Belich CamillaCAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Tēnā koe. Ko te mihi tuatahi ki te Whare e tū nei ki a Papatūānuku kei raro ki a Ranginui ki runga ki te mana whenua o tēnei rohe. Ko Te Atiawa whānui tēnā koutou. Engari ko te mea nui te mihi tūturu ki tēnei rā he mihi ki a Ngāti Hei. [Firstly acknowledgements to this House standing to Papatūānuku down below to Ranginui above and to the nation who hold mana over this region. Te Atiawa people acknowledgements to you. However the most important acknowledgement today is to Ngāti Hei.]I would like to acknowledge Ngāti Hei for their participation in this process and also just to acknowledge what an honour it is to be able to speak in a Treaty settlement debate. It's the first time I've been able to do this in my almost four years in Parliament now and it is really an honour to be able to participate in what is part of a very long historical process that has been alluded to by many members of the House so far today. This is an extremely important document and for those people who may be watching who haven't had the chance to read a Treaty settlement bill it really does contain a lot more information and history about the particular iwi or hapū that we are discussing than a usual bill of Parliament. I just want to touch briefly on some of the main points in the bill that I feel deserve extra attention. Of course this is a bill which implements an agreement that was reached between Ngāti Hei and the Government on 17 August 2017. We've heard acknowledgments from the various speakers from both the National Party and the Labour Party who have been Ministers who have shepherded this particular process through the House and this is not unusual. We often have different political parties taking leadership on these Treaty settlement bills and it is a moment where the House stands unified towards going part way to addressing some of the very significant historical wrongs that have occurred for particular hapū and iwi. So the main parts that I wanted to highlight was in this bill there is a significant amount of history of what happened to Ngāti Hei and it can be found in clause 8. Just to go over a tiny amount of some of the history there there's acknowledgment of the history of the extractive industry in the Ngāti Hei rohe including kauri logging kauri gum digging—which I have to admit my ancestors from Croatia would have taken part in so I acknowledge and apologise for that; for my own family's history in that—and also goldmining and fishing. Also the fact that—and I wanted to note this—that Ngāti Hei derived very little long-term benefit from that extraction so that is something that we should all be sorry for and acknowledge. As many have mentioned Ngāti Hei was left virtually landless and if you read clause 8 of the bill you'll see that there was a marginalisation of Ngāti Hei loss of te reo Māori educational underachievement sickness and socio-economic deprivation for the iwi; significant significant impacts. The apology is also in here. I would encourage members to read that; I won't have time to go over all of that and it is outlined but the Crown does apologise in this bill and we as members of Parliament will help to enact this as a formal apology for the actions that harm Ngāti Hei and for the breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles and the Crown unreservedly apologises.So I don't have long to participate in this debate but I want to acknowledge the significance of that apology. Many members have commented that Treaty settlements are part of a long process that they're not final that they are not significant enough to redress the wrongs that were committed against iwi like Ngāti Hei. I think most of us in this House if not all of us would agree with that and we're just pleased that Ngāti Hei decided that there was some way that we could go some part into acknowledging this. I acknowledge their mana and the mana of this bill and I commend it to the House.