Bridges SimonHon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): Oh this has been a great debate. We've had music from Tāmati Coffey and I'm not sure that was within the rules to be honest but it seemed culturally inappropriate to stop it. I'm just going to say to Tāmati Coffey don't go doing that with Snoop Dogg. You know it's probably not the right thing to do but it was good. I also very much enjoyed what I heard from Rino Tirikatene there. I loved that image of him gorging on the pāua. He really got into it with his hands—you could almost taste those pāua when he was telling that story and then the buckets of muttonbirds. I'm not sure: is there a limit on those muttonbirds? Is that like undersized crays that he's been getting? Pretty legal" as Steven Joyce used to say I think is the expression there. It was a great speech from a great member of Parliament. I think that the member Rino Tirikatene who's just sat down along with Mr Eagle are actually like co - local members of Parliament for the area—is that all right Mr Eagle?—because Rino Tirikatene of course is MP for that whole area. So it's good to hear from him and also from Mr Eagle I'm sure. I think he's limbering up to give a speech on this. I spoke about him in my last speech in this House on this and like Rino Tirikatene he's a fine local member of Parliament. He doesn't know this but when he's Mayor of Wellington I'm actually—from a hundred yards we look very similar. So when there's like protests—[Interruption] No not you; you too actually—you too. One of us is a little smaller but we won't go there—it's all that pāua you've been eating. I digress. Hon Member: Back to the bill. Hon SIMON BRIDGES: No no the bill's coming—the bill's coming. At a hundred yards we look the same so when those Extinction Rebellion protesters are coming for you I will insert myself and they will think that it's me—they will think that I am you that is and I will keep you safe. It's been really good to speak on this bill at each stage. I haven't been on the committee but in a sense one doesn't need to to get a sense of the flavour of the law and to read it and get a sense of what it's all about. You know all jokes aside about some of the members in the Parliament who have played us music and told us tales this is I think a nice part if I can say that. It's a good part of the House. These bills are non-contentious. We're not bickering about them as the House does on a number of laws. We come in agreement to settle and provide redress for past injustices and here we have a situation where for the Moriori people we are righting gross historical injustices and I'm not going to retell those. We've spoken about them at length now in this House at various readings of this bill but they are there and so the redress that is provided by the Crown in terms of apology redress cultural redress and financial redress—I think it's around circa $17 million to $18 million worth—is token. It doesn't in fact accommodate what has happened. It's not like for like—not apples for apples if you can put it that way—but nevertheless it is some redress.I think one theme that's come through in the discussion in the first second and third readings of this bill is that one of the greatest injustices here has been one that in a sense—I'm 45. I know the members opposite find that hard to believe. Not a lot of grey hairs—a full head of hair that I have. But even a young buck like myself can remember when growing up that the Moriori people had myths and stigma around them. I can sort of remember bluntly that they were the ones that had been made extinct even though that wasn't actually the truth. There was a sense of—and I'd say this in quotes; it's not what I believe now and it's certainly not what I know to be true with the passage of this law and the historical record that is encapsulated in this law—"inferiority" there. So we in this law put that right. In doing so we are in a sense righting the worst or one of the worst injustices that have happened to Moriori people—those myths those stigmas that were untrue and that were perpetrated by many including the Crown. For the Crown it wasn't simply what was done although there were injustices done in the Māori Land Court—or the Native Land Court I think it was at that time—but also in what was not done: what was taught and what was not taught in our classrooms. So we in our way in this law put it to rights. It's sad I want to say—and I appreciate it's probably because of COVID and restrictions; I presume that's right—that the Moriori people aren't here today to be here for the third sum-up. Well I'll put that right if I see them in the gallery—Hon Member: Next door.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Oh they're next door—I see. We won't hear the waiata in this House at least and I always enjoy that. It's a fitting endnote if you like to these sorts of bills. National when it comes to the Treaty process I think's got a proud heritage—a whakapapa if you like—on these bills. We started it and I simply say that to say you know we may not get the votes in this area but we are part of the heritage the whakapapa the mahi when it comes to the Treaty settlement process and that is important I think.So with those remarks it's good to have been part of this journey in a small way at the first second and third readings. I am gratified that we are in a sense in some tokenistic ways righting the wrongs that have been perpetrated on the Moriori people from those Chatham Islands out to the east of where we are here in Wellington. As I say it's a pleasure and a privilege."