Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): E mihi ana ki a koutou kua tau mai nei i runga i te karanga o te kaupapa o te ra tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Greetings to you all who have arrived here today for the purpose of this matter thank you once thank you twice and thank you thrice.]It is moments like these that I do see hope in this House. I also see the challenge and hear the frustration from my colleague across the floor Rawiri Waititi who just spoke. Who am I to speak on this? And I do often question myself. Take my words lightly; take them on or let them go because they are mere words today in this House.I want to acknowledge Ngāti Hei to acknowledge the ancestors of Ngāti Hei who have gone before you both long before recently and even today. For those of you who are here in this place or are here at this time I acknowledge you and the work—the mahi—you have done to get us here today.As has been mentioned I want to acknowledge the previous Minister the Hon Chris Finlayson and the current Minister the Hon Andrew Little who comes from a place that I come from from Taranaki. I am an MP who now lives in a region that has gone through this process and all eight iwi have come to a place of settlement. But I hope that this is a place of hope in a future and I do hold those words full and final" lightly because I see it as being about a place of launching to what the future can be—the past that shouldn't have been but a future that is to be—and it is one that is prosperous it is one that is inclusive and it is one that will see future generations grow and thrive.So I want to acknowledge those who are to come from Ngāti Hei; to acknowledge your tamariki your rangatahi your pēpē; to acknowledge those who won't be born for generations but who I hope when they are born on to this whenua on to your whenua in generations to come will see this day not as the process into a full and final settlement but as a process around reclaiming the mana of your people—a time of re-empowering of enabling of enlivening your story your whakapapa your ancestors and those to come.I hope that your generations who are to come will look back at this time and will learn from what has been. We talk about the wrongs of the past and we talk about the historic nature of hundreds of years that have gone on and what pain we in this building have caused but that is still something that exists today and something that we as a Government that we as a House of Representatives need to lean into to ensure that yes we have done wrong but there are still things going on today that we must address that I must address as Pākehā as someone who has had the privilege of living on your whenua.This is about breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi but this is about the future and how we can move forward together. And no we can't right what has been wronged but we need to acknowledge it and my people and I need to learn and to step on to that bridge and cross that bridge that is around partnership that is around friendship that is around honouring something that we signed that my people signed more than 180 years ago.I support this and I acknowledge the people of Ngāti Hei and I commend this to the House. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa."