Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā tēnā rā koutou ngā puāwaitaka o tō tātau matua tipuna. Tēnei te mihi o ngā uri o Whātonga Kurahaupō waka Rangitāne-ki-Manawatū; nau mai haere mai whakatau mai ki Te Whare Pāremata e mihi nei e tangi nei i a koutou ngā taoka whakahirahira e tūmanako ake nei e hāpai ake nei ka mihi ka mihi! Rātau ki a rātau tātau ki a tātau nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to you the blossoms of our ancestral forefather. I acknowledge you the relatives of Whātonga of the Kurahaupō canoe and of Rangitāne at Manawatū; welcome come forth and pay homage to Parliament here which acknowledges and grieves for you treasured ones with your aspirations and support I commend and congratulate you collectively! Leave the dead there amongst themselves and we the living amongst ourselves and so I acknowledge and congratulate you collectively and commend all of you.]Thank you for the opportunity to once again be able to speak on the Rangitāne o Manawatu Claims Settlement Bill. As the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee I want to acknowledge my committee on this journey in the passage of this very very important bill. This journey began from the first part when it was introduced to the House to the first reading to the hearing of submissions down to the second reading to the Committee of the whole House and now to the final part of the journey of this bill here today the third reading and once that is concluded then to the Royal assent. Then under an Act of Parliament the real journey actually begins for your people.Before I get into the bill I also want to acknowledge the incredible work of the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations—ki a koe e Te Minita Finlayson. The other thing is that I want to pay tribute to the Rt Hon John Key because it has been not only the Hon Christopher Finlayson who has personally progressed the many many Treaty settlements during the last 8 years. Minister Finlayson deserves credit for the inclusive way that he has worked to achieve these settlements and you all know how the Minister has actually worked through this. I am sure the Minister would join me in acknowledging that this would not have been possible without the support of Prime Minister John Key. He has been a National Party leader and a Prime Minister who has been a great supporter of the aspirations of Māori to improve the outcomes of our people.This also would not have been possible without a supportive Minister of Finance the person who holds the purse strings. Without the support of the Hon Bill English this would actually be quite difficult particularly when we look at the commercial redress. As the Minister of Finance he ensured that the funding for Treaty settlements was available and his Better Public Services programme also has ensured that Māori are better served by our public services. It is thanks to Bill English in no small part that we are seeing better outcomes for Māori in education health and in the job market itself. That will definitely continue.Let us come back now to the third reading and particularly to where Rangitāne ki Manawatū is actually concerned—and it is all about that. It is actually all about that but this is the beginning of that next journey that I was talking about. We know because the first speaker the honourable Minister—he has gone through a lot of the historical aspects of this Treaty settlement. What I want to just concentrate on particularly during that journey through the select committee is actually around the submissions process. One submission that really did catch my attention was from the Ngāti Hineaute hapū of Ngāti Rangitāne. Their written submission was very clear and succinct in the fact that they laid out three principles that are the real essence or the hallmark of this Treaty settlement.The first one highlighted the importance and the acknowledgment of the apology. Like my own iwi Kai Tahu it was not actually about the money or anything like that. One of the things that our people really thought was the most important was actually the fact of the apology. It is about the apology which the Minister actually mentioned this morning. Having spoken to many members of iwi around Treaty settlements they have reiterated the fact of the apology. That was the first part of that submission. The apology as we know does not undo the wrongs of the past but what it highlights is the fact that we as a Government and as a nation actually understand the pain that was caused in the past. It is a commitment too around honouring the Treaty.The second part of the submission highlighted the fact that the redress provided to the iwi does not and cannot actively reflect the value of the loss sustained by Rangitāne. That was something that was also acknowledged in that submission and it is acknowledged here today.Thirdly are the benefits of the settlement particularly the benefits that are made possible by the commercial redress. What will really make a difference as we have actually known in Kai Tahu is the commercial redress that forms part of the continual development of Rangitāne o Manawatu.The settlement provides the apology that Rangitāne is owed. It provides cultural and commercial redress including a financial redress of $13.5 million. It has been said that the amount does not reflect what was taken—absolutely but it goes a long way to assist the future of Rangitāne o Manawatu. On that note I wish the leaders the rakatira of Rangitāne o Manawatu every success in the next part of their huge journey towards the success of their people. I wish them all the vision and wisdom and financial nous that they will need to achieve those goals for the future. On that note I have great pleasure in commending this bill to the House. E mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. Kia ora.