McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Madam Speaker. I too want to welcome the people of Ahuriri to Parliament. It's a special place to come to. Some of us wonder why we came here but I think it is a special place. I guess you're wondering what some old Scottish descendant from the Manawatū is doing speaking on a bill like this and I have a half of one foot in the territory of Rangitāne and one in the territory of Ngāti Apa. But I think it's pretty special these things and I often have the privilege of speaking on Treaty claims bills and I can only think that that's because I've been around for longer of the Treaty claim process than most. I also wanted to pay a special tribute to a couple of people who often speak on these bills. I think Rino Tirikatene puts the bill in perspective for me and I think he does a special job in our Treaty claims process with the way he speaks on the bills. He always gives me a bit of education. I also today want to acknowledge Lawrence Yule because I thought he did a great job. As I said you may well wonder what I'm doing here but my mother lived looking at Perfume Point for quite a while and Stuart I think the reason Perfume Point is called Perfume Point is now a very different reason than it was in the old days and the activity there is much different than it used to be as well.She lives in a retirement village in Napier and I was in there the other day. Quite extraordinary she had a book on her table and it was called A Changing Land by Sir Donald—it wasn't by Sir Donald McLean clearly; it was about Sir Donald McLean's life. He of course was the Government land acquisition officer or commissioner in the very early part of Hawke's Bay's recent history I suppose—150-odd years ago.But the thing that really intrigued me about it was as you glance through a book like that and you glance through the notes that we're given to speak on these bills and the deed of settlement and the bits of history there's a lot of great similarity between what we have explained to us here and what's actually written about the history. You can see how some of those very unfortunate actually and interesting deals were done. I think it's great for us to have the history of these things but actually the important thing is that we get to the end of this process. Despite what Willie Jackson was saying earlier about what they should be worth actually what they're worth is what you make of them. I think it's very special that we get to the point where these settlements enable everyone to move forward. We'll never replace or repair what's gone on in the last 150 to 160 years and I don't think we should expect to. Ironically Sir Donald McLean is buried on Scinde Island which is a part of this Treaty claims process and it's named in the settlement. So the history whatever we make of it is always going to be with us.I think it's really interesting that we get to a point where through a great deal of time and a lot of discussion we end up with some sort of a settlement which enables us to move on. I think that's the important thing for this Parliament. It's the very important thing for New Zealand. I think where we've got to a point of settling these—I was going to say adequately but that's probably not a very good word—processes and we come out the other end of them I think we're getting some very good results. I think that's such a great thing for future generations of New Zealanders because it does get us to a point that's I suppose satisfactory for us all.Interestingly my daughter and my two grandsons also live in Ahuriri even though I'm a Manawatū person. I don't know why they ever went to Hawke's Bay but they went there and I've got to live with it. But it is special and so I congratulate everyone who's been part of this process. I know that you'll get a lot of I guess pleasure out of what happens in this place in the next few months and I hope it moves through relatively quickly. Almost all of the people who will be dealing with that in select committee have spoken on this bill this afternoon. I just want to say I think it's great progress. I wish you all the best in the future. I know that this thing will work well for you and I hope as Lawrence said that maybe the select committee can deal with some of the issues that have changed in the interim because well it's a long long time since you first signed the deed of settlement but it's certainly a long time since you got to the point of getting this bill moving. So thank you Madam Speaker for the opportunity to speak on this and I do wish you all the best in the future going forward. Congratulations.