Abel SteveSTEVE ABEL (Green): Kia ora. Thank you Mr Speaker. Ngā mihi nui Uenuku tangata uri of Tamahaki and Tamakana. When I heard the weeping of your whaea in the pōwhiri today it was profoundly moving and it felt like the grief of 200 years and it could not but touch us to hear that level of feeling. You have been wronged and you have been taken from and disrespected and today this House acknowledges that wrong. The Crown is here to acknowledge that it has taken part in that wrong and it has committed that wrong but once again it is you who shows generosity because—pardon me Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Oh no I got you—you're right.STEVE ABEL: It is Te Korowai o Wainuiārua that shows generosity because you come here at short notice to restore the honour of the Crown. Again it is the generosity of Te Korowai o Wainuiārua.I want to acknowledge that these settlement processes are divisive for iwi; we hear this time and again throughout the motu. I'll quote you Mr Gilbert—I hope you don't mind—because you put it so succinctly: no iwi would say redress was enough. What is enough? [It is] never going to be enough if we measure things. If we do calculations and equate things these are just crumbs off the table. But the healing has to start … as long as the Crown doesn't continue to do wrong. In the 10 years of doing negotiations they were still tripping over themselves and continuing to do what they did to us historically as people. Therein lies the challenge." Mr Gilbert you said the settlement means "we can say who we are and speak for ourselves." So I want to acknowledge that this recompense is a tiny fraction of what was lost and if this process has been divisive I hope that today marks the beginning of your binding back together.If there is not justice for Māori there can be no legitimate place for tauiwi in these lands. We as Te Pāti Kākāriki stand by that principle of justice for Māori. We are not content with the idea of full and final settlements I just want to say but I want to salute you for your commitments among other things to this principle of healing that you speak of and acknowledge that it must be on the basis that the Crown does no more harm. That is the challenge to all of us in this House that we take seriously the ending of the harm being done to iwi and to Māori and to hapū throughout this nation and of the policies that undo and take away the self-determination of iwi.I also want to salute your efforts to restore the mana of the nature and the wildlife in your rohe. One of the terrible pathologies of colonisation is the destruction of nature. As an ecologist it breaks my heart to think of what has been destroyed and lost: the magnificent forests of the central North Island and other parts of the nation and the wildlife and the birds. I wish you all the greatest success in restoration of the kākā.Here today we stand we acknowledge the wrong that has been committed and we bless you on your journey for healing. We as a House unanimously acknowledge that there is a way forward for this nation in recognition of those wrongs and in making amends for those wrongs. However small those amends are the intention must be to bind us together in relationship for the good of the future. Kia ora koutou."