Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Tēnā anō tātou katoa me Reo Māori ēnei kōrero ōku. I will speak Māori for a few minutes Mr Assistant Speaker. Taku mihi ki a Ngāi Tai me te mātau ko Ngāi Tai he pānga nōna ki Te Moana a Toi he pānga nōna ki roto i a Tāmaki Makaurau ā roa rātou e tatari ana kia tatū ai ēnei take. Tētahi wahanga ka oti i te wā i whakataungia ai ngā nawe whenua mō Tainui whānui tētahi i toe mai nā koia tēnei tā tātou e whakatutuki i tēnei rā. Ahakoa te iti o te tangata kei kōnā anō te mana e rapa tonu ana ki runga i ngā tapuae i mahue mai i ō rātou mātua. Nā reira ko tāku he mihi ki a rātou ko tāku he mihi ki Te Minita a Hon Christopher Finlayson mōna i kawe i pīkau i tēnei take mō te hia rānei roa. I roto a Ngāi Tai i te mātotoru o ngā iwi ririki kei roto i te rohe o Tāmaki Makaurau nā reira i roto i tō tātou Reo Māori te wairua Māori tāku he mihi atu ki a rātou. [Greetings again to all these parts of my speech should be in the Māori language. I will speak Māori for a few minutes Mr Assistant Speaker. I greet Ngāi Tai knowing that Ngāi Tai have connections to the Bay of Plenty and connections within Auckland and they have been waiting a long time for these matters to be settled. One part was completed at the time the land grievances for the wider Tainui group were settled; the other has remained until now and it is that which we will complete today. Despite the low number of people they still have prestige they continue to adhere to the footsteps left behind by their elders. Therefore I congratulate them. I congratulate the Minister the Hon Christopher Finlayson who has carried and taken care of this matter for goodness knows how long. Ngāi Tai is amongst the many small iwi in the Auckland district. Therefore it is in our Māori language and the Māori spirit that I congratulate them.] So I stand to take a call to affirm the efforts to affirm the leadership that Minister Chris Finlayson showed and the patience of Job in dealing with all of the iwi groups that comprise the Tāmaki-makau-rau collective. Not quite true to say he's shown the wisdom of Solomon but he certainly has shown tenacity because this has been a particularly troubled part of the broader landscape of settling claims. Many overlapping claims many challenges but Ngāi Tai from the Maraetai Umupuia district should stand proud today. They had a leader whom I knew very well. The name of the kuia was Ngeungeu Zister. That leader was born the same year as my grandmother: 1893.When I was a lad at St Stephen's Māori boys school for five years on various occasions we went to Umupuia. We went there on one particular occasion for a tangi and we met not only there but at Tūrangawaewae the kuia I'm talking about. I think given that the majority of Kiwis if not iwis when they think about Tāmaki-makau-rau they think of Ngāti Whātua—nowadays we call it Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei but that's a recent innovation—and they think about Tainui and possibly if they know their history they would think about Ngāti Pāua and the young woman that Ngāti Pāua betrothed to Patuone the chief of the Ngāpuhi who lived nigh on 100 years and who came out of Hokianga and settled on the northern shores of the Waitematā Harbour. History has it that when Hōne Heke after the Ruapekapeka battle made a threat that he would come and follow his foe to Auckland it was both Pōtatau Te Wherewhero who said Do not stand on the hem of my cloak." and it was also Patuone who said "E kore koe e puta i taku atarangi."—"If you come here Hone Heke you will not emerge from beyond my shadow."Hōne Heke with his fellow traveller the ancient warrior of Ngāti Hine Kāwiti made moves to take on Tāmaki-makau-rau. Of course Ngāti Whātua at that stage lived in abject fear that the Ngāpuhis would come back and finish off what they didn't do at the battle of Te Ika-a-Ranganui. By this time though Christianity was reigning quite strong and the fact that we still have the descendants proudly claiming and celebrating their pou whenua and mana whenua and their identity despite the rapid growth of metropolitan Auckland and the crowding of other iwi such as my own iwi of the Tai Tokerau I want to acknowledge today.Umupuia is a tiny settlement and the challenge is for any indigenous group wanting to project their identity and to teach the next generation and ensuring that they are not smothered as Auckland marches wider and wider is a challenge. But I think that this settlement not only gives them statutory recognition but it affirms the fact that they are the people of the land. Of course the cordiality that they might or might not achieve with their neighbours is their business. The business of this Parliament is to support the passage of this legislation acknowledge their history acknowledge their tupuna who signed the Treaty of Waitangi and also to acknowledge the fact that as we move from the settlement phase and we move into post-settlement each particular iwi needs to forge a journey forward in partnership with the Crown where it's appropriate for the Crown to join them on a joint endeavour.We must never allow the phrase of the Treaty or the principles of partnership that were enunciated by Cook in the great lands case of 1987 to be forgotten. As a country our ethnicities grow and they are multiplying but our roots are clear. Our roots are of a binary nature and they are reflected in the Treaty. The inheritors of the great liberal traditions evidenced in this particular Westminster Parliament and the indigenous traditions rooted in the Pacific evolved here in New Zealand. Although as I said in Māori the numerical strength of the people may be small their footprints should remain firm and robust on this part of Tāmaki-makau-rau.So once again in the spirit of amity—something that is disappearing by the day—I acknowledge Christopher Finlayson and the role that he's played in this particular settlement and a host of others. I join with the other speakers in wishing the iwi not so much success but that they put into practice what this bill represents: an opportunity to derive some revenue and an opportunity to protect the places of sacredness or esteem in their rohe. To the member for Hunua—I would tell him that hunuhunu or hunua means "to be scorched". Please be a good and loyal member not just for the Pākehā members of your area but for all voters—and a number of the Ngāi Tai people I've no doubt are voters within your area—for fear that you suffer the other meaning of hunu which is to be singed in a private place. Thank you very much."