Henare Tau: Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi and Hapu Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Henare Tau: Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi and Hapu Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
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Te mea tuatahi mihi au ki a koe e te kaumatua o te Whare nei Clem. Mihi kau atu au ki a koe me to whanau me o koutou korero i roto i te Whare nei inapo. 
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The first thing for me is to acknowledge you Clem elder statesman of this House. Greetings to you and your family and for your words in the House last night. 
] 
Acknowledging Clem Simich and his speech in the House last night I am reminded of some  
Hansard 
 I read 80 years or rather from 80 years ago—I was going to say I read it 80 years ago but I am not that old. My great-grandfather stood in this House and referred to the Dalmatians as Austrians. 
Hon Dr Michael Cullen 
: They were at that time. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: They were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I acknowledge Clem for both his Dalmatian side and his Maori side. 
This settlement has been a long time coming. It has suffered a few speed wobbles on the way. If I look back at the first reading debate on this bill which happened on Tuesday 24 June 2008 I see that it is actually a very very short period between then and now. So I take this opportunity to congratulate members of the House and members of the Maori Affairs Committee which I think is the best select committee in the whole House. I congratulate my colleagues from all sides of the House. 
I want to mention very briefly the apology the issuing of protocols the vesting of certain properties and the provision for whenua rahui amongst other things that are in the bill. One would expect those things in a Treaty settlement bill would one not? Is it enough in terms of the quantum and in terms of the return of land taken mana taken and so on and so forth? Only time will tell. I am a believer that in this case as in other cases Te Arawa mana is intact and always has been. It has never been taken away from them as we are so wont to talk about in Treaty settlements. 
An issue arose out of the select committee which I want to respectfully impress on the affiliate and that is the coupling of Tuhourangi Ngati Wahiao. Many people in this House over the past 24 hours have told me and the House that it may not be appropriate for Parliament to be the adjudicator in that. If that is right—and I am in no way questioning that—then maybe the next step for the affiliate and those who are not too keen on the settlement is to work towards some sort of agreement and future with each other rather than all the argy-bargy. 
Just before a third reading speech one is inundated with faxes and emails saying “Do this! Do that! Don’t do this! Don’t do that!”—all sorts of things. Although it is lovely to hear from so many people the third reading speech should be about celebration. It should be about how proud the iwi and I think the House should be. But there should also be recognition of what a sad day it is—the process over the last 150-odd years has got us to where we maybe should have been 150 years ago. As a city slicker as a born and bred second-generation Maori out of Otara— 
Hone Harawira 
: Hi ha! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Only another person from Otara would say that. So to my whanaunga my tuakana Hone Harawira I say kia ora. 
I ask that we city slickers are not forgotten. Let us not forget about those who may not be as knowledgable about where they come from. There are a whole lot of them living in Auckland and there are a whole lot of them living in Wellington. There are even people of Te Arawa descent living in Christchurch for goodness’ sake and in even in Dunedin—and all over the country. So please do not forget—I hate the words “urban Maori” because there is only one sort of Maori and that is Maori—those Maori who live in urban areas. Please do not forget them. 
Here is a little wiring diagram. I am sure the House is au fait with wiring diagrams as of the last couple of months—[ 
Interruption 
]—and I say to Ron that he will not win the Maori vote. First of all there is the Government. It takes a hell of a long time to screw out of the Government what is got out of the Government whether it be an apology whether it be money or whether it be the return of land. Then that goes down to the iwi reps and for a while the iwi reps are all happy because they have a cheque they have a title to some land and they have other things as well. So the reps are happy and they go off to their little trust boards and say: “Righto boys and girls what are we going to do about this? What are we doing to do with what we’ve got?”. 
The next step down on this diagram is the people: the mums and dads the aunties and uncles the brothers and sisters. It does not really matter where they are from or what sort of walks of life they come from; they will always whakapapa back to the iwi. I am reminded of a term that the Rt Hon Winston Peters used successfully 10 or 15 years ago. He talked about the trickle-down theory and about the fact that it was not working. There was a trickle down but it did not get down to the people it was supposed to get to. 
I implore those who are in front of us today on this happy occasion to make the trickle down work. I ask them to make it work for all those people who make up the bulk of the iwi. It is not the trust boards and the runanga who are the iwi; it is the people who are the iwi. So I ask that we make an effort to see whether we cannot get this trickle down into a bit of a flood for those people who really need it. I am not saying for a minute that iwi take the responsibility of Government in fixing up all the social ills the education ills and so on but I say that there are people out there in need of help in terms of the cultural paradigm so please help those people and particularly those people in the cities. 
I want to give a special mention to Dr Cullen—and coming from me that is pretty big. He has had the sort of passion that can get things moving. I said in my first reading speech that I could not say that about the others so I will not. But I say to Dr Cullen that it has been a pleasure to watch and be part of the process that he has involved himself in. Kia ora. 
Bill read a third time. 
Waiata; haka; karanga