Harawira Hone: Raukawa Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHarawira Hone: Raukawa Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 12 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16666. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]HONE HARAWIRA (Leader—Mana):Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker Tisch. Hoi nō hei kōrero tuatahi me mihi atu ki te “Koti Whero” ki te Rōpū Reipa e whakaae nei kia tū ahau ki te mihi atu ki a koutou e Ngāti Raukawa i haere tawhiti mai ki roto i a mātou o Pōneke i tēnei rā ā kia rongohia i ngā kōrero hākoa wētahi ko ngā kōrero pahupahu ngā kōrero koretake kia tae atu ki te mutunga kia hoki tika atu ki te kāinga me te pūtea a te Kāwanatanga kia kaha koutou.Nō reira me mihi atu ki a koutou i haere tawhiti mai i runga i ngā whakaaro ō rātou mā kua ngaro atu ki tua o te ārai. Rātou e tū i ngā rā o mua kia ū ki te whenua kia ū ki ngā taonga ngā ngāhere ngā awa. Hākoa kua mate kei te ora tonu ngā kaupapa kei te ora tonu ngā maumaharatanga mō rātou mā. Nō reira me mihi atu ki a koutou e te iwi o Ngāti Raukawa i haere mai i roto i a mātou i tēnei rā. Me te mea nōki hākoa e mōhio ana e mea ana te kōrero kua tatū i tēnei rā kei te haere tonu tēnei kaupapa mō āke tonu atu.Kaua e waihotia mā te Kāwanatanga e whakaarohia kua oti i tēnei rā. Mēnā he raru anō āpōpō me tū anō āpōpō. Mēnā he raru ā te wiki e tū mai nei me tū anō ā te wiki e tū mai nei. Kia ū ki wēnei kaupapa kia mōhio ai ō koutou tamariki mokopuna. Mēnā kei te pai te haere ō tō tātou wā horekau he raru. Ēngari mēnā he raru e pā tonu ana ki a Raukawa kei te tū anō koutou āpōpō.Nō reira me mihi atu ki a koutou hākoa nō Ngāpuhi ahau me wā mātou nei tini raruraru. Hoi nō me mihi atu ki a koutou i tēnei wā.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker Tisch. The first thing I want to acknowledge is the “Red Coat” Labour Party for allowing me to stand and to extend a greeting to you collectively Ngāti Raukawa who travelled from afar to be among us here in Wellington today and to hear contributions even though some will be mere waffle and of little significance. But at the end of it all you go home directly with Government funding so go hard.And so I must acknowledge you collectively who have travelled some distance upon the thoughts of those who have passed beyond the divide. They stood in those days committed to the land treasures forests and rivers. Although they are dead now matters that they sought then are very much alive still as are the memories of them. So I must acknowledge you collectively Ngāti Raukawa who have come to be in our midst today knowing full well that there is a saying that even if it is settled today it does not end there.Do not allow the Government to think that it has been settled. If a problem arises again tomorrow bring it up again. If a problem comes up again next week bring it up again then. Be committed to these matters so that your children and grandchildren are aware of them. If it is done well in our time there will not be any problems further down the track. Should a problem continue to affect you Raukawa you will rise up again in the future.So I salute you collectively even though I am from Ngāpuhi with all our myriad of problems. But I do congratulate you at this point in time.]I know that wherever we are in Te Ao Māori these settlements are not the settlements that will last for ever. It is not appropriate for any Government to assume that it can settle for ever a debt at a level of less than 3 percent of the value of the claim. So remind your children and your grandchildren that regardless of the paperwork that gets signed down here in our time the challenge is for them tomorrow and in the years to come to be stronger in themselves so that the ones coming after them will always have a better life.For me I remember back in the days when I was kind of fortunate because I went to St Stephen’s College and we had Māori language in school but there was not that in all of the other schools. We had to fight for that. We got it. It is now for the next generation to fight to lift it to the next level. It is for our generation for example to fight to try to get funding back for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga so that we all remember that if we stand together we stand a chance of being successful. So to you Raukawa I will not drag this on. I know you fellows want to get home. Mihi atu ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa.