Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Tēnā tatou e te Whare hei tīmatanga kia tūkuna atu e ahau ki a koutou ngā uri a Aotea waka Uenuku me ērā atu o ngā torotoronga i waenga tonu i tō tatou ao Māori e noho mai nā i raro i te maru o tō koutou maunga i roto noki i ērā papa kāinga i kōrerotia ai e te kaikōrero whakamutunga. Nāreira tēnā koutou. He nui noa atu ngā kōrero pēnei kua oti i ahau nō roto i ngā tau ka hia rānei te tini te pāhemo kua riro ko koutou hei mihinga mā mātou i tēnei rā. Otirā hei aha mā mātou ā-kanohi mihi atu ki a koutou. Pai kē me whakamahara i roto i te Whare te rārangi o ō koutou tupuna o ō koutou mātua nā rātou te pīkaunga nei i hāpai i poipoi i tō rātou wā. Kua riro ko koutou te hunga kua whakaritea hei whakatutuki i tēnei pito o te kaupapa. Nōreira tēnā koutou tēnā tatou katoa. [Greetings to the House. Firstly I would like to acknowledge you all the descendants of Aotea waka Uenuku and the other Māori kin of ours that live under the shade of your lofty mountain. And also to those villages that were acknowledged by the previous speaker. Salutations to you all. There are many such sentiments that I have expressed within the many years that have past you are the reason for my sentiments today. Therefore I stand here face to face to acknowledge you. I would also like to remind us here in the House of the responsibilities that were upheld and taken care of by your ancestors and your elders in their time. The responsibility is now on you lot to take care of at this end of the matter. And so thank you thank you all.]New Zealand First stands to acknowledge that we obviously will support this settlement. I've said in our reo that a number of us have been involved in this journey—in my case since 1986 as the translator for Matiu Rata's lawyer David Baragwanath in the original Muriwhenua fisheries claims that kicked off in 1986 along with Sir Graham Latimer and the Maunganui claim. But today we are referring to the tangata whenua from that part of the North Island which I regarded as the coldest that God ever put breath into. During the 1990s my wife and I would occasionally go to this area because my wife was a niece of the Sonny Pehi whānau and quite a few Ngāpuhis married into these people in this part of Aotearoa. Of course the Pehi whānau produced New Zealand's famous champion boxer. I can assure you to get on the wrong side of the whānau of my late wife demonstrated you learn about the ability of boxing.So there's a great deal of warmth today in the House. In a funny way this is quite a complicated settlement. Although it's modest in fiscal size its complication derives from the many instruments that are in here. I want to read into the record that on page 79 in clause 114 I have finally found some tangata whenua who agree with minerals: pākohe; ōnewa; matā tūhua which we call obsidian; paru.In fact I recently was in Te Arawa where they have perfected healing with the various paru Waiariki one-uku clay. In the 1980s it was Baye Riddell and Manos Nathan the son of the famous Māori Battalion leader Uncle Ned Nathan who was captured in Crete and was nursed back to life by his wife's people. He eventually married one of their whānau and they—his son—were the people in the 1980s who revived the utilisation and quite frankly evolved the utilisation of uku into clay pottery. They were supported by the Navajo who came at that stage in the 1980s and stayed on our marae in Tai Tokerau when those links were very very strong and very very fresh. Papa hoanga sandstone and kokowai—these are elements of the earth; these are elements of our identity. In Te Tai Tokerau we have one such clay called pukepoto and it's the only clay that was used by my grandmother's generation to create the blue effect of mixing clay with the preparation of various plant materials. Not surprisingly Matua Shane Jones was wildly distracted on other things. However I do remember that.So e te whānau tēnā koutou katoa. This is when I say it is complicated because it represents a great deal of responsibility to monitor and to exercise oversight in terms of the multiple pieces of land and the statutory representations that are reflected in this Act which you have to share with a number of your neighbours. So for those of us who have a longstanding involvement in the Māori political economy we know that number one it's not easy and number two if it's not carried out in an efficient manner it can be very very burdensome.However today in this first reading as the bill travels through the huarahi of your legislature I stand on behalf of New Zealand First and I must before I sit acknowledge the earlier Ministers. We have Minister Goldsmith here and Minister Little but also obviously Minister Finlayson dedicated a great deal of his time as well not only to this settlement but to a host of others. So Godspeed and we will see you at the other end of this parliamentary journey. Tēnā koutou katoa.