Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National): E rau rangatira mā e ngā iwi kia ora mai tātou. E pai ana kua puta mai tātou i konei i tēnei rā mō te take tēnei mahi hirahira. Ko ahau kei tēnei taha. Ko ahau nō Ngāti Wai Te Kapotai Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu. Ā ki tēnei taha ko ahau hoki tētahi o ngā uri whakaheke o Ngāti Maniapoto. I tūhono ai ki Kāwhia ki te urupā o tōku whānau. Ko taku tupuna whaea a Irena Whāwhākia Paki. Ko taku kuia he uri nā Hoata Paki. I tipu mai ahau i Kirikiriroa nō reira kia ora mai tātou.[To the many chiefs and to the tribes greetings to all. It is good that we are here today for this important occasion. I sit on this side. I am from Ngāti Wai Te Kapotai Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu. From your side I am also a descendent of Ngāti Maniapoto. I have a connection to Kāwhia where my family cemetery is. My grandmother is Irena Whāwhākia Paki. She is a descendent of Hoata Paki. I grew up in Hamilton. Therefore greetings all.]Thank you Madam Speaker and I thank everyone for the opportunity to say a few words on this bill the Maniapoto Claims Settlement Bill and help shepherd it through to select committee where a lot of the leg work will be done. This has particular resonance with me as a half of me is the Ngāti Maniapoto side—my Waikato-Tainui side—and the other half is my Ngāpuhi side. So this has a particular relevance to me here today even though a lot of my work once I left Hamilton has been up in Te Tai Tokerau. This bill still means a lot to my whanaunga in the Waikato-Tainui - Ngāti Maniapoto area.There are several parts to this bill. The Crown apology: the Crown apology has three substantive parts to it the first looking to redress the unjust use of Crown forces across the Mangatāwhiri River during the Waikato War. The second part: Treaty breaches confiscating land which Maniapoto had interests in. And the third: failing to protect Ngāti Maniapoto tribal structures during this period through the 1800s and 1900s. The second part is the cultural redress which is across 36 sites of cultural significance in Ngāti Maniapoto including three jointly vested sites. I noticed the place name changes as well; I think this is a good thing. The third part is the financial and commercial redress the total value of which is $165000. I note here and as has already been commented that one of the largest Public Works Act acquisitions was at Tokanui. I worked at that hospital about 30 years ago. It's a substantial piece of land. It's a big piece of land at Tokanui. I enjoyed my time there and it is right that this be redressed back to the iwi.The other parts that I want to talk to in this bill as it moves towards select committee first of all have been raised by my colleague. We will be requesting some scrutiny of clause 124 Subpart 9 of the bill which does talk to interests in the exclusive zone and we just want to understand what that actually means what the interests are. We want to check that it doesn't reach across Takutai Moana and other legislation and want to understand what the prospective and retrospective implications might be. So this is a piece of work that the select committee will need to look at.In a wider sense—again with my Te Tai Tokerau hat on if you like—we'd be very interested in the quantum with this bill because we've got interests in what that might look like for Ngāpuhi if we can ever organise that. And it was commented to me Don't look so much there. One of the bigger settlements will actually be Ngāti Maniapoto."—on the basis that the calculation for the quanta is actually substantively on the amount of land that's been taken and contentiously some might say that Ngāti Maniapoto as we can see in this bill has had a significant amount of land taken under various circumstances. But I make that point that in the North we were watching very interestingly what the Ngāti Maniapoto quantum might look like and what that might mean for us.So we certainly don't want to stand in the way of this bill progressing to select committee and the good work that that committee will do to appraise this bill to appraise some of the concerns that we have raised but net-net of course we are supporting this today. It's fundamentally a good bill it's addressing a lot of the historical things we all need to address and so this bill has our support today through the select committee and we'll have those deliberations there. Kia ora mai tātou."