listen to their stories. And what do they want to talk about here in 2022? Land. They want to talk about Māori land all over again and some of the injustices that have happened and obviously what Parliament were looking to do to try and right those wrongs of the past. So this is a joint redress bill as previous speakers have gone and addressed. This is not the historical redress; this is not the commercial redress—this is the joint cultural redress between the two entities that we heard from in the submission hearings. This bill gives effect to the cultural and other redress shared between Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua otherwise known as Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne o Wairarapa and Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua—Rangitāne.The redress is contained within the deed of settlement that was signed between Rangitāne and the Crown in 2016 but the deed of settlement that was signed between Ngāti Kahungunu and the Crown only happened on 29 October last year. This joint bill recognises that while Kahungunu and Rangitāne are very separate groups and they trace descent from different ancestors they are—as many of our iwi and our hapū are all around the country—closely connected across geographic boundaries. And that was something that we kept hearing throughout the course of submissions. They do share whakapapa throughout the Wairarapa and the Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua region.Now as I said before we had the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā settlement and that happened in 2017. Ngāti Kahungunu are currently traversing their own settlement legislation through the Māori Affairs Committee as well so there's been a bit of overlap. And one of those overlaps actually came from quite a few of the submissions that were in opposition to this settlement. There were some people saying that we needed to take a couple of areas out to the point where these had turned into Wai claims. They went through the Waitangi Tribunal and it was the position of some of the submitters who were against the settlement this joint redress—they said "We should be taking those two Wai settlements out of that." It took a lot for us to actually try to understand the landscape and the ecosystem that sits around this because there is history; there is a courts process that had been running alongside it. And we had to make a decision as a select committee about where we decided to land that.Where we landed was on the realisation that Ngāti Kahungunu are traversing their own bill through the House which addresses the historic injustices and grievances that they have. And we felt that it was better dealt with through their historic settlement legislation and not necessarily through this joint redress bill. We saw lots of synergies where both iwi came together and agreed on lots of parts of their joint redress bill. There were just a couple of contentious points and we really did have to iron that out. I want to just talk about the submissions themselves because we received a number of them. My previous colleague just talked about them: eight in support 19 in opposition and one with no necessary positions stated—so 28 in total with eight in clear support 19 in clear opposition and as I say one had no discernible position on the bill.We wanted to make sure that we were still doing due diligence on the rest of the bill even though there were these issues around the two Waitangi Tribunal cases and we decided to make a couple of recommendations to the bill but they were very small very minor: one being just a recommendation around the definition of "working day". We now have a new public holiday; it's called Matariki public holiday and we needed to include that in the legislation. Also we updated some of the legal descriptions in clause 101 and Schedule 3 for some of the properties that were declared local purpose reserves. Some surveying had been done; we were able to give more accurate descriptions of the blocks themselves. So that has been amended.Over and above that there's not many changes that the select committee have chosen to make. And that's because we've had to balance really carefully the concerns of some of those submitters the fact that we've got another historic settlement going through the House at the moment and where exactly the right place was to land those conversations. So we've made those small and minor changes. There is still obviously the final of the Ngāti Kahungunu settlements to go through and we look forward to traversing that through the House. But for the here and now I do commend the joint redress bill to the House and I thank all of those people who were there on the day at Papawai Marae in Greytown to be able to extend that hospitality that mihi to us as a committee—albeit digging deep into their history and some of the pain and the anguish that that brings out through a process like this as well. I wish them all the best on their on their journey; together as well as individually. And I look forward to the historic settlement of Ngāti Kahungunu being passed in this House when the time is right. Thank you Mr Speaker."