Flavell Te UruroaHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Kia ora tātou katoa. E hoa mā te hunga kua tae mai i tēnei ata ka mihi rā ki a koutou e whaiwhai haere nei i a Ngāruahine i tēnei ata. Haere mai tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa. Kia ora tātau nā runga i te āhuatanga o te noho tahi kia taea ai e au te kī: Te Maunga Tītōhea e rarau ki roto i Te Whare Pāremata." Ko te mate kē o tēnei Māori ka kite he tangata ka hoki ngā mahara ka kitenga kanohi ka hoki ngā mahara. Koinei te mate o tēnei Māori i tēnei ata e pērā anō te āhuatanga. Ki a rātau kāore i konei i tēnei rangi ēngari ko rātau te hunga i hoe i te wāka nei ki tōna taumata. E kōrerohia ake nei ko te āhuatanga ki a Wiki ē ka tangi ake! Nō nātata nei au i kōrero ai ki wāna tamariki mō te āhuatanga o te marae e wawatatia nei kia tū ki ngā motu ē ka tangi ake he ōhākī mōna otirā mō te hunga kua ngaro. Kai te kite atu i ētahi ka hoki ngā mahara ki a Uncle Lindsay ki a Mākere ki a Uncle Tommy ki te whāea o te mema Pāremata e noho nei Mahara te āhuatanga ki tō whāea. E tika ana te kōrero o te mema o Te Tai Hauāuru ēhara nō nāianei ēnei tohe ā nō tua whakarere. Koirā ka tangi ā me te whakaaro ake mō Te Kauhoe![Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to us all. Fellow companions the ones who arrived here this morning I do commend you for following up on Ngāruahine this morning. Welcome salutations to you collectively and my appreciation to us all. My congratulations to us for being so collaborative and making it possible for me to say: "Barren Mountain settle into Parliament House." The problem with this Māori really is that when a face is sighted memories are recalled recollections come back at the sight of a face. That is a misfortune with this Māori and that is the situation this morning. To them who are not present here on this day but they were the ones who paddled this canoe to its pinnacle. As mentioned here in regard to the situation concerning Wiki I really mourn her! I recently had a conversation with her children about the situation relating to the desired marae to be erected upon the lands I do lament her. It is a parting wish for her but at the same time for the ones gone. I sight others and memories go back to Uncle Lindsay Mākere Uncle Tommy to the mother of the member of Parliament sitting here the situation relating to your mother Mahara. The address by the member of Te Tai Hauāuru is fitting that these disputes are not of recent times but rather are of ancient times. Consequently I mourn and reminisce for Te Kauhoe!]Today is a bit of a hard day because I know these people and I am a hopeless tangiweto. But there is a huge contradiction for me being here today actually. From memory it was about 30 years ago on one Tuesday night that some of these people—those proactive initiators I talked about earlier—went to a marae up in Otaraua which is just out of Waitara. Some of these people were plotting—sorry they were strategising—to go down to a hui that was at the marae of the Hon Mahara Okeroa the Ōwae Marae at Waitara. The marae was—not even they can remember—up the top. But we had a hīkoi organised. It was a big hīkoi. We got together; we had some planning. We talked about the damn Crown coming to Taranaki to talk about the settlement of Treaty claims. It was most of these people up in the gallery; I sort of was on the periphery—as you know. I watched these people plot. They said "We're going to go at it from a different angle. We're not going to go down necessarily with placards; what we're going to do is we're going to get some blankets"—it was not my idea or anything to do with me; it was those fellas up there—"and we're going to wrap blankets around ourselves and we'll go down at 6 o'clock in the morning." So we woke up—or they woke up at 6 o'clock in the morning—and they said: "Te Ururoa let's go." I said: "OK; fair enough." So we went out of the marae and we walked all the way down to the main road. We turned right. We walked down to the Waitara township. Some of those people up there had microphones. They were yelling and screaming obscenities. No they were not. They were very kind. We were singing waiata. We got up to Ōwae Marae and the occasion was the arrival of Sir Wira Gardiner and Sir Doug Graham to present the fiscal envelope. I was at the back of the line—way back. Some of these people marched on to the marae. Do you know—they were against what we are doing today. So was I. We were absolutely against settling claims on the basis that it was so unfair. How can you talk about settlement when you are talking about only 1 to 2 percent of the real value of these claims? So we marched up and we went on to the marae and there are a couple of things I remember from that. The