Andersen GinnyHon GINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Māngai. Ko te mihi tuatahi ki te atua nāna nei ngā mea katoa. Ko te mihi tuarua ki te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Ko tēnei te mihi Ngāti Hei. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Firstly I'd like to acknowledge our God to whom everything belongs. Secondly I'd like to acknowledge this standing House salutations. Ngāti Hei I acknowledge you. Greetings greetings greetings.]Ngāti Hei are one of 12 iwi and hapū in the Hauraki region and in 2009 Ngāti Hei formed part of a collective. They didn't do this just because they wanted to: this was due to the fact that at the time the Crown had a policy that if iwi were to negotiate their Treaty grievances with the Crown they were required to be part of a large natural group. Ngāti Hei which is around 700 would be too small to form a group on their own so they came and formed part of a collective. So this is an example of smaller groups of Māori within New Zealand who have legitimate Treaty claims having to come together not at their own requirement or view but because of the framework of the Treaty negotiations settlement process.In 2018 Ngāti Hei signed the Pare Hauraki Collective Redress Deed and this is part of that. When we look through the history of Ngāti Hei it is a good example of the direct impact of colonisation on Māori in New Zealand and over the years to see how land has been stripped away and also the impacts not only on the well-being and hauora of a people but also of their financial independence and ability to look after their own.It was early as 1836 when we saw deals being done with traders that resulted in the Land Claims Commission making inquiries as to whether those were legitimate deals or not. The Crown after investigating back in 1837 awarded 7000 acres of land in which Ngāti Hei had interests to European claimants. As a result much of the coastal lands that were originally in the possession of Ngāti Hei were lost. It was between 1858 and 1865 that Ahuahu was purchased from Hauraki iwi. There is no evidence that Ngāti Hei were consulted about this purchase and furthermore there's been no evidence that they even received payment for that land.Between 1859 and 1865 there was a Crown policy that for every say 10 acres purchased 1 acre would be held in reserve. That was the case in many instances around the country. But over that time the Crown bought 20000 acres from Ngāti Hei and it did not provide any reserves for Ngāti Hei nor did it require any assessment as to whether the people had retained adequate land for their own needs. In 1870 right up to 1890 this is when the significant purchases happened: 15 large blocks of 1000 acres or more—totalling over 93000 acres—were permanently taken from Ngāti Hei. The Crown purchased 12 of those blocks with over 81000 acres in total.I think one of the interesting things that we see and one of the sad things that we see is those iwi that have been most affected by loss of land are often those who are sitting on the land which has the most value. We can think of some of our prime dairying land; we can think of some other areas. Ngāti Hei was no different in this with the kauri logging kauri gum digging flax milling and gold mining all areas that were heavily jumped in upon and exploited for those resources. One of the lasting grievances from Ngāti Hei is that the damage was done to their own rohe but there was very little financial or empowerment of their iwi as a result of that.As we've heard the last point I'll make is that it was back in 1923 where Ngāti Hei wrote to the Crown and they asked for a particular island to be surveyed—Ohinau Island—for the purpose of taking claims of that ownership of that island to the Native Land Court. The Crown reacted by delaying that process while it surveyed the island and then it subsequently took the whole island for the purpose of a lighthouse when not the whole island was needed for that lighthouse—it acquired the whole 72-acre island.So as a result of those losses of land and others I haven't mentioned by the end of the 20th century Ngāti Hei were left landless. It's important to note that as a direct result of having been alienated from their land there's been a loss of te reo Māori; a loss of tribal structures; and a loss of ability to pass on knowledge mātauranga and understanding to the next generation. So it is that separation of land and place to be together and have traditional structures in place that when that land is removed from a people it also removes the ability for the next generation to benefit from everything that kaumātua have to benefit and pass on.For all of that loss Ngāti Hei have received three things specified in the bill: an apology for the Crown for the wrongs and the breaches of the Treaty; cultural redress which has vested several properties back at with Ngāti Hei; and a financial redress of $8.5 million. I'm always in two minds when I speak on Treaty bills or when we discuss these. I feel pleased for Ngāti Hei to be able to take this and move on and to create a better future for the next generation of those uri of Ngāti Hei—and I really hope that this provides an opportunity for that to happen. But at the same time I feel sad in my heart when we read back on those losses and we think of what has been taken away and we see what is being given in compensation and it is a mere drop in the bucket from what has been lost. Nōreira he mihi mahana ki a koutou Ngāti Hei tēnā koutou. [Therefore a warm convivial greeting to you Ngāti Hei thank you all.]