Mahuta Nanaia: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMahuta Nanaia: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10821. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Ā tēnā koe tēnā koutou. Tēnei e tū ana ki te tuku aku mihi maioha ki a koutou Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara. Tēnei taku kitenga i a koe taku tau te rangatira te matua ka hoki ngā mahara. Ka hoki ngā mahara ki a rātou katoa e kawea ana i tēnei kaupapa i mua i te aroaro o te Kāwanatangai mua i te aroaro o te Karauna. Ahakoa kua ngaro i te tirohanga kanohi kei konei rātou i tēnei wā hei ārahi i ngā whakaaro o te ngākau e pā ana ki ngā kōrero ka puta mai. Ki a koe anō hoki Naida koutou katoa.[Thank you and greetings to you collectively. I rise to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you of Ngāti Whātua at Kaipara. My sighting of you my beloved esteemed leader and fatherly figure make the memories go back. The thoughts go back to all of them who brought this matter before Government and the Crown. Although they are lost from view they are here at this point in time to guide the feelings of the heart in respect of the stories that will emerge. Thank you once again Naida and indeed to all of you.]It gives me great pleasure to be able to support the third reading of the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill. I will take a brief call but it is not to disrespect Ngāti Whātua; it is to affirm something very interesting that is happening today. We have debated a lot of settlement bills in this House. I would say that this bill in two words is smart and agile. It is smart because it recognises that the context for its historical Treaty claims exists within actually something big that is happening within New Zealand and that is the growth of Auckland. There is no doubt about it that Ngāti Whātua in Kaipara and in Ōrākei will have a deep impression on the way in which Auckland will grow now and into the future. It is agile because some of the pillars within this particular bill affirm the ongoing interests that Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara will seek to have established and recognised within the context of our modern legislative environment. For example the recognition of conservation covenants and the interplay with the Conservation Act are very much a here and now issue. If Auckland wants to continue to maintain green space within the isthmus there is no doubt that within the rohe of Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara they will have some very strong views about how that could happen.I would invite any member who has a representative interest in Auckland who is listening to this debate to get themselves acquainted with two things: the deed of settlement for this particular bill and the legislation that we are currently affirming here today. Why? Because they have to be understood within the context of an ever-increasing and ever-evolving Auckland isthmus. There will be no doubt about it. The interests of Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara and Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei will ensure that they have an ongoing role in the way in which that city continues to evolve and grow.The other pillar within the context of this bill links to the Resource Management Act. We cannot get away from the fact that the assertion of rights and interests will be determined by how this particular law giving effect to the settlement will interplay with the Conservation Act and the Resource Management Act and by extension influence what is happening within the context of the local government legislation.I understand that Ngāti Whātua is well represented on the Māori advisory board. I suspect that the next step will be a seat around the council table—two seats probably. We will certainly be pushing up from the south for a couple of seats. The general purview of interest is that our largest city in this country will be heavily influenced—heavily influenced—by the footprints and the handprints of the ancestors who have traditionally walked the Auckland isthmus and their descendants will make sure that they will be at the forefront of modern urban development while retaining some of the strong values that they have as Māori.I applaud Ngāti Whātua. I applaud them for again a smart and agile settlement. I applaud them for recognising that this is a gain for now and that there are many other gains to come. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations himself has recognised some of the outstanding issues that will be gains to come. I applaud the way in which the commercial redress will put some very strong interests in some key properties within your rohe—key properties—some of which the Crown as the major tenant isprobably not likely to move its tenancy of for quite some time. We would hope at the positive end that none of our people end up in the whare herehere. But at the other end it does not look like the Crown is going to resile from its tenancy of that particular premise.Also in the education space I would hazard a guess that in 10 years’ time when we look to review some of the gains of Ngāti Whātua in the education space they will show themselves to be strong leaders in showing a different way of doing things in education but for the betterment of their people.This is a brief call but it is not to disrespect Ngāti Whātua; it is just to say well done. It is a smart and agile settlement. I do not say that often. I am hoping that we might learn from you when we advise other people about settlements to look to and models to gain from. I hope that in the spirit of the settlement progress and post-settlement opportunity we can all learn from one another because your gains will be our gains and hopefully our mistakes will not be your mistakes. Nō reira kia koutou katoa tēnā koutou.