Logie Jan; Dean JacquiJAN LOGIE (Green): I rise as the Green Party's Te Tiriti spokesperson to offer our support at this third reading of the Ahuriri Hapū Claims Settlement Bill. I speak on most but not all of the settlement bills for the Greens as our tangata Tiriti spokesperson and this is because the Green Party acknowledges Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of our country and recognises that colonisation severed Māori from land and waters that sustained them—were them—and denied Māori tino rangatiratanga. This has brutalised whānau Māori and resulted in many lives lost and as part of this process white supremacy has denied settlers and all too many Māori access to matauranga Māori that could have provided warm dry homes ecological balance multilingual communities models of women's leadership and shared parenting to name just a few things. Tangata Tiriti have lost through breaches of the Treaty the legitimacy of our place to stand on this land and this means from our perspective that the work that needs to be done to de-imperialise our Government and society needs to be primarily done by non-Māori. So the Green Party encourages non-Māori to speak to these breaches and these bills and to be an active part of the work to repair these breaches as we believe the model is needed for the country. So that is the context that we bring to all settlement bills and I want to acknowledge the Ahuriri Hapū today who are present and watching this settlement debate in the third reading: specifically Ngāti Hinepare; Ngāti Māhu; Ngāti Matepū; Ngati Paarau including Ngāi Tahu Ahi; Ngāi Tāwhao; Ngāti Tū; and Ngāi Te Ruruku. I also add our acknowledgment along with other speakers in the House today around the long process to get here. It has been a struggle from the point of the Crown recognising the mandate in 2010 and then that being in effect sought again at a later date and there being intervention from the Waitangi Tribunal to call for further elections to ensure the integrity of the process for trustees to have that full confidence of the hapū. I'd like to acknowledge Minister Little for listening and working with hapū through this process and of course acknowledge all of the people of the Ahuriri Hapū who have kept going and are holding things together for the future. Eleven years on from the initial Crown mandate 170 years - plus since breaches began—it's a long time to be gaslit abused and wronged and more recently a long time to be negotiating. So this settlement which will be implemented following the passage of this legislation today is significant. Today is a big big day. I want to acknowledge some of the specifics of this settlement on that note of looking forward and specifically point to I think and acknowledge some of the role of hapū that is reflected in the detail of the settlement where the Crown acknowledges that Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu and the islands in it were prize taonga for Ahuriri Hapū and now in this settlement it recognises the role of hapū as kaitiaki of Te Muriwai o Te Whanga known by others in the area as the Ahuriri estuary and catchment. I think it's really important to acknowledge again—this comes up so often in settlements—that so often we're dealing with restoring the role of hapū as kaitiaki that was removed to the detriment of our environment and our people. If only that role of kaitiaki had been able to be maintained we would not see the widespread degradation of our lands that we see around us now and that we are struggling desperately to be able to repair. This settlement establishes a permanent statutory committee Te Komiti Muriwai o Te Whanga to ensure the protection and the enhancement of the environmental economic social cultural spiritual historical and cultural values of the area. Within the settlement there's also statutory acknowledgment for 11 specific areas and deeds of recognition for another 11 areas and this is just about ensuring that hapū are alerted to resource consent applications in areas where they have that connection or that the Crown are obligated to consult and have regard to their views and work on those areas. It seems to me that if we acknowledge kaitiaki then to require us to alert hapū around resource consents seems a very small step towards actually acknowledging kaitiaki and the power and the meaning of that. I think to be honest if we are to truly acknowledge the power and the meaning of that then more is required of us but I acknowledge the achievement of getting these areas in the settlement. There is the vesting or as the Minister referred to it the gifting—or as the Greens might refer to it the returning of stolen goods—of Pakake and Conservation House and Heipipi Pa Historic Reserve and then there's the enabling of the right of first refusal over several properties and areas. Again for the Greens we always acknowledge that it's an achievement to get that into settlements but it's still sits deeply uncomfortably to steal somebody's land and then say Oh you can buy it back off us." That's not really my understanding of justice. There's the acknowledgment for name changes of six areas and this is really important because as we know the power to name is the power over places. To change Bluff Hill Hospital Hill Napier Hill and Scinde Island will now be again known as Mataruahou there's a very different story that is told with that returning of that name and this applies to five other places. Also within the bill is relationships—it's actually an acknowledgment specifically in writing around the importance of a relationship between conservation environment and Te Papa Tongarewa and Ahuriri Hapū. That should be inherent in Te Tiriti o Waitangi anyway but it sets up formal processes to ensure what the Greens would argue is inherent in Te Tiriti o Waitangi anyway. Then there is the settlement of $19.5 million which is just a token. But for us it's not about property rights but about that ongoing relationship between iwi and hapū and the Government and Te Tiriti cannot be settled—it is not something that can be done. We really do want to acknowledge the sacrifice made by the hapū to get to this point and to gather their histories and we acknowledge those who have worked to achieve this settlement but who have died before being able to see it completed. They contain powerful stories of our collective history. They are historical archives but we must remember that history is never one story. We often learn history through stories that are told from one perspective with a clear beginning middle and end. The saying "History is written by victors" absolutely has a resonance in this country with the failure to teach in truth or detail our collective history and this has perpetuated Crown hegemony and power and has fed a disconnect and distrust between Māori and the Crown. We acknowledge that the settlement process and the forcing together of large natural groupings does not make sense and actually I do want to acknowledge the Wai 2573 claimants on behalf of Ngāti Parau who are addressing outstanding historical matters with the Crown concerning events at Ōmarunui—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! The member's time has expired."