Paraone Pita: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeParaone Pita: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11195. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PITA PARAONE (NZ First):Ā tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker tēnā hoki tātou e noho nei i roto i Te Whare i te ata nei. E tū ake tēnei ki te tautoko i ngā mihi i mihingia e ngā kaikōrero i tū ake i mua i a au ēngari e te tuakana Adrian e mihi ana hoki ki a koe nau nei i whakaritengia wā tātou noho i te ata nei. E tika ana kia huri ngā whakaaro ki Te Runga Rawa kia īnoi atu ki a Ia kia pai ai ō tātou mahi i te rā nei.Ēngari tua atu i tēnā e tika ana kia mihi hoki ki a koutou mā Ngāti Hineuru i tae mai i waenganui i a tātou i te ata nei me koutou e noho mai nā i te wā kāinga me koutou hoki e mātakitaki mai ana i runga i te pouaka whakaata ki ēnei kōrero e pā ana ki tā koutou kerēme.Ā mihi hoki ki tēnā o ngā mate maha kei waenganui i a koutou nā Te Minita i whakahuangia te ingoa a Whetū nā te mea ko ia tetahi i kawea atu i tēnei kaupapa i runga i te hīkoitanga o tēnei take ki Te Whare nei. He mihi hoki ki a ia kua tū honohono ki tērā o ngā mate kei waenganui i a mātou mai Te Tai Tokerau nā ko Manuera Tohu tēnā. Ko ia tetahi o ngā pou o Te Kōhanga Reo nā reira e tika ana kia mihi tonu ki a rātou.Ā ka hoki mai ki a tātou te hunga ora tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to us seated here in the House this morning. I stand to support the tributes accorded by speakers who got up before me but to you in particular Adrian my senior a special thankyou for conducting a prayer over us seated here this morning. It is proper that thoughts are cast up to heaven to Him to ensure our work goes well today.But that aside it is proper as well that you collectively of Ngāti Hineuru who have arrived here amongst us today be acknowledged plus those of you back home as well watching these contributions on television that relate to your claims.A tribute also to that one of the many deaths amongst you whom the Ministerfor Māori Developmentnamed as being Whetū because he was one whotook this proposal on its trek to this House here—a tribute to him united now with thatother one of our deaths in the north Manuera Tohu one of the pillars of thekōhanga reoinstitution. Therefore it is fitting that we continue to pay a tribute to them.And sowe come back to us the living;acknowledgments salutations and congratulations to you collectively.]On behalf of New Zealand First I stand to support this bill in its second reading. As an earlier speaker pointed out this is the opportunity to report on the submissions that were presented to the Māori Affairs Committee which I felt privileged to be a member of. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations quite rightly points out that the bill is about settling all claims and providing cultural redress to the iwi together with financial redress to allow them to go forward in terms of the economic development of the iwi.Can I say that the committee received 13 submissions and a majority of them were in favour of the bill. However there were one or two submitters who spoke in opposition to the bill and a number of concerns were also raised by those who supported the bill not least of all the concern was that as an iwi they had not been recognised by the system—I am talking about Statistics New Zealand.Members may recall that during the first reading of this bill I expressed my envy of Ngāti Hineuru whose population according to the information that was provided to us was around the vicinity of 1500. Yet my whānau exceeds the 5000s—and that is just the Paraone whānau. But I belong to—well I refer to—an iwi called Ngāti Hine in the north. And we are not even recognised as an iwi.Kia ahatia kia ahatia? Koinā te āhuatanga o tātou![So what? So what of it? That is how it goes with us!]But I am making the point in support of this bill that Ngāti Hineuru should be given due recognition and when the next census is carried out I would want to see Ngāti Hineuru on the list—next to Ngāti Hine. But if that is going to be a prevention of Ngāti Hineuru being on the list then I am quite happy to stand down because you have got to this stage as part of your settlement process and I think that it should be duly recognised.As part of that whole process also some disquiet was mentioned about not being able to participate in the fisheries allocation although being an iwi. And we can understand that. But I just want to say to Ngāti Hineuru that Ngāti Hine is mentioned in the actual Maori Fisheries Act but we have yet to see a scale. But that is another matter—hoi anō.The report of the select committee also mentions the issue around the Mōhaka-Waikare block. The report quite rightly says that we heard the concerns of a representative of the Ngāi Tahu ki Waikare ancestral owners who queried the right of Ngāti Hineuru to include that part of their lands into their claim. We were aware that the Crown carried out investigations into the historical interests in the area before offering Hineuru redress in the Mōhaka-Waikare block and these investigations found that Hineuru in fact has customary interests in the block. After the agreement in principle between the Crown and Hineuru was signed the Crown consulted with all overlapping claimants to enable fair and appropriate redress. I think in this respect that that process needs to be commended because of the support that was provided by those iwi who had overlapping claims.The Office of Treaty Settlements advised the committee that Ngāi Tahu ki Waikare is included in the definitions of Ngāti Pāhauwera and Maungaharuru-Tangitū Hapū claimants and that those groups were part of the consultation on overlapping claims. Redress was provided in deeds of settlement for both groups to settle all of their historical claims. Therefore the Office of Treaty Settlements believes that the Crown has adequately considered the interests of Ngāi Tahu ki Waikare.In terms of those who opposed the bill one submitter was astonished that a hapū of TūwharetoaTaupōhas a Treaty of Waitangi grievance claim to lands outside of their ancestral boundaries. They referred to Hineuru as a hapū alongside other Tūwharetoa hapū that has received pūtea from land sales beginning in 1859 through to the 1900s. They said that Hineuru was a major beneficiary of the Mōhaka-Waikare land during the gift-back of confiscated land including the Tarawera Tataraakina and Pohokura blocks. We also heard from another submitter who objected to the claims settlement bill pertaining to the Waitara block that the Crown retained after confiscation in 1869.Before I conclude I just want to support some of the comments made by the Greens spokesperson in terms of this bill not being a complete settlement in terms of iwi groups. But we do acknowledge the contribution that these settlements make to our nation. I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.