SpeechTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour) (remote): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Forgive me for being a little bit novice at this whole—the technology side of how we're presenting today. But I'm very pleased as chair of the Māori Affairs Committee to be taking a call on this the second reading of the Ngāti Rangitihi Claims Settlement Bill. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the previous speaker the Hon Simon Bridges who talked about how Treaty settlements will never be enough. I absolutely agree with that. In fact we've heard that in the submission from the chair of Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust Leith Comer. He said it will never be enough and I agree with that which is why I think that it's on us as the Government of the day and for every other future Government to come to ensure that we're topping up that account that we're actually making sure that we're engaging with iwi to create co-governance and co-management opportunities at every level so that we don't leave them out of pocket and so that we actually acknowledge that Treaty settlements when we have them are not full and final. They need to be supplemented with future power-sharing. I look forward to the member of the Opposition who just resumed his seat supporting that.Can I first of all as I say acknowledge Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust. Usually it would be something that we would be able to do in person go and hear the submissions travel to Matatā. That was the plan. Unfortunately COVID got in the way so we were unable to travel. We let the haukāinga know that we were unable to travel to Rangiaohia to the marae to be able to listen to the people of the land. Kanohi ki te kanohi is a very important tikanga Māori and unfortunately on this occasion we weren't able to do that. We did do that on Zoom though. On Zoom we heard various submissions. So can I thank everybody that presented their submissions: 20 in total seven orally.I want to acknowledge as I said just then the chair of the trust Leith Comer when he talked about the harm that's been caused over the years. To quote him he said Crown actions in the early and mid-20th century destroyed this place. The cutting of the Tarawera and Rangitaiki Awa directly out to sea" also was an action of the Crown which put them back also "enabling the mill at Kawerau to discharge anything [that] it wanted into the Tarawera [River] were the acts that caused the destruction. The Crown has taken the [right] step in righting these wrongs by acknowledging [that] it breeched [those] Treaty obligations to Ngāti Rangitihi." But again he said "this is nowhere near enough."Patrick Nicholas another submitter said "No settlement will ever be [enough] to compensate for the mamae [that] our people [have] suffered" and yet he still found that the submission from Leith Comer as chair was "very inspirational". I also want to acknowledge Rex Bunn an avid researcher who's dedicated his life work to the eruption. He was the one that came forward and said that he knew that this bill was going through and he wanted to make sure that we had the exact location of Ōtūkapuarangi. If you didn't know that Ōtūkapuarangi is the Māori name for the pink terrace. He was very happy for the exact location the coordinates to be included making sure that the relevant iwi knew where they were and he had the photos and the science to prove it. Although I must say I'm pretty sure that between our iwis Tūhourangi and Ngāti Rangitihi they probably already knew.Can I also acknowledge the Tūhourangi Tribal Authority and Ngāti Rangitihi for working together on this. They themselves agreed outside of the settlement on a way forward and my colleague Meka Whaitiri talked about it before—a way forward on the Waimangu thermal valley. You see what they decided was that outside of the settlement it would go to Ngāti Rangitihi but that it would be transferred to Tūhourangi the pink terrace Ōtūkapuarangi in full and Waimangu in part. The two iwi also resolved that the two sites should be jointly administered by both of the iwi as well.I want to acknowledge Tania Rangiheuea and Rea Martin who are my whanaunga from Tūhourangi. Their views were very different from that of the tribal authority and Rea pointed out that they had concerns around the cultural redress sites being offered to the Ngāti Rangitihi specifically saying that they did not believe that Rangitihi had the right to be able to seek redress in the Tarawera region. To that point they have a Waitangi Tribunal claim in Wai 2771 and they wanted the committee to be able to hold off until the tribunal had heard it. They applied to hear that urgently but that didn't happen. That was not upheld by the tribunal but it's still being considered by the tribunal. So for the short time and to be able to have some progress in this space the committee thought that it was prudent that the show went on.This is a great piece of legislation and it is going to settle the outstanding grievance of Ngāti Rangitihi. For that reason this being the second reading I'm proud to support it but I know that myself the committee members and most importantly the people of Ngāti Rangitihi will be looking forward to the third reading so that they can finally put this to rest and start their journey off into the future and hopefully that will be done ā-kanohi [face to face] instead of ā-rorohiko [via computer]. I commend this bill to the House."