Coffey Tamati; Rurawhe AdrianTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker.Tiro Tiro ki taku tau. Kei hea ra? Kei hea? Kei runga ke. Kei raro ke? Kei roto i taku moemoea.[Searching for my beloved. Where is that? Where? Is it above or is it below? It is in my dreams.]I stand today having given that song as a song of lament a song of loss a song of heartbreak and a song of a depth of feeling which I know is what our Moriori whānau come with today as you come into this House. So I want to acknowledge you and the loss that you have suffered and the journey that you have been on. Nau mai haramai ki tō Whare. Ki te Whare Pāremata ki konei.[Welcome welcome to your House. To Parliament.]I want to acknowledge the significant journey that you as people have been on over the years from the bloodshed from the slavery the raupatu requests the discussion the debate the frustration over myths according to who you are and where you've come from and what your history has been like. I want to acknowledge those people that have passed and who are unable to be here today to be able to help tautoko this journey that you are on—you the descendants of those that have passed. It is a poignant day. It is an emotional day but it is a day that's time has come. And I appreciate and acknowledge everything that has got you here to this point right now. Welcome to our Parliament. Although you might think that you're at the end of your journey; actually in our parliamentary process in this part you're only at the start of this part and I want to welcome you here with open arms.Your Treaty settlement is coming through our Māori Affairs Committee. I'm the chair of that committee and I look forward to hearing your stories come through: the good the bad and the really bloody ugly because actually I can give you my 100 percent guarantee that your stories will be treated with the respect that they deserve as they come before our committee. The process that you're going through currently with Te Arawhiti—to be able to really drill down into the detail of what your redress looks like. Yes we've got a bill here a piece of legislation but part of this process is that you have to come before the committee and we have to have the first reading in here. As a committee we hear the different submissions. We report it back to the House—that's a second reading—and then we debate it all as a whole House. And then we have a third reading on top of that as well. Sometimes that process can take far too long but hopefully for your sake—and for the story that you will share with us—it doesn't take too long because too many people have already been lost along the way and we need to make sure that this moves through our House with the kind of urgency that it deserves.I want to let you know that your presence here is welcomed because we know that while some of you live here on the mainland actually some of you do live back home on the Chathams. I was fortunate enough to join the MP for the Chathams Paul Eagle a couple of years ago when we ended up there. He invited us over so we came over. And this is something that's familiar to you but the day that we were supposed to leave after having been there for three days a plane didn't get out of the airport because of the weather which was really terrible. But then when we showed up the next day to try and get off the island there was a man inside the wing at the end of a ladder who was shouting out Not going to go. Not going back to the mainland today. You'll have to try again tomorrow." It was actually because of this firsthand experience that I started to realise what it must be like to have that kind of uncertainty of transport. So my good colleague Paul Eagle is forever lobbying to make sure that we get good connections to and from the Chathams so that you may travel freely as you wish and as it should have been a long time ago.I look forward to hearing your stories and knowing you all on a more personal basis but again nau mai haere mai ki tēnei Whare. We look forward to shepherding your bill through the House and again as I said before giving it the incredible respect that it deserves. Nō reira tēnā koutou kia tātou katoa kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Hon Meka Whaitiri—five minutes."