Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 26 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4048. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill 
Third Reading 
Hon TARIANA TURIA (Minister for Whanau Ora) 
 on behalf of the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: I move  
That the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill be now read a third time 
. E rau rangatira ma tenei te mi’i ki a koutou i runga i te kaupapa o te ra. Tena koutou nga rangatira o Ngai Tamanuhiri katahi ano te Whare Paremata nei kia w’akanui i te pire nei. He honore moku kia tu hei kaikorero mo tenei te panuitanga mutunga o te pire. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. 
[ 
I greet you leaders of a hundredfold in respect of the matter of the day. Salutations to you the leaders of Ngai Tamanuhiri. This Parliament House has at last celebrated this bill which I deem it an honour to speak to in this its final reading. Acknowledgments salutations and congratulations to you all 
.] 
The Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill will settle finally the historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of Ngai Tamanuhiri. The third reading of this bill brings to an end a day of great sadness and loss as the enduring memories of descendants have resonated throughout this Chamber. We have wept with them as we have traversed over the history we share. The loss extends beyond the tribal boundaries to also reflect on the health of our nationhood. The settlement stories have impacted on the rule of law the definition of just and good settlement and the protection of Maori mana motuhake. In all these principles and the failures of the Crown to live up to that ideal it goes to the surface of our capacity to live up to the promise of the Treaty. These settlement bills therefore become a benchmark for all New Zealanders to assess the progress that we have achieved since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. 
Ngai Tamanuhiri’s settlement part stretches back 20 years. Today those in the public gallery and all of us below reflect on those who are not with us those who have worked tirelessly on Ngai Tamanuhiri’s claims and who are not here to witness this day. The rohe that forms the home of Ngai Tamanuhiri extends from Kopututea down the coastline over Wharerata Forest to Paritu and from Paritu the area extends inland towards Lake Waikaremoana. It is a beautiful part of the world an exquisite tribal sanctuary. 
Up until 1865 Ngai Tamanuhiri had full control of their lands and resources. The people were participating successfully in the New Zealand economy and indeed the sun shone brightly for the people of this eastern coast. When war broke out in other regions Ngai Tamanuhiri remained neutral including when fighting came close to home in 1865. Into this peaceful haven then the Crown’s attack on Waerenga a Hika is inexplicable. There was no need to use military force in Turanga. The military forces took part in indiscriminate looting. Those attacks contributed to acute food shortages which in themselves caused loss of life. On top of that the detention of some Ngai Tamanuhiri on Wharekauri inflicted unwarranted hardship on them and their w’anau. It was wrongful it was unwarranted it was unjust it was a breach of natural justice and it was a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Well over a century later in 1992 Eric John Tupai Ruru Tutekawa Wyllie and Peter Gordon lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki Ngai Tamanuhiri and Rongowhakaata referred to as Wai 283. 
The Minister in an earlier speech referred to settlements as going to the very heart of our nation and it is in the process of telling our stories documenting our truths and outlining our experience that we come anywhere close to the prospect of reconciliation. The Crown’s relation with Ngai Tamanuhiri has involved some of the darkest episodes in the country’s history and that sense of grief and loss suffered by and the impact on this iwi remains with us all but more particularly so of course for the iwi who are represented here today. It is a tragic tale of mass executions of land loss and of the extinguishment of customary interests leading to the erosion of Ngai Tamanuhiri’s traditional tribal structures. As a direct consequence Ngai Tamanuhiri have lived with poorer housing lower educational achievements and worse health than any other New Zealanders yet despite this painful history they have made a significant contribution to the wealth and development of the nation and have at all times graciously honoured their Treaty obligations and responsibilities. 
In particular the settlement pays tribute to Ngai Tamanuhiri’s contribution to the defence of the nation. Knowing even as little as we do of the injustices that this iwi have suffered at the hands of the Crown we cannot help but be overwhelmed by the spirit of generosity that they have shown the nation in having faith in working with the Crown on this settlement. 
I want to be very clear for the record that in this settlement today the Crown is deeply sorry that it has failed until now to address the injustices in an appropriate manner. The Crown sincerely apologises for its many failures to respect Ngai Tamanuhiri mana and to protect them from being left virtually landless and economically marginalised. We all hope that this settlement will provide a foundation for this tribe and the Crown to move forward in a spirit of cooperation mutual benefit and trust. 
I move therefore to some of the detail in the deed of settlement signed in March 2011 by the Hon Chris Finlayson with Na Rongowhakaata Raihania and Hope Nga Taare Tupara as trustees of the Tamanuhiri Tutu Poroporo Trust. The settlement facilitates the transfer of Young Nick’s Head National Historic Reserve and endorses the name change to Te Kuri a Paoa. It will enable Ngai Tamanuhiri to purchase Te Wherowhero Lagoon. They will be a 50 percent shareholder in the Wharerata Forest. There is funding for cultural revitalisation and there is a clear commitment to relationship redress with Crown agencies. 
It was pleasing to see a letter from Mayor Meng Foon stating that the council is keen to help advance and support the mana motuhake of Ngai Tamanuhiri recognising that the flow-on benefits will also extend to all of Te Tai Rawhiti. I want to extend those flow-on benefits wider across the land because we all benefit from these settlements both Maori and Pakeha alike. 
