Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Ā tēnā koutou ngā puāwaitaka a ō tātou mātua tīpuna. Anei rā te mihi hōhonu ki ngā uri o Te Arawa waka ka huri te titiro ki ngā tapuwae o Ngātoroirangi e takatakahia e ō koutou whenua. Ngā uri o Tūwharetoa i Te Aupōuri tū mai tū mai tū mai koutou. E mihi kau ana ki a koutou Tūwharetoa iwi e tae mai ki Te Upoko o Te Ika ki te tautoko te kaupapa nei te muru o te hara nā te Kāwanataka i te mahia. Nō reira a tēnei te mihi ki a koe e te ariki rakatira e Tā Tumu. Nō reira ka nunui te mihi e mauria mai e whakaako ki te kaupapa e nunui e te kaupapa o te Tūwharetoa i te pire. Nō reira kei a mātou ngā mema o Te Pāremata e mihi nei e tangi nei ki a koutou ngā taoka whakahirahira koutou e tūmanakohia ake nei huri noa i Te Whare Mīere. Nei te mihi ki te mema katoa nō reira e mihi atu e mihi atu e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Greetings to you Madam Deputy Speaker. Greetings to you the descendants of our ancestors. I hereby greet you the descendants of the Te Arawa canoe and I gaze upon the footsteps of Ngātoroirangi who tramped throughout your lands. The descendants of Tūwharetoa i Te Aupōuri stand tall stand tall stand tall. I greet you all the people of Tūwharetoa who have come to Wellington to support this matter to acknowledge the wrongs committed by the Government. I also greet you the paramount chief Sir Tumu. I appreciate greatly the learning that has been acquired through this important matter the Tūwharetoa bill. So we the members of Parliament greet you all the great treasures who have gathered in the Beehive as we hoped for and we also mourn your losses. I greet all the members greetings greetings greetings to you all.]I want to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations in the 52nd Parliament the Hon Andrew Little and wish him well in his new mahi. I also want to acknowledge the former Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson. We see a lot of the work that has been done on this important take today—the former Minister had a lot to do with what we are seeing here. To give this settlement some context Tūwharetoa is the fifth-largest iwi in the country with approximately around 36000 members. The area of interest is centred on Lake Taupō and the Central Plateau. It covers much of the central North Island and the Te Arawa regions. There are also a number of overlapping groups that are part of this settlement.The historical claims of Tūwharetoa against the Crown relate to the establishment of the Tongariro National Park the New Zealand Land Wars land alienations through native land laws Crown purchasing tactics and public works takings the loss of access to and control over geothermal resources water rights and fishing rights and environmental issues especially concerning Lake Taupō. One cannot begin to describe the profound impact the actions of the Crown have had on the proud people of Tūwharetoa. The Crown has admitted that every generation of Tūwharetoa has been adversely affected by the Government's failure to uphold its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi since 1840. This is a major acknowledgment of how unjustly the Crown acted.It is never easy to stand as a representative of the Crown to acknowledge the past wrongs of this House against any group of New Zealanders let alone Māori. And yet as a member of Parliament I am as culpable today as those who stood in the same House to make laws to dispossess Tūwharetoa of their land a little over 150 years ago. These laws I refer to include establishing and imposing the Native Land Court on Tūwharetoa without their consultation or agreement allowing the courts to begin the process of alienating Māori land held in common through individualisation of title and imposing the 10-owner rule upon the hapū of Tūwharetoa to the detriment of a multitude of iwi members at that time. Unfortunately it does not stop there. The deliberate warfare waged by the Crown upon the Kīngitanga in Waikato-Tainui left Tūwharetoa hapū with little option but to support their relations in the North. Going to war against colonial troops to assist their northern relations resulted in very harsh recrimination by systematically dispossessing Tūwharetoa of their lands through major raupatu.But arguably the greatest slight to Tūwharetoa was the undermining of the tuku or the transfer that their tipuna Horonuku te Heuheu Tūkino IV made when gifting their rakatira mauka including their tipua mauka Tongariro to the Crown. The gift was given in humility and in love for all the people of Aotearoa. It was a gift designed to preserve the beauty of these mauka and the surrounding whenua for all New Zealanders to enjoy. It was this gift that created the Tongariro National Park. This gift is all the more significant as it was given after Tūwharetoa had suffered the indignities of land confiscation for supporting their Waikato-Tainui relations having their tīpuna unjustly imprisoned on Wharekauri without trial in very very harsh conditions and having suffered the indignities of land alienation through the Native Land Court. But the iwi through te Heuheu still took the first step to repair a relationship that was broken by the Crown through these injustices.How did the Crown respond to this extraordinary and extremely generous gift to the country a gift the Crown knew was intended to honour the Treaty of Waitangi by enabling true partnership using a unique collaborative model? Again unfortunately by systematically and consciously diluting the role of Tūwharetoa in the administration of the Tongariro National Park; by deliberately appointing a majority of non-Māori members to the national park board; and by intentionally extinguishing Tūreiti te Heuheu Tūkino V's trusteeship on the board.There are many ways that we are the embodiment of the saying The sins of the father are revisited upon the son." That being said the son now has the opportunity along with all other members of this House to right a wrong committed in our collective name over a century and a half ago and I'm proud to see the members of this House on both sides owning our collective wrongdoing and endeavouring to make it right with the people of Tūwharetoa. The aspects of redress include cultural funds totalling approximately $3.95 million and financial redress of $25 million. The Crown will also begin cultural redress negotiations over the Tongariro National Park with Tūwharetoa and other iwi and hapū with interests in this park within the next 12 months.As with all other Treaty settlements the Tūwharetoa settlement is small relative to the loss suffered by them but it is a settlement and once again Tūwharetoa have been gracious to the people of New Zealand by accepting cents in the dollar owing to them. All of New Zealand should be grateful to Tūwharetoa for once again putting aside its rightful sense of injustice loss and hurt to accept a settlement that does not and never could reflect the true loss to this iwi. I want to convey my true gratitude to Tūwharetoa for the ongoing patience and unfathomable aroha that they have shown in all these years of loss that they have suffered. Tūwharetoa humility and manaaki to the whole country stand as a testament to the mana of this truly great and respected iwi and for that reason I commend this bill to the House. E mihi atu ki a koutou katoa kia ora."