McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): This is a pretty significant day for a large part of the lower Rangitīkei electorate and of course for the people who live there. I live on the line—I supposed you could say; if there is such a line in these sort of things—between Ngāti Apa and Rangitāne and my family have been intertwined with them since the 1840s. Pukepuke Lagoon for instance was a part of a piece of land that we leased off the Crown for some hundred-odd years. So it is really quite an exciting opportunity I think both for my family to see what goes on with Rangitāne but particularly for the people of Rangitāne. I think that is progress.If you think about the early days of the Manawatū the lower Manawatū was covered in flax and if you think about Foxton Foxton was built on flax. Much of the industry of the lower Manawatū and the history of the lower Manawatū was intertwined with flax. So the fact that that area is now part of an agreement and a lot of work that has been undertaken by the people of Rangitāne and by their cousins from Ngāti Kauwhata around the Ōroua River and the work that was undertaken on the Manawatū River it is really a forerunner in New Zealand I think to what we are going to see in the future with many partnerships in this kind of environmental management and the management of things that are very important to us. I think that the Manawatū River Leaders' Accord and the way in which that has been dealt with by all parties concerned is a significant example of how things can work extremely well.I just want to acknowledge one or two people and I know Minister Finlayson has acknowledged all of the important people of Rangitāne but I want to speak about a couple in particular and one was the late Ruth Harris. It would be fair to say that I did not always agree with Ruth and she did not always agree with me. But that was just how she was and I am sure that many other people have experienced that in her. I also want to acknowledge Danielle who I think has held the vision of her mother and her family together and built an organisation that has achieved this outcome today. I know as many have said earlier that it was extremely hard work for them all.None of these things happen easily none of them happen easily in Parliament and none of them happen easily in the land of Rangitāne. I want to acknowledge a couple of other people whom I have had a lot to do with in my life. Wīremu and Trieste Te Awe Awe who live on the banks of the Ōroua River at their home marae Te Rangimārie have had their house flooded twice—completely demolished in fact—in the last 12 years by that river. You have got to wonder what would have happened in the early days because those rivers must have flooded in the same way. Although of course as we play around with the environment we do cause different effects and I guess it is a really interesting example as to what has happened in the lower Manawatū because it is a massive scheme to try to manage that river. It is very different land than it ever used to be.I want to congratulate Rangitāne. I want to also congratulate Nuk and the Māori Affairs Committee on getting this bill through the House. I want to congratulate the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and all the work that he has done to get to this point and I look forward to the next few—well I suppose it might only be a few in my case—years watching what happens with Rangitāne and particularly in respect of the fact that we are liable to be neighbours as the Tangimoana Forest was also part of land that my family leased in the early days and so we will see where we get to. I want to congratulate you. I think it is fantastic progress for us. I commend the bill to the House and look forward to the progress that we make in the future. Thank you.