Bidois Dan; Dyson RuthDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. Te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Te papa e takoto nei tēnā koe. Ngā mate haere haere haere. E ngā mana e ngā reo tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.[Thank you Madam Speaker. To the House that stands before me I greet you. To the ground beneath me I greet you. Those who have passed on proceed on your journey. To the leaders to the spokespeople greetings to you all.]It's a pleasure to speak in the second reading of the Parihaka Reconciliation Bill. I'd like to start out by acknowledging the people of Parihaka. Thank you for your patience in what has been a long long process coming to the House today. I'd also like to acknowledge Te Whiti o Rongomai's grandson who is here: kia ora to you. Also I'd like to acknowledge the Ministers of the Crown who have dealt with this bill since it's come to the House the former Minister for Crown-Māori relations the Hon Chris Finlayson and then of course the Hon Kelvin Davis.I sit on the Māori Affairs Committee and it's a privilege to do so. However I have not been able to contribute to the submissions process for this bill as I'm a relatively new member to this process. But I do want to acknowledge my colleagues on the Māori Affairs Committee and to echo the sentiments of Jenny Marcroft the kai on the Māori Affairs Committee is certainly very very good.We are here today for this reconciliation bill in the second reading. It's been a really good process for me actually to understand a little bit more about our history and in fact what the Crown has done in the past and to acknowledge some of the wrongs that the Crown has done—this bill seeks to amend those wrongs. So the bill is in effect not a bill around a settlement but it is a deed of reconciliation. That deed of reconciliation was signed on 9 June 2017 one year before the Northcote by-election was held in 2018.This bill recognises and apologises for essentially the wrongs that were done by the Crown in the 1800s. Reading about these I mean it's quite shocking the wrongs that were done by the Crown—everything from imprisoning fencing breaching natural justice invading property and homes and detaining. It's a dark part of New Zealand's history and it's a good moment in time that we are able to recognise the wrongs that were done and to apologise for those wrongs but also hopefully focus on the future and the relationship between the Crown and Parihaka.So the submissions process—in the second reading we typically talk about the submissions. Some of those submissions have been canvassed so I won't go into detail on those but we did receive 39 submissions of which my colleagues on the select committee heard 23 orally and there were a bunch of amendments that came out of the select committee process. I just want to run through a couple of those. The first is around strengthening the link between the deed and the bill and including the deed initiatives in the bill which was certainly made in the select committee. There were suggestions that there be a review of the Crown's relationship with Parihaka but we didn't recommend actually including that in the bill. There are a whole bunch of other recommendations that were made in the select committee process that my colleagues considered and there were more changes in terms of particularly protecting the name of Parihaka which I think is really important and I think my colleagues acknowledged that on the select committee. There can be no use of the name Parihaka" particularly for commercial gain which I think is a reflection of the importance of the name Parihaka but is also reflective of the will of the community up in the great area of the South Taranaki region.We support the second reading of this bill and the future aspirations. The bill talks directly to an apology by the Crown to the people of Parihaka. It also expresses the future aspirations for the relationship between the Crown and the people of Parihaka and I do hope that beyond what's written in the actual bill itself we can reflect on the principles and the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and that those values and principles and expressions are brought to the fore in the future relationship between the people of Parihaka and the Crown.It is my desire and our party's desire to support this bill in its second reading. I do want to acknowledge everybody who's been a part of this process. It's a very special day even though it's only the second reading. It's very special that we can come to this stage in our Parliament where we acknowledge the wrongs that the Crown has done in the past but also focus on the future. I think that's what we're all about in this House: focusing on the future relationship between the Crown and Māori. This side of House has a really great track record of that in terms of advancing the Treaty negotiations with iwi around the country including my own iwi of Maniapoto and it's great to see the continuation of that in this Government. That's the spirit of the Māori Affairs Committee. I must say that it's a pleasure to be on that select committee and to see how collegial the members on that select committee are and I think that that is reflective of the combined will of this House to make a difference for Māori and to make a substantial contribution to improve the lives of Māori throughout New Zealand. I do commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): This is a split call I understand—the Hon Meka Whaitiri."