Browning Steffan: Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10813. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. E ngā tangata whenua o Te Tau Ihu kia ora. Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia Rangitāne o Wairau Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Ngati Toa Rangatira. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. To the home people of Te Tau Ihu hello there. To Ngati Apa of Rā Tō Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne of Wairau to Ngāti Kōata Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Tama of the Tau Ihu to Te Ātiawa of the South Island and to Ngati Toa Rangatira salutations acknowledgments and greetings to you all.]I feel privileged to be a representative here today while this settlement bill is introduced. Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill is a bill that reflects some redress—just some redress—for the tangata whenua of the rohe of my childhood and much of my adult life with Pelorus Ōpawa Kaituna and Wairau being the awa of my rohe.I would like to acknowledge those who have passed on. There are far too many whom I have known enjoyed the company of and respected and just some of the families were the Staffords and the Walkers. I remember Kath Hemi and there are others.I like it that the bill recognises Rangitāne’s historical association in the Endeavour Inlet just over the hill but on the slopes of the same maunga Aorere—Mount Stokes—my maunga where I lived in Anakoha Bay for 6 years. Thanks to Uncle Peter—Peter Waaka of Ngāti Kuia. At 300 metres high on the slopes of Aorere I looked out at TīTī Island and the Chetwode Islands and again their association to Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne is given recognition in this tome of a bill. I looked further out of course to Takapourewa—Stephens Island—and I think it has been part of previous settlements. I note the number of other islands and places that are given historical recognition at this point too for Te Ātiawa Ngāti Apa and others.I recall during my childhood in Blenheim being at school and hearing the stories of the archaeologists at the Wairau boulder bank—the Wairau Bar. It was the place I used to bike out to to look at lizards and katipo spiders. Those stories enthralled us but what we were not getting when we were there was the real history. What we were not getting was the substance of mana whenua which this bill at last acknowledges.This bill acknowledges the mana whenua of other friends and of many of course whom I do not know. It is essential that we have the Crown apology. I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and those who have dealt with this bill and the fact that there is the apology as part of the settlement.As my colleague Denise Roche has said this is a deal; it is not really a settlement. But it is some redress as we go along. Some hapū may not feel that this is for them and some—and I am thinking of my good friend at Kaituna—may have some variation—[Interruption] Ah ha Rangitāne behind me. My friend has been probably the best educator for me about the history of what has happened through this area that has been covered. It has been fantastic—far too late at night many a time through to the small hours through to the daylight hours even.I look forward to this bill progressing through the House. I am pleased to be in a party that has an overlay of Te Tiriti o Waitangi before its other principles of stewardship and social justice as we do in the Green Party. I look forward to this bill progressing. This is a great day of celebration. I am really really pleased to see you all here and to be part of it. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.