Davis Kelvin: New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDavis Kelvin: New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 28 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18421. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KELVIN DAVIS (Labour): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker.NgāitamarāwahoNgāti Taputēnā koutou.Tēnā koutoui tae ā-tinana mai hei kite ā-kanohi heirongo ā-taringaingākōrero epāana kitō koutou whenua.Nā reiranau mai haere maiwhakatau mai.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Salutations to youNgāitamarāwaho andNgāti Tapu. Greetings to you who have arrived here personally to see and hear the addresses about your land. So welcome welcome settle in.]I whakapapa to the Church Missionary Society. My great-uncle Manu Davis fromTōrere was an Anglican minister. His son Rangi is an Anglican minister. My father’s eldest brother Walton Davis was an Anglican minister. His son Kerry is training to be an Anglican minister. My mother is an Anglican minister and my brother-in-law is an Anglican minister.Te Ururoa Flavell: What about you?KELVIN DAVIS: I aspire to be a Minister of other sorts but that road has been full of potholes and speed bumps I must say.Despite my whakapapa to the Anglican Church of which I am proud I agree entirely with the words of Tau Henare when he said that the Church has a lot to answer for. Taking land was one of the biggest crimes that the Anglican Church has committed over its many years here. We have a saying in Māori and it is very clear and I think it sums up this whole bill the New Zealand Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) EmpoweringBill. It goes “Riro whenua atu; hoki whenua mai”—land has been taken; return it. That is what this bill is doing; it is setting right a wrong. As my uncle JJ Johnson who was a cousin of my grandmother and who was also an Anglican minister used to say to me if you make a mistake fix it up. This is a mistake that has been fixed up for the betterment ofNgāitamarāwaho andNgāti Tapu.Before I close I would just like to acknowledge Te Ururoa Flavell for bringing this bill to the House. Obviously I missed all but this part of it I think due to my forced absence from the House but I have to say I am pleased to be back. If the House can just indulge me one last time. Itētahitauimuai rotoahauitōku whare ewhakarongoana kingā poroporoakimōtōku hoa a Parekura. I temātakitakiahaui rotoitōkukāingataumahaana tengākaumākūkūanangāwhatuēngaritēneitakutāimatuatahi hei hoki mai ki te Whare hei mihi atu hei poroporoaki ki te rangatirarā a Parekura.Nā reira Parekura haere atu ki arātourātou hoki oNgāitamarāwaho meNgāti Tapurātoui mateimuai tetaunga otēnei ongāpire.Nā reira e te Wharetēnā koutou katoa.[A year ago I was in my home listening to the farewell tributes for my mate Parekura. I was watching in my place heavy-hearted and tearful but this is the first time I have come back to the House to pay a tribute to and farewell that esteemed elder Parekura. So therefore go forth Parekura go forth to them and to those ofNgāitamarāwaho andNgāti Tapu who died before the settlement of this one of the bills. And so I salute you all the House.]