Hauiti Claudette: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHauiti Claudette: Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 09 April 2014. Volume:697;Page:17148. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAUDETTE HAUITI (National):Ka tū ake anō ahau ki te mihi ki a koutou katoa. Ki te whānau o Maungaharuru-Tangitū ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa.[I rise once again to acknowledge you all. To the family of Maungaharuru-Tangitū greetings to you all.]The purpose of this bill is to give effect to the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū. The Māori Affairs Committee whānau examined the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū Claims Settlement Bill and recommends that it be passed. A number of submitters expressed dissatisfaction with the way Maungaharuru-Tangitū claimants have been defined in the bill. The concerns centred largely on two issues—the entitlements for claimants with connections to both Ngāti Pāhauwera and Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū and those individuals descended from ancient hapū who may fall between two settlements.Ngāti Pāhauwera—it is an important part of the settlement process for claimant groups to have the opportunity to set out their whakapapa as they see it and this has been done in the deed of settlement. Although different approaches to self-identification have been taken the select committee is confident that this has not resulted in any entitled individuals being excluded from benefiting from one or more settlements.Ancient hapū—we also heard from submitters who believe that as their ancestral hapū were not explicitly mentioned in the deed of settlement they could not benefit from it. The committee is satisfied that between the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū and the Ngāti Pāhauwera settlements the people and hapū in that region will be fully represented and that after the enactment of this bill no outstanding claims will remain to be settled.Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū comprises six hapū with interests in historical claims in the Hawke’s Bay area north of Napier—Ngāti Kurumōkihi Ngāti Tu Ngāti Whakaari Ngāi Tauira Ngāi Te Ruruku ki Tangōio and Ngāi Tahu. The claims of the hapū relate primarily to war raupatu and Crown land-purchasing methods. The only land left in the possession of Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū is in a flood-prone zone which is the location of its marae Tangoio and its kōhanga reo.The bill gives effect to the undertakings by the Crown in the deed of settlement. The bill includes a summary of the agreed historical accounts Crown acknowledgments and apologies and provides for a cultural redress package including vesting of part of Opouahi Station and part of Opouahi Scenic Reserve unencumbered; and the vesting of Te Pohue Domain Recreational Reserve subject to reserve status and public access being retained and excluding the hall that is located on the site. The site will continue to be administered by the Hastings District Council. The bill provides for the vesting of the lakebeds of Lake Tūtira Lake Orakai Lake Waikōpiro and Lake Opouahi subject to reserve status; and the vesting of administration of the stratum above the lakebeds in the hapū in trust subject to reserve status. The stratum is a space occupied by the water and air above the lakebeds but not the water itself. The bill provides for vesting and gifting back four significant cultural properties: the Boundary Stream Scenic Reserve the Bellbird Bush Scenic Reserve the balance of Opouahi Scenic Reserve and the Whakaari Landing Place Reserve.These sites will be vested in the hapū on the anniversary of their confiscation 12 January 2017 and gifted back to the Crown 7 days later. The bill provides for tātai tūāpapa an overlaying classification over nine sites of significance to the hapū; and the establishment of a fund with the purpose of soil conservation in the Tangōio area and the formation of a relationship between the hapū and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. The regional council is to manage the fund. The redress reflects the special nature of the Tangōio area and the desire of the hapū to exercise kaitiakitanga there. The bill provides for te kawenata with the Minister of Conservation that will recognise the special relationship that Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū has with that land relationship agreements with the Ministry for Primary Industries and Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporation in respect of fisheries statutory acknowledgments and deeds of recognition for several sites including the hapū coastal marine area and the appointment of an advisory committee.This Sunday 50 kōrure will be released into Maungaharuru and we wish you well on that occasion. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a third time.Waiata