Fleming GregGREG FLEMING (National—Maungakiekie): E te Māngai e tautoko ana au kia tautoko ai tēnei whakaaetanga i waenganui i te iwi o Ngāti Paoa me tēnei Whare te Whare o te Kāwanatanga. Ki au ki ōku whakaaro tēnei te tino mahi a tēnei Whare nā te mea ko tēnei te mahi o te rongomau kia rongomau ai i waenganui i ngā iwi o tēnei motu. Ahakoa te whānui o te mamae ahakoa te whānui o te wero kia whai atu ai tēnei Whare i tērā momo rongomau. Nā reira tēnā koutou e ngā kaiwhiriwhiri o tēnei whakaaetanga. Ko ā koutou mahi te mahi a te Atua. Me ngā mihi hoki ki ngā tāngata o te iwi o Ngāti Paoa. E ai ki ngā kōrero a te mema o mua ahakoa i te tinana āe rānei i te wairua i te tinana hoki nā te mea tēnei pire e pā ana ki te whai atu I te whakapūāwai o tō iwi āe. Nā reira kāore e tū ki konei ki te kōrero e pā ana ki ngā taipitopito o tēnei pire i whakatakotoria ērā taipitopito e ngā mema o mua. Engari ko tōku tūmanako ko tōku wawata i tēnei rā ko te kōrero e pā ana ki tōku wheako o te moana me ngā motu me te whenua hoki o Ngāti Paoa. [To the Speaker I am in support of the support for this agreement between the people of Ngāti Paoa and this House the House of the Government. To me in my opinion this is the real work of this House because of this endeavour of peace that there be enduring peace between the people of this nation. Despite the breadth of the anguish despite the breadth of the challenge this House should pursue that type of peace. And so I acknowledge the negotiators of this agreement. You do God's work. Greetings also to the people of the iwi of Ngāti Paoa. According to the comments of the previous member whether they are here in person or in spirit because this bill concerns the pursuit of the flourishing of your people—yes. And so I do not stand here to speak about the details of this bill those details were laid out by the previous members. But my hope my dream today is to speak about my experience of the ocean and the islands and the lands also of Ngāti Paoa.] When I first graduated from Victoria University I had the pleasure of living for a couple of years at the end of the Mahurangi Peninsula where I looked out literally every day on the moana and the motu of Ngāti Paoa. Most evenings I would kayak out to Moturekareka and motu Kitekite. I remember one night coming back through the moonlight—literally the moon was on my back and it was from the island heading back to the end of the peninsula. As I kayaked through there—it is a memory that's wedded into my mind and it came to my mind as I read this bill—every time that I dipped the oar in that fluoro-green phosphorescence would come up and the life that it spoke of. That was what came to mind today when I read of this bill and that was a picture for me of what I hope and pray for this bill and the fresh start that it might be for the people of Ngāti Paoa.I have also been privileged to spend time on the island of Rotoroa Rotoroa Island and also just last month I was on Motuihe. And everywhere I go there the wairua is there as it was this past Saturday morning when I was invited to the opening blessing—even though it was at four in the morning—of a new housing project in Mount Wellington. As their kaumātua and kaikaranga led us through the blessing I was again privileged to sit within the wairua and to hear the calls of Ngāti Paoa and that is the primary reason why I stand here today.The details of this bill have been well canvassed. I more than anything want to mihi to the people for whom this bill exists what this is all about which is their flourishing. That is the purpose of these settlement bills. As has been said eloquently by previous speakers these bills do not seek to wash away the sins of the past—that can never be done. Rather what they do is acknowledge that when mana motuhake is restored a new future is promised a new future beckons. For that reason it is my absolute privilege as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee as a member of this Government to stand in the awa of many Governments before and resoundingly recommend this bill to the House. Kia ora.