Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. I have been an MP for three years and this is the first Treaty settlement bill I've spoken on which I've got to say is reasonably unusual given that in the last Parliament when the National Government was in charge it put through a whole series of Treaty settlement bills. But I haven't had the privilege and distinction of serving on the Māori Affairs Committee in that time and typically it's the people who hear the submissions and consider the bills in detail who end up speaking. So I actually consider this a bit of a privilege. So it's a bit of special moment for me really to be able to speak on an important bill for the people of Heretaunga Tamatea that provides a settlement for their historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.As I said before I know that I'm not on the Māori Affairs Committee which I know Rino Tirikatene does a very good job of chairing. One of my colleagues from my patch Rino does a good job around the community of Pētone and other areas in the Hutt. He does a good job chairing the committee. I know that they heard 40 submissions and heard oral evidence including in Havelock North which was very important—to go to that particular area and hear that evidence.As other speakers have made mention this gives effect to that deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Heretaunga Tamatea to that final settlement. It gives effect to the settlement of alienation of claims through the failure to implement the terms of the pre-Treaty land transactions the Land Claims Commission the dispossession of land through deliberately misleading business practices—something that was very common of the Crown of the time and for other iwi including Heretaunga Tamatea—and the impact of the loss of communal ancestral lands on traditional tribal structures.This is a claim that has taken some time to result. The mandate was recognised in March 2007—so some 10 or 11 years ago—and then it took seven years to reach the agreement in principle on 11 June 2014. Then of course the deed was signed in September 2015 and now we have the legislation before the House. It is going to go through the Parliament as is traditional now with Treaty settlement bills unanimously. That's a fantastic thing. It's not always been the case that Treaty settlement bills have been unanimously agreed to and the subject of no dissent but it is certainly true of the Parliament today. That's a wonderful thing for the future of New Zealand both in an economic sense but also in a harmony sense.Members before me have talked about Te Aute College and it seems like everyone's got a connection to Te Aute.Hon Meka Whaitiri: Tell us yours.CHRIS BISHOP: My only connection there is through debating. And I've had a bit to do—Hon Stuart Nash: I knew it wouldn't be through rugby.CHRIS BISHOP: That's very mean from the member for Napier. The member for Napier yells out It wouldn't be for rugby." That's true. I was a hopeless rugby player.But Te Aute College has produced some fantastic orators—that fine tradition of Māori oratory on the paepae and they have produced some very fine debaters. So my only connection is adjudicating Te Aute College a few times and I've been in the mighty Hawke's Bay—Stuart Nash's patch—and adjudicated secondary schools debating which I know he is a big supporter of as well.Look I don't want to take up any more of the House's time on this excellent bill. I just commend it to the House."