Jones Shane; Tuiono TeanauHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): A kāti e ngā uri a Whakatōhea. Koutou kua hoki mai i roto i tēnei wiki. I kōnei anō ruarua noa iho ō koutou mātua nō te wiki pahure ake nei kua tae mātotoru mai ai koutou ki waenga tonu i a mātou. Ngā uri a Muriwai a Tūtāmure a Tarawa nāna wāna mōkaikai i tuku ki roto i tō koutou wai puna. Nō muri noa nei ka whakaingoatia Ōpōtiki mai i Tawhiti. Nā reira tēnā anō rā koutou. Me te mahara ake i te roa o te hikoi te tāroaroa o te huarahi kua pau i a koutou kia tae mai ai ki waenga tonu i a mātou i tēnei rā. I ahau i te kura i Tīpene he mea tono mai e ō koutou mātua wā koutou tauira i te kura i Hato Pētera. Ruarua i tae mai ki waenga tonu i a mātou. Otirā he kete nō mātou i ō mātou whātorotorohanga haere i roto waenga tonu i a Mātātua Tūhoe Whakatōhea Apanui wērā pānga o te ao Māori. He iwi Motuhake anō koutou. Ō koutou whare he pae moko. Ō koutou kaumātua he mea ako ki roto i ngā āhuatanga me ngā ritenga o ngā karaipiture. Ēngari kīhai rawa koutou i wareware ki ngā kupu whakarite me ngā taonga tukuiho mai i te ao kohatu. Kātahi ka whakamārenatia i roto i te kauhautanga haeretanga a Te Kōti i waenga tonu i tēnā moka kei tērā pito kei te Ika a Māui he mea whakamārena ngā taonga mai te ao kohatu ki ngā kura taonga nāna i tiritiri nāna i ruirui kua riro ko koutou ētahi o ngā tāngata whakamutunga hei mau haere hei pīkau hei amo i ngā ritenga me ngā taonga mō te pūtea whakanakonako mō te kete e kī ana ki ngā taonga o te ao wairua. Nā reira i a tātou e mihi nei ki a koutou i tēnei rangi ehara i te mea he mihi ā-oneone ānakenake. Ehara i te mea he mihi ā-ture ānakenake. Otirā mātou ngā kaikōrero e whai toto Māori ana i whakatupungia ai i roto i ō mātou kāinga Māori rekereke o ō mātou kuikuia. He mōhio nō mātou ko tēnei whakataunga i tēnei rā he whakataunga ā-tinana he whakataunga ā-hinengaro he whakataunga noki ā-wairua. Nā reira ko te mahi mā mātou ā tōna wā me pēhea rānei te wairua e mumura tonu ai? Kaua rawa atu e titiro ki te Karauna e muramura ai tō wairua. Kaua rawa atu e titiro ki te Karauna e koi tonu ai te hinengaro. Otirā tātou me titiro ki a tātou anō. E pai ana te werowero e pai ana te whakatumatuma kia kaua rawa atu te Karauna e ārai tonu e whakaoruoru tonu i te huarahi kua rite hei haere mā tātou. Otirā i te mutunga mā roto i tēnei whakataunga me ngā pitopito whenua kua oti te whakahoki atu.He mōhio nō mātou ehara te mea ko te katoa tēnei kahore. Otirā tēnei rawa te tauira i whakaritea mō tēnā iwi mō tēnā iwi otirā ō koutou maha tonu ngā taonga kei āpōpō. Kei te Moana a Toi. E hari ana au ka oti i a koutou i tēnei rangi ngātahi me mātou. Me te whakamahara i a koutou mea ake nei taro ake nei mātou ka tae mai ki waenganui i a koutou te rapu me pēhea rānei te pūtea ngātahi ka kitea ka whakangāoa ngātahitia e koutou e mātou. Katahi ka whai mana tēnā kupu e karangahia nei ko te co-invested. Whakangāo tahi. Mātou e hae ana i roto i Te Tai Tokerau i te nui o te pārai mahi pūtea kei tō koutou aroaro kei te Moana nui a Toi. Ahakoa ō koutou tērā whanaunga tararā ōku a Vitasovich e haere mai ana ki te rapu i ngā pīpi kūtai i waenga tonu i ahau i Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe. Otirā koia tēnā ko te huarahi hei haerenga mā tātou. Mahi tahi tētahi iwi ki tētahi kē atu. Me whakarite he tauira hou kia riro ko tāu ko tāku ngā kīwai o te kete. Māu tētahi māku tētahi kātahi ka whakakīia ngātahitia e tātou. He taro he mātaitai he oranga kei roto i tēnā kete. Nā koia tāku e mihi ake nei ki a tātou i tēnei rā.[Well then dear descendants of Whakatōhea you all who have returned within this week. Last week there were not many of your elders here. You have arrived today in great numbers. The descendants of Muriwai of Tūtāmure of Tarawa he who sent his subordinates to your sacred pool. It was only later on the name Ōpōtiki mai Tawhiti was bestowed. And so greetings to you all and also not to forget the enduring walk that you have experienced to be here with us today. When I was schooling at Tīpene I was sent by your elders; your kin were schooling at Hato Pētera. Only a few came to us. We were fortunate to have been to Mātātua Tūhoe Whakatōhea and Apanui those Māori communities. You are indeed a nation of your own. Your houses were Māori. Your elders were schooled in the teachings of the scripture. But you also didn't leave behind the metaphors and the heritage of the old ways. And then both were married together and taught by Te Kōti within those parts of this country. The old knowledge and his wisdom were married together and disseminated and you are some of the last of our people to hold fast to these sacred teachings. To convey these customs and wisdoms in order to fill your wealth with correct spiritual measures. So as we acknowledge you today these acknowledgments are not just words. These acknowledgments are not only part of our rules. Furthermore we the speakers have Māori blood ties and were also raised within Māori communities raised at the ankles of our grandmothers. We are well aware that these settlements are a settlement for the physical a settlement for the mind and also a settlement of the spirit. And so our responsibility is that later on down the track how do we still keep the spirit strong? Don't ever let the Crown be the reason to keep you sharpening your mind. Let us look within ourselves. It is OK to challenge it is OK to be defiant so that the Crown will not block the pathway set for you all. At the end of the day it is within this