Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I want to acknowledge straight off the back of all of these incredible speeches by my colleagues in this House the immense anxiety that I am feeling in addressing the House at the third reading of this bill today. The reason that I want to speak to this anxiety and to sit in this discomfort is because it cannot be anywhere near the magnitude of the experience that Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki have gone through in getting to this point here in this settlement. As tangata Tiriti as a Pākehā member of Parliament and as somebody who has not known the extent of the history of this land—as I spoke about at the second reading of this bill—up until the point that I was in a privileged position in law school to first start to unpack Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to first start to understand how I am so fortunate to be somebody who lives in this country in Aotearoa New Zealand on the back of a partnership until I came to understand those things and really sat in that discomfort and attempted to deal with it and unpack it I couldn't quite begin to comprehend the reality of what settlements like this actually meant. So I just want to acknowledge that straight off the bat.I also want to speak to reading this morning about our new Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little—the fact that he is taking the plunge and learning Te Reo Māori which I think is absolutely fantastic and something which all of us particularly those of us who are tangata Tiriti should be undertaking as te Tiriti partners. I want to give a shout-out to my Te Reo Māori tutor Piripi who's been taking me on that journey and educating me to the fact that you cannot learn Te Reo Māori without indeed learning about Te Ao Māori without learning about tikanga or without learning about the history again of our land and how we are so fortunate to stand here—particularly how I am so fortunate to stand here—as a te Tiriti partner.How I came to speak on this bill today was by virtue of subbing in for our fabulous co-leader Marama Davidson on the Māori Affairs Committee when we realised that the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Bill was coming before the Māori Affairs Committee. As somebody who was born and raised in Tāmaki-makau-rau and who was not aware of the history of the city that I call home I found that it was incredibly critical if we were to really walk the talk and live what we say when we say that we are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of this land.What we found as was alluded to by my colleague Jo Hayes—who I was also fortunate to sit on the committee with on 19 February earlier this year—was that there were 13 submissions. Six of them were heard and it was an incredibly emotional process actually. I know that we banter a lot in this place about the politics that we endure but you guys have a whole other thing on your hands when it comes to iwi politics. I want to recognise the reality of that situation for you.Going through the Treaty settlement process and indeed actually having the opportunity to have a briefing on the settlement process last night with MPs from all parties being invited I believe has been one of the most meaningful learning experiences possibly that I've ever actually had—going through how we are so fortunate to have developed this process but still how far we have to go to get it anywhere near right; to get it anywhere near being that genuine partnership.Where the chronology of events starts is with two Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki rangatira signing Te Tiriti o Waitangi at Karaka Bay on 4 March 1840 and tonight we recognise that their trust was abused and that their lands were stolen by way of shady Crown dealings. I want to acknowledge the incredible mahi of the Hon Chris Finlayson who started this work under the previous Government and indeed signed the deed of settlement with the Crown at the Maraetai Marae in Clevedon on 7 November 2015. I want to acknowledge the pain and hardship that was spoken to throughout the submissions process to get to this point three years later. We recognise that Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a living document and the relationship between mana whenua and the Crown outlives any oscillation of Government as indeed it outlives and exists outside of the four walls of this place. It is an intergenerational commitment. It is indeed a living document.I want to acknowledge how big this step right here is. Many speakers before me have touched on the history which is spoken to which is acknowledged—the pain which is acknowledged—in this piece of legislation putting it on the record finally as an account of what has happened. I also just want to state if I can leave with any one thing in summary—because there is no summary here; this is ongoing and this settlement represents something quite meaningful for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to take and move forward in partnership with the Crown—is that this is just a starting point. This is the new starting point. This is the refresh button. So I want it put on record that this is where you again continue to hold us accountable and as part of that process please call us out. Call us to account when we get it wrong because we have definitely got it wrong in the past.So I speak to this on behalf of the Green Party tonight to say that we wholeheartedly support it but that we would like to see a continual ongoing commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi the Te Reo Māori version of the text ongoing in this place. Kia ora.