first one was that we sat down. We had our blankets and we sat in the sun on the marae and Taranaki presented its case to Sir Wira who was the facilitator and to Sir Douglas Graham. It was a sad day; it was an emotional day. The two events I remember—and they are even written about in Sir Wira's book. He said that it was probably the most—not inspirational but the one event that affected him so much. This is because when he came out of the marae these people—a couple of hundred of them sitting on the ground with those blankets wrapped around their waists—were absolutely quiet. As I said earlier you would think that against raupatu you would be pretty angry. These people—we sat quietly. No one moved. When they came out for kai everybody said: "Come on. Come and have kai." No one moved. That was our anger about the fiscal envelope. And so I say to all of my in-laws that today you jump the fence and I jump the fence. We all came over to accept that at the end of the day you do what you have got to do. You do what you have got to do and I cannot get in the road of what iwi wantKo tāku i tēnei rā he tautoko i ngā kōrero mō te āhuatanga o te huarahi e whaiwhaitia haeretia nei e koutou. [Mine today is to endorse the contributions about the situation relating to the procedure to be followed up by you collectively.]So there is the first part. There is a bit of a contradiction but I will get over it. The second part is I want to talk about as I did this morning a person whom I did meet. He set the scene I reckon for Taranaki about how things would play out. His name was Aila Taylor. Aila Taylor I reckon—I met him; a fairly humble man—but he pretty much on his own set the scene by saying that allowing people to put sewage rubbish and offload into the river into the waterways and into the sea and to upset the tide and not allow people to get kai was wrong. What he did was he went in to bat for that and put up a claim around that. So I think about Aila Taylor today because he was a simple Waitara worker from the meatworks but he hated—and led a campaign for 34 years to stop—discharge being washed into the Waitara marine area. His claim Wai 6 was filed on 4 June 1981 on behalf of Te Atiawa. So here we are today talking about the settlement of some of these issues but for me you cannot go past a name called Aila Taylor in the history of Te Atiawa and indeed Treaty claims and settlements. It is a landmark case and it went on to be the Motunui issue. The other issues in respect of Waitara—other speakers have spoken about that so I am not going to go into that. But I can say that I take up the offer from the member Nanaia Mahuta that some of these things we have got to work together on. We are always open to that. The last point I just wanted to make in the short space of time is that you know sometimes some of these issues are so bound in racism. That is the hard part: that people talked about Māori getting over feeling angry about our history. Some people talk about history as being way back but actually it is all around us right now. A person pretty close to me made a stand in respect of some street signs in Waitara. There was a development just recently where one of those developers up there said "Oh I want to name this development"—two streets; one called Dreaver Drive and the other one Masters Lane—and the iwi said "Hey how about because of the history Māori street names?". Hello—there was an uproar: "You Maoris are asking for too much." Then you think about Andrew Judd who might be in here today asking about seats for Māori as a right for goodness' sake! Marama Fox: What? A seat for Māori? Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: I know I know. That seems to be too hard and we get hit with notions of too much privilege for Māori. So if anybody thinks history is all the way back there—confiscation and so on—no. It is still around us now. I want to make that point because actually as I talked about street signs earlier our people have to deal with these things on a daily basis. At least this settlement allows our people to move forward. So I acknowledge those who have been responsible for bringing it to an end.Liana koutou Hēmi ka nui te mihi ki a koutou! Kai aku rangatira ka tangi ake ki te kite i a koutoui tēnei rā. Kotahi anake te kōrero kai a au taihoa ake nei ka hoki mai ki aku hoa nō Taranaki. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou haere mai nō reirā kia ora tātau.[You collectively Liana Hēmi there is much admiration for you! To my esteemed ones I mourn indeed to see you on this day. I only have one statement for you and very shortly I will come back to my companions from Taranaki. Acknowledgments and congratulations to you collectively welcome and so my appreciation to us all.]"