Moroney Sue: Ngāti Hauā Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: Ngāti Hauā Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17663. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Tēnā koutou e te iwi tōku iwi a Ngāti Hauā kua tae mai. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou ki a tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Greetings to the tribe my tribe Ngāti Hauā who have arrived here. I acknowledge you and us all greatly.]It is a great honour to take a short call on this bill the Ngāti Hauā Claims Settlement Bill because this bill is a little reflective of some of my own whakapapa. Being born and raised in the Walton and Matamata areas it is very appropriate to be able to speak in favour of this settlement bill. I want to pay my respects to the iwi for their tenacity. Certainly in my upbringing the name of Wīremu Tamihana was one that we talked about a lot. We talked about him a lot in our education system actually—not nearly enough but certainly Wīremu Tamihana and the folklore and the culture and discussion about the area that I was brought up in were very very prominent and so they should have been.I want to particularly reflect on and support the comments made by the Hon Nanaia Mahuta Meka Whaitiri and Louisa Wall when they spoke on this bill. I particularly want to back up their support of the idea of Ngāti Hauā having a relationship with the Matamata-Piako District Council. I do see part of this settlement as a real opportunity going forward. I hope that that is an opportunity that the council will make the most of because I can see a real opportunity for not just management and decisions around the Waharoa aerodrome but many other things that will benefit our part of the country as well.I am really pleased to see the very familiar names of scenic reserves in our part of the country that are going to be under the guardianship—the very good guardianship—of Ngāti Hauā. I have complete and utter faith that that means that the environmental aspects of those very important pieces of land will be absolutely guaranteed and that makes me feel very proud.I am interested in thinking about—and I hope to ponder on this more before the third reading of this bill comes along—the matters that were taking place in Waharoa in the 1950s when land was taken by the State for infrastructure development. That was done against the wishes of the collective land ownership at the time. My family had some involvement with that and I had no idea about it but I will undertake to try to find out whether they were part of that collective movement or not. My grandparents Eleanor and Charlie Casey “owned” the land at the beginning of the area that was taken under the Public Works Act for the railway going to the Kaimai Tunnel.It is a little bit of a departure but I have got to say that every time I drive over the Kaimai Range and get stuck behind three trucks that are trying to overtake each other while going up that road on the Kaimais I really sit there and curse and wonder why men lost their lives putting the Kaimai Tunnel through. We send so much going over that road cargo-wise and I would like to see much more of it go through the actual railway tunnel but I depart from what I really wanted to say.People might be familiar with that part of the country. If you are driving along on State Highway 27 there is an overpass that goes over the railway line going through the Kaimai Tunnel. The land sitting beneath that was the land that my grandparents farmed. It is such an important part of our family’s history and our whakapapa that my motherhas made sure that my children—the great-grandchildren of Eleanor and Charlie Casey—have gone there. Even though that land has nothing to do necessarily with our family these days my children have been taken for a walk by their grandparents around that land and told the story about my mother’s upbringing there—and about the walnut tree; there is a very famous walnut tree on that piece of land—and about her upbringing in Waharoa. The story is not always a pleasant story because there were frictions and there were conflicts and there were misunderstandings and there were laws that got in the way of good relationships.So I am not going to say much more on the second reading of the bill except to congratulate the iwi on their good grace—their good grace—in finding a way forward with the Crown and the State and to wish them all the best for the future. I look forward to the third reading of this bill.Bill read a second time.