Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): I rise on behalf of the Green Party to also offer our support for the Ahuriri hapū claims settlement and to welcome and acknowledge the people of Ngāti Hinepare Ngāti Māhu Ngāti Matepū Ngāti Paarau—including Ngāi Tahu Ahi—and Ngāi Tāwhao and Ngāti Tū and Ngāi Te Ruruku. All of the hapū have come together—or been possibly through the typical Treaty settlement process forced together—through this process.I want to acknowledge that as always this has been a long day coming to start to see the legislation reach this stage. And I want to acknowledge the resilience and leadership of the many rangatira who over many generations—as was noted within the Ahuriri hapū ratification information document and I'll quote that—devoted and committed themselves to defending the rights of our people and to righting the wrongs of the past". That is important work for hapū and for us as a country to acknowledge the dreadful wrongs that happened and that we are all still living with or benefiting from. It has been 10 years just since the Crown recognised the mandate of this claim and that was to start a conversation about the wrongs that started in the 1850s. As with others in the House I'd like to briefly touch on—and it always feels uncomfortable to me on some level of trying to summarise just the extent of the wrongs but it feels important to put it on record and because we still have such an issue in this country of not knowing our history. So I will just touch on the history where in the 1850s the hapū in this area—which is the hapū around Napier—decided that they were interested in selling some of the land and looking at developing a relationship with the Crown. The intent was for that to be mutually beneficial as you would expect in terms of a Crown that holds rule of law quite close as a concept and they might have expected that to have been able to be a relationship around integrity consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi. But actually what they were met with was dishonesty manipulation theft and violence—including unprovoked attacks on Māori and the taking of 86 members of their hapū who were imprisoned without trial on the Chathams for two years. This was done by a Crown who we still hear speaking the rhetoric of the importance of the rule of law. And just within 20 years of having entered those engagements with the Crown for 54000 acres in the land of Ahuriri hapū 51000 of 54000 acres had been dispossessed from those people—and that included just incredibly precious places including the estuary and a place that fed literally but also spiritually the people. And to speak particularly around the damage that was done—because I think there's the taking of the land but then there's being made to see the desecration of that land and observe that and feel that. To me the example of how the Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu which was originally—so that is land and the waters around the harbour—9500 acres where that land through the harbour trust and actions of the Crown was drained and land was reclaimed from it. So that precious precious waterway from 9500 acres has been reduced to the point now at high tide where it is only 680 acres. That to me is a physical demonstration of the damage and the violence that has been committed against Ahuriri hapū.And I want to also just acknowledge that in those years again after that between 1900 and 1930 the Crown and private parties "acquired" almost all of the rest of the precious life-giving and sustaining lands that were Ahuriri hapū. And many of those lands were sold so that the people could meet their basic living costs. To me again that demonstrates the compounding harm of theft and dispossession that we see now in the suffering of all too many people within Māoridom. That makes colonisation a current reality not an act of the past.It is traditional for the Green Party in our speeches and first readings to acknowledge that we believe that Te Tiriti is a positive force for social cohesion and peace but the full capacity of Te Tiriti to bring our communities together cannot be reached until genuine restitution is made and that Te Tiriti as it was written and agreed supports hapūtanga and that hapūtanga is undermined by the settlement process. Again we have seen that in evidence through this process.I do want to acknowledge the Waitangi Tribunal hearing that found that even in the process of this settlement the Crown breached its obligations for monitoring and maintenance of mandates. I will acknowledge the current Minister Andrew Little for on the day of that finding acknowledging that finding and moving forward to be able to get us back into the House today. But it really does speak to I believe how much more work we have to do to restore the true intent of Te Tiriti and the hope of that to all of us. I just briefly touch on and acknowledge how hard fought for this settlement has been. Again so much of this is about trying to restore connection to the land and acknowledging Ahuriri hapū as kaitiaki of their land. I want to acknowledge what a gift that is for us as a country and the generosity of Ahuriri hapū in maintaining that as a focus. It is really pleasing to see the establishment of Te Komiti Muriwai o Te Whanga and that will promote the protection and enhancement of the environment economic social spiritual historical and cultural values of Te Muriwai o Te Whanga for present and future generations. That is for me just such a blessing an act of generosity for all of us. And while this should be an acknowledgment of the harm that the Crown has caused and our commitment to do better in the future it is important to acknowledge the generosity of hapū even in this time and we look forward to the resolution of this."