The Crown apology in the legislation states that “The Crown seeks to restore its honour and reputation as a Treaty partner and atone for its past failures to uphold” Te Tiriti o Waitangi. As part of the journey moving forward Ngai Tamanuhiri are working with other Turanga iwi to establish a memorial to commemorate members of those iwi who lost their lives at the hands of the Crown. It will provide a sombre reminder to all of Aotearoa of the history that has shaped our sense of selves. 
I want to conclude this today with a w’akatauki that the Waitangi Tribunal used in its report  
Turanga Tangata Turanga Whenua 
: 
“W’akamoea nga maunga kia w’anau ko te pai.”—only good can result when great mountains are joined. How can we as a country come together and bring our shared aspirations for Treaty justice? How do tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti work in the spirit of collaboration to build a strong basis for nationhood? The constitutional review that has taken place is but one opportunity. It is a very important concept for all of us to ponder. Tena tatou katoa. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
: 
 Tena koe. Te pai o te rangi nei e te Kaiwhakahaere o te Whare nei ko te tae tata atu tatau ki te otinga o te hikoi roroa atu o tenei rangi. I a koutou o te hau kainga Tamanuhiri e mihi kau ana tena koutou. E tae kaha atu koutou tata ana ki o whanaunga tata ki te wahi nei o te Whare Miere te wahi e mahi atu nga tangata o te Karauna ki a koutou. E tautokotia atu nga whakaaro o te tuahine a Tariana ko te tukuna o te whenua ko te tahae hoki o te katoa o te whenua a koutou mai i te Karauna. No reira tena koutou. E te matua Noel e mihi kau ana ki a koe ki a ratou i roto i to tatou ropu kaha rua tekau ma waru tena koe mo tena. Mai i to haerenga mai i Muriwai tae atu ki te pakanga hoki ora atu ki te kainga i konei ke koe tena koe mo tena. 
I a koutou nga mea pakeke o te kainga e rongo atu tatou e kite atu tatou i te mahi i roto i a Tamanuhiri i a Rongowhakaata orite atu ki a koutou e mohio atu koutou i te mamae nga nawe e puta ana mai i te mahi o nga hoia no reira tena koutou na te mea he nui atu nga whakaaro i roto i a tatou mo te mahi kino i a Tamanuhiri he mahi kino he mahi taurekareka tera ano te mahi ki a ratou engari e kaha ana ratou hei ora atu no reira tena tatou. E te tuahine e Tariana kia kaha. 
[ 
Thank you. The good thing about this day Mr Speaker of this House is that the long journey to this day is nearly over. To you the locals Ngai Tamanuhiri I acknowledge you in your efforts to get here in respect of your close relationships to this place the Beehive where people of the Crown work with you. I endorse the views of fellow colleague Tariana in respect of how land is offered and how all your lands were also stolen by the Crown. So congratulations. To you the elder Noel I acknowledge you and them as well in that mighty group of ours the 28th Battalion. Congratulations on your involvement. You came from Muriwai went to war returned home alive and here you are now. I commend you.  
To all you elders of home we heard and saw what happened to the people of Ngai Tamanuhiri and Rongowhakaata. It was the same with you. You experienced the pain and concerns that resulted from the actions of the soldiers so I salute you all because we have many views about the atrocities experienced by Tamanuhiri—it was bad stuff it was belittling but they were resilient and survived these ordeals so I acknowledge us all. Be resolute sister colleague Tariana. 
] 
Na te mea because this is my last chance to talk today from this side I thought I would embellish understanding that my relations from Ngai Tamanuhiri will always have my support and our support. I want to mihi to my whanaunga Na Rongowhakaata Raihania and everybody else up there. Kia ora koutou. He was 50 the other day. He looks like Tau Henare. Kia ora tatou. Happy birthday.  
As Minister Turia pointed out to cede all of their land through ungracious actions of the Crown is something that makes the mind boggle. I mean just imagine half these dairy farmers losing their land today. That is what we should do as a Crown: take their land off them. What is wrong with that Mr Finlayson? Take half the farms away from them; give those farms to the Chinese. Take those farms off them and give them to these people. That is exactly what happened here. That is the reality. That is what happened. They took the land off them. They had no say. If you have ever been to Muriwai my cousin Fuchsia went over there and lived there. I am not too sure what she was doing there but she always said it was paradise. If you go to Muriwai they have still got the old trees growing their whare is strong they feed you like billy-o and they are great people. They are great people. Barney Whaitiri always said that the water that laps here will always sustain us like our whakapapa did. Those people have passed on—a lot of them—Toko and all of those kaumatua who are not here today. But they have seen fit to come down here. 
I want to talk over a couple of the issues in relation to the settlement. I see there is a Crown mineral protocol in this function I say to the Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations—very interesting. I hope they strike gold. 
Hon Christopher Finlayson 
: Ha ha! 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I am not laughing; I am serious. I hope they do. 
