Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe Te Māngai o Te Whare. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa! Ko Maungaroa te maunga ko Waikato te awa ko Te Mānukanuka o Hoturoa te moana ko Tainui te waka ko Mangatangi ko Whatawhaka ko Ngā Hau e Whā ngā marae.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Greetings acknowledgments and accolades to you collectively the authorities languages and esteemed ones of a hundredfold and to us all. Maungaroa is the mountain Waikato is the river Te Mānukanuka o Hoturoa is the sea Tainui is the canoe Mangatangi Whatawhaka and Ngā Hau e Whā are indeed the marae.]I am acknowledging that we are here today specifically for the Ngāti Tamaoho Claims Settlement Bill. I want to acknowledge all those whānau from Ngāti Tamaoho who have contributed to bringing this piece of legislation to the House.I want to begin by first quoting some of our Wai cases—these are our Treaty of Waitangi cases. The first one is Wai 1126. It was brought by Ted Ngātaki and it was the Ngāti Tamaoho lands and resources claim. I note also Wai 1992 brought by Piriwhāriki Tahapeehi. I also note that there are related Wai claims which we should acknowledge: Wai 2039 brought by Ben Katipa which acknowledged the overlapping interests between Ngāti Tamaoho and Ngāti Paoa; Wai 2568 brought on behalf of the Minhinnick whānau which again acknowledges the relationship between Ngāti Tamaoho and Ngāti Te Ata; and also Wai 898 which was Te Rohe Pōtae District Inquiry.I want to acknowledge actually that inquiry and a report by Dr Vincent O'Malley who has over the last couple of years been talking about the Great South Road. I went to a kōrero about the Great South Road. The Great South Road was built under the administration of Governor George Grey who arrived in New Zealand on 26 September 1861. One of the first things that he did was begin the construction of the Great South Road which was actually all about the Waikato land wars. It was between 1863 and 1864 that 14000 colonial troops marched down the Great South Road—which took out a lot of the whenua that Ngāti Tamaoho had—to go and wage the Waikato Wars.I want to acknowledge that this process was then initiated in June 2009 by Sir Doug Graham who presented a framework for negotiation that involved the signing of the agreement in principle on 20 December 2012. Signing on behalf of Ngāti Tamaoho were Dennis Rāniera Kirkwood Warahi (Wallace) Te Huinga Paki Ted Ngātaki and Te Roto Jenkins. That history has led us to where we are today.Preparing for today was quite interesting for me because on Monday I had the pleasure to accompany Pānia Wilson who works with my colleague the Hon Nanaia Mahuta. We went to Kereru Park Campus in Papakura. Kereru Park Campus's tumuaki is George Ihimaera. We had a whakatau and they were very very clear about their relationship with the mana whenua specifically acknowledging that for them Ngāti Tamaoho were their primary mana whenua. That is relevant because in the acknowledgments in this piece of legislation in clause 9(13)—I am going to read this out—The Crown acknowledges that for too long Ngāti Tamaoho lived with poorer housing and worse health than many other New Zealanders and that for too long the education system generally held low expectations for Māori educational achievement. The Crown further acknowledges the segregation and discrimination suffered by Māori students while attending a school in the Ngāti Tamaoho rohe during the 1940s."The relevance of my visit to Kereru Park Campus on Monday is that it was about Duffy Books in Homes and was about the aspirations of the tamariki and of the teachers the parents and that community for those tamariki and the mokopuna who are dwelling on the lands of Ngāti Tamaoho. I see it as an amazing opportunity for all of our schools within the rohe of Ngāti Tamaoho to learn about the history of Ngāti Tamaoho which is outlined in this piece of legislation.It is true that in all Treaty settlements most of our iwi lost their lands and that was the same for Ngāti Tamaoho—virtually landless. But as we debated last night what that also meant was that Ngāti Tamaoho to all intents and purposes did not have a tūrangawaewae. We did not have an ability to stand on our own lands as the kaitiaki of those lands and from that we were not able to develop housing for ourselves. Being landless to Māori actually means that we did not have an ability to have a secure base from which we were then able to reap the benefits of the environment that we were living within.There is a lot of history contained in this specific Treaty settlement that I hope will be passed down to future generations to come. I must say that having attended the lecture about the Great South Road I am hoping that all that history will be told. That is the relevance of these Treaty settlements to our curriculum and to our commitment to ensuring that all of us through primary school through intermediate and through high school understand what happened on the whenua that we all live on today. We need to acknowledge—which is what this bill does—and in some ways to celebrate the resilience of our whānau hapū and iwi.One of the interesting things I was pointing out to my colleague Nanaia Mahuta is that in 2012 when the agreement in principle was ratified by 98.69 percent of the beneficiaries at that time there were 400 members; today in 2017 Ngāti Tamaoho has 2710 registered members. What this process has enabled to happen which should be highlighted is that people are becoming more and more aware of who they are—their whakapapa—through this process. They are becoming eligible to be registered beneficiaries for our hapū and iwi. It is through that process I believe that we will ensure that the next generation of our tamariki our mokopuna and the beneficiaries of this specific settlement for Ngāti Tamaoho will know who they are and know about the history and that we all get over it and start focusing on the future—start focusing on what this Treaty settlement means to our hapū and our iwi.I too want to acknowledge what Minister Finlayson said about the generosity of our hapū and iwi in these settlements. In no way are they getting what they deserve in terms of a compensation package that will address what they lost through the loss of their lands. I am sure colleagues across the House will know the value of those lands and if we were to estimate what the compensation would be today there is no way we would be able to make these settlements happen. It is through goodwill and generosity and is about the focus on the future from our iwi leaders that we are able to move on. We must never forget that but we should also I guess celebrate the fact that this enables us as a country to have our truth and reconciliation process and to move on and to look at the relationships that different organisations want to have with Ngāti Tamaoho moving forward. The kura actually does—Kereru Park. Hopefully all the schools within the rohe where Ngāti Tamaoho is mana whenua will want to have a relationship with them too. That is the potential I believe of this piece of legislation and I commend it to the House. Thank you."