Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Ka meahia taku pōtae ki runga i te tēpū a David Seymour kia ngū ia!Tēnā tātou. Tēnā tātou Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-rua kua whakawhāiti nei ki roto i tēnei Whare o tātou i tēnei rā.Tangihia ō tātou mate ngā mate putuputu o te wā rātou ngā kaipīkau o tēnei kaupapa i roto i ngā tau maha kua hipa ake kāore i konei i tēnei rā. Kei te tangi tonu kei te poroporoaki tonu kei te mihi tonu. Nō reira ngā mate putuputu o te wā ki runga i tēnā marae ki tēnā marae o tātou haere haere whakangaro atu rā.Ki ngā pakeke kua tae mai nei i tēnei rā tērā pea tamariki tonu ana koutou i te wā i heipū nei tēnei kaupapa ki runga i a koutou ā i tēnei rā kua hinahina te māhunga kua wherū ki ngā taha kua mamae ngā waewae engari kei te koi tonu te hinengaro ki te kite i tēnei rangi mā koutou haere mai haere mai. Ā ki ngā kaiwhakahaere o tēnei kerēme ki ngā rangatira o ngā hapū ngā upoko ariki kua tae mai nei i tēnei rā e te whānau e ngā hapū e te iwi o Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-rua nei rā te mihi atu ki a koutou.[I will place my hat on David Seymour's table to keep him quiet!Greetings one and all. Greetings Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-rua gathered in this House of ours today.We must grieve our dead the frequent deaths of the time those who have borne this issue over the many years that have passed and who are not here today. We grieve you still we farewell you still and we acknowledge you still. So to the frequent deaths of the time on each and every marae of ours go go to the unseen realm.To the elders who have come here today you were possibly still children when this issue came to you and today your hair has greyed your flanks are weary and your legs are aching but your mind is still sharp to see this day of yours welcome welcome.And to the people who have managed this claim to the leaders of the subtribes to the paramount chiefs who have come here today to the families the subtribes to Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-rua this is my greeting to you.]I want to acknowledge the mamae that the Crown has caused throughout this process including their steam train on their train tracks that made you late today. We know too well the divide and rule tactics of the Crown ignoring the sidelining of whānau and attempting to pit them against one another. There is only one party to blame for the division caused among our people and that is the Government. Whether successive or current how dare the Government divide our people? How dare the Government continue to create more hurt and pain on our people? How dare the Government create breaches well after 1992 and expect to get away with it? How dare the Government create division between the relationships and whakapapa of our people? Whakapapa is about connection. Hapū and iwi boundaries are about connection but this Pākehā process is about division. It's absolutely racist.Kahungunu your loss of whenua loss of culture and the severing of whakapapa has only been further entrenched in the Treaty settlement process. This mamae has only intensified in the last two years. Te Paati Māori will always maintain that Treaty settlements are never full and final. Your people have waited 180 years for justice only to be repaid with further injustice that is deeply entrenched in the settlement process. This injustice rests with the Crown and the Crown alone. They rendered your tīpuna virtually landless leaving less than 1.5 percent. They abused your moana and have continued to abuse your mana and that of your whanaunga who were displaced and moved to another iwi entirely which created trauma and breaches to that iwi as they lost iwi land.I have likened it to the trail of tears the genocide and displacement of the First Nations people at the hands of the United States Government Government to Government. Even the Waitangi Tribunal were in disbelief at your treatment stating So much that took place now seems barely credible so manifestly unfair was it to tangata whenua of the region who by contrast seem to have conducted themselves throughout with remarkable restraint dignity and honour."Nothing can take away the pain the suffering and the trauma that your people have endured and still endure today. No settlement will right the wrongs of State-sponsored terrorism at the hand of the Crown and the Government. Te Paati Māori does not accept that the settlements are full and final. Our trauma does not lie in the past and today's settlement is a clear example of that. Inequity poverty and the desecration of whenua and the separation of whānau and whakapapa is happening in the present and will continue to be our future if we continue down this track.Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not for settling; it is for honouring. Full and final settlement is not what Te Tiriti is about. Te Tiriti was signed before it was breached. Our people had tino rangatiratanga before Te Tiriti o Waitangi arrived here. After 34 years we celebrate this day with you but there should not be winners and losers today. Instead it is a shameful day for both major parties who have been part of this process based on intimidation and Crown-engineered Treaty exhaustion.The Government can solve all of these problems by adopting our mana motuhake policy. This would include establishing a Māori Parliament and implementing Mātike Mai recommendations for constitutional transformation and I acknowledge Moana Jackson today. Now if the Government adopted our mana motuhake policy there wouldn't be an issue today with the parties because we would establish our own Māori Parliament. Pākōwhai tēnā koutou.[Pākōwhai I acknowledge you.]Implement all Mātike Mai recommendations overhaul the Tiriti settlement process and end the fiscal envelope. How dare we still be tied to the fiscal envelope which was based on the fiscal numbers in 1992? This is 2022. Insert relativity causes into Te Tiriti settlements to ensure all iwi have parity with Ngāi Tahu and Waikato-Tainui. We mihi to them for opening the door for us but it should be open to all of us. Make Waitangi Tribunal recommendations binding on the Crown and implement all unaddressed Wai claims recommendations. Abolish full and final settlements and the large natural groupings approach to recognise mana whenua groups. Return conservation land to whānau hapū and iwi. Introduce a first right of refusal policy for mana whenua when private land of historical significance comes up for sale. This would fix everything and we invite the Government or any Government in the future to adopt that policy. This can only happen if our people stop putting their faith in Pākehā parties but put our faith in ourselves to ensure we are in a stronger position to fight these racist processes. It's time to decolonise ourselves jump off the Endeavour and re-indigenise ourselves back on the Tākitimu eh Auntie Frances?Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not for settling; it is for honouring. Full and final like we said should never ever be the be-all and end-all. You get 1 percent of your total due. Our tamariki mokopuna should be fighting for the rest of their lives for the 99 percent that we are owed. The only way this nation can work is when Māori assert their rights to self-management self-determination and self-governance over all of our domains. It's time to ditch the Treaty settlement process and give mana back to tangata whenua so that we can set up our own processes for getting our land back.We will never ever settle like we said. Te Paati Māori will not stand in the way of our people's development today but we sympathise with all the parties for the continued breaches the Government continued to endure on our people.Ngāti Kahungunu nā koutou tēnei rā engari kei te aroha tonu ki te noho wehewehetanga i roto i a koutou anō. Ehara nā koutou te hē. Nā te Kāwanatanga nā te Karauna te hē. Te whakawehewehe i a tātou koinā hoki tā rātou mahi i ngā wā katoa. Kia kaha ki a koutou ki te whakawhirinaki i a koutou. Kia kaha ki a koutou ki te whakatōpū i a koutou. Kia kaha ki a koutou kia tū māia i roto i tō Kahungunutanga kia māia kia ngāwari te hīkoinga o āu mokopuna ki roto i tēnei ao hurihuri.[Ngāti Kahungunu this is your day but I sympathise with your having been separated. This was not your fault. It was the Government's fault it was the Crown's fault. Divide and separate—that has always been their modus operandi. Be strong in your support of one another. Be strong in gathering together. Be strong in standing confidently in your Kahungunu-ness so that your grandchildren can be confident and relaxed in their journey in this changing world.]I acknowledge the National Party for giving us an extra five minutes. They may have regretted it after that speech but we only get five minutes; we had 10 today. Because of the importance and the highlight and the spotlight of this particular Treaty claim we wanted to give it some due time. So anei like we said you can see the House is partly empty e hika mā but there's only one party here 100 percent in attendance today and that is Te Paati Māori.Nō reira e hika mā kāore tēnei e whakatōroa i ngā kōrero kia kaha ki a koutou. Anei rā tō mokopuna anei rā a Kahukura Mihiata i moe i a Apanui anei te mokopuna e tū nei e mihi nei e tangi nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa.[And so friends I don't want to prolong my speech; be strong. Here stands your grandchild here stands Kahukura Mihiata who married Apanui here stands your grandchild acknowledging you grieving. Greetings to you all. Be well one and all.]"