McKee NicoleNICOLE McKEE (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to speak to the Ngāti Rangitihi Claims Settlement Bill on behalf of the ACT Party. We will be supporting this going through as we did in the first reading. Part of the reason for that is because we are aware that those that voted from the iwi to support this bill got 92 percent support for it. So we intend to support them to support this settlement.From the previous speaker the Hon Eugenie Sage I was quite surprised to hear about a black drain coming out of Tarawera. Having grown up in Rotorua in the 1980s and the 1990s I actually spent quite a bit of time swimming in that lake with my family and there was nothing black but a lot of pristine about that.Now the Māori Affairs Committee have said that they've made minor changes after having listened to the submitters through their written and their oral submissions. Having been given this to speak to today I went and had a look at the bill myself and the history within the bill did make some interesting reading and I will be repeating some of the things that previous speakers have already acknowledged. After reading the history I'm very glad to hear that the Crown and iwi are finally able to acknowledge the grievances and to move on that the offered cultural historical and financial redress has been accepted especially as Ngāti Rangitihi assisted the Crown in defence of the area of land between 1865 and 1872 offering the Crown their military support and doing this all the while while the Crown was confiscating land around the area.I note also that during that time the iwi also sought redress from the Crown but they were not recognised and in fact at that time their complaints were not even investigated. Later as has been already acknowledged the Crown aggressively started purchasing land land that they had already been leasing and land which they had decided payment of the rental was being now used as an advance payment for the land itself. Once again Ngāti Rangitihi were trying to lodge claims trying to be heard and they were largely ignored. I admire their tenacity because they kept on going as has been shown since the 1860s—there are generations of this iwi that have kept on pushing even though the Crown was ignoring them. On 10 June 1866 Mount Tarawera erupted. This beautiful big maunga lost half its top and created nine craters in the middle of it. The destruction of the Pink and White Terraces on Lake Rotomahana was devastating but not as devastating as the burying of Te Wairoa village. By the 1900s Ngāti Rangitihi had virtually lost all of their land or most of it and they moved to Matatā. And at this point I'd like to acknowledge my uncle from Matatā Wahia Mita. I note that after the move to Matatā Ngāti Rangitihi lobbied the Crown for relief again for what they had lost and they spent 30 years doing that lobbying. I also acknowledge the draining of the Rangitaiki swamp which affected their ability to gather food. It affected urupā two of them and it degraded the mauri of the Tarawera awa. Despite this Ngāti Rangitihi continued with their military support for the Crown while holding their mamae within.I note that Tūhourangi had their concerns over the ownership of certain parts of land and I see that colleagues from the Māori Affairs Committee actually have addressed this. The concerns of course were over parcels of land in Waimangu Valley Te Waimangu volcanic valley and I commend the agreed resolutions that have been made between Ngāti Rangitihi and Tūhourangi and understand that the transfer and ownership of some of this land will include jointly managing it together and that this will be concluded after the settlement with Ngāti Rangitihi gifting their settlement land in the Waimangu Valley parts of it to Tūhourangi.To Ngāti Rangitihi we acknowledge your history. We acknowledge your extensive lobbying over trying to get your property back. You lobbied for well over 100 years. We acknowledge your military service to the Crown and we also acknowledge your stamina and your resolve. We are pleased that the mauri of the awa can be restored. We support the settlement of the Ngāti Rangitihi grievance. It is time to move on time to restore your mana and time to grow your mauri. Kia ora.