Hon Tau Henare 
: But the Greens say no. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I do not care what the Greens think or you think; I hope they strike whatever and that it is put in real context that it is not given to them and then taken away. The Minister knows I have been on his case for a fair while. He is going to end up a sir I think some time. But you know all these Government agencies and these protocols—whether it is Work and Income or Child Youth and Family or the Department of Conservation which is in here. The Department of Conservation is always in here. I found it very interesting. When you get to the summary what does it say? I will read you what it says: “Is there any private land being transferred? No. … Are the public’s rights affected? No. … What are Statutory Acknowledgments?”. There are not too many of them but they are relevant to the Resource Management Act. There are a lot of noes in here from a group of people who never even had an answer—yes or no—and took everything. The deed of settlement is $11.07 million plus interest and the value of the cultural redress is getting there. 
 I think that with this claim building on what the Minister for Whanau Ora Tariana Turia said there has to be more than just a sign-off. As Tau Henare said let us get on with the business. This puts right a terrible wrong and for me it is a wonderful day to celebrate. That is why I want this. There is not one of those monsters up there and they will most probably see me on TV. You are not supposed to say anything bad about the press. It makes me bloody sick that all they are talking about is Maori being mad bad and sad and Tau Henare smoking. We are a lot better than that—yes we are. Maori is a lot smarter than that. These people have stood the worst of the worst in the sense of losing all their lands and they go home. 
The irony is that when the coloniser came and that little short Pakeha fella or British fella jumped up and said: “Land ahoy!” it was the first place in New Zealand they saw. You would not believe it the way they have been treated. I say that seriously not because they are here but because we need to be reminded about that and that it needs to be talked about. I know that the two Ministers sitting over there the Minister for Whanau Ora and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations were listening intently and bring some real credence to these partnerships and that is one thing the Minister and I agree on. It is no good writing out these protocols and these charters that say: “Be kind to them DOC. Be good to them LINZ. Be kind to them TPK.” and have nothing come of it. That is what seems to be happening. So Minister Finlayson again I would encourage you to keep an eye on it. If you do not want to use Tariana or somebody else you get me. I will keep an eye on it for you. What happens in the continuation is a serious part of progress. 
The sums here as much as they have agreed to them are but a pittance in relation to what was done. The land deal in relation to the forestry—that they get 50 percent and 50 percent is kept—is another issue. I am glad that the funds go with it but even in the sense of giving them the forestry and the purchase requirements just from my quick reading it seems to be a bit rich. I want to say that again Minister and I have been professing and offering you a whole lot of support. 
Here is a very important one because we ain’t quite there yet in finalising this. I notice in there that Young Nick’s Head is renamed Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head. It has been like that for 100-odd-plus bloody years as Young Nick’s Head. Why not get rid of it and name it Te Kuri a Paoa? What is this “slash” business? I do not know whether iwi agreed to it or not but seriously what is that about? I have brought that up before—“Te Kuri a Paoa / Keep Everybody Else Happy / Young Nick’s Head”. Rubbish! I know the Minister agrees with me. Chris Finlayson does not really care about that. But it is right. 
You know everybody wants to talk about young Kahui and that is a dastardly ugly deed: he patu wahine he patu tangata [ 
killing women and men 
]. No doubt about it. We participate in that and so do Pakeha. But the way it carries on in the press is that that is all we are—mad bad and sad. [ 
Bell rung 
] Mr Speaker you can ring the bell all you like but I will tell you this. I do not want to leave here today knowing what will happen and what has happened in a whole lot of other settlements. They have said: “We signed a charter with them. We signed a fisheries charter. We signed a Crown minerals charter.” and nothing titoi nothing out of it—nothing. That is a fact. I trust you Minister to do the right thing. 
That thing about that sewage—these are the people who get it. That water laps on them. But I have to say it is a damn irony after 150-odd years. I was privileged enough to go up to the signing at the reserve. Like I said I wanted to walk but they put me in a helicopter with the Minister and we got up there. I was privileged to be there. There was a conservationist American who got the land at the end of the day. But at the end of the day this is not about keeping the other people happy; this is about putting something right that was terribly wrong in this country and certainly we should be better than that as politicians and not just rise up when Maoris break a window in a shop or piss against a wall or something like that because that is what makes the news. 
At the end of the day I would certainly want to suggest strongly that Ngai Tamanuhiri are given every support as they go through. The deal is the deal—great. Whether it is the land they have got to purchase the forestry shares or whatever else they need a lot of help—ongoing help. It is not too easy to understand that the costs shoot up. There were no costs to the people who took them. They took it and they created wealth out of it. There has been no analysis of that. It is really critical in my mind at least that we send them away understanding that they will be supported and cherished. Kia ora tatou. Tera ano te mea i roto i aku mo te rangi nei. 
[ 
So acknowledgments to us. That is what I have in me about this day. 
