Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā tātou katoa ōku hoa kaimahi ki a koutou o Ngāti Hinerangi hoki. Kia ora rā.[Greetings Madam Speaker. Greetings to one and all my work colleagues and also those of you from Ngāti Hinerangi. Greetings.]My goodness. This is the second reading of the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill that the Greens will be supporting alongside all the other political parties in this House. And I was thinking back to—I believe it was 9 December 2019—where our Māori Affairs Committee travelled to Matamata and had the submissions and the hearings for this bill where the Māori Affairs Committee sat on that day in Matamata. It was a beautiful day and it was again another privilege another beautiful opportunity to meet kanohi ki te kanohi and to see the whānau of the hapū and iwi. This settlement is attempting to start to address some of the injustice that again has been perpetuated by the Crown that has been generational and has left generational scars. So I was just looking back through—I wanted in my second reading speech because it is quite different from the first and the third readings—it is the speech that acknowledges that we took the hearings and the issues that were raised in the hearings back to the Māori Affairs Committee. We sat down with advisers and all of the members of that committee and tried to sort of work through the concerns and the issues that were raised.And so I wanted to focus my second reading speech to just again acknowledge and put on the Hansard the debate records how vital that opportunity for hapū and whānau members to be heard was because it once again highlights the real challenge and the ongoing difficulty of a Crown perpetuated process to try and settle enormous grievances—grievances that we have all known across Aotearoa and settlements that of course don't come anywhere near justice. They are part of a step towards trying to improve Crown and iwi and Māori relationships. But that day was important and I wanted to remember the spirit that people came to us to bring the stories different stories stories of hope in what this settlement will allow Ngāti Hinerangi to be able to start. I'll pick up on some of them.I remembered I think it was Joanne Aoake who interestingly for me picked up on the bill's ability to hopefully provide help with iwi health services to be able to deliver that aspiration of iwi-run iwi-led health services as part of how this settlement could help. Now those are ongoing discussions that of course are up to the iwi and the whānau and hapū members to decide how to use the fruits of this particular settlement to improve and put it to good use to help the people and help the land. As our report notes our report-back from the committee and as is very common—in fact I think it happens for every single claim that has come before the House—there is always concern and opposition to the settlement. It is always raised to us at select committee how these settlements can be seen can be felt to pit whānau and hapū and even iwi against each other when we are trying to settle some of these injustices. And that was certainly raised on the day in Matamata as well.I remember for example—I had a quote in here that was acknowledging and I want to acknowledge Te Whānau Bidois here in this House who came my colleague Dan Bidois. But I remember it was Matua Rawiri I think who said This settlement is going to damage our tribal relations." Now I want to acknowledge that the way that the processes have been set up that is always something that is raised. This is why the Greens have always talked about how the large natural settlement criteria of the current Treaty process always lends itself to the difficulty of hapū and whānau and iwi feeling that they are not properly represented in these particular settlement claims. And that's a challenge for us here as representatives in this House. Minister Little in all of the readings of this bill to date has acknowledged that he has listened and has accountability to try and work out ways to better acknowledge that the large natural groupings criteria could very clearly set up further damage for tribal relations. And what I wanted to say in the second reading is that we owe it as members I think as members of Parliament to support as much as we can the iwi and the hapū that are left with the difficulty of trying to repair heal maintain and grow relationships with the wedges that have been created by these Crown settlements and we need to wish all the aroha and all the support but also be thinking about what are the systemic supports that we can provide in this House to acknowledge the potential damage to tribal affiliations that happen. In saying that I too acknowledge the Ngāti Hinerangi Trust and all post-settlement governance entities who are left with the profound challenging work and exciting work of trying to move our waka forward picking up what has come through from these settlements working with whānau and hapū working with the debates and marae trying to figure out what are our dreams now how can we use our settlements to further our people to support our people. That is no easy task and it's not even an easy task getting to this point of second reading in the House of the legislation. So I acknowledge and I believe that the Ngāti Hinerangi Trust are here today as well. We owe it as representatives of this House to wish them all the love and support but to think about what are the solutions and systemic fixes that we can actually give to that work from this point onwards.I wanted to pick up on—here we go—the valid oppositions that are also raised as well as people taking hope from these settlements. I wrote in my notes that a story of Tamapango was read out at the end of that day of that submission day that breaks my heart and exemplified the real stories and the tūpuna who were involved and what their battles and conquests were. That story of Tamapango left a deep feeling of emotion in my heart that day and was a reminder of the reason why we are standing here debating these settlements. It was a reminder of what it always comes back to: the resilience and strength of Ngāti Hinerangi the modelling of Ngāti Hinerangi for the rest of our country for the sort of Aotearoa that we want to be able to build and being able to come through such incredible land language and tikanga loss and maintaining their ahi kā maintaining their tikanga and their kawa to be upstanding and strong as Ngāti Hinerangi despite the incredible injustice and takahi that their tīpuna were confronted with and were subjected to. I made a particular note in my book that day about that story and I want to thank Ngāti Hinerangi for sharing that story and the heart of what these claims are all about with all of us at the Māori Affairs Committee today.I look forward to the third reading of this bill and to seeing another start for Ngāti Hinerangi in moving people and their whenua forward. Thank you Madam Speaker."