Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): This is a bit of a privilege. Normally Pita Paraone speaks on Treaty settlement bills on behalf of New Zealand First but this one is a bit of an exception for me because the Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā (Wairarapa Tamaki nui-ā-Rua) Claims Settlement Bill is a bill that I got involved in from the side as a lead negotiator for Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki Nui-ā-Rua. I will not take that long with my kōrero I think but I do need to say firstly to my whanaunga from Rangitāne to all the people up there in the gallery—Mavis and Tīpene and I know Jason is there and please forgive me if I do not mention you all. These are the people with whom sadly we were on occasion locked in negotiation in accordance with the Crown's stipulated processes to settle cross-claims and shared-interest claims. I have to say that it is one of those processes that generated conflict between ourselves which was hard to bear on occasion.People from the Wairarapa who are Ngāti Kahungunu are almost without exception I think also Rangitāne. People within the Wairarapa who are Rangitāne are also without exception I think Kahungunu. But the reality is that that was not always the case. Without going back through the history which is clearly stipulated and laid out here in the settlement over time we became blended but for one reason or another some of us take our Kahungunu ancestry forward first and others take the Rangitāne ancestry forward first.The Treaty settlement claim process of the Treaty grievances that arose drove a wedge between families individuals hapū and marae and between our iwi. This is a very difficult process to go through but the Crown's processes are stipulated and if you want to get a settlement you must follow that process. Some parts of that process are difficult. Shared interests generate controversy argument and debate as to who is right and who is wrong in their recounting of historical events and of whakapapa. Just the question over marae—the question over who has ascendancy and who has the greatest claim or mandate or mana on particular marae—was always going to generate some very difficult conversations and regretfully there are times when people in that negotiating process say things that they subsequently regret. But that is the nature of Treaty settlements and the process that we are all put into.The questions around Pūkaha Hāmua and Wairarapa Moana caused us days weeks and months of debate as we moved from marae to marae through the Treaty settlement process. I guess one would look at this settlement which we support and endorse—I hope that we will look in time at the Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki Nui-ā-Rua settlement when we do that third reading as well and I would hope that we will by then have put all the pain all the hurt and all that raruraru off to one side and will be looking at the future and at opportunities that will then be open to us as a people: Kahungunu o Rangitāne.I was always impressed by the demeanour of Mavis Mullins and Jason Kerehi and I recognise and acknowledge the pain and the difficulty that was carried forward by Mānahi and Tīpene through those very difficult and trying negotiations. The fact of the matter is that we arrived at a point. The fact of the matter is that Rangitāne arrived at a point and actually arrived there ahead of Ngāti Kahungunu and I congratulate you on that. I congratulate you on your tenacity on your courage and on the way in which you remain true to those who lodged these claims and started the whole process going forward and who are no longer here today to see this debate and to see this moment in Rangitāne history and time come to fruition.There is this third reading and then we await the Governor-General's signature and that will be this done. But it will not be done in terms of Rangitāne and how it goes forward. It will not be done in terms of Ngāti Kahungunu in the Wairarapa and how we go forward. It will be the start.I am pondering—and I know I have had this conversation with some of you recently—and I wonder how we will look at the collective strength of Rangitāne and Kahungunu working together in the Wairarapa. I wonder what that might do for all of our mokopuna.When we once again put all of this behind us and look collectively and strategically at the economic strength I think that after these two settlements Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne will probably be economically the strongest force in the Wairarapa next to Trust House. Mind you Trust House got a nice sweetheart deal and that was done in a much shorter time than this process. Trust House was given what 230-odd houses in a sweetheart deal at $20000 a house by the National Government of the day. Wyatt Creech was the MP for the Wairarapa and the Deputy Prime Minister and one of the things I will never forget was that in the negotiation process when Rangitāne was looking at assets that might come back the one thing that was not on the table for them was the opportunity to take houses because they had gone—all of them.I acknowledge the difficulty of Rangitāne in trying to work a way through not just the cultural settlement which is a minefield—particularly in the shared interest part of the negotiation—but on the commercial side when you were looking at what the Crown had that could actually be part of this settlement and it was not a lot was it? So I look forward to seeing a time when Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu collectively together work strategically for the betterment of all of our people in the Wairarapa and for all of our people who no longer reside in the Wairarapa but who are dotted all over the country and all over the world.I just want to conclude by saying that the work that was started by those who are no longer here and by some who are here the work that was taken up by the negotiators—those who have subsequently joined the post-settlement governance entity Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā Trust and those who are going to be employed working on managing those assets are all to be congratulated. But might I also suggest that they are going to be in need of your support your love and your reinforcement because now the responsibility that has been placed before them is great. They will need your strength if they are to advance the people of Rangitāne so that they might achieve those things that our forebears and ancestors aspired to and wished to be achieved on their behalf. Congratulations whanaunga this is a great day for you.