] 
It has been a great day for Maori to celebrate. On the Maori calendar it is supposed to be a good day for fishing and a good day for getting kumara ready for this party season. But this day should be remembered as the one when we did these four Treaty settlements together and we got a thing put right as well as we could as politicians and it is something we should celebrate. Do not give me this nationhood building thing and not show up to support it. Kia ora tatou. Thank you. 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations) 
: 
 Tena koe Mr Speaker and tena koutou to our guests in the gallery. Parekura Horomia has done that to me all day. He has upstaged me right throughout the course of the debate but always as you know with Mr Horomia for the best of reasons. I really welcome all those who are in the gallery—those of you who have travelled from Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa to join us on this very important occasion. I especially recognise that great rangatira Nolan Raihania whose immense contribution to our country through his service in the 28th Maori Battalion I greatly admire. I see him grinning up there. He gets very embarrassed when I mention him but he deserves all the accolades that he receives because he is a great New Zealander. 
As is very clear this bill the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill settles the historic grievances of this iwi. The Crown acknowledges and formally apologises for its breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi offers an apology and there are various forms of redress which Mrs Turia has mentioned and I am not going to repeat them in my speech. But this day has indeed been a long time coming. The claims were first made to the Waitangi Tribunal 20 years ago in 1992. The claims were inquired into by the tribunal and it reported in 2004. It is well established that the grievances that it found the breaches of the Treaty were very serious indeed. Ngai Tamanuhiri entered negotiations with the Crown in 2005 as part of the collective of Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa iwi and in September 2008 signed the agreement in principle. 
 It is one of those unfortunate things that from the agreement in principle to deed of settlement the journey is sometimes very long because in the deed of settlement all the details have to be finalised whereas in the agreement in principle it can be a fairly generalised document. There has been a lot of work—an enormous amount of work—between September 2008 and March 2011. It was a wonderful day a Saturday morning when Mr Horomia and I and other officials—Mrs Turia was there as well—were at that beautiful marae south of Gisborne Muriwai Marae to sign the deed of settlement. As Mr Horomia said it was a very special day because we began it by helicoptering up to the top of the point and initialling the deed of settlement and then we came down and the actual signing was on the marae. 
As I said in my second reading speech last week it was the first time I had ever done it as Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations but I read out the full acknowledgement and the apology. One was aware that it was a very eerie sort of feeling in the grounds of the marae. I said to Mrs Turia: “What is going on?” and she said people were weeping. That is perhaps why I get very angry when I hear people diminish these settlements as mere “deals” in some kind of supercilious manner. They are anything but deals; they are very important acts that we enter into—that the Crown and iwi enter into—in order to resolve these matters that plague our past so that we can get on with life. It was a very special day and I want to thank publicly the iwi for that day and for the way in which they have negotiated with me over the last 4 years. 
In this settlement as I said the Crown acknowledges a number of breaches. Some mention in the context of Rongowhakaata was made by Mr Tirikatene about the men not being tried in accordance with the standards of justice that people were entitled to and then they were imprisoned in harsh conditions on the Chatham Islands for more than 2 years. Mr Tirikatene marvelled at how the good men of Rongowhakaata managed to escape and the same principle applies to Ngai Tamanuhuri. I have to say that I still marvel at it myself. I was over in the Chathams a few weeks ago and Mr Tremain and I jumped in a crayfish boat to go down from Owenga on the south coast of the Chatham Island over to Pitt Island. It is fair to say—and it was a reasonably pleasant day—that the journey could be described as interesting. So I have no doubt at all that the courage and the determination of those men of Ngai Tamanuhuri to get back to Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa was truly truly impressive. 
The other breach that I particularly want to refer to is the act of the Crown in returning land and then promoting legislation that basically gave ownership of the land to individuals rather than to the collective undermining the ability of the iwi to maintain its property. That is why undertakings that have been given in the Crown deed by acknowledgments and apologies are absolutely important and necessary. 
Mr Horomia being the good local MP that he is for Ikaroa-Rawhiti raised a number of points about sewage spewing out into the bay and affecting the iwi and the general population of the area. One important body that is established through this settlement is the local leadership board. I refer him to clause 43 of the bill. The purpose of this board which will be made up of all the iwi in the area and also the local authorities is to “contribute to the sustainable management of the natural and physical resources in the … area for the use and enjoyment of … future generations while recognising and providing for the traditional relationship of Ngai Tamanuhiri [and other iwi] with their ancestral lands water sites wahi tapu” areas and so on. I hope that that body which is a permanent committee and must not be discharged without the agreement of the specified appointers in the council will be able to start to address some of these matters. Mr Horomia has very eloquently spoken this afternoon as well about the absolute need following the passage of this legislation for the Crown to live up to its commitments. This is not a one-off warm feelings situation. This creates a new relationship and there are ongoing obligations that will need to be addressed. He and I have talked about ways in which that could be done and I very much appreciate his contribution. 
This is a historic milestone for Ngai Tamanuhiri. The deed was the first settlement agreed between the Crown and an iwi from Turanga where the Crown committed some very serious Treaty breaches and I agree with all those speakers who have said today and throughout the course of the four debates that it is important that people know something about what happened. It is a shame that the media which are quite happy to report the more contentious aspects of House business have not bothered to be here today to listen to some of this debate because it is very important. I acknowledge all those officials with whom I have worked over the years. The Office of Treaty Settlements officials worked very hard on these matters. They are not “nine-to-fivers” at all. In fact I was in the office the day we initialled the deed of settlement at about 12.30 in the morning because Paul James the former director had phoned me and wanted me to talk to the Ngai Tamanuhiri representatives about one or two matters. That is the level of commitment that I have received from the Office of Treaty Settlements. I acknowledge Mr Horomia I acknowledge my friends in the Maori Party who have worked so closely with me on this and I acknowledge my other ministerial colleagues. It is a great day; a great day for Ngai Tamanuhiri. It is not the end of it. It is the beginning of a new relationship—a very positive one. I salute you for all you do and look forward to working with you in the years to come. 
RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga) 
: 
 Tena koe e te Kaiwhakamana tena koutou e te Whare ia nga tangata o nga pari e ma ra e Ngai Tamanuhiri tena koutou tena koutou. Nau mai haere mai whakatau mai ki te Paremata e takatu nei tena koutou tena tatou katoa. 
[ 
Thank you Mr Speaker and greetings to you the House and indeed those people from yonder white cliffs Ngai Tamanuhiri salutations and greetings to you collectively. Welcome draw closer to Parliament standing here ready acknowledgments to you and to us all 
.]  
I am delighted to stand and make my contribution on this the final passage of the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill. As a new member it has been a thrill actually being a member of the Maori Affairs Committee to follow the passage of this bill right the way through to the House from the first reading select committee hearings second reading and now to this final reading. So it is a steep learning curve for me. 
Being the member for Te Tai Tonga there is actually a connection in addition to the Ngai Tahu whakapapa connection that we share with our Tahu Potiki and our whanaunga here in Ngai Tamanuhiri. There is also a common connection because our whanaunga there Tutekawa Wyllie was also the member for Te Tai Tonga a few elections back. So we do share many things in common. But I am delighted to be speaking at this stage. 
We have heard this afternoon about the shared history that Ngai Tamanuhiri share with Rongowhakaata. Therefore the Crown’s breaches of the Treaty its acknowledgments and its apologies as set out in this bill are very very similar and aligned to the same breaches that occurred to Rongowhakaata when I think of the attacks at Waerenga a Hika the loss of life at Ngatapa and the tensions that were over there on Wharekauri. So you cannot differentiate the two. The two iwi were part of all of those atrocities so it is appropriate that they are acknowledged they are recorded in this bill in the deed of settlement and flowing through now into the passage of this legislation. 
We know that the redress that is offered and that is part of the package that we are putting through today does not compensate for the loss that has been inflicted on these iwi for many generations but as Minister Finlayson noted this is a step forward. This is a beginning and we have seen it happening right across the motu for the past 30-odd years in terms of the modern-day Treaty settlement process. So this is a very hallmark occasion for Ngai Tamanuhiri. 
I have had the pleasure of working with Ngai Tamanuhiri when I was with Ngai Tahu. I am thinking of a settlement in a different context and that was in the fisheries context. I acknowledge the close association that Ngai Tamanuhiri has had with Ngai Tahu and in particular the Treaty Tribes Coalition and the support and the whanaungatanga that I had the privilege of being amongst and working with in the years when I was there—and it is still strong today. 
There are many elements to these settlements as my colleagues have spoken about. I would just like to pick up on what my matua Parekura mentioned about how disappointed we are in some aspects of these settlements. We know that the Crown has vast assets as its disposal—all the king’s horses and all the king’s men you can muster and write out a $1.7 billion cheque to bail out some investors in a failed finance company when you really have to; when it really wants to. 
I just want to say how disappointed I am in that the arrangements in some of our Treaty settlements could go a lot further. I look at the arrangements of Ngai Tamanuhiri and it is great that we have had the recognition of the mana of Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head but I prefer Te Kuri a Paoa. But for this whanau here to go and visit their wahi tapu they have to seek permission from the American owner of the surrounding adjacent lands. That is not good enough. 
There are too many examples of Maori magnanimity—that is a word that my tuahine Nanaia was speaking about this afternoon. There are too many examples of magnanimity in Treaty redresses these days. So receiving back our sacred mountains and our islands for a period of 24 hours and then having to re-gift them to the people of New Zealand smacks of paternalism and an unwillingness to fully acknowledge the wrong. I would just like to encourage this Minister and in all future Treaty settlement processes that the Crown really does make an effort to make sure that there is full recognition of the mana of the owners of those wahi tapu sites such as Te Kuri a Paoa and many others that will be coming through in Treaty settlements that are yet to come through this House. I would like to think that the Crown can also be adventurous and maybe look at having a chat with the American landowners arranging a round of golf or having a few drinks but coming up with a solution where everyone’s mana is enhanced and that the end result will be never again having to ask permission to visit Te Kuri a Paoa. 
We have seen in other elements the gifting of the right to purchase back the Pakowhai Scenic Reserve and other very important wahi tapu sites. Again it would be good to see in terms of future settlements more commitment and more going back to the actual mana whenua and the aggrieved Treaty partner. Yes the acknowledgments and the apologies are vitally important and it would be good to see some more measures being taken whereby some more control and rangatiratanga can actually go back to the mana whenua for their sacred sites. 
