Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Tīhei mauri ora. E ngā mana e ngā reo e ngā iwi tēnā koutou katoa. Te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Te papa e takoto nei tēnā koe. Ngā mate haere haere. Ka mihi ki te iwi kāinga ki Te Korowai o Wainuiārua nau mai haere mai. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. [Health and vitality to all. To the esteemed guests the voices the tribes I acknowledge you all. To the House that stands here thank you. To the land that lies here thank you. To those who have passed on farewell. I acknowledge the home tribe of Te Korowai o Wainuiārua welcome. Thank you all.]It's my pleasure to rise and make a contribution to this debate today and to welcome our guests from up north the principal iwi today. Uenuku Tamakana Tamahaki welcome to you and it's our pleasure to be here with you today.I'd also like to acknowledge your tūpuna who cultivated and hunted on the land that this settlement is recognising. I'd also like to acknowledge the rangatira and the son who signed the Treaty—and I might get this wrong—Te Rangiwhakarurua and the expectation that they had for fair treatment equal citizenship justice and mana and it's that expectation that the Crown has failed to live up to.I'd like to also acknowledge Ministers Andrew Little and the Hon Paul Goldsmith and also the Rt Hon Adrian Rurawhe who whakapapa to your rohe. My question might be: what iwi does he not whakapapa to in Aotearoa?This is a historic occasion. This is the 101st settlement that comes before this House. It is also a historic occasion for the iwi of Te Korowai o Wainuiārua because this has been some years in the making. This bill gives effect to the deed that acknowledges the actions of the Crown and that those actions breached the Treaty leading to land confiscation and the iwi becoming nearly landless—virtually landless—the mana that was taken away and also the mamae that was caused as well.The provisions of this deed give effect to an amount of redress—financial redress—and I'd like to acknowledge it is a pittance for the amount of land that was confiscated. The land in question is over 600000 hectares—and that is the same actually with all settlements that have gone before this House in that no settlement can really address the actions that the Crown has made. But in the spirit of bipartisanship as my colleagues on the other side have said the hope is that this goes some way to acknowledging the past but also enabling your iwi to focus on the future. It is that chance to heal and focus on the future that I look forward to hearing as the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee which is where this bill goes after today—I really look forward to the submissions. I'd like to encourage members here today and members online to make a submission on that bill because I look forward to hearing some of the historical accounts but also to hearing the aspiration and I'd like to extend an invitation. If you would like us to come up to your rohe and hear those submissions in person—the select committee that is—we'd welcome that but we will leave that in your court. But on behalf of the committee we extend that invitation to visit your rohe.So it is my pleasure to stand on behalf of National and on behalf of the select committee for Māori affairs to commend this bill to the House. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.