Rurawhe AdrianRt Hon ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour): Korōria hareruia ki a Ihowa o Ngā Mano tūauriuri whāioio kī tonu te rangi me te whenua i te nui o tōna korōria. Whakapaingia tōna ingoa i te ao i te pō i ngā wā katoa. Tīhei mauri ora. E tika ana kia whakapiri i taku mihi ki ngā mihi ka tukuna atu ki a Te Atiawa Taranaki whānui i te rā nei. Ki a koutou kua tae mai Te Korowai o Wainuiārua. Ngā uri o Uenuku Tamakana Tamahaki. Ko koutou ēnei ko ahau tēnei ko tātou ēnei. Tēnā koutou nau mai haere mai. Whakatau mai rā. Tēnā tātou. [Glory hallelujah to God of the many of the masses. The land and skies are full of His glory. We praise His name at all times. Health and vitality to all of us.It is appropriate that I add my acknowledgments to Te Atiawa and the wider Taranaki tribe today. To you who have arrived today Te Korowai o Wainuiārua the descendants of Uenuku Tamakana Tamahaki—that is you that is me that is us—I acknowledge you and welcome you. Be settled here. Thank you.]It's a great honour for me to speak to the first reading of this settlement legislation for an iwi that I whakapapa to. My whakapapa to this iwi is through my grandmother Iriaka Rātana who was a member of this House as well from 1949 to 1969. It's a real honour for me to speak to this piece of legislation on her behalf because her people my people have arrived here.I'm also proud to wear my pākohe taonga. It will be forever a reminder to me of this day. Pākohe is actually included in this legislation under one of the mechanisms as part of this legislation allows the post-settlement entity to be able to go and collect pākohe from the riverbeds in certain agreed areas along with a number of other cultural materials that are important to this iwi.I want to talk about the iwi for a little moment because many people might not have heard of Uenuku Tamakana and Tamahaki. Actually that's one of the breaches of the Treaty by the Crown. The identity of this iwi is part of the grievance in my opinion and it's really important that those names are heard in this Whare. It's important that the hard work that went in over a long long period of time to get to this day is acknowledged.I want to acknowledge a couple of people: Robert Cribb—affectionately known as Uncle Boy Cribb. I want to mention him because he passed away last year and he would have loved to be here. But I mention his name because—and my whānau know this—I am quite Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa - centric. I was the chair of that side of me for quite some time. I used to turn up to different meetings representing Ngāti Apa and Uncle Boy would be there representing as well. I knew exactly what he was going to say every time I saw him: You know you're Tamahaki eh?" "Yes Uncle I know that. But I'm here representing my koro not you." But I wanted to mention his name so that his name goes into the Hansard—that's why.I also want to acknowledge Aiden Gilbert. E te tuākana ngā mihi atu ki a koe. I say that because it's been a long hard road and I know you have carried a lot. So I acknowledge that.Some people say that this process is flawed and it is. But one of the things that every iwi that goes through this process has to ask themselves is what can this process deliver and what can it not deliver and they ask themselves the important question: can we live with that? Dozens of iwi before this iwi Te Korowai o Wainuiārua have made that decision to do it and so we come today for this. Some will say that this is a pittance and that's OK—that's their opinion. But let me tell you that dozens of iwi that have come through this process and have flourished and that is my aspiration for you as well. You should not be left behind.The other thing too we asked ourselves is make sure that we don't allow the next generation to carry the burden of the intergenerational trauma caused by the breaches to Te Tiriti by the Crown. We have an obligation to make sure that they don't have to carry it. We have an obligation to make sure that what they do is enjoy the benefits of this settlement and that they have the responsibility to grow the settlement asset for future generations as well and I've got no doubt about it that with the tenacity of the likes of Aiden Gilbert and others that will happen. So that's actually my main message for this.SPEAKER: It was a very long one! Rt Hon ADRIAN RURAWHE: I won't add to what the Minister has said. The Minister has covered everything. The cultural redress—and there's a lot. It's a huge amount of cultural redress. I'll mention one: the cultural revitalisation. The first one was actually negotiated by Ngāti Apa. In any settlement that was the first one ever done. This one is six times bigger and I congratulate Te Korowai o Wainuiārua for getting that amount of cultural revitalisation. That's going to make a huge difference. So to all of you I'm going to leave it there. Ka nui te mihi aroha atu ki a koutou i runga i te tukunga iho o rātou mā e te Wāhi Ngaro. Nō reira koutou tātou ngā uri o Uenuku Tamakana Tamahaki tēnei te mihi ake. Tēnā rā tātou katoa. [My compassionate thanks to all of you with respect to the heritage left behind by ancestors and God. And so to us the descendants of Uenuku Tamakana Tamahaki I acknowledge you. Thank you all.]"