This is a defining moment for Ngai Tamanuhiri but also I think it is a step forward and we are looking at economic development opportunities that will flow on through these settlements. I wish Ngai Tamanuhiri all the best in terms of their future activities and their aspirations. I know they are highly skilled and a very well-organised iwi and they have got some very talented people in their midst. I look forward to seeing what is going to happen in the Turanga region when we look at the likes of our recapitalised iwi: Rongowhakaata Ngai Tamanuhiri Mahaki to come and also the various land incorporation interests in that region. I am sure that will be a driving force for the Turanga region in the coming years. 
This is our final bill for the day. I am delighted that I have been able to make this contribution right the way through the process through this House. I would just like to conclude by mihi-ing once again to the whanau of Ngai Tamanuhiri who have travelled all the way down here to support this day. I think of all the people on the claims committees and the researchers and a 20-year process that has gone from tribunal hearings right through negotiations with the Crown all the way through to a deed of settlement and then a long passage through the House right up to this stage here. So I thank you. My colleague Charles mentioned the gratitude that we have for your partnership with the Crown through this process. We are looking forward to seeing what that future will hold beyond the passage of this bill. So I mihi to you all. Kia ora ano tatou katoa. 
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green) 
: 
 Tena koe Mr Speaker tena koutou te Whare Paremata. He mihi ki Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Te Reo Rangatira. He mihi nui ki nga iwi hapu whanau o Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa Ngai Tamanuhiri me Rongowhakaata. 
[ 
Thank you Mr Speaker and salutations to you collectively of Parliament House. I applaud Maori Language Week the Chiefly Language and greatly appreciate the tribes subtribes and families of Gisborne Ngai Tamanuhiri and Rongowhakaata 
.] 
Before I speak about the Greens’ support for the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill I would like to address Ngai Tamanuhiri and their negotiating team in particular. There is an English whakatauki “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” and I would like to apply that to my second reading speech which contained unmandated inferences for which I apologise wholeheartedly. My speech stepped over the line in terms of representation issues and no one from Ngai Tamanuhiri asked me to do that. I therefore express my regret and my respects to those of you who are here today from Ngai Tamanuhiri and those who were unable to travel who are here in spirit. 
But to return to the third reading of this bill which the Green Party is happy to support this is a significant moment in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. Ngai Tamanuhiri have travelled down the long coast to be here and the Green Party wants to pay respects for the long years of waiting and the long years of work. After more than 100 years of marginalisation including major losses of whenua detention without trial and summary executions in the 1860s which created unimaginable suffering and ongoing poverty there was I believe more than 20 years of hard work and struggle on this claim to reach this point and therefore it is time to celebrate your mahi and what has been achieved. 
My partner Gordon Jackman grandson of Doris Black of Muriwai was the archaeologist working on a small part of the preparation for this day and is unable to be here but we both feel deeply the privilege of the opportunities of learning a little about the history of Ngai Tamanuhiri and their rohe. The local opportunity from this settlement is the building of stronger relationships the Anzac commemoration events and the collective work on Te Wherowhero Lagoon which is part of this agreement. These are foundations and we are hopeful that Pakowhai Scenic Reserve can also become part of the building of those local relationships which make Te Tiriti a reality not just in law but in the hearts and minds. The commitment to Ngai Tamanuhiri having an enhanced participation in resource management processes in their rohe will also benefit everyone in Te Tai Rawhiti. 
Early today the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations spoke of the truly unique aspect of every Treaty claim process and this is so powerfully true of the matters at the heart of this bill. Part of the maunga Te Kuri a Paoa is a reserve that is now vested in Ngai Tamanuhiri and named Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head. When the white sails came over the horizon and saw those white cliffs everything occurred from that moment and has led to this moment and to the necessity for justice and redress. Naming is so important and the Green Party supports names as expressions of dual heritage but we believe that dual heritage must be fully acknowledged by both parties not just the iwi for healing to really take place. 
The struggles over Te Kuri a Paoa have been long and the Green Party wishes to acknowledge the importance of this maunga which the late Rod Donald MP our first co-leader visited in 2002 to tautoko the efforts for the maunga to be recognised as tangata whenua land and the first place where the cultures sighted each other. In 2002 another winter hikoi started walking to Wellington supported by some people who are no longer with us. Pakeha and tangata Tiriti katoa have reason to appreciate the gift Ngai Tamanuhiri have given the nation in their staunch upholding of the significance of Te Kuri a Paoa to us all. 
The redress in this agreement will also allow the implementation of some dreams and plans regarding the Wharerata Forest and wahi tapu the cultural economic future of tamariki mokopuna. Again we all benefit from this although like others in the House the Greens would like to see a larger quantum in this agreement. 
The one comment the Green Party would add to this and to all claims is the need for the Kawanatanga to resource the education of Pakeha and tangata Tiriti katoa because our role is to make sure the work done by the iwi themselves the Maori Affairs Committee and the Minister is recognised and understood by all as a living history that we are all part of so it can reach its liberating potential from the grievous history of colonisation which Ngai Tamanuhiri and iwi katoa have all suffered. 
 I would just like to finish by congratulating Ngai Tamanuhiri. The Green Party supports your ongoing leadership and your rangatiratanga. Earlier today David Clendon MP spoke about truth and reconciliation as well as Treaty settlement. I support his words and those of Metiria Turei that this needs to happen at a local and national level and it is time for Pakeha katoa to step up on those issues. But in the meantime just let me say that it has been a privilege to have been connected in a small way with the journey and to have lived within your rohe. I am humbled to have met you all. Kia ora koutou katoa. 
JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth) 
: 
 Tena koe. E nga reo e nga mana e nga hau e wha; ko Jonathan Young taku ingoa. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. 
[ 
Greetings to you. To the languages authorities and four winds; my name is Jonathan Young. Greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you all 
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It is my great pleasure and privilege to be able to stand in support of and speak on this third reading of the bill for Ngai Tamanuhiri the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill. Before I speak I just want to extend the apologies of Mrs Tolley who cannot be here today because she is unwell. She would love to have been here to acknowledge this day with you. 
I want to bring my thoughts round to my colleague’s comments—my colleague from the Maori Affairs Committee—regarding Te Kuri a Paoa slash Young Nick’s Head. I think that was a very interesting and forthright comment that the honourable member Horomia brought out. We all know the European history. Nicholas Young was a sailor on Captain’s Cook ship on his first voyage here. He was just a young boy and he was a stowaway on the  
Endeavour 
. He sighted Young Nick’s Head as it was called because of that sighting by him—but it was also called Te Kuri a Paoa—on 7 October 1769. 
I remember when as a young boy we would have holidays as a family on the East Coast and whether it be true or not my mum and dad said to me that that boy Nick Young was one of our forebears—we came from the Youngs. Look I do not know whether it was true or not. Maybe it was one of those stories that a dad told his son. Maybe it was part of our mythology. But let me tell you how it made me feel and how I now understand how you feel: it made me feel important. It made me feel that this was a place of beginning. It made me feel that here was a significant place that I had attachment to. That is from a Pakeha. How much more how much more for you. 
So I want to talk about the slash because the slash is not a cut to the heart. The slash is the joining of peoples. It is like you would take for example two branches and you would graft them together. In order to do that to make a living people a living tree there is a slash—there is a cut. So my thought to you today is that I know what you are saying honourable member but perhaps there is also another way to look at it because if we can resolve our past and build our future together as New Zealanders in Aotearoa and have a future and I know that the redress never measures up to what was lost it is something that you can take and you can move forward with. 
So it has been a long long time and we have come to this place come to this afternoon. My hope and my prayer is that from this day forward you will find increased strength you will find increased resolve and you will find increased ability to feel the mana to feel the location and the reconnection and that you will have some economic strength to build your future and that together we will build this small nation into a great nation. Tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. Kia ora. 
BRENDAN HORAN (NZ First) 
: 
 I would like to follow on from the comments of all of my colleagues who have gone before me and to say what a fantastic day today is and how wonderful it is to be here. Earlier this morning I was leading the charge against those people who are not here but then I thought well too bad about them they are missing out—they are missing out. All day amazing things have been spoken of and amazing people have been here. I would like to acknowledge the kaumatua who are here—all of you up there. I acknowledge how hard it has been for all of you to get here but you are here and you made the journey.  
It is hard to mention people but there are a lot of people and I would like to say hello to Olive and Temple Isaacs. I would also like to acknowledge Nolan Raihania from the Maori Battalion. In 1978 I worked in Whakatane Hospital and I had the privilege of looking after George Raurina. George had been an interpreter with the Maori Battalion and I was about to embark on a trip overseas to university in Canada and he taught me all these different languages. His story is an amazing one. He is gone now but Nolan represents all of those brave men that we lost and how wonderful and what a privilege it is to have you here Nolan. Kia ora. 
I would like to also follow on from the Hon Parekura Horomia and the Hon Chris Finlayson on the question of the sewage in Gisborne. I love the ocean. I have been involved in surf lifesaving and from a very young age would always make the trek over to Gisborne to compete to go surfing or to go and plunder some of that paua and kai moana that was there. I have paddled out there and seen that sewage coming up and it is a disgrace. The fact that the Minister has said that he is prepared to look at that fills me with joy. It can no longer be swept under the carpet and it must go to the front of the queue—the cleaning up of that sewage. 
I would just like to speak a very small part on Ngai Tamanuhiri. This tribe is a small one but one of prodigious strength and mana. Tamanuhiri’s mountain or maunga Te Kuri a Paoa or Young Nicks Head is there and it is there for all to see. As Parekura said earlier that was the first thing Captain Cook’s crew saw when they visited Aotearoa. I must say that 2019 is going to be a very interesting year is it not with the 250th anniversary of the sighting of your maunga by Europeans. Their waka  
Horouta 
 rests in the lagoon at the base of Te Kuri a Paoa. Although the Tamanuhiri people are relatively small in number they are giant in their connections and they closely whakapapa into Ngati Porou Ngai Tahu Rongowhakaata and others. This ability to easily and cleverly communicate rose to the fore in negotiations. As well as their nimbleness shown in the move to settle first of the three  
Turanga  
groups there is also real elegance to the level of cultural links in the strands of the commercial redress afforded to Tamanuhiri in this Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill with a package involving profound cultural threads. 
So congratulations to the negotiators. To those who have passed on but are here with us in spirit salutations. And to all of those who have worked so hard for a positive outcome thank you thank you and again thank you. 
