Tremain Chris: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTremain Chris: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 19 February 2014. Volume:696;Page:16174. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHRIS TREMAIN (National—Napier): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakahaere. Tīhei mauri ora! Whakataka te hau ki te uru. Whakataka te hau ki te tonga. Kia mākinakina ki uta kia mātaratara ki tai. E hī ake ana te atākura he tio he huka he hauhunga. Ā tēnā koutou.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. Behold the breath of life! Cease the winds from the west. Cease the winds from the south. Let the breezes blow over the land. Let the breezes blow over the ocean. Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air a touch of frost a promise of a glorious day. So greetings to you collectively.]The mihi I have just used was the one that I started my speech with in the first reading on the Maungaharuru-Tangitu Hapu Claims Settlement Bill. It has particular relevance because it speaks of a new dawn for Maungaharuru-Tangitū—a touch of frost which is probably quite relevant today with the fog that is coming through Wellington. It has prevented many of the negotiators and members of the six hapū from coming down to Pōneke to Wellington today to be part of this second reading. In that regard as many other members in the House have done—Denise Roche from the Greens Meka Whaitiri and Minister Finlayson—can I acknowledge the presence in spirit very much of kaumātua and rangatira from Maungaharuru-Tangitū who cannot be here today. In particular can I acknowledge Bevan Taylor and Tānia Hopmans who are two of the lead negotiators the rangatira who have led the negotiations to bring the bill to the point that we are at now where we can reach a settlement for this natural grouping. I say “natural grouping” because there was some debate from some—certainly not from members of these hapū—that they were not a natural grouping. So to establish that fact has been excellent.To be clear the rohe of Maungaharuru-Tangitū sits within my electorate—or should I say my electorate sits within their rohe. The area starts at Mana Ahuriri which is the group that sits in Napier. For those of you who know where Napier Airport is that land there will be part of the Mana Ahuriri claim. But going north from there it is up along the coast. It takes in Waipātiki Beach goes up through to Ridgemount Station through to the Waikari River which is where Ngāti Pāhauwera and their iwi sit further north. That claim has been settled since I have been a member of this House which is absolutely fantastic. Ngāti Pāhauwera are getting on with building an economic base and businesses and becoming very much a part of the local economy. The rohe goes west from there to the ranges of Maungaharuru. Interestingly Maungaharuru talks about the beating of wings. If you go back a couple of hundred years the Maungaharuru Range—maunga as in mountain and haruru the beating of wings—talks about the petrels and seabirds that used to nest up in what I would not quite call mountains but in those mid-hill areas. It is interesting to see that the iwi are now working with Julian Robertson who has put a million dollars into bringing back seabirds to that area which is absolutely fantastic. This is a wonderful point in time—that we have got to this point and we can settle.I have actually got quite a close connection to the area. I happen to be fortunate to own some property at Waipātiki Beach. Just this January I worked very closely with Maungaharuru-Tangitū. We had Bevan Taylor out to the beach. I have got a property that sits right beside the beach—actually about 18 acres there—which had one of the oldpā sites around it. So we had the members of the iwi out to look at where some of the dugouts were and just to have a sense of what may need to be protected in future years if that site was to be developed. It was really interesting.In terms of the settlement itself as I said on the Raukawa settlement it actually empowersMaungaharuru-Tangitū not only by returning land to them but there is some financial redress there as well plus cultural redress. In terms of the redress there we see the vesting of part ofŌpouahi Station and the Ōpouahi Scenic Reserve the vesting of the TePōhue Domain Scenic Reserve back intoMaungaharuru hapū and the vesting of lake beds at Lake Tūtira LakeŌrākai Lake Waikōpiro and LakeŌpouahi. Also we see the return of the lake beds to the hapū and the vesting and gifting of a number of significant cultural properties including boundary streams scenic reserves the Bellbird Bush Scenic Reserve and the balance of theŌpouahi Scenic Reserve andWhakaari Landing Place Reserve.So all these things come together and have reached what I think is an excellent settlement for theMaungaharuru hapū. It has taken a long time to get to this point but as I said earlier Bevan TaylorTānia Hopmans and the other negotiators have worked hard to get to this point. I think there is definitely hope there for a quality settlement and as my colleague in the Green Party Denise Roche said there is genuine optimism amongst the hapū about the future. I must say that when I was there for the signing of the agreement in principle at the marae it was fantastic to talk to the people who were very optimistic and who really wanted to look forward and put behind them the issues of the past to look forward for their own mokopuna their tamariki their children and to focus on how they could get them really really well educated so that they could then become significant contributors not only to their own community but to the wider community and with an understanding of their place in the world in what is now more and more a global community. I think you actually need to have your roots very clearly embedded in some part of the world which for me is the mighty Hawke’s Bay and very much a part of this areaMaungaharuru-Tangitū.Thank you for the opportunity to speak in this debate. As I said in the speech on the Raukawa bill it is a huge privilege to be part of these historical Treaty settlements and a huge privilege to have those settlements from my own electorate taking place and seeing genuine progress being made and huge development in Hawke’s Bay as a result of these settlements. Thank you very much.