Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I rise to speak to the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Bill the second reading and add my voice to the very eloquent voices that have spoken on this bill this evening.I find myself in the very rare occasion of listening closely to the previous speaker Willie Jackson. It would be fair to say on most items of policy there is daylight between his view of the world and mine. But in the last 10 minutes I think he has given a very impassioned and reasoned articulation as to why this House takes these settlement bills so seriously. They talk in many ways to our individual better angels when we talk to these settlement bills because we are humbled by the patience of those who have fought for so long to get this bill to this position and we are given the power in this House to ultimately conclude on behalf of the Crown and Parliament some redress. But I think that the language and the perspective that every speaker has brought today—but particularly I mihi out to you Willie; I thought your contribution was very powerful.Can I acknowledge the current chair Rino Tirikatene. I no longer sit on this committee. Unfortunately I've been moved. Well unfortunately fortunately—you do what you have to do don't you? I'm now on the Environment Committee but I did enjoy the short time that I had on the Māori Affairs Committee in sitting through this process and listening and hearing the perspectives and the struggle that others have put in such eloquent terms this afternoon. You chair it well you bring mana to the role and it is a credit to you.Can I also acknowledge the previous chair my friend and colleague Nuk Korako. He was a superb chair of the Māori Affairs Committee and it talks again to his strength. When you are a chair and then the electoral fates deal a blow and you are no longer chair but you're still asked to contribute—and he does and he does it from a position of humbled contribution not only from his own perspective but the wider National Party and I just want to acknowledge that. Obviously the Ministers Little and Finlayson—and again you heard with the previous comments that this is a remarkable scenario where the House joins as one to support these processes. It is in a strange way above the partisan politics that often dominates our discourse. So I just want to acknowledge that process.Others have spoken more powerfully than me around the particular components of this settlement bill. I'm not going to go through and talk specifically about the apology or the cultural redress or the financial settlement. That's explicit in the bill. I appreciate the previous conversations and observations that from a financial perspective it is nowhere near enough. But maybe in a small way the humble process by which particularly Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki have approached this and the way we have collectively listened responded and landed the bill gives the opportunity for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to move forward.So I just want to acknowledge being part of it on the National Party. I acknowledge the rangatira who have turned up and who sit listening with no doubt immense emotion to this discussion and debate and progression of something that is so critical for their futures. I acknowledge the specialness of being part of something like this this afternoon. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.