Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. Nei rā taku mihi aroha e ngā uri o Ngāti Rangi i roto i tēnei Whare tēnei te mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa kia ora. [This is my loving greeting to the descandants of Ngāti Rangi in this House this is a warm greeting to you all welcome.]It's my great privilege to stand on behalf of the Green Party and acknowledge your achievement in this settlement and the significance of this third reading today. I acknowledge that this has been 29 years of work to get to this point. While we call this the Ngāti Rangi Claims Settlement Bill it may be better named as the Ngāti Rangi Legacy and Act of Generosity Bill". I want to acknowledge all of you for your perseverance your resilience and what you have given up for this day and all of the 179 years of the Crown's treachery and mistreatment and theft from you as a people.I do just want to acknowledge how easy it is to stand in this House and read papers and how difficult it is for me as Pākehā to understand the depth of pain that must be held by Māori and how much has been taken. In reading your history I feel that in terms of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi—and again acknowledging the difference between the Treaty of Waitangi and Te Tiriti—that was an act that was so astute in terms of a vision of managing those colonists who were running rampant and the sense of that being founded on the belief of the integrity of the Crown that it would match your integrity and how we stand in this House speaking as the Crown and the importance of acknowledging the fact that there was no integrity on the Crown's side. Clearly the actions that followed showed an intent from the Crown to steal and an undermining and a lack of recognition of your tino rangatiratanga and the fact that the Crown was coming on to your land and that they were coming into a formed society with rules and laws and a deep rich culture that we could have all learnt so much from and that in that signing while it committed to a partnership it also guaranteed peace and justice for all and for the Crown to have honourable kāwanatanga while recognising your tino rangatiratanga. I see that that sense of what that meant for Ngāti Rangi was in the fact that following that signing rangatira sold land for the establishment of the township and the whare for the European arrivals that they were expecting and welcomed settlers. In that just that small thing for me I see the potential of what we all could have had as a country of respect and thriving mutual benefit if the Crown had not undermined that and had not stolen and lied which we saw for the next few decades where Ngāti Rangi had to negotiate that continual shifting of the sands from the Crown and that the decisions of rangatira to align with the Crown during the wars as a strategy in the context of those shifting sands to be able to try and maintain the lands and the mana of the people. Yet then even that is a strategy the Crown again undermined by labelling upriver Whanganui Māori as the enemy after you did whatever you could to negotiate for your people and it kept going. I'm looking up at you now and feeling bad for repeating all of this because I know that Ngāti Rangi people and descendants are carrying this reality every day and the consequences of that of losing the people to urban cities—the children—losing the language losing your culture losing your society and losing your laws the taking of the lands and how they were polluted and destroyed and that the spirit of that place was desecrated on so many levels. As a country we are still dealing with the consequences of that now as we all express our concern about the health of our waterways.I want to thank you in this settlement for the fact that you acknowledge the spirit of the awa and you have given us a vehicle to restore that for all of us. That is a gift in itself from Te Ao Māori to this country. I want to acknowledge you for that and thank you for it.And also I will say it's been acknowledged where Ngāti Rangi—that Waiōuru and parts of the base have returned and you in turn gifted it back and from a Greens perspective and our position on non-violence we may have wished you'd kept it. But we hear from my colleagues in the House that there's general support and recognition of your generosity in returning it. I may not personally share that view but I acknowledge that that is the general view. Again within this I also want to acknowledge the relationships that are being set up in this settlement process with the Department of Conservation the Ministry of Education the Ministry for the Environment the Ministry of Social Development Oranga Tamariki the Defence Force Te Puni Kōkiri and the justice sector relationship. I want to acknowledge that those—I suspect the reason for choosing those agencies didn't come out of nowhere that it came out of a sense of a not having a partnership with those agencies and for you to clearly put down the mantle that for that future for your hapū and your iwi—that to restore the relationship that that needed that relationships needed to change with those agencies. It was encouraging for me to hear from the Minister in his first reading speech the commitment from the Crown to ensure that this time we would do our part. And I know that that is on every member and party in this House now and into future generations to ensure that we hold to our agreement in this settlement and that absolute commitment to partnership and recognising your tino rangatiratanga.Finally I do want to just acknowledge that for all of those New Zealanders who listen to talkback radio the financial settlement in this is only $17 million and this is one of the areas of the country of the most fertile land booming tourism innovative resilience resilient people—that this is hard-fought for and you should be so proud of yourselves but still I think sitting with us there should be a sense of shame. Kia ora koutou katoa."