Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Labour): Reo Māori Madam Speaker. Tihe wā mauri ora. E te tuakana koutou e ngā uri o Ngāti Paoa kua tae mai nei ahakoa te pānuitanga tuarua o tēnei pire. E tika ana ko koutou kē tēnā i kōkiri i te Kaupapa mai i tōna tīmatanga. Ae me tae mai ki roto i tōna pānuitanga tuarua. Kāore e kore ka hoki mai anō hei te otinga ake o te pānuitanga tuatoru. Nō reira Ngāti Paoa whakairihia mai ngā kete kōrero ki runga o te tāhūhū o tō tatou Whare hei akiaki hei ārahi nei i ngā kōrero a ngā mema o te Whare Pāremata e te tuakana. Koutou o te wā kāinga ki roto i a Tāmaki Makaurau nau mai haere mai tēnā koutou. Ka tahuri atu ahau ki te reo pākehā.[Tis the breath of life. Dear brother you and the people of Ngāti Paoa who are here present despite it being the second reading of this bill. You have worked on this matter since its inception. And you are here during its second reading. No doubt you will return for the third reading. So then Ngāti Paoa bring forth your baskets of knowledge here to the ridgepole of our House to support and assist the speeches made by the parliamentary members of this house. Dear brother you and your people of Tāmaki Makaurau I welcome you all here. I will speak now in English.]Thank you Madam Speaker for this opportunity and I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations for his contributions and I think too a good précis about some of the challenges that have come through this particular settlement. It's well known that in Tāmaki-makau-rau and right across Tāmaki-makau-rau and further boundaries that extend to the limits of Tāmaki-makau-rau settlements are particularly difficult because of overlapping interests. The fact that many tribes from right across the country either found home there after colonial settlement or called it home before colonial settlement is the matter for debate the matter for whakapapa and the matter for many discussions held between iwi which is complicated even further when iwi present their case to the Crown in what can only be regarded and has been explained many times in this House as a very tricky Treaty settlement process.So I want to acknowledge Ngāti Paoa. I want to like the Minister acknowledge those officers and those of the iwi who sat down and worked very hard—over recent years in particular—to make sure that this settlement has arrived to the space where it is now. Quite often you receive a large number of submissions on settlements. This particular settlement received significantly more than one might expect from other settlements—for example this settlement that we just had with our whānau from Te Korowai o Wainuiārua. I'm sure there will be a number of—what do you call it?— representations made to the Māori Affairs Committee. But this one in particular was a challenge and the Minister's already described what some of those challenges were. I'm glad that the committee made the recommendations that they did and Ngāti Paoa will continue to make sure that the Crown holds up their end of the bargain and especially considering the work that Ngāti Paoa did to ensure that this particular bill could continue to progress.Madam Speaker I started in this House alongside yourself in 2014 and one of my first speeches in the House was on the first reading of the original agreement that was entered into by the Hon Christopher Finlayson and it was contentious at the time. If I recall correctly—call it youthful naivety—I was stood down or sat down in that particular contribution which is quite rare on these occasions when we consider Treaty bills. But such was the difficulty of the Ngāti Paoa settlement bill. So I'm really proud actually as the former member of Tāmaki Makaurau who sat and watched the progression of this bill to where we are today.There is still more work to be done if I consider the overlapping interests across Tāmaki-makau-rau. The bill sets out some of the mechanisms that Ngāti Paoa and other iwi can use to engage with local authority and central governmental authority. One of the challenging things that I know iwi in particular engage in but can often be usurped through courts is a more tikanga-based approach to the way that iwi work with each other in Tāmaki-makau-rau. When we talk about overlapping interests it isn't the first desire of iwi to go to the court to settle it. The first desire of iwi is to sit down as relatives as neighbours acknowledging a shared whakapapa and a shared history—to be able to avoid the expensive costs of court and the long-winded nature of the court process. So I'd like to still encourage that as Tāmaki-makau-rau looks to settle others that are still in the region of Tāmaki-makau-rau.The bill here describes well the area that Ngāti Paoa call home. It's as far north as Mahurangi or Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi—for those of you who don't know further north of Auckland—of course extending out into the Hauraki and in particular into the home of Ngāti Paoa at Maungarei and at Mokoia which I think is really important. And why I mention that—and my whanaunga up here will know the story well; of course as a descendant of Ngāpuhi—is that Ngāpuhi played its role as it came into Tāmaki-makau-rau in some of the tricky dynamics that exist today between the iwi whether it's the Waikato to the southern boundary or Ngāti Whātua to the northern boundary and the role that Ngāpuhi played. And I want to acknowledge in particular what took place on Mokoia—and my tuākana knows the story well about Ngāpuhi's role at that particular battle.So I know this is the second reading and I support the words of Minister Goldsmith when we say we want to continue to push this particular kaupapa along. But I thought it an opportunity—at least from the Labour Party—through a 10-minute call to be able to just extend our contribution a little bit more with the hope to fulfil the expectations of Ngāti Paoa that this House deliberates on these particular pieces of legislation with a very keen eye to getting it right. So on that note I won't carry on any further other than to say e te tuakana koutou o Ngāti Paoa kua tae mai nei. Ko te manako nui kia pai ai tō koutou hokinga atu ki te wā kāinga kia tutataki anō tāua ki raro i te maru o māunga Rei ā tōna wā. Me te hiahia kia haere tonu tēnei Kaupapa. He aha ai? Hei oranga mō tō koutou iwi mō tō tāua iwi. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tatou katoa.[dear brother and the people of Ngāti Paoa who have arrived here. I wish you a safe return to your home until we see each other again under the shade of the lofty Rei mountain. My wish is that this bill will push on forward. Why? To bring welfare to your people to our people. Thank you thank you kia ora everyone.]