Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou e Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki mihi tonu atu ki a koutou. Nau mai whakatau mai ki roto Te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei. Āe nō koutou tēnei rā he rā nui whakahirahira i te whakataunga i ngā kerēme o koutou ā he hōnore nui tēnei e whakatū ana au ki te mihi atu ki a koutou i tēnei rīti whakamutunga o tō koutou pire.[Greetings to you Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki I greet you directly. Welcome welcome here to Parliament House. Yes this is your day a very important day that settles your claims and it is a big honour for me to stand and greet you at this the final reading of your bill.]I'm delighted to add my words of support in this third reading of the claims settlement bill for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. I want to acknowledge all of the contributions that have been made thus far—some very eloquent contributions from fellow members around this House. We are all here to tautoko and to support the passage of this bill and to congratulate and mihi Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki who have travelled all this way here for this very special and historic occasion.I am always very humbled to be able to participate not only in the House but also in the legislative process for these Treaty settlement bills particularly so as the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee. We learn a lot about the history of our country and of our respective iwi and it is very sad in some ways in terms of the repetition of the grievances that have been created and which are being dealt with through these settlements. But it also is I believe one of the most rewarding aspects of being a member in this House to be able to put these special bills through and to acknowledge and learn more about the people that it concerns.So I do welcome Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to our House. Yes this bill deals principally with land loss and with that land loss the loss of identity of traditions of authority and of te reo me ōna tikanga that flows from that sense of place on ancestral land. So this bill goes some way to acknowledging that as the Crown has recorded in their deeds with Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. Obviously it never replaces what was lost but I do marvel at how vast the tribal estate of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki was. When folks think of Auckland and the Auckland isthmus it's incredible that over 80000 acres I believe were ultimately lost to Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and even more through the failure to honour undertakings of promises that were made in pre-Treaty purchases but also the failure of successive land commissions and commissioners to properly recognise the lands and the mana whenua of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. That succeeded even further to confiscations that occurred during the wars that broke in the 1860s.So there is that history there and it must always be recorded and remembered. I'm sure there will be many waiata and haka that will be created and composed by Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to reinforce their identity and—as Mr Jones said—projecting that identity because as at the last census in 2013 I think there were 500 recorded members in the census. Now I'm sure there's probably many more than that but that's the impact that these generations and decades and a couple of centuries of loss have inflicted on Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. What we're doing is ushering in a new future post this Treaty bill—post the passage of it—so it can not only address the redress aspects within the bill but also help to enliven the cultural identity of this wonderful iwi who have travelled here today.Now I wanted to just change a little bit of tack in terms of my contribution because as my colleague Tutehounuku Korako mentioned there were some illustrious tūpuna—ancestors—of the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki people and in particular as we've heard Ānaru Makiwhara. In addition to the petitions that that gentleman and I understand his older brother made to this House about recognition of the grievances and the claims of his people he also recounted the wonderful stories of the tūpuna of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. As we know Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki is Auckland but Ngāi Tai in terms of the kōrero—one in particular which I was really spellbound by was Te Heke-o-Ngā-Tokotoru" ["The Migration of the Three"] which was started in Tōrere. It involved skirmishes and troubles that were going on and the rangatira Tamatea-toki-nui said to his people and to his daughters "Go to the cuzzies in Hauraki in Ngāti Maru. Seek some refuge there because it's getting a bit troublesome where we are here."We need to acknowledge Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki because from that great ariki there was the famous saying: "Ka mate kāinga tahi ka ora kāinga rua." That's a saying which I've uttered in this House a few times in debates as well—"When one house dies another one emerges". So we should acknowledge that from the kōrero that was laid down. This was recorded I believe around a hundred years ago from the kōrero of Ānaru Makiwhara. Following on from that kōroro out of Tōrere when they went into the Ngāti Maru we should acknowledge Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki for the famous—sorry I'll backtrack. There was a chief called Te Whatatau and Te Whatatau came with his wife by waka to Ngāti Maru and was welcomed there by the sisters that had brought the people from Ngāi Tai. To cut a long story short they were welcomed by being pulled up to the papa—to the landing—and that's where we get the famous "Tōia mai te waka ki te urunga te waka" ["Drag it the canoe to its resting place the canoe"].All of that flows from these wonderful stories of these people. And it doesn't stop there because these people the illustrious tūpuna—they really enjoyed huamanu which our people from the South can very much identify with because they're the chief Te Whatatau and the beautiful chieftainesses of Raukohekohe and Motuitawhiti. They were spellbound by the large gifts of preserved manu that that chief had brought to that occasion.So these are all the rich kōrero and rich histories of this amazing people of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki. I know they're going to be leaving their imprint all over Tāmaki-makau-rau with what will unfold from the passage of this legislation. It is an exciting future that lies ahead for them all. It's all been laid down by their tūpuna. They can draw inspiration from those stories and stamp their big footprints right across Tāmaki-makau-rau and into the future and I wish them all the very best. Kia ora tātou."