Sharples Pita: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSharples Pita: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 23 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19490. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Māori Affairs)on behalf of theMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: I move That the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill be now read a third time. Tāmaki Herenga Waka Tāmaki Whai Rawa Tāmaki Pai Tāmaki-makau-rau. Ko ngā kurī purepure o Tāmaki e kore e ngaro i te pō. He hōnore māku te mihi atu ki a koutou kua hoki mai nei ki tō tātou Whare nei kia whakaoti ai tēnei kaupapa. Kei te mihi au ki a koutou e kaha ki te hui ki te whakatakoto kaupapa ai kia tutuki ai te kaupapa nei. Nā reira e tika ana kia mihi atu ki a koutou. Tāpiti atu ki tēnā ka mihi au ki a koutou e manaaki nei i ahau me taku whanau mai i te wā i tae atu au ki Tāmaki i ngā tau o te ono tekau mai i reira mātou e mahi tahi noho tahi tēnā koutou.[Tāmaki the mooring place of many canoes Tāmaki the resourceful Tāmaki of good looks and Tāmaki of a hundred lovers. The spotted dogskin cloak of Tāmaki will never be lost to the underworld. It is an honour for me to acknowledge you collectively who have returned to this House of ours to conclude this matter. I pay a tribute to you who worked hard to meet and to set down policies so that this matter can be fulfilled. And so it is fitting that I acknowledge you collectively. Further to that I thank you for looking after me and my family when I arrived there in Auckland in the 1960s and from there we worked and lived together. Thank you.]It is with immense pleasure that I welcome into this House for the last time on this issue the Kāhui Rangatira o Tāmaki-makau-rau: Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Ngāti Maru Ngāti Pāoa Ngāti Tamaoho Ngāti Tamaterā Ngāti Te Ata Ngāti Whanaunga Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Te Ākitai Waiohua Te Kawerau ā Maki Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua and Te Patukirikiri. Tēnā koutou tēnā tātou. Each of you is a representative of a metropolis of 1.5 million people where just over one-third of this nation’s people reside. Within your boundaries live almost a quarter of all Māori people the highest number of Pacific peoples in the world and the highest number of migrant people to our country.Within a 20-kilometre radius of the central city alone there are 48 tūpuna maunga. They remain the most distinctive landscape features of Tāmaki-makau-rau. They are the markers for the most visible evidence of original Māori settlement reaching back to the 17th century. Like all our landforms 14 of these maunga and four motu in the surrounding waters are a source of great symbolic and spiritual importance. That is why we are here today joined by our rangatira who have forged this momentous and innovative settlement. It is a victory for pragmatic thinking and creative solutions. It is a victory for partnerships and building a positive future. It is a victory for recognising the rights and responsibilities of mana whenua to fulfil their role as kaitiaki of these sacred sites. Above all it is a victory for Tāmaki-makau-rau and all the people who call it home.Mount Eden Mount Roskill Mount Wellington Mount Richmond Pigeon Mountain Mount St John—one could be forgiven for thinking they had landed in the UK or the USA and not here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Now our greatest city and its citizens can claim the more eloquent and meaningful names befitting its great landmarks: Maungakiekie Maungauika Maungawhau Puketāpapa Pukewīwī Te Kōpuke Maungarei Takarunga Ōtāhuhu Te Pane-ō-Mataoho Te Ara Pueru Ōhuiarangi Ōhinerau Te Tātua-a-Riukiuta Rarotonga Matukutūruru Rangitoto Motutapu Motuihe and Tiritiri Mātangi. The story behind each name is a legacy for teaching our children about the ancestral places around them—the maunga and the motu are no longer just inanimate hills bumps and islands. They take on human forms and experiences. They tell of taniwha patupaiarehe great leaders and lovers and battles won and lost. These are my last 2 weeks in Parliament and I never thought that I would see the day when a senior Minister just a month back stood up and explained to the House about taniwha and where they were how they lived and so on. We have come a long way. We have come a long way with our tikanga i tēnei wā. We have got to appreciate that and take it through like you have done with returning these names for our young people to grow. If a Pākehā Minister can talk about taniwha with full belief then that is really a good step.The names speak to accounts of great atua powerful tohunga and moana and ngahere teeming with plants sea and birdlife. Each conceivable subject and experience is captured in the original names of the sites covered by this settlement. Thanks to Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau we have retrieved and reclaimed the whakapapa that so rightly belongs to this rohe. We thank you for being the catalyst and driver of this claim and for the foresight and diligence applied to negotiating the settlement over this period of time. We acknowledge your goodwill and generosity which are both enduring hallmarks of your contribution to the settlement process—first your goodwill and generosity to receive the redress collectively as a group; and second the goodwill and generosity extended to other parties to this settlement like the Crown Auckland Council and the Department of Conservation. Ngāti Whātua rōpū Marutūahu rōpū Waiōhua rōpū—it is you that we look to for continued guidance and leadership regarding the management care and administration of these maunga and motu. In your very capable hands we restore and return the responsibility for the future development of this city and its sacred sites. You are the game-changers. You lead the way. You show the valuable contribution that mana whenua can make to the future governance and development of our towns and cities.Kai te Kaihautū. This week a number of iwi and hapū are settling their grievances with the Crown. It is right that we remember all the rangatira no longer with us who led many of these claims. We should remember those who did not get to see the void filled by that final reading of this bill. There are too many to name but they will live on in their descendants here today. They live on in the fine proud enduring legacy bestowed by this legislation.Nā reira Tāmaki-makau-rau tēnā koutou. Kei te mihi hoki au ki a koutou e tautoko ana tō tātou komiti statutory Māori board i Tāmaki-makau-rau. Ko te mea tuatahi tēnei tauira mō Aotearoa. Ko te tūmanako ka tipu ake ētahi atu komiti pēnei i roto i Pōneke i ētahi atu tāone nui. Nā reira mā koutou tonu e manaaki tiaki taua komiti. He ringaringa ō tātou kei roto i te whakahaeretanga o tō tātou tāone nui. Nā reira kei te mihi atu ki a koutou kua oti pai tēnā whakatū. Nā reira kāre e roa aku mihi heoi anō harikoa au kia pānuihia te kōrero tuatahi mō tō tātou kerēme. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou kei raro.[And so Tāmaki of a hundred lovers thank you collectively. I acknowledge you as well for supporting our statutory Māori board in Auckland. This example is a first for New Zealand. My hope is that a committee like this will emerge in Wellington and in other cities. You must protect and look after that committee. We have a hand in the administration of our city and so I congratulate you collectively. Putting that into place has been completed well. Therefore my acknowledgments will not take any more time but I am pleased to make the first address in regard to our claim. So greetings and acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all. I resume my seat.]