Toitu te whenua toitu te tangata toitu te mana—the land endures the people prevail the mana is secure. Kia kaha kia maia kia manawanui. 
[ 
Be strong be brave be stout-hearted. 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 Te mea tuatahi kei a koutou aku rangatira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa. Mihi kau atu au ki te tuahine o taku hungarei e takoto mai ra i roto i te rohe o Ngati Porou i te marae o Awatere. No reira e Mere haere atu ra haere atu ra. 
[ 
The first thing is to acknowledge my leaders; greetings to you greetings to you and greetings to you all. I pay a tribute to the sister of my mother-in-law lying in state there in the region of Ngati Porou on the Awatere Marae. So farewell Mary farewell 
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I have been given the privilege of winding up so that sort of cuts out what I was going to say. I know it is a ploy by my mate over there Parekura Horomia. I do want to pay salutations not only to our brilliant Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and the Treaty negotiations team from the Office of Treaty Settlements but also to my colleagues on the Maori Affairs Committee who I think have done a sterling job. I also want to pay due respect to the Hon Parekura Horomia who back in the day when he was a wee bit younger used to come to my office as Minister of Maori Affairs. He would eat everything in the kitchen and leave nothing in the bar but I tell the House and tell the nation that you could not get a better advocate for Maori. Quite frankly the House has been well served by my colleague’s time in the House and his advocacy. But we also had some discussions about how we thought the world should run. It was just like when my uncle used to come to our house and talk to my old man until about 4 o’clock in the morning and they would basically solve the world’s problems as well. It must be a trait of Maori to go through that as mates as cousins as friends as whanau. 
I am not going to dwell too much on the inner workings of the settlement in this Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill. Suffice it to say that this has been a momentous day. When was the last time the nation saw Parliament give its time over to the settlement of Treaty agreements? When was the last time we had a sitting from 9 o’clock to 6 o’clock ostensibly on Treaty settlement bills? I thought to myself and said to myself earlier in the day: “Is this a good thing or is this a bad thing? Are we ghettoising the Treaty settlements by putting them on one day or are we giving them their fair due?” I believe it is the latter—that we are giving part of our history part of our story due recognition in the House of Parliament. 
 And actually it is not the House of Parliament; it is the House of Representatives. That basically means to me that it is the House that is our visitors’ House—it is the House of Representatives. It is the House where we stand and deliver on all manner of things in a representative role for the people outside. It is a wonderful wonderful day to have you all here especially I suppose knowing where Tamanuhiri is as well. It was only very recently that I got to stand on the shores of Muriwai contemplating my career in politics and whether it was maybe going to go for another 3 years or maybe end abruptly. I was lucky. It went on for another—well it is going on for another 3 years. 
I have said for the last 2 weeks that this is all about the tapestry the brilliant tapestry of New Zealand’s history and I do echo what the Hon Parekura Horomia says about the naming what it actually means and where it lies in the hearts of the hau kainga the home people. But I also feel for my mate who was sitting here who is related to those Youngs and to Nicholas Young. As for whether that is true or not I mean like he says I think it is a good story and I will be telling that story around the nation as well—that Young Nick’s Head was named after his tupuna. Like I said whether it is true or not most of us know—most Maori know—of its true name its real name and pay due respects. 
Here is something else to ponder: regardless of whether land is given back returned or whatever when we drive past it even if it does not belong to us any more we still say “See that piece of land over there? That’s ours.” I think that is a good thing. I think that if we can pay due recognition and if we can pay what we owe in the final analysis that is a great thing for this history and other nations around the world can have a look at us. I want to take that and refer to the Black Hills of Dakota where in the 1860s there was a treaty between the indigenous people and the Government of the USA stating that they would have tino rangatiratanga over this block of land the Black Hills of Dakota. They signed the treaty and one day somebody found gold and that was it. And you know for ever and a day it even went as high as the Supreme Court to say how the treaty was broken. 
The agreement that Tamanuhiri has is with the Crown. Make no mistake: every one of us sitting here today is the Crown. It is not just the Government; it is the Opposition as well—those people are the Crown. My advice throughout the debate has been to watch out for the hawkers and the shysters but also to watch out for the Crown. Watch out for the Government because in its wish to take the country forward it might slip up now and then or it might trip over now and then. It is a good idea just to keep a watching brief on what we do as the Crown. So that is another piece of advice. 
I will not go on too much longer other than to say: nga mihi nunui ki a koutou katoa nga uri o nga aitua o Ngai Tamanuhiri. Tino hari taku ngakau i kite au i a koutou i roto i toku nei Whare i to Whare no reira tena koutou tena koutou. Kua pai ta koutou haerenga ki te hau kainga a muri i tenei korero no reira nga manaakitanga nga aroha ki a koutou katoa tena koutou tena koutou kia ora mai tatou katoa. 
[ 
I acknowledge you greatly descendants of Ngai Tamanuhiri disasters. I am particularly pleased to see you here in my House your House so greetings and salutations to you collectively. All will be well for your return home following this address so blessings and compassion to you all greeting greetings and greetings to us all 
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Bill read a third time. 
Waiata