Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Ā tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā koutou ōku rangatira tēnā koutou Ngāti Rangi Ngā Uri o Paerangi i Te Whare Toka. Tēnā koutou nau mai whakatau mai. Nau mai whakatau mai ki Te Whare Pāremata. Nō koutou tēnei pire tēnei rā. Āe harikoa te ngākau ki te tu ki te mihi atu ki a koutou. Ngā mate huhua o te wā haere haere atu rā hoki mai ki a tātou te kanohi ora e pae nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[So greetings Madam Speaker. Greetings my leaders and greetings to you Ngāti Rangi the descendants of Paerangi i Te Whare Toka. Greetings welcome welcome. Welcome welcome to Parliament House. This is your bill your day. Yes my heart is happy to stand and greet you.To those who have passed on go in peace. Returning to the living greetings to one and all.]It is truly a delight to be able to speak in support of this bill at this third reading and I want to add my welcome to Ngāti Rangi who have travelled from far and wide to be here on this very historic occasion. I want to acknowledge all the dignitaries the chiefs and I want to acknowledge my fellow members of the House who are Ngāti Rangi—Joanne Hayes who has just spoken and many others who will follow after me.It was truly an honour to chair the Māori Affairs Committee as it is for all settlements but to work through the Ngāti Rangi settlement was a real highlight because this is such a vibrant and forward- and future-focused iwi. It was evidenced by just the way things flowed through this settlement whether it was the passage of the deeds and certain amendments that had to be made but also in terms of working our way through some of the technical matters in the bill. But all the while Ngāti Rangi has a very clear plan; they know who they are where they descend from and we have recorded through Rukutia Te Mana through this settlement the historical redress and settlement matters but it's also looking very much forward into the future for Ngāti Rangi.I've been wondering as to—there's an extra dimension to this settlement and I was just sitting in my seat and it came upon me that it really goes back to Ngāti Rangi ngā uri o Paerangi i Te Whare Toka [the descendants of Paerangi i Te Whare Toka].This is more than just a temporal matter; this is more than just an earthly bill that we are considering here because Ngāti Rangi is celestial. They descend from Paerangi. If I may I want to—well I don't have the time but there's a beautiful kōrero of the celestial stars of the Milky Way and how it was descended upon and created the fires within the sacred maunga and the descendants from that Paerangi. All of the people of Ngāti Rangi here are the descendants of Paerangi. So we are literally among the stars today because of the extra dimension that I've certainly been privy to and we have all shared by working on the settlement. And so I want to acknowledge the rangatira because on occasions like this it doesn't happen overnight and we know that this day has been decades in the making. We pay tribute and we remember those that led the way for Ngāti Rangi fought and supported the kaupapa all the way through just as I acknowledge the current negotiating team led by Che Wilson and all of the wonderful team that have continued the mahi and led us through to this point. So we certainly do remember as well as celebrate such a very happy occasion.So as has been traversed by Minister Little there has been a lot of mamae there are a lot of grievances which the Crown inflicted through acts or omissions on Ngāti Rangi and they have been addressed through Rukutia Te Mana through this settlement which we are completing through the passage of this bill through the House today.It's sort of common for me to do this on Treaty settlement speeches but when I mention Ngāti Rangi I want to be all inclusive and of course from those celestial origins and passage through Ngāti Rangi today are all our beautiful whānau that are up in the gallery today and also all of those individuals that descend from Paerangi and all of these groups—which I'll just quickly read out—and all of the Ngāti Rangi ancestors: Ngāi Tuhi Ariki Ngāti Hioi Ngāti Parenga Ngāti Rangi-ki-tai Ngāti Rangihaereroa Ngāti Rangipoutaka Ngāti Rangiteauria Ngāti Rangituhia Ngāti Tongaiti Ngāti Tui-o-nuku Uenukumanawawiri Ngāti Patutokotoko. There are also other essentially descendants who've exercised customary rights that descend from the tūpuna and ultimately to Paerangi. So that is Ngāti Rangi. I too fondly—vividly actually it's vivid in my mind the day when our select committee travelled up to Ōhākune and just the majestic splendour of koro Ruapehu that was smiling upon us that day. It was truly a memorable day and I'll never forget it. That work has continued on through the passage of this bill. There's a lot that I could go on and mention but I guess when looking back at my earlier readings on this bill I laid down a wero to Mr McKelvie as he may recall around the pronunciation of Ngāti Rangi and all of those beautiful Māori kupu the Reo Māori that flows all the way through in every name of all the entities and all of the principles and the pillars upon which Rukutia Te Mana rests; it's such beautiful reo and the stories that go with it. So Mr McKelvie I'm looking forward to hearing that beautiful Ngāti Rangi" coming forth as the member for Rangitīkei. Without further ado I just want to finally just end my sincere mihi to all who have travelled today to all of our rangatira and our kaumātua and kuia. This is a very significant day. I have every confidence in Ngāti Rangi that—we are so lucky in Aotearoa to have the richness and the history and the vibrancy of our iwi. Ngāti Rangi is very much leading the way in that regard I'm happy to say that: leading the way. I know all the way through the passage of this bill and the whole process we have hit home base. This has been a home run. We've gone round all the bases and I'm certainly pleased that I've been able to help and that we will as a House be able to bring it on home this afternoon. So without further ado e aku rangatira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa [my leaders greetings greetings greetings to us all]."