Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Otirā e tika ana kia tuku mihi atu ki ngā whānau ngā hapū katoa o Ngāti Hinerangi i tēnei wā; ki a koutou kua tae mai nei ki tēnei Whare e tū ake nei. E whakapiri ana ahau i taku mihi ki a rātou kua mihia kē ki a koutou. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings Madam Speaker. So it is only right to acknowledge the families and all the sub-tribes of Ngāti Hinerangi at this time and those of you who have made it to this House. I add my acknowledgments to those of the speakers who have preceded me. Therefore greetings to one and all.]It's a real pleasure to speak to the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill in the second reading. I'm a member of the Māori Affairs Committee and I join with colleagues from across the House especially those who travelled to Matamata to hear submitters on this bill. Can I just say to the House and to members of Ngāti Hinerangi that are listening in to this debate that the process can be challenging both for submitters for the claimant for the members of the committee itself. We find ourselves often hearing disputes and we have to make sure that we give everyone a fair hearing and sometimes we have to ask the hard questions. It does not mean that we dispute what is being said. It just means that we want to find out all of the information that we can. We then take that information away with us. We consider it. We ask officials that have worked on the settlement for further information as we did in this case.In the report back to the House it outlines quite clearly all of the things that we discovered and the decisions that the committee came to. So I support what other members of the committee have said about this settlement that we considered very clearly what was told to us about different hapū about what was supported and what was not. At the end of the day we have come to the conclusion that this bill should be passed with no major changes at all. There are a few technical changes. In saying that I also want to acknowledge exactly what is in the deed of settlement rather than the legislation. The legislation only contains aspects of the deed of settlement that needs to be in legislation. There's a lot more.Can I add to or endorse the words of the Hon Nicky Wagner in her expressions about the historical account. I think it's really important that we as members of Parliament are aware of the historical account that is in the legislation and in the deed of settlement. The historical account in the legislation is a briefer view of the longer version in the deed of settlement. So when the Hon Nicky Wagner spoke about the scorched earth policy in one of the battles that took place with Ngāti Hinerangi there's a longer version of that in the deed of settlement.It's harrowing to read them but sometimes you just have to do it. You have to read it to get an appreciation of what the members of Ngāti Hinerangi had to endure over—as my colleague from the Green Party Marama Davidson said—a long period of time and over generations. So we all agree with that in this House and it's important that we express it together so that as it says in—I want to just read a couple of quotes from the legislation. The first one is one of the acknowledgments. It says The Crown acknowledges that the cumulative effect of its acts and omissions left Ngāti Hinerangi virtually landless and had a devastating impact on their economic social and cultural well-being and development." So in the first part of the legislation we've got the historical account we've got acknowledgments and we've got the apology. So the historical account as members have discussed sets out what actually happened. The acknowledgments say this is what the Crown acknowledges. What I just read out was one of those things that is acknowledged.Then it goes on to an apology. So two quotes from the apology. The first one is: "The Crown is profoundly sorry for having failed to uphold its obligations to Ngāti Hinerangi under te Tiriti o Waitangi". Then it goes on to say "The Crown hopes that through this settlement it can restore its honour and alleviate the justifiable sense of grievance felt by generations of Ngāti Hinerangi."Now they are wonderful words. As we've heard laid out in this House today from different members outlining what's in the settlement we should always acknowledge quite clearly what the Crown has done and it's acknowledging that through this legislation and then it's apologising for it. But I've said this in this House before and I'm going to say it again today apologising for something is only meaningful if we never do it again. I say that collectively that we must never do that again so that we do not impact on Ngāti Hinerangi in the ways that have been acknowledged in this legislation. I say that which is a really difficult thing to do because when we're having the second and the third readings of these bills we all have high intent not to do that but we all have to be vigilant on every piece of legislation that goes through this House as well—every single piece so that we make sure that Ngāti Hinerangi is not impacted.So I do think Matamata and that area is a lovely part of New Zealand. I think the whole of our country as well that we'll all as electorate MPs stand up and say "My electorate is the best." I'm no different. I'm from Te Tai Hauāuru and we've got Ruapehu Ngāuruhoe Taranaki Te Kāhui Maunga. I wouldn't want anyone to make an apology like this and then say things like "Well we might put a tunnel underneath one of your maunga." That would be wrong—that would be so wrong to do that. So I think it's important that we always when we're saying that we will do things actually follow through on them. So that's my contribution. Nō reira e tika hoki kia tuku te reo mihi ake anō ki a Ngāti Hinerangi. Nō reira tēnā rā tātou katoa.[Therefore it is only right that I too acknowledge Ngāti Hinerangi. Therefore greetings to one and all.]"