Ngaro Alfred: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 23 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19507. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National):Tēnā koe. Kia ora tātou katoatoa kia orana e Te Manea me tō tātou tangata whenua. Ā ko au te tangata nō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa nō Rarotonga nō Mangaia nō Aitutaki. Te patene i a koe me tia tangata tuakana me tōtō ra’i ki toto i tēnei ’are tō Pāremata. My petition to you is that this boy from Rarotonga—tōku pito ki roto Aotearoa nei—ko au anō ki toto o Aotearoa. Even though I was born here my pito is here my whānau and my family come from the islands of Manuae Rarotonga Aitutaki and Mangaia as well. So it is an honour to stand here today.I have a very short call with a very small story about the day that I arrived in Glen Innes and Panmure. A friend and I used to run up Maungarei Mount Wellington in the early hours of the morning to say our karakias and to run around the community to hear what the tuakana would say to us. As we did I remember that as I was on top of Maungarei I looked across and I could see our community and I wondered what they saw. I could see many things that were happening in that place. I could see the land of opportunity.I remember that I came away and I said to my wife one morning: “You know what came to me was the whole aspect of Joshua and the city of Jericho and that he was given a call and a mandate to take the city as big as it was.” She laughed at me and thought it was just a pipe dream. Then I just happened to have the book by Kate Holloway a historian called Maungarei and as I read the book I fell over. I looked at it and I said to my wife: “Look at this.” What she had done is that in order to date Maungarei the only thing she could do was date it to the time when the city of Jericho was actually built historically. So I said there must be a significance here. As I retold the story it simply said this: that at one time in one place Joshua was given a call from above to go and to take the city impregnable as it was. The command was to walk around the city and at one point in time to sound the trumpet and with one voice—one united voice—the city walls would come down and they could take the city.The vision that I had on that maunga of Maungarei was the fact that the spirit of unity as we hear from Psalm 133 is that when people are united with one voice then there is a blessing that flows and the ability to take the inheritance that is theirs.I simply tell that story for this reason—because even on the maungas that we are talking about today what we hear is because of one purpose and one mind the spirit of unity is what unites us and our prayer is that out of this there is more than just the acceptance of the redress but the opportunity the potential for our communities for our whānau to be able to do this.I want to salute you and acknowledge you. Maybe this boy from Rarotonga has a voice and a sense of the connection to our tūpuna to our tuakana to say that when we are with one voice and of one purpose then we truly do experience the potential in what we have come to know as the blessings that will come from this. Nō reira kia mi’i ki a tātou—there goes my buzzer—ka mutu tō tātou tuatua ki roto tēnei leo. Kia orana e Te Manea.Bill read a third time.Waiata