settlement and the lands that are given back to you. We all know this is not speaking on behalf of everyone no. But this is the example set aside for that iwi and that iwi and for you as well there is a future to look forward to. It is the great ocean of Toi. I am happy that we are here today to settle this together. And to remind you that soon we will come to you to discuss how the funding will be implemented we will meet and speak to this together. Only then will the term co-invested have true meaning. Together. We in the North are quite envious at the funding and projects that you have before you at the great ocean of Toi. And that kin of mine Vitasovich who is here at Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe looking for pipi and kūtai. And that is the pathway for us. Work together one iwi with another. We need to show an example on how to fill all our baskets. For you for me and then together we will fill it. Taro seafood there is success in that basket. Hence why I am here acknowledging you today.]As I have said in our Māori language the passage of this bill reflects a long and perilous journey for this iwi an iwi that stands in the ranks of the mātāmua the senior positions senior personalities deep-steeped in the Māori world. A sad history but a history that I reflected in our Māori language can be brightened by looking forward and that can be improved by a constructive level of engagement as was the case with my friends on the other side of the House. At one level we are combatants adversaries in the context of politics but we are all here to in a patriotic sense of duty grow the wealth the prosperity and robustness of us all on this journey.It was Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen who in 2005-06 took us to Ōpōtiki where it became evident that one day we would have infrastructure built in Ōpōtiki. But it couldn't be done without the acquiescence or the support of Whakatōhea.Of course that goes back earlier in terms of the Helen Clark Government when a Klondike—a race for space—took place around the coastline of New Zealand and an area that was focused upon by the entrepreneurs by the strategists of that time was to lock up coastal space off the rohe of Whakatōhea. Sealord originally showed some interest but they disappeared. A cast of Lord knows how many people from the Orient came and that soon disappeared. Then eventually working with some of the local Pākehā kiwifruit farmers local farmers the initiative was funded to create an aquaculture industry for Whakatōhea and it's that which I've referred to in our Māori language that we have to build upon because in a number of these areas the model of Treaty settlements is by and large confined to the mana whenua boundaries. That's fine if your mana whenua or asserted mana whenua is the entirety of Te Wai Pounamu or you have the good luck and serendipity of enjoying the fruits of the golden triangle. But if you live on an isolated part of this country as is the case where I hail from in the very Far North or are Whakatōhea we need to be strategic and work collaboratively with the Crown and other private sector investors to make the resources that we have at our doorstep more valuable and turn them into a flow of goods and services. That is not only important to you and I in our own country but desirable to a global market.I am very confident that once the dust settles around this settlement there'll be the inevitable smoothing-out processes you will seize the opportunity and work and build on the collaborative nature of the mahi that has been carried out over the last three to five years and create New Zealand's largest and most profitable and most desirable new platform of marine blue ocean growth otherwise known as mātaitai ngā kūtai ngā kuku ngā porohe—koia tēnā te kupu i 'hakatupungia ai mātou mō te kūtai i a mātou i te nohinohi i roto i ō mātou kāinga me ō mātou kuikuia. Nā reira ngā mihi ki a koutou e Rōpata e Te Kāhautū ō koutou tuākana kua pau ki te matemate ō koutou mātua e mātakitaki mai ana i a tātou i roto i tēnei rangi. E maringi mai ana te roimata? Tērā pea engari meinga ko tēnā roimata ehara ko te roimata tūpāpaku engari ko te roimata hari. Āpōpō he huarahi ka kitea hei whakahihiko i te āhuatanga o ā tātou tamariki kia minamina mai ai rātou kia tū rangatira ai ā-Māori ā-tangata o roto o Aotearoa ā-hapori ā-pakihi engari kia tū tangata. Kia kaua rawa atu e haere tāmia whakataimahangia ana e ngā kīhau o muri. Kei te whiti te rā ki te ihu o te waka kei mua i a tātou. Tēnā koutou tēnā tātou kia ora tātau katoa. [Otherwise known as shellfish mussels porohe—that is the word that we were raised with for mussels when we were little in our homes with our grandmothers. And so greetings to you all Robert Te Kāhautū your seniors who have all passed on your parents' generation who are watching us today. Are years being shed? Perhaps but make that tear not be a tear of bereavement but instead a tear of joy. Tomorrow a path with be discovered to excite the circumstances of our children so that they will aspire to stand in nobility as Māori as people in Aotearoa as communities as businesses but as confident people. So that they don't ever go along being oppressed having difficulties imposed upon them by the sprits in behind. The sun is shining on the prow of the canoe in front of us. Thanks and greetings to you and all of us.]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): The next call is a split call between the Green Party and the National Party.