Andersen GinnyHon GINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe e te Pīka ko te mihi tuatahi ki te atua nāna nei ngā mea katoa. Ko te mihi tuarua ki te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Āpiti hono tātai hono te hunga mate ki te hunga mate āpiti hono tātai hono te hunga ora ki te hunga ora. Ka huri ahau ki a koutou ngā hapū o Whakatōhea nau mai haere mai ki tō tātou Whare. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei rā ko te rā o te pānuitanga tuatoru o tō koutou pire. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [Thank you Madam Speaker. The first acknowledgment is to the God who created everything. Second acknowledgments to this standing House greetings. The dead to the dead the living to the living the lines are joined. I turn to you the people of Whakatōhea welcome to our House. Welcome to this day the day of the third reading of your bill. Thank you all.]First of all I would like to acknowledge te huarahi roa rawa atu [the long enduring pathway] that Whakatōhea have been on from the beginning of time until this point right now in time. There has been a long road of wrongs and hurt committed by the Crown to bring us to this point. The cumulative effects of that are recorded well in the bill that lies before this House today and very well recorded in the Crown apology to Whakatōhea as well. Your settlement process started as far back as the 1990s. It has been a road indeed to bring us to this point in time. I would just like to in English give a warm mihi to all of you and to acknowledge the weight of history that you carry into this House today.Like my colleague Adrian Rurawhe I would like my final speech on this bill to be one of hope; to be one of looking towards the world of light and the future that awaits not only you but the generations to come. But before I do that I just have one thing I need to get off my chest. So there's going to be one negative point about the process of the Treaty settlement process that I would like to put down in this third reading.I first read of your history over 20 years ago when I was a new negotiator for the Office of Treaty Settlements and I very quickly came to terms with the Crown's policy of what was the preference to only negotiate with large natural groups. I guess I would like to say that I saw firsthand how damaging and difficult that policy could be and that Whakatōhea saw that up close and continues to feel the pain of that policy.My boss quit because of that policy. I was like one or two months into my first job in Wellington and my boss quit and resigned as a result of him protesting to Ngāti Manawa Ngāti Whare being tried to be shoehorned together and they were not. So right from the get-go there were issues with how that policy was implemented and the feeling that it conveyed more hurt and pain in some instances when the efforts were trying to alleviate those.I would like to talk about the redress of kotahi rau miriona tāra [$1 million] and that that sum is there for the future and the sustenance of Whakatōhea and for your young people to take full advantage of. I note there are 33 vesting sites as well as part of the cultural redress. But one of the things I think is most exciting is the opportunities for aquaculture that lie ahead. The fact that there are 5000 hectares of space in the coastal marine area and that only Whakatōhea may apply for those permits I think that is a great opportunity.But with that it is incumbent upon all of us to make sure our moana stay beautiful and clean and are able to be utilised for kai moana. There's no good having aquaculture if we don't have a water system that takes our paru water away and keeps our clean water clean. So your future is also reliant upon the decisions that happen in this country to make sure we look after the quality of our water our beaches and our kai moana.I would like to wrap up I guess by acknowledging that the apology written in your bill is detailed. It carries a lot of weight and it really clearly calls out the wrongs that have happened and the systematic separation of a people with their land and the devastation that has caused. I think it's incredibly important that we record that in this House in legislation not only so that we can tell those stories to our children but so people can read that in the years and years to come. Those words that are always so haunting to me Tangohia mai te taurā i taku kaki kia waiata au i taku waiata." ["Remove the noose from my neck so that I can sing my song."] My hope is that this settlement is a warm protective cloak for rangatahi to nourish and nurture them for the future; that you use this to as the words of Rima Nakhle say bring you into the full Te Ao Mārama and take advantage of all of the opportunities.There has never been a more challenging time for our rangatahi in this day and age in terms of the risks they face the social media that broadcasts it the substances available and the fast cars. It's a scary world for our rangatahi and I truly hope that this warm cloak provides the comfort the sense of standing in your place and knowing who you are and getting strength from your community to set those young people up as strong as they possibly can to face those struggles and to face their future strong and proud. Nō reira he mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa."