Wagner NickyHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. This is a significant bill for the people of Ngāti Rangi and indeed it's significant for all New Zealanders. So it's an enormous pleasure and privilege to see so many representatives of the iwi here today. As someone from Ōtautahi Te Wai Pounamu and someone who's seen Ngāi Tahu flourish and grow since their settlement was made I understand the importance of today for you.It's been a very long time since 1840 when several Whanganui rangatira with Ngāti Rangi affiliation signed the Treaty of Waitangi and entered into partnership with the Crown—entered into partnership with the Crown with mana and in good faith. At that time Ngāti Rangi was a powerful and prosperous community embracing the future with confidence. I believe they backed themselves to grow and develop in partnership with the Crown. And it's been a very long journey with many twists and turns to get here today to the second reading of their claims settlement bill.It was in good faith and in partnership with the Crown that during the 1840s Ngāti Rangi rangatira worked with European settlers selling land for a township to establish the township. They built whare in anticipation of settlers arriving and welcomed them to their district. During the very disruptive and turbulent times of the 1860s and 1870s Ngāti Rangi maintained their mana motuhake and protected their rohe. They strategically aligned themselves with the Crown but they also entered into commercial leasing arrangements with Europeans without the Crown's involvement. During all this time the Crown failed to honour the Treaty of Waitangi and that failure is acknowledged today with an apology from the Crown. From a monopoly position the Crown passed a series of laws that weakened the iwi's position. They prevented Ngāti Rangi from leasing their land to private parties and then they purchased it and what's more they often broke their promises about the conditions of that purchase. Throughout all this Ngāti Rangi were proactively protecting their lands working with Te Keepa and his trust and supporting Te Kotahitanga movement to assert their rangatiratanga and to protect their interests. Over the next few years the Crown also used compulsory acquisition to acquire significant iwi land for public works without consultation. No compensation was paid for land taken for the North Island trunk railway and Ngāti Rangi's connection and spiritual home of Mount Ruapehu was not even taken into consideration. They were not even consulted or compensated for land compulsorily acquired when the Tongariro National Park was established in 1907 or when the Tongariro power development scheme was constructed in their rohe permanently altering the environment. Today all these issues and more are acknowledged and the apology of the Crown recognises the distress of the iwi being unable to exercise kaitiakitanga manaakitanga or whanaungatanga with other customary rights and responsibilities over their lands and resources. So it is absolutely appropriate that the cultural redress in this settlement recognises the traditional historical and spiritual association of Ngāti Rangi to their whenua to places and sites and especially to the Whangaehu River and that it has resources to protect and enhance conservation values in these areas. Significantly and importantly Ngāti Rangi is now one of the iwi that will take part in the collective negotiations over the Tongariro National Park and its future. This claim settlement is an important milestone for Ngāti Rangi and the Crown. As their trust chairman Shar Amner says this is another step towards healing the mamae between Ngāti Rangi and the Crown and that's what we celebrate today. Kia ora.