Wall Louisa: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWall Louisa: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 09 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1294. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa):Kia ora e Te Māngai o Te Whare. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā ngā whānau o Ngāti Korokī Kahukura me Ngāti Haua tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātau katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and welcome to the authorities dialects many leaders and families of Ngāti Korokī Kahukura and Ngāti Hauā. Welcome welcome. I congratulate us all.]Today is always a day of mixed emotion. It is an emotional day because it is a day that Ngāti Koroki Kahukura looks back at how they have arrived at this point in time. It interesting to note that we are over 155 years since our Native Land Acts and our Māori Land Wars. We are nearly 40 years since the Waitangi Tribunal was established under the Treaty of Waitangi Act. In fact it was 20 years ago in 1994 that Wally Papa and others put their Wai claims before the Crown. They were Wai 1294 and Wai 1494. So today is the beginning; it is not an end. Today is a day where as a whānau I think that all those memories come flooding back. Adrian Rurawhe and I were just sitting here admiring the strength and the resilience of your iwi Ngāti Koroki Kahukura because the challenges that were faced over the years to get to this point in time have been ones where I think we ourselves have had to go through processes that the Crown has established to get your mandate to get your negotiating team to negotiate with the Crown. What I always appreciate about this process is the strength and resilience of our iwi.We come and go. I am in my second term here. In the 50th Parliament I was a proud member of the Māori Affairs Committee. In this term I am not a member of the Māori Affairs Committee but I am a proud Māori member of this House of Parliament and I am a proud member of Labour’s Māori caucus. What you need to know is that this Treaty settlement space is actually one where we do have consensus across the House and that all of us in this House want to work with iwi as fast as we can to give I guess formal recognition to your status. When I look at these bills for me it is always the statutory acknowledgments that take my eye. Those statutory acknowledgments are actually about the Crown recognising the mana of the tangata whenua and it is upon that relationship that I think we have clarity going forward because we see you as an equal partner under the statutory acknowledgment space. We see that our mana whenua actually do have rights and responsibilities in consenting and resource management issues so for me that is the platform in terms of the relationship that provides the most clarity about our status as the mana whenua the tangata whenua—the indigenous people—of Aotearoa New Zealand.I always stand here with I guess the humbleness that comes from being in this House of Parliament and I am privileged to be part of this Treaty settlement process. I want to acknowledge and thank the strength and the mana of our iwi for getting us as a country to this point in time because without your generosity we would not be in a place where actually we are in a truth and reconciliation process. We can move forward and look forward with tremendous pride about and appreciation for the contribution that I know you have made and that you will make as an iwi to the development of our nation.To all our kaumātua and our kuia thank you for being the pōu and for being there to lead the way for the rangatahi. I do want to acknowledge as my colleague Meka Whaitiri did our mokopuna and our tamariki who are here because I think the legacy that we are creating actually holds us in good stead for the future. I am going to be really excited about how Ngāti Koroki Kahukura uses this settlement process to achieve the dreams and aspirations that I know you have been planning since 2010. I have looked on the website and I want to congratulate you on the engagement that you have had with your people to take them on this journey. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.