Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Associate Minister for Māori Development): Kia ora Madam Deputy Speaker. Tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Mokai ki runga ko Tāmaki ki raro ko Pare Hauraki ko Pare Waikato Te Kaokao o Pātetere ko Mangatoatoa ki waenganui hoki ake mai ki Te Nehenehenui. Tēnei te mihi ki a Ngāti Tamaoho i tēnei wā. Nō reira e tika ana ki te hoki aku mahara ki te koroua rongonui taku hoa tawhito Toko Pompey te kaumātua mō te iwi te toa ki te mahi whakangahau e tika ana ki te maumahara ia i tēnei wā. Nō reira Madam Deputy Speaker koutou katoa tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou. [Greetings Madam Speaker. Indeed greetings to everyone. Mōkau is above Tāmaki is below boundaries include Hauraki and Waikato as far as Te Kaokao Roa o Pātetere Mangatoatoa lies between territory otherwise known as Te Nehenehenui. I acknowledge you Ngāti Tamaoho. It is only proper that I remember that famous elder my old friend Toko Pompey an elder statesman of his people and a champion entertainer; it is fitting to remember him at this time. Therefore Madam Deputy Speaker indeed to all of you greetings.]At this time I wanted just to pay tribute to one of our koroua who played a major part in this too. He wasn't part of the negotiating team but he was talking about his tribe when we started on Māori radio back in the late 1980s. Toko Pompey or Sammy D as he was known in terms of his stage name was one of the great kaumātua for this tribe and regularly would berate us on radio and tell the Tamaoho story like nobody else could. He was an entertainer-plus a stunning saxophone player and a great singer modelled on Sammy Davis Jr. Yes he was—he was an entertainer-plus. Plenty of fun Sammy D or Toko Pompey and then he had the serious side where he was a kaikōrero for our Māori Queen—our great friend well-known by the Hon Peeni Henare and the Hon Nanaia Mahuta.These were the sorts of characters who might not have been at the final sign off in terms of these types of korero but they played such an integral role in terms of our tribes these korouas who would come on Māori radio or Māori Television and berate us about the history and the anguish of their tribe. As all the speakers have said on both sides this is right up there in terms of atrocities with regards to what's happened to different tribes. This is right up there. It's a tribute to this House that we can come together on occasions like this on kaupapa like this to remember the atrocities. There are very few places in the world—I think we can all pat ourselves on the back—where we can actually acknowledge the treachery of the Crown back in those days. What they did to that tribe who were very compliant with the Crown is unforgivable—unforgivable. However our people have moved on. This kaupapa was taken by the Hon Chris Finlayson and handled tremendously well handled with the utmost of sensitivity. What I did enjoy from the previous Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations was when he talked about how this type of history should be taught in the schools so that all New Zealanders are aware of the history and treachery of the Crown and that would make it so much easier for so many of our kids today and people today to understand what we are doing here in the House because lots of them don't know—lots of them don't know—and the former chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Nuk Korako over there knows better than anyone else. He was chairing this through this process. So sometimes people are watching from the outside and they don't know the business of this House. It would certainly help in terms I think of settlements if there was some sort of narrative given in the schools and this Tamaoho story is one heck of a story.I'm mentioning the koroua today very much in context of the bill—as I said Toko Pompey because Toko was an entertainer and he wrote a song about the ancestor Tamaoho which was sung by the great Māori singer Richard Eriwata. It is the most beautiful song. It talks about the ancestor and the wairua and the history. So I mihi to that koroua today. I spoke at his tangi about 18 months ago with many of Tainui but I pay tribute to him in the House today for what he did and I pay tribute also to Chris Finlayson. To our Minister of course Andrew Little he's doing a terrific job—I mihi to him and to the former chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Nuk Korako and of course our current chair Rino Tirikatene who is working to get this through. The great thing about this as we all know is no one plays any politics. Everybody knows what an injustice it was and we get on with the business so that that tribe can get some justice and they're getting that. They've got the settlement. Sadly they're not going to get Remuera returned to them or Waiheke Island. It would've been nice to have—or some of the lands around Pukekohe or around Karaka. Yes it would've been nice to have actually had some of that returned in terms of the redress but the reality is—they know what the reality is. They know what the reality is and the reality is that those types of lands would never be returned. Again if New Zealanders could understand that when they drive through Remuera when they drive along the Pukekohe highway when they see the different land if New Zealanders were all aware of the history and the treachery that went on there I think that race relations would be much better in this country—much better in this country. If they understood what landless" means in terms of an iwi—it is very tough for an iwi that is landless. But it's not just about being landless; for us it's a loss of mana for a lot of them. It's a loss of wairua. There's so many generations who are affected who were affected by the outrage that went down in this area. As I said it would be just terrific if all of New Zealand were aware of the history that went down in this area.We have another reading coming up and I intend to have another kōrero at that reading. But I just want to mihi to everyone who's made a contribution today and I congratulate people for their kōrero and I look forward to the third reading when we come to a conclusion. I'm sure it'll be lovely on that day if some of the people from Tamaoho can join us to celebrate the sign off of a settlement that is well and truly deserved for the people of that area. Kia ora anō tātou katoa."