Nakhle Rima; Brownlee GerryRIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is with quiet pleasure that I stand up and speak in support of this bill the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill. I'm honoured to be on the Māori Affairs Committee. It is an honour and it is a privilege and I am grateful to my colleagues on the committee most of whom have a beautiful Māori background for accepting me—the Lebo" on the Māori Affairs Committee. Now the basic purpose of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill is to give effect to some of the elements of the Ngāti Paoa deed of settlement which was signed on 20 March 2021 by Ngāti Paoa between Ngāti Paoa and the Crown. The deed is the final settlement of all historical Treaty claims of Ngāti Paoa resulting from acts of the Crown or omissions of the Crown prior to 21 September 1992.This settlement deed includes an agreed historical account and Crown acknowledgments which form the basis of the Crown apology to Ngāti Paoa. Ngāti Paoa will receive redress that includes financial and commercial redress valued at around $23.5 million along with a range of other commercial cultural and relationship items. But no amount of money will do anything to come close to erasing the pain and the suffering that the ancestors of Ngāti Paoa have been through and not just the ancestors but those living right now.What I'm appreciative as well about the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill is that it includes also the return of 12 sites of cultural significance. A couple of days ago when I spoke in the House I referred to how with our Māori brothers and sisters everything they do with respect to their culture—or to our culture because I'm here—has significance. So what are these 12 sites of cultural significance? I feel it's important to list them here in the House. My colleagues have done such a great job of talking about the technicalities of the bill. Allow me Mr Speaker to list the 12 sites of cultural significance in this Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill. The first is Hine-nui-o-te-paua. It's 2 hectares as a fee simple for a papakāinga which is a very very important form of establishment that I've seen be established around when I go along with some of my friends to the blessings and I think it can do such great wonder for the people involved with residing at these beautiful establishments.Kaiaua School property: 2 hectares. It's subject to a leaseback to the Ministry of Education. Māwhitipia Mā—be patient with me my friends. Māwhitipana: 1.9 hectares as a recreation reserve. Omaru: 40.6 hectares as a recreation reserve. Paoa Ururoa: just under half a hectare as a historical reserve. Paoa Ururua: 1.6 hectares as a recreation reserve—and this is all very important. Paoa Whanake 2 hectares for a local marae; Papakura Pā—go South Auckland!—as a scientific reserve; Pokai Wawahi Ika 2.3 hectares; and three other lands of cultural significance as well. I'm pleased about that and again nothing really goes close to erasing the suffering of the past but this does that little bit where there's sites that will be vested back to Ngāti Paoa where cultural significance is in these sites and our people of Ngāti Paoa can build again for the future.Now I'd like to bring attention to who this settlement bill affects. Well Ngāti Paoa comprises about 3500 official members as per census figures. As mentioned earlier by this great chair of the Māori Affairs Committee the MP for Northcote Dan Bidois the area of interests for Ngāti Paoa referenced in the deed of settlement the tribal land stretches along the western shores of the Hauraki Gulf and the eastern suburbs of Auckland and it comprises islands in the Tāmaki Strait including Waiheke and reaches across to the Coromandel Peninsula and more. And so it will come as no surprise to the House that the Ngāti Paoa rohe encompasses some of the most majestic breathtaking and awe-inspiring places in our beautiful country including but not limited to my beautiful electorate of Takanini.Indeed many of the Auckland-based MPs fall within the Ngāti Paoa rohe including as I said Takanini the only home I have known since moving here to Aotearoa New Zealand over 12 years ago. So I would like to thank you Ngāti Paoa members including the many mates I have back in South Auckland and East Auckland for your manaakitanga. I would also like to make particular mention of my dear friend Frank Haimona a Ngāti Paoa child who through his work with our tamariki and rangatahi in Takanini within the Ngāti Paoa tribal land ensures the essence of his homeland is cared for by the children for their futures—from planting trees all over the land to cultivating the fruit vegetables and herbs in their māra kai they have established in Takanini. Frank lives by what he was taught by his Ngāti Paoa tīpuna: connect the children to their whenua and culture and they will strive. And this is what underpins the bill before us today to strengthen the future of Ngāti Paoa for their future their mokopuna. Mokopuna is what drives the kaumātua and the kuia who have suffered so much to get this settlement to where it is today.I'd like to end my contribution today with a quote from one of the many submitters who shared their kōrero and their whakaaro to this bill.Lorna Rikihana said to us " 'Whakapapa is history and history is whakapapa' so our mana whenua holds firm and strong from our taunaha whenua tūpuna to all our descendants living today. We are not dead but survive as living legacies carrying our mokopuna forward in these changing times of the Ngāti Paoa Claims Settlement Bill." The benefits of this settlement bill will be available to all members of Ngāti Paoa wherever they may live. Thank you to all who took place in bringing us to where we are today. I acknowledge Te Arawhiti. But I acknowledge even more as I said the kaumātua and the kuia some of whom now rest in peace that reaching a settlement was one of their dreams not for their own benefit but for the benefit of their future. Thank you Mr Speaker. I commend this bill to the House.SPEAKER: The next call is a split call. I call Cushla Tangaere-Manuel."