Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. Tēnā tātou katoa ōku hoa kaimahi katoa ki roto i tēnei Whare Pāremata. Ko te mea nui o tēnei rā ka tū au ki te whakautu i a koutou i ō koutou kaha i tēnei rā o Ngāti Tamaoho. Tēnā tātou katoa. Nei rā taku mihi aroha; kikī ana tēnei Whare i ō koutou wairua i te hau o Ngāti Tamaoho. E ngā uri o Ngāti Tamaoho i roto i tēnei Whare tēnei te mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa. Kia ora.[To the Assistant Speaker of the House greetings. Greetings to one and all of my colleagues in this Parliament. The main thing today is to stand and respond to you to your strength on this the day of Ngāti Tamaoho. Greetings to you all. This is my loving greeting; this House is overflowing with your spirits with the essence of Ngāti Tamaoho. To the descendants of Ngāti Tamaoho in this House this is a warm greeting to you all. Thank you.]Things happen for a reason and today I am particularly delighted to stand in this third reading debate celebrating the longstanding generosity and strength and resilience of Ngāti Tamaoho especially considering what you have been through over the generations and over the centuries because I wasn't supposed to speak on today's bill. I had even let Warahi Paki know that I wasn't going to be able to be in the House to greet you all today and to stand here ā-tinana [in person] to feel your wairua all around us. So I'm particularly happy that I am here to address you. My colleague who was supposed to speak on this who is our fantastic Pākehā tangata Tiriti spokesperson for Te Tiriti Jan Logie is unable to make it back from the plane in time. I am incredibly honoured to take her place and be able to address you today.I spoke in the first reading and in the whole 20 minutes that I had to prepare for this I went back and had a look and remembered—remembered your story remembered your history remembered your whakapapa and remembered your strength from my speech in the first reading on this and why—and all of the connections that I have to your story came back to me just in time for me to stand.I'm going to concentrate on kaitiakitanga today because Ngāti Tamaoho are kaitiaki not rebels. Ngāti Tamaoho have always been kaitiaki even when they were made virtually landless. So the connection and the importance of whakapapa and the accountability that you have always held to your ngahere to your awa to your maunga to your people to your tupuna and to your mokopuna to come was never severed. You have continued despite all of this and despite being in Warahi's words underserviced for ever by all authorities by all powers—by local government by regional government by central government—and underserviced with all of the basic living needs that communities need having had your land and environmental responsibilities taken by shady manner by shady actions or by outright theft. You have maintained through wit and ingenuity and sheer accountability the leadership and connection to your lands. Those shady deals and shady sales that happened around the South Auckland area around your whole iwi tribal rohe—and including I've read some lands in Remuera which is a good thing to remind us all in this House—are quite typical of many of the Treaty deals that happened. Some of our prime lands and whenua were absolutely stolen from iwi. So I did want to put that on the Hansard as well.Now I wanted to pick up on your words Warahi—and all of you from Mangatangi Pā from Waikato Awa from Maungaroa Maunga and from Tamaoho and Waikato iwi. The long agonising wait says Warahi is actually the patience and generosity that Ngāti Tamaoho have had and have benefited our country with despite being underserviced by powers as I mentioned and not having the full affirmation of your kaitiaki mana over your waters. An example is the work you have done to maintain māra kai water kirihi the pūhā the tuna the tuna heke the kōura the catfish and all the whakapapa parts of our ecosystem; and the biodiversity that you have had to struggle to care for despite the settlements the colonies that happened as a result of the land rip-offs the Pākehā colonies that rose and the infrastructure that was put in place in a shoddy ad hoc way that caused the environmental degradation that you have then had to try and keep tabs on. What that did to the water supply the dam; what that did to rerouting water distribution—this has happened all around the country. Our awa have been rerouted from our valleys from our hapori and from our families to be rerouted away from us. So that has happened for ever and it absolutely happened to Ngāti Tamaoho as well.I'm a South Auckland resident and have been for all of my adult life. I have visited Hunua Falls and the Hunua scenic reserve for most of my adult life and have gifted that place to my tamariki to be able to take them there to benefit in our ngahere. And I cannot wait to see the affirmation of the cultural mātauranga Māori and leadership that Ngāti Tamaoho will have to have over our ngahere if we are truly going to save them and if we are truly going to protect them for mokopuna. I look forward to your leadership on being able to work with the authorities including the Department of Conservation and all the authorities that have the power levers and being able to insist on the benefits of mātauranga Māori Māori science and Māori whakapapa knowledge of ecosystems and biodiversity to help guard against things like kauri dieback. And I look forward to supporting your voice and making sure that this House upholds your expertise and your background and your connection to those areas for the benefit of all of us.So in closing I am here. I am taura here living in Auckland for my iwi of Ngāpuhi Te Rarawa and Ngati Porou living on your lands alongside the other mana whenua of Tāmaki-makau-rau. I am here appreciative of all the benefits that my whānau and tamariki and parents and grandparents as long-time residents in South Auckland have received with the benefit of living on your whenua. I am here as a co-leader of the Green Party who understand that dealing with large natural groupings such as iwi has really caused some frustration and we are very clear that it should go back to the actual natural groupings of hapū and indeed whānau. I am here because the Green Party know that there is no such thing as full and final settlement and that Te Tiriti is a relationship between Crown and rangatira who have rangatiratanga over their whenua rohe and rohe moana. And I am here because Warahi sent me an email. And I replied to you Warahi saying I'm so sorry I'm not going to be in this House today but I take on board your words." And I have taken on board your words and put them on this floor in this Whare because the words of Ngāti Tamaoho are the most important words.Nō reira tēnei taku mihi aroha nō taku ngākau nō taku wairua nō taku tinana nō ōku tūpuna ki a koutou ki ō koutou tūpuna ki ō koutou maunga ki ō koutou awa ki ō koutou ngahere me ngā rākau rangatira o Te Wao Nui a Tāne ngā mea katoa ngā kararehe katoa o ō tātou whakapapa. Ki a koutou ngā mokopuna kāore anō kia tae ki tēnei ao mārama nō reira he mihi hōhonu he mihi aroha he mihi kau ana. Kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Therefore this is my acknowledgment from my heart from my spirit from my body from my ancestors to you to your ancestors to your mountains to your rivers to your forests and the important trees of The Realm of Tāne all things all the animals of our genealogy. To you the grandchildren who have not yet arrived in this world of light therefore a deep greeting a loving greeting I greet you. My appreciation to us all.]"