Wall Louisa: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Wall Louisa: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 14 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6674. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa) 
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 Tena koe Mr Speaker. E nga mana e nga reo rau rangatira ma tena koutou tena koutou tena tatou katoa. Nga mihi ki nga mana me nga whanau o Ngati Manuhiri tena koutou. 
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Thank you Mr Speaker. To the authorities and leaders of a hundredfold salutations acknowledgments and greetings to you collectively. Congratulations to the powers and families of Ngati Manuhiri well done. 
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To Matua Laly Mook and the people who have fought this battle for Ngati Manuhiri since the Treaty was signed tena koutou. For 23 years you have waited for this day. I want to acknowledge that on 24 October 1989 Laly Paraone Haddon and Hawe Brown submitted a Wai claim—Wai 122. In addition to Wai 122 there were further Manuhiri claims—Wai 244 Wai 532 Wai 1539 Wai 1811 Wai 280 Wai 487 and Wai 567. The reality is that you as a whanau have been battling for a long time for recognition as mana whenua who deserve an apology from the Crown and who deserve your mana whenua status to be acknowledged by this House. So I mihi to you. I think in this House we mihi to each other too much because the reality is we are here today only because of the mahi that you have done—your tipuna your ancestors who have fought for this day. So this is Ngati Manuhiri’s day and when we look at what that day actually means it means that from 1840 when you were colonised like the rest of us there were 250000 acres of Ngati Manuhiri land. By 1890 you had approximately 10 percent— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Order! 
LOUISA WALL 
: Ngati Manuhiri had 10 percent of that land and now you retain 1300 acres of that 250000 acres that was Ngati Manuhiri land. What does that actually mean? It means you have only 0.52 percent of your ancestral lands. So I want to acknowledge that generosity of Ngati Manuhiri. In fact for most of the settlements that come before this House the settlements are a minuscule amount of what you should actually be getting back. But I do want to acknowledge that in this process it is the leadership of people like Mook and it is the leadership of Laly and the Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust to actually take the opportunity to get the putea to get some capital back into your hands so that you can actually move forward. It is only because of the generosity of our hapu and iwi groups that we are able to do that. 
I am a proud member of the Maori Affairs Committee. This Treaty grievance process which is our country’s truth and reconciliation process is for me incredibly important when we look back even now when we look at the history of our country. I think what this will enable us to do is get past the Treaty grievance phase of the development of us as a nation. What we are moving toward is the rightful place of tangata whenua of our hapu and of our iwi when we look at the future of this country. So the implications for me about the Treaty settlement process are actually about our constitutional position and status of our hapu and iwi groups in the future and what new relationship you will have with us as Crown agents. So I am very proud to stand here as a member of this House of Parliament on this day to acknowledge you. 
We did have 140 written submissions there were 17 oral submissions and 95 of the submissions did acknowledge that there were some issues about Te Hauturu-o-Toi. So I want to acknowledge again the generosity of Ngati Manuhiri in altering their deed of settlement. It is a very rare thing for iwi to alter their settlements when they have negotiated a position with the Crown. So I want to acknowledge the fact that you did that and you did that because you know you are part of Ngati Wai. You cannot separate Ngati Manuhiri and Ngati Wai. You did that because you acknowledge Ngati Rehua you acknowledge Te Kawerau-a-Maki and you acknowledge Marutuahu and Ngapuhi who also have interests in Te Hauturu-o-Toi. So again I want to acknowledge the fact that you have provided leadership in that process for those future Treaty settlements that will happen. So I want to thank you for bringing the House together and for bringing us here today to be able to acknowledge and honour Ngati Manuhiri.