Halbert ShananSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote): Te Māngai o te Whare tēnā rawa atu ki a koe. Kaupeka ki runga. Kaupeka ki raro. Kūī kūī whiti ora e. E mihi ana ki a koutou nau mai haere mai ki te Whare nei. Mihi ana ki a koe te kaiurungi o te kaupapa nei a pāpā Tiwha tēnā rawa atu ki a koe. Ki a koe hoki e te tuahine o Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Val tēnā koe. Nō reira e mihi ana ki a koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[The Speaker of the House I greet you. Kaupeka above. Kaupeka below. Kūī kūī whiti ora e. I acknowledge you welcome to this House. I acknowledge you the leader of this matter Uncle Tiwha greetings. Greetings also to you Val my friend from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. I acknowledge you and extend my greetings to all.]Can I acknowledge you Matua Tiwha. It's been a long time since I've seen you. I spent a lot of time in my early teens occupying your couch potentially your pantry and your fridge down at Te Awa Avenue with my cousins your namesake Tiwha and Kōwhai and Emere. It's through them that I've followed this particular bill and as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee you connect back with the whānau that you know—their history their stories and their whakapapa—and you keep in contact with them as you hear the stories of their whānau. I acknowledge some of the comments from the Hon Willie Jackson who acknowledges our whānau and some of the complexities I guess of how we perceive such bills like this or such challenges in front of us and most of all I guess some of the hurt and grief that we've faced over many many years until we get to this point. I opened with a whakataukī from my home Mōkai Pātea Ngāti Whitikaupeka which is not too far away from yourselves. We are in the process of our journey of settlement and it's a challenging one as you learn more and more about your stories: the hardships the loss and the grief that we have experienced no matter which iwi that you have come from. So today I stand and I take the place of the Māori Party which this space is normally scheduled for because I want to speak in support of the Maniapoto Claims Settlement Bill as a member of the Māori Affairs Committee and as a member who heard all of the submissions across the way. The Maniapoto Claims Settlement Bill gives effect to elements of the Maniapoto deed of settlement signed on 11 November 2021 between the Crown and Maniapoto. The explanatory note to the bill states that the deed provides for the settlement of all historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of Maniapoto against the Crown. The bill aims to address the aspects of the settlement that require this legislation and this goes a little way—some would say a long way; I would sit in the centre—to acknowledging the loss and the grief and the hurt. But it acknowledges the pain that Maniapoto have faced in the loss of their land and this seeks to address this.My speech today is a very short one just to acknowledge the whānau and to acknowledge this piece of legislation and the settlement that is going before us. But as I listened to those submissions I encourage all whānau to come together at some point to work through the challenges that you experience that is set up yes by this process but also look to the opportunity that redress puts in front of Maniapoto the opportunity for generations to come for our tamariki mokopuna to set up good education opportunities good housing opportunities and most of all a future for themselves and Ngāti Maniapoto. Nō reira e mihi ana ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou mauri ora ki a tātou katoa. [I acknowledge you. Greetings and wellbeing to all.]