Henare Tau: Maraeroa A and B Blocks Claims Settlement Bill Maraeroa A and B Blocks Incorporation Bill — Third Readings 
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Henare Tau: Maraeroa A and B Blocks Claims Settlement Bill Maraeroa A and B Blocks Incorporation Bill — Third Readings 
[Sitting date: 25 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:3984. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
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 Te mea tuatahi he mihi pouri au ki te teina o taku hungarei i hinga atu inanahi ra. No reira e Mere hoki atu ki te kainga. I te taima nei i haere ia ki tana ukaipo ki tana whanau no reira haere atu ra haere atu ra haere atu ra. 
A koutou ma nga mihi nunui ki a koutou i haere mai nei i runga i te kaupapa o te ra nei. No reira ka nui te mihi ka nui te ora ki a koutou katoa. Ki oku tuakana Parekura tena koe mo to kaha mo to tautoko i tenei kaupapa i roto i tenei Whare no reira he mihi nui ki a koe me o hoa. Ki oku hoa nei i roto i te Ropu Nahinara kei runga i te Komiti Maori tena koutou tena koutou i o koutou manaakitanga i nga manuhiri i mua i te komiti nei. No reira tena koutou katoa. 
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First of all I have sad tidings about my mother-in-law’s younger sister who passed away yesterday. So return home Mary. At this point in time she is on the way to her birthplace to her family so farewell farewell farewell.  
A huge acknowledgment to you collectively who came here because of today’s bill. So I admire and feel much benevolence to you all. To my senior colleagues—Parekura I acknowledge your strength and support in this matter in this House so big ups to you and your fellow colleagues. Also to my fellow members of the National Party on the Maori Affairs Committee I acknowledge the part you have played in looking after visitors who come before that committee. So thank you all 
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Vincent Van Gogh once said: “Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.” I reserve that quote from Vincent Van Gogh for our Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations who I must say has been rather dynamic in bringing together the Treaty settlements since we got into the position of being in Government in 2008. So I hope he continues on in his vein of wanting to bring together settlements for the nation so that the nation moves on to its next stage—as I mentioned in the House last week—in its fantastic tapestry of stories. 
 I will not speak for that long on the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Claims Settlement Bill or the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Incorporation Bill. Suffice it to say that what we have here is a convergence of mana a convergence of Tuwharetoa Rereahu Raukawa and Maniapoto. It is similar and I liken it to looking at a map of America. Down the bottom part of the map of America is the convergence of four states; it is called Four Corners. The Navajo and the Hopi people live in and around the Four Corners. It is I think from memory Utah Colorado New Mexico and Arizona. This is what I liken this settlement to today: it is a convergence of mana a convergence of iwi wanting to get on wanting to move from one stage to the next. 
I am heartened to hear the words from my colleague and friend the Hon Nanaia Mahuta who talks about the fact that one of the issues that we could see coming out of this settlement is the burgeoning tourism opportunities that people have. But I do have a message for one of the parties in this House: step aside from being too intrusive in terms of the Resource Management Act and let these people just get on with it. I will not mention the party because they have their kaupapa and it is their kaupapa. But like I said suffice it to say they should have a little bit of faith in the people who are wanting to establish businesses and establish ventures that will eventually help the others. 
The last thing I want to say is that it is quite unusual to see two bills together like this. One is about the post-settlement governance arrangements and one is about the settlement itself. I am also mindful of the comments of the Hon Parekura Horomia where he said that it is not much and maybe there should be more. I think every member of Parliament in this House realises that it should be more. It seems when we are doing Treaty settlements that there has always been an economic crisis because we are the ones who have to accept the lower amount. Hoi ano kaoretera e hoha au ki takuMinita. [ 
I will not bother my Minister with that 
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This is a fine day this is a good day and we should revel in the fact that we have reached this stage. It is not the end of the story by any means but it is certainly part of the story that if you were to turn the page tomorrow it would be the start of a new chapter. A hoi ano kaore au i hiahia ki te whakahoha i a koutou; no reira ka mihi ki a koutou katoa ngamorehu o ngaaitua. Koutou ma tena koutou tena koutou kia ora mai tatou katoa. 
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So I do not want to bother you lot with that so my acknowledgments to you all the survivors of the tragedies. So salutations acknowledgments and congratulations to you and to us all 
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