Hayes Jo; Tolley AnneJO HAYES (National): Tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e ōku whānau o Ngāti Rangi. Nau mai haere mai ki te rā whakahirahira.[Thank you. Greetings to you my family from Ngāti Rangi. I bid you a warm welcome on this important day.]It is with great pleasure that I stand to take a call in the second reading of the Ngāti Rangi Claims Settlement Bill. I want to acknowledge Che Wilson and his team from Ngāti Rangi for the work that they have done in this settlement claims process. I must admit—like the rest of my colleagues have articulated in the House—when we went to the hearings in Ōhākune yes Koro Ruapehu was over the top of us and he stayed there all day watching us and making sure that the process that was being done in that whare was being done correctly. I don't know about the rest of my colleagues but I felt rather at ease with the whole thing—nice and warmed up—and it was great. About this time in the speaking order you know it's always difficult to say some lovely words around claims settlement bills when you're so far down the speaking order list but in my contribution today I want to actually focus a little bit on some of the history of Ngāti Rangi and some of the atrocities that happened to them that actually brought us to this day. Whilst I hear what Jan Logie and the rest of our colleagues have said in the House today—that there is not enough money to be able to compensate the atrocities that actually affected Ngāti Rangi—I mean that's how it is for the time being; however you know what is given over for the Treaty claims whether it be land or money I know that the iwi will do well by it and will grow their economic base.But as I said I just want to traverse a little bit of some of the history of Ngāti Rangi and the amount of land that they lost—63000 acres in 1900 to 13500 acres today. That is absolutely a shameful past and we should never ever let that happen again. When you lose that much land that much economic base it's no wonder that self-sustainability for Ngāti Rangi when it came to their rangatiratanga and kaitiakitanga of their many taonga was adversely affected. So I think that a lot of the loyalty that Ngāti Rangi gave to the Crown at that time in their history went unanswered by the Crown. When we look at the number of leases that the Crown took away from Ngāti Rangi or paid minimal rent for eventually taking land completely the leased lands noted for today or the case in point is the Murimotu district case. Let's also have a look at the use of public works and scenery preservation to acquire Ngāti Rangi lands and blocking access to significant wāhi tapu—these are just other examples. The failure to pay compensation for land compulsorily taken for the Main Trunk Line; the non-return of vested lands—namely the Ōhūtu No. 8 block; the Tongariro National Park; Matua maunga Ruapehu—that was part of our national park; significant blocks of Ngāti Rangi land taken by the Crown; and Rangipō North No. 8 block known as tūpuna wāhi tapu lands Te Wai-ā-Moe Paretetaitonga and Te Ara ki Paretetaitonga—all taken. All taken by the Crown.The damage to the Ngāti Rangi lands from the planting of pinus contorta—a weed—and I remember when I was doing my degree at Massey University my science degree one of the things that we had to do as students was go up to the plateau and pull out pinus contorta weeds to try and make room for growth that should be there of right; and also the New Zealand Defence Force lands at Waiōuru—all of these things were done by the Crown almost to Ngāti Rangi. Of course we cannot forget Te Awa o Whangaehu the Tongariro power station and Eastern Diversion the loss of Te Reo Māori the impact of socio-economic well-being on whānau the loss of jobs housing; all of those things are a history that should never be forgotten as we move into the future. I wanted to put that into the Hansard in this House so it will never be forgotten because in years to come when Joe Average out there on the street sees all the beautiful development of the lands of Ngāti Rangi they will need to know how that all came about and that's why I put it to the Hansard of today.However today we are one committee of the whole and a third reading away from the end of your settlement journey Ngāti Rangi. Ngāti Rangi whānau have spoken at the select committee hearings you've spoken through the numerous reports the kōrero that's been written the histories that have been written for Ngāti Rangi and it's all down on record for the world to see.The advisers the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the select committee—we've all done our work and we've all come together. Ministers have worked together—the Hon Andrew Little and the Hon Chris Finlayson—to get to this point. The amendments have been completed as was said by our chair Rino Tirikatene. All of that work has been done and now we wait for the committee of the whole House and the third reading.As I stand here as the Hon Ron Mark has said in his contribution we stand here often in all of these claims settlement bills and we hear and we read and we speak about the atrocities; we speak about not enough compensation. Yet we try hard and we look at the way that iwi can grow their economic base from what we are able to settle in their settlements.So as we continue to talk through this today we need to be I suppose mindful that our contributions do need to be kept short in the second reading so we can hurry up and get to the third reading and then the bill needs to go to the Governor-General to sign off for Royal assent.So I am humbled again that another one of my iwi are here in the House today and they're getting their claims settlement bill through this House. I'm proud of the work that you have all done. I sit up there and I am in awe of all the mahi that you do not just in this but what you do at home as well. For your knowledge my mother was brought up by Karaitiana Karaitiana—te Whare Pono o Karaitiana—on the awa o Whanganui and that is my home side as well from my mother. So without any further ado I'm proud to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call.