Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Tēnā koutou ōku rangatira. E te imi Moriori tēnā koutou. Nau mai whakatau mai ki te ana o te raiona e takatū nei. He rā nui tēnei he rā nō koutou tēnei he rā nui whakahirahira. He Hōnore nui ki te tū i tēnei pānuitanga tuatoru. Ka huri tū me mihi atu ki ngā mate huhua o te wā kua whetūrangitia koutou haere haere atu rā. Hoki mai ki a tātou te kanohi ora e pae enei me ngā mema Hōnore huri rauna i tō tātou Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Greetings to the Speaker. Greetings to my esteemed colleagues. To the Moriori people greetings. Welcome welcome to the lion's den which is prepared for you. This is a great day this is your day a very significant day indeed. It is a great honour to stand at this third reading. I now turn and must greet the many deceased of this time you who have become stars in the heavens may you rest in peace. Returning to the representatives of the living sitting here and the honourable members all around this House greetings greetings greetings one and all.]It is such a privilege to be able to speak in this third reading of the Moriori Claims Settlement Bill. I have sat through many Treaty settlements over my years in this House both as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee and also just witnessing the debate and they're all very special. I believe just like all Treaty settlements the Moriori settlement casts a shadow over the history of our country of Aotearoa over the atrocities which have taken place. We have a very colourful history in this nation and to be able to see the history that has now been written down through the deed of settlement and now reflected in this bill the history of the Moriori people it's very poignant that we mustn't forget. We celebrate these occasions whereby we can now use this as a marker to be able to ensure that there is a new relationship between the Crown and Moriori that can move forward because we know there have been terrible acts of omission of the Crown. There were terrible events that took place between Māori and Moriori and Māori and Māori. We hear this in every Treaty settlement but it's captured—it's captured. This is the history of the Moriori people. It has been painstakingly—every word of the deed of settlement the historical account and likewise—reflected in the bill. Every word every phrase is the history of their people which has now been recorded for all time through this settlement which marks this new era of a Treaty relationship with the Crown. So I want to acknowledge the Moriori people. I want to acknowledge the many years that have taken place in this long long journey. I think of all of those that have passed on who were part of the journey in this recent time. Yes this day is a day of remembrance. We must remember all those that have played a part a significant part.I'm very privileged: a big part of this settlement and of the terrible wrongdoings that were committed against the Moriori people was about the portrayal or the stigmatisation of the Moriori people but I never ever encountered that. I'm so fortunate. I'm so fortunate that since I was a young lad I have had nothing but the most awe-inspiring images of the Moriori people. I've gotten to know the people and gotten to spend time on Rēkohu as a young child and indeed as I've grown up through life I've had the privilege to be able to be engaged in various activities mostly iwi-to-iwi activities with the Moriori. So I have had just wonderful memories. My first memory of Moriori I do believe was a TV show. It was like a documentary and it was Māui Solomon and his brothers. They were I think dressed in nothing but a loincloth and they were clambering over the rocks on Manukau I believe. They were finding these turtle-sized pāuas and they were eating those pāuas and chewing on those pāuas and then they were handing it on and I was just absolutely bedazzled by these Moriori warriors. I thought Wow that's amazing." They were able to eat raw pāua off the rock and so that inspired me. I was so fortunate that just a couple of years after that I was able to go to the Chatham Islands to celebrate the unveiling of the statue of Tommy Solomon the tupuna of Māui and his whānau. It's still standing there beautifully the statue there and that really marked the renaissance of the Moriori people. That momentum has just continued over the years when I think back to the efforts of Māui in fisheries negotiations for the Moriori imi right through to the establishment of their beautiful marae Te Kopinga Marae through to the acquisitions of significant assets on the island which they have required to build up their commercial base and through to now the completion of this settlement. It's been a very action-packed past 35-plus years—close to 40 years—of this particular journey and so this is a real milestone for Moriori.I think of the relationships that we have and I know I've mentioned that in previous speeches but I have a fond memory. It's such a long journey these Treaty settlements but I remember I was in the Wellington Airport and Tom Lanauze and a dear kuia that was with him who were on the negotiating team were holding some consultation hui I believe with Moriori whānau. It was just wonderful to see them. So we got talking and as all good Ngāi Tahu whanaunga do I gifted them a bucket of muttonbirds much to Tom's joy.Hon Simon Bridges: Is that legal? That doesn't sound legal.RINO TIRIKATENE: I've always got muttonbirds handy always at the ready as the member for Te Tai Tonga. I gifted the bucket of prized muttonbirds that we have down in the South to Tom Lanauze and this dear kuia and they were very much appreciative because I recognise and we recognise as Māori the importance of the mahi that they were doing. It's so important and it was that expression of just goodwill and whanaungatanga that we have for our relations on Rēkohu.So we have been involved in so many things over the years and this is a really important marker. I want to acknowledge all those that have been involved in this settlement on both sides: te imi Moriori and obviously the Crown: Dame Fran Wilde and all her team all the officials. There's more to come—there is more to come—because we know there are some shared settlements that are yet to be coming through for Wharekauri Rēkohu and I'm really looking forward that we can once again as a House come together to acknowledge those shared settlements that will also be given effect to by legislation between Moriori and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri.So there is much to celebrate and just in closing I want to acknowledge the waiata that the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Tāmati Coffey played for the House. That is a first—that is a first. He might have set a trend. We'll be coming out with the old boom boxes and letting it rip. But I do want to acknowledge that beautiful waiata because I think it just captured in the beautiful ambiance in the wairua of that waiata—we could feel the wairua of the Moriori people coming through from their own uri singing forth their beautiful waiata which was no doubt composed by their rangatahi. So that is what we want to base this celebration day on: the future for their rangatahi the future for Moriori imi. I congratulate them all. Me rongo me rongo kia ora mai anō tātou katoa. [In peace in peace thank you one and all.]"