SpeechPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare e mihi ana nei ki a koutou kua tae mai i runga i te karanga o te kaupapa o te rā. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua Rangitāne o Wairarapa Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua tēnā koutou kia ora koutou katoa.[Mr Speaker greetings to you and to all of you who have travelled here responding to the call of the issue of the day. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua Rangitāne o Wairarapa Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua greetings to you all be well.]Mr Speaker thank you for this honour to be able to speak to this redress bill the joint redress bill Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill. It's been some journey to get here and I'm a real fan of today because it is the first reading. I want to acknowledge the members of the three iwi and those representatives who are here today sitting with us here in te Whare Pāremata our Parliament to experience this process which gives effect to certain parts of the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and the iwi in August 2016 and I'll just add Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki Nui-a-Rua and the Crown in October last year. So it has taken some time but we're here now and I want to acknowledge those with us but also those who are no longer with us who have been part of this process.I know that being a member of the Māori Affairs Committee—and can I acknowledge all members and particularly the chair Tāmati Coffey. But these are always a learning process because you get to hear about some horrific pain and the journey that our iwi across the motu go through.Can I acknowledge those iwi negotiation teams. I know the names of the members have been read out but I want to applaud them for one particular aspect and that's that they saw the need to do a joint redress. I know there are other settlement claims coming through the process through Te Arawhiti Māori Crown Relations on through into the Māori Affairs Committee and I'm a fan of just ensuring that the joint redress components of these Treaty claims is put forward as soon as possible. Too often I notice with others is that as claims are dealt with with singular entities there's a real overlap and it would be far more useful in my view that sometimes if we did the joint redress up-front maybe we could iron out some of those raruraru as we go through.But all credit to those negotiation teams our Crown negotiation team. Can I acknowledge the Minister the Hon Andrew Little and the councils involved who have really helped build up this package that's before us.When I look at the purpose of the bill I said that it gives certain provisions contained in those deeds of settlement effect and I know and in talking to people from the iwi they certainly recount their history in some pain. It goes back to 1853 where some of that land purchase and what was gifted with the intention of ending these disputes actually with the hope of even protecting those lakes and there was going to be some return with some ample reserves—these just did not happen. I heard the Minister talk about that some of the reserves provided by the Crown were in fact located away in Te Rohe Pōtae the King Country. That's unacceptable and I know that those devastating effects of the loss of land that had caused this intergenerational suffering is now well documented and it's important. We're on our history waka to ensure that it's recorded accurately and I want to applaud those involved in this negotiation to get that history documented accurately and correctly.So the redress the joint redress over the Wairarapa Moana the Ruamāhanga River catchment to both Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne acknowledges the significance of that taonga. I know there are other sites and there is one aspect of this that I think is worthy of mention and that's that Wairarapa Moana Statutory Board to act as I've learnt in other settlements as a guardian of the Wairarapa Moana the Ruamāhanga River catchment and that's really for that benefit again of current and future generations.What's significant really is the membership of that board half being iwi members and then we've got the Department of Conversation and the Greater Wellington Regional Council and South Wairarapa District Council. This is good. It means that the partners involved in the kōrero are there at the table. They're in a governance setting so they are making decisions that have real strength and real impact no doubt reflecting back into the 1850s and when those other deals were done. There was no certainty of whether they would actually come to fruition. There'll be a natural resources committee of that board and they will certainly look at the sustainable management and catchment—sorry the natural resources of the river catchment.Just in terms of the Castlepoint Scenic Reserve which has been mentioned. I'm a regular visitor. But I know that there will be what's called an overlay classification that recognises some of those traditional cultural and spiritual relationships between iwi and Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne. So this is significant. I too look forward to seeing the process come through the Māori Affairs Committee. I'm hopeful like I am with all settlements that this is the beginning of a reset a true partnership that allows an attempt I guess so that some of that suffering and pain that will be addressed in its history is actually acted upon in a positive manner for the future for the people of these iwi and shows a new respect and trust for Te Tiriti o Waitangi and their principles.I'm proud to speak on this and will be proud to look at the subsequent readings and I commend this bill to the House.