Hauiti Claudette: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHauiti Claudette: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 12 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16642. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAUDETTE HAUITI (National):It is a pleasure to rise to take a call on the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill at its second reading. This is indeed Tāmaki Makaurau Mātā Waka Tāmaki Herenga Waka. I stand as a proud child of Tāmaki Mātā Waka. In my generation I was classified as one of the children of the cones because in my time where we had Mātā Waka coming into Tāmaki-makau-rau we were housed in the shadows of Maunga Puketāpapa Mount Roskill and Ōwairaka Mount Albert. It is gratifying to see that the mana whenua of those areas the 13 iwi and hapū are now being recognised in this bill. The 13 iwi have been broken up into three rōpū which make up this collective: Ngāti Whātua rōpū Tāmaki rōpū and Manu Tuahu rōpū. They negotiated to have the maunga vested in their interests.It is interesting that some of my colleagues have brought up the fact that the maunga have several names. That would be quite correct as well because each of their mana whenua have their own pūrākau around those maunga. I think we also need to remember some of the stories of the rūaumoko beneath those maunga which are still sitting there and remember that every single one of those maunga links to each other. In fact on Ōwairaka Mount Royal Avenue every single household that borders the base of Ōwairaka has caves that go into the crater of that maunga. And all those craters also link to Maunga Tāpapa and into Maungarei as well. They were used as exit points for some of the waka coming down from Ngāpuhi from Ngāti Whātua on their way down to Ngati Porou and further down as well. So they are not only very significant in terms of their ingoa—their names—but also very significant in terms of their history of Māori.So with that is the vesting of the 14 maunga and as we have heard the trust for the common benefit of iwi and hapū and for all the people of Auckland as well. I do think that there may be issues with some of those organisations that have felt in the past that they are the kaitiaki of these maunga and that they will need to go into discussion with the mana whenua to progress the development of those maunga going forward for the benefit of all of Auckland and for the people of New Zealand and for our visitors overseas as well. Now that this bill has come into the House we are looking forward to seeing what the mana whenua will do in One Tree Hill on Maungakiekie and whether or not they will replant or what they will do now that we can move forward after we lost that pinus radiata off that maunga. The legal descriptions around this maunga have also been implemented into this bill and that is a great step forward as well.There is no financial redress for iwi and hapū in this bill as that will be provided individually in each group’s deed of settlement. However the deed and the bill provide resources and opportunities to assist iwi and hapū to secure and grow their own economic base. There is the right of first refusal for the Tāmaki Collective over Crown-owned land and certain Crown entity - owned land in the Tāmaki area that becomes surplus and the second right to purchase any deferred selection properties not purchased by individual iwi through their own settlements as well. The following matter is not directly covered under this bill and that is Maungakiekie after the tree was chopped down in 2000 but we are hoping that with the settlement of this claim something will be done about that.This National-led Government is making great progress on the completion of the Treaty claims. So far we have signed 43 deeds of settlement. But this settlement is quite significant in that it does address about a third or a quarter of all settlements thus far which are the ones that are in Tāmaki-makau-rau itself. So this bill’s coming into the House is quite a significant way to address the remaining settlements under this National-led Government. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a second time.