Horan Brendan: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Horan Brendan: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 26 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4058. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
BRENDAN HORAN (NZ First) 
: 
 I would like to follow on from the comments of all of my colleagues who have gone before me and to say what a fantastic day today is and how wonderful it is to be here. Earlier this morning I was leading the charge against those people who are not here but then I thought well too bad about them they are missing out—they are missing out. All day amazing things have been spoken of and amazing people have been here. I would like to acknowledge the kaumatua who are here—all of you up there. I acknowledge how hard it has been for all of you to get here but you are here and you made the journey.  
It is hard to mention people but there are a lot of people and I would like to say hello to Olive and Temple Isaacs. I would also like to acknowledge Nolan Raihania from the Maori Battalion. In 1978 I worked in Whakatane Hospital and I had the privilege of looking after George Raurina. George had been an interpreter with the Maori Battalion and I was about to embark on a trip overseas to university in Canada and he taught me all these different languages. His story is an amazing one. He is gone now but Nolan represents all of those brave men that we lost and how wonderful and what a privilege it is to have you here Nolan. Kia ora. 
I would like to also follow on from the Hon Parekura Horomia and the Hon Chris Finlayson on the question of the sewage in Gisborne. I love the ocean. I have been involved in surf lifesaving and from a very young age would always make the trek over to Gisborne to compete to go surfing or to go and plunder some of that paua and kai moana that was there. I have paddled out there and seen that sewage coming up and it is a disgrace. The fact that the Minister has said that he is prepared to look at that fills me with joy. It can no longer be swept under the carpet and it must go to the front of the queue—the cleaning up of that sewage. 
I would just like to speak a very small part on Ngai Tamanuhiri. This tribe is a small one but one of prodigious strength and mana. Tamanuhiri’s mountain or maunga Te Kuri a Paoa or Young Nicks Head is there and it is there for all to see. As Parekura said earlier that was the first thing Captain Cook’s crew saw when they visited Aotearoa. I must say that 2019 is going to be a very interesting year is it not with the 250th anniversary of the sighting of your maunga by Europeans. Their waka  
Horouta 
 rests in the lagoon at the base of Te Kuri a Paoa. Although the Tamanuhiri people are relatively small in number they are giant in their connections and they closely whakapapa into Ngati Porou Ngai Tahu Rongowhakaata and others. This ability to easily and cleverly communicate rose to the fore in negotiations. As well as their nimbleness shown in the move to settle first of the three  
Turanga  
groups there is also real elegance to the level of cultural links in the strands of the commercial redress afforded to Tamanuhiri in this Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill with a package involving profound cultural threads. 
So congratulations to the negotiators. To those who have passed on but are here with us in spirit salutations. And to all of those who have worked so hard for a positive outcome thank you thank you and again thank you. 
Toitu te whenua toitu te tangata toitu te mana—the land endures the people prevail the mana is secure. Kia kaha kia maia kia manawanui. 
[ 
Be strong be brave be stout-hearted. 
]