Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green) E Te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe. Tēnā tātou katoa; ōku hoa kaimahi i roto i tēnei Whare Pāremata tēnā tātou katoa. Nei rā taku mihi aroha e ngā uri o Ngāti Rangi i roto i tēnei Whare tēnei te mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa kia ora. [Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Greetings to one and all to my colleagues in this House of Parliament; greetings to you. May I also extend warm greetings to the people of Ngāti Rangi who are in this House; greetings to you all greetings.]As always it's a great honour to stand in this House today as a Green Party MP to acknowledge Ngāti Rangi and this important next step forward for them. I recognise and I understand that it's been 28 years from the first claim to get this legislation to the House even though the negotiation of the actual settlement in relative terms was quite quick. This is always a significant day and I suspect for all the registered members of Ngāti Rangi—they number around 2500 people—this day is a significant moment. It is the result of many years of work after generations of heartbreak and betrayal on behalf of the Crown.I'm always conscious that when we stand at this time to in some sense welcome in a piece of legislation where there is so much heart vested in it it is a great responsibility to stand here and receive it. I do notice though that sometimes in this House it's easy as we all support the settlements—sometimes there's a subtle sense of congratulations on our part as we stand in this House. But on behalf of the Green Party I want to acknowledge that for Ngāti Rangi this process does not undo the damage done. While iwi katoa resilience and negotiations skills are irrefutably impressive the Crown has still set limits that sit uncomfortably with the true spirit of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and with the true meaning of restitution.Sometimes this process can even create more conflicts between hāpu. When the Crown changed land law to undermine collective ownership—pitting family against family and indeed ruling through division—they created divisions that are hard to heal. The process of settling can help heal but it can also inflame these old wounds. I understand that this settlement for some will be no different. Te Tiriti supports hapūtanga and yet hapūtanga is often undermined by the settlement process. I want to acknowledge that up front before going into the detail of your claim which many of you will rightfully feel proud of getting to here because of the scope and the size of the power of the Crown that you have been up against.So firstly just to acknowledge some of the history and particularly—it will be brief and inadequate. I will set some of the points on record though because it is a point of principle that most Pākehā in this country never ever get to hear this history. Just this week I received an email from somebody who was complaining about Māori access to settlement of something saying that that was just racism. I needed to send them a link that outlined just a little bit of how much has been taken from Māori. So it is so important I believe for us as a country for Pākehā to be able to hear at least just a tiny bit of what happened.So for Ngāti Rangi they signed Te Tiriti as an exercise of their mana and a partnership to which both sides committed themselves to the future. That was the basis to which they signed that important document. Yet the Crown did not act as a partner; the Crown acted as a coloniser and that was not a one-off action on behalf of the Crown—and indeed you could say by some of the limitations around this process is not an action that has ended on behalf of the Crown. The Crown introduced a series of native land laws that provided for the individualisation of Māori landholdings that enabled them to be fragmented and for whānau and hapū to be set against each other.Very significantly for the people of the mountain—one of the iwi within this country who do not whakapapa back to a waka but indeed to the mountain—the Crown proclaimed the boundaries of Tongariro National Park without consulting with Ngāti Rangi. The land of these people that could not be separated from these people was taken without consultation. Wahi tapu of immense significance to Ngāti Rangi are located on this land that was taken. They were excluded from the administration of this park until the late 1980s. As has already been mentioned in this House Ngāti Rangi forward thinking were looking to lease land to be able to have a regular income—great financial planning that many people would advise towards—but the Crown intervened and actually put themselves in that place of lease owners and sub-let. Just the cruelty and injustice of that to me is so symbolic of what has been done.All of these things add up to a profound impact of a displacement a loss of economic base and a wounding to the people as the land and the waters were ruined. That impact is not just happening to the separate land there; it happened to the people. I do notice in the settlement deed and indeed through the process of discussion through the select committee that we will be looking at the options for redress. To me it speaks to that connection of the people to their awa and to their land the number of redress provisions in here that are so specifically about reconnecting the people and the land.The Te Waiū o Te Ika framework for the river has those four intrinsic values recognising that the communities draw sustenance and inspiration from the water and that the communities are united in the best interests; that the waterway cannot be divided and that that is for the future prosperity of mokopuna; that hāpu iwi and all communities benefit physically spiritually culturally and economically where water and its inherent life-supporting capacity is valued and enhanced; and that uplifting the mana of Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika in turn uplifts the mana of the hāpu and iwi.These points for me are particularly significantly at the moment as we have and move into discussions around water and ownership and place. There is a spirit to the water that cannot be separated from the people and I believe this settlement acknowledges that. Also it establishes Te Pae Ao a joint committee of two Ngāti Rangi and two Crown appointees to be able to administer selective reserve sites as if it had been appointed as administering body under the Reserves Act which provides a future model for shared oversight and protection of precious lands.I too want to finish by offering the Green Party's thanks to Ngāti Rangi for their generosity of being able to bring us to this point and hope that we have a better future as a result of this.