Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. What a proud day for Ngāti Porou and I take a special opportunity to acknowledge the huge crowd who have travelled all the way from Ngāti Porou country to be here today. Can I also say that I won't take my four minutes because I'm looking forward to the waiata and we've only got one more speech after me before we have that wonderful historic waiata in this House today.Can I start by acknowledging the contributions of all the members of Parliament that I've heard this afternoon. The Hon Willie Jackson—I don't often agree with him but he's right. Today is well a chance for him to make a couple of confessions but more importantly he acknowledged this as a day of huge celebration and it is.I want to also acknowledge the leaders of Ngāti Porou. I see Selwyn Parata there. Can I also refer and I know everybody else has referred to the late Api Mahuika. Can I just say that as a Minister shortly after the Key Government came in in 2008 I was made the Minister of agriculture forestry and fisheries and I immediately had the opportunity to interact with Uncle Api. There are some people who have a real influence on one's life and upon meeting him I could see he was one of those men. He had that wonderful way of giving very good guidance but in a way that was polite and respectful of my position. He had that word that Māori have—it's mana"—and even to this day I'm sure that you miss him as much as I do. He was a wonderful contributor. As a member of Parliament one of the privileges is you get to travel all around New Zealand and there are two very special places for me that sadly most New Zealanders don't get to. One's on the West Coast of the North Island—Taranaki a wonderful part of the world—but the other is your patch the East Cape and that wonderful city of Gisborne. The last time I was there sadly—so it's been a while—was the tangi for the Hon Parekura Horomia. I'd only just been made Speaker and when I went to the tangi I was given the privilege of saying a few words. I remember remarking on the way he used to entertain this House. He was the one who would stand to answer a question as a Minister he'd sit down after answering the question and we as the Opposition had no idea what he had just said and you could see on his own face as he sat down that he'd actually had no idea what he had said. So it was an absolute privilege then as Speaker to preside over a very special memorial to that wonderful member of Parliament here in this House as members had the opportunity to say their farewells to that person. I think that while we acknowledge the work that's been done by everybody as this bill has come to its fruition the Hon Parekura Horomia is certainly in my mind to be credited for a lot of the work that he did. The Hon Anne Tolley the Deputy Speaker made some interesting comments about the transition of the bill and how long it's taken—how it's been through a Labour Government and a National Government and now a Labour Government—and I think that goes to show the bipartisan nature of not only this Treaty settlement but all Treaty settlements. One of the greatest lessons that I've learnt since I became a member of Parliament in 1994 is the fact that the history was not ever taught to me about the Treaty of Waitangi and the grievances and the inaction by the Crown over decades. Having come to understand how that has hurt not only Ngāti Porou but all the other iwi that we've done settlements with I am proud for the part that I have played in any Treaty settlement for any recognition of the grievances because they don't go away but at least the Crown in a bipartisan fashion can finally start to do something about it. That's why we're all here today all speaking on this third reading of the Ngāti Porou settlement bill. It is now about not forgetting the past because you shouldn't forget the past but I encourage you—and I know that without my encouragement you'll do this anyway—to look to the future with pride. I wish Ngāti Porou well with the settlement of this legislation. Tēnā koutou katoa."