McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Madam Speaker. Tēnā koutou katoa Ngāti Rangi—I've had a lot of lessons from the other side of the House on that. Nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata. I want to welcome you all here. Such a massive turnout of you—there can't be anyone left up on the central plateau! I think it's an exciting day and the thing I think is so exciting about this is it's an opportunity to move forward from wherever we've been. I think it's pretty special.I want to acknowledge a few people because I've only got a very short time. I want to particularly acknowledge the Treaty negotiators. I think you're extraordinarily brave because when you think about it you're taking 180-odd years and you're moving it forward and hoping you've made the right decision for the rest of time I guess in effect. I think that's a very brave place to be and I congratulate you all on the work you've done on getting to that point and where it'll get to in the future. I think it's amazing.Ngāti Rangi always reminds me I guess when you go there—and Rino Tirikatene sort of referred to the majestic splendour of the place and it sort of is like that on a nice day. It's not always a nice day so you were lucky you turned up there on a nice day. But it is an amazing place and you think of the mountain you think of the Whangaehu River and you think of that amazing soil. People don't realise what amazing volcanic soil that is with the potential to feed so many people and it all resides in your part of New Zealand—pretty special I think.I want to also acknowledge the mayors. I think it's a tribute to Ngāti Rangi the fact that there are so many people here from the regional council. You've got two mayors here: Don Cameron who is a great representative of the Ruapehu district but I notice Andy Watson's tagged along and I think he must be trying to drag a bit of the pūtea south—watch it Don! But I think that's a tribute to Ngāti Rangi the fact that you've got such strong support and I think the contribution that you make to your community and to the broader community in the Ruapehu district and the northern Rangitīkei is pretty special. I think to follow on from Nanaia Mahuta and the comments she made about the fact that you've got on with the job irrespective of the Treaty settlement you've gone on and done a whole lot of things in your area to improve the lot of your young people and of the future generations. I think that's also very special and I congratulate you on that. The things like the transformation project which I think started about six or seven years ago have made great progress. You've got partnerships with Ruapehu College which at times in the past has struggled as a school. You've made that school into something special and I think it will go on and on from there. You've got Ruapehu Alpine Lifts who are investing heavily in the area and you're a great support to them. They'll create a whole lot of opportunity for you I think in the future so it's pretty special.There are a lot of things going on in your area that are particular to you and you have played such an important part in all of those. The Tongariro National Park for me is quite an exciting opportunity in the future and it's going to be very interesting to see where that gets to as future negotiations take place. Also I think the tourism opportunities in that area are immense as well and we need to be careful how we manage those—and people have made mention of the Waiōuru army base and the opportunities that that creates as well. So I think it's pretty special. Well done everybody—great effort.I want to finally finish by acknowledging all those who have made this possible: Minister Finlayson who played such a large role in the early days of this settlement process and the many other settlements that he put through this Parliament; also Minister Little who I think is following on as best he can given the testing nature of some of these agreements and they will eventuate as they go along. I also want to congratulate the Government team that puts such a lot of work into the back of these projects and these settlements because it is an onerous job and I think they do such a great job. I will finish by wishing you all a very safe trip home—and I'm sure you will tonight. Thank you.