Davis Kelvin: Whanganui Iwi (Whanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Whanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Davis Kelvin: Whanganui Iwi (Whanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Whanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
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KELVIN DAVIS (Labour) 
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 Tena koe Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson. Tu ake ana ahau hei whakaputa i oku ake nei whakaaro e pa ana ki tenei pire. Harikoa ana kua tae ki te wahanga mutunga kia ’hakatutuki pai ai nga moemoea o Ngati Apa o te iwi o Whanganui kia ’hakataungia tenei wahanga o te kereme kia haere tonu nga wahanga atu nga kereme matua. Na reira mihi kau ana ki a Ngati Apa ki a ratou katoa ma i whiriwhiri ai nga ahuatanga e pa ana ki tenei pire.  
Kua rongo ake nei ahau i te hoa a Paul Quinn meatia ana ia i ona ngoikoretanga ona kaha hoki na reira i te hiahia e ia kia korero mo ona kaha anake. Kua huri ia ki te korero mo tona tuakana a Mita Ririnui. Na reira e tautoko ana wena korero mo tona hiahia kia korero mo ana kaha ara mo tona whanaunga a Mita.  
Hanga pa pouri ana ahau kia rangona wetahi tautohetohe pakupaku noa iho e pa ana ki tenei nga pahupahu o te Minita. Nana nei i tu ake hei whakahe i te Ropu Reipa i te mea na nga mahi o toku hoa a Mita Ririrnui nana i whakaritea nga wahanga matua o tenei pire me te on-account 
settlement 
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Ko wenei wahanga te panuitanga kei roto i te Whare Miere te Whare Paremata hei whiriwhiri. Ko wenei wahanga te wahi mama noa iho te wahi ngawari. Engari na Mita i a te Minita tuarua nana nei i whakapau ona kaha hei ’hakatutuki pai nga wahanga tino pakeke. Na reira mihi kau ana ki a ia.  
Hiahia hoki ana ahau kia tuku korero tautoko mo tera o nga mema o te Ropu Kakariki nana nei i korero mo tetahi wahanga o Aotearoa e ahua kaikiri ana e kaikiri e whakahawea ana i nga tumanako o te iwi Maori. Kua ’hakaputa i runga i te pouaka whakaata i roto i nga purongo niupepa i te wiki kua pahuri ake nei nga korero ’hakahawea etahi ki a ngai Maori ma ki a ngai matou te iwi Maori. Me te korero ano hoki horekau e whai wahanga a Aotearoa wenei rangi i wena tumomo korero e pa ana ki a matou. Na reira kite ana matou i taua ropu e hanga wehewehe ana i naianei. Ko ia te kai o te mahi kaikiri.  
Na reira taku nei akiaki ra i a tatou katoa kei roto i tenei Whare Miere tenei Whare Paremata kia u tonu kia hapaitia i nga hiahia nga wawata o te iwi Maori. Mehemea ka tutuki pai ai o tatou wawata ka oti ke ka tau ke nga kereme katoa ka taea e tatou me tatou katoa o Aotearoa kia haere whakamua. Taku e whakapae ake nei e tu ana a Aotearoa ki runga i nga pokowhiwhi o ngai Maori me nga mahi tukino ki o matou tupuna i nga tau kua pahure ake nei. Na reira horekau ahau e hiahia ana kia kumea kia roa tenei tu i te mea kua roa aianei a Ngati Apa nga iwi o Whanganui e tatari ana mo tenei pire ’hakatutuki ai.  
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Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson. I stand to express my personal views about this bill. I am pleased it has reached its final stage fulfilling the dreams of Ngati Apa and those of Whanganui settling this part of the claim and ensuring that other claims and primary claims can continue. I acknowledge Ngati Apa and all those who negotiated aspects relating to this bill. 
I note the references by fellow member Paul Quinn to his weaknesses and his strengths as well and his wanting to focus solely on his strengths. Consequently he has turned to comment on his elder kin Mita Ririnui. So I endorse those comments about his desire to talk about his strengths—namely his relative Mita. 
It saddens me somewhat to hear some very minor haggling relating to this bill in the prattle from the Minister. He got up and condemned the Labour Party because of the work by my colleague Mita Ririnui who arranged some of the main parts of the Whanganui Iwi (Whanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Whanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill. These parts were announced in the Chamber for the House’s consideration but they were just the easy and straightforward ones. It was Mita the former Associate Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations who worked hard on the more difficult parts to ensure that they were completed well. So I really acknowledge him.  
I also want to endorse the comments by the member of the Green Party who spoke about someone in New Zealand being somewhat racist towards the aspirations of Maori people. These racist comments of an offensive nature to Maori generally and to us the Maori people appeared on television and in newspapers just a week ago. The member went on to say there was absolutely no place in New Zealand for this sort of talk about us in these days. We perceive that group to be dividing us. That individual will become a victim of his own racism.  
I urge all of us in this Chamber in this House to remain committed to lifting up the wishes and aspirations of the Maori people. If our aspirations are achieved well all our claims will then be finalised and settled. As a consequence we and all of New Zealand will be able to move forward together. I praise the fact that New Zealand stands shoulder to shoulder with the Maori people to rectify the injustices our ancestors suffered in years past. I do not wish to prolong this address any more because Ngati Apa and the tribes of Whanganui have been waiting a while now for this bill to be settled. 
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Without wanting to drag this out I want to just go over a few things I said in Maori. First of all I acknowledge Paul Quinn who said that he recognises his weaknesses and his strengths and that he wanted to talk only about his strengths so he stood up and spoke about the Hon Mita Ririnui. We can acknowledge that Mita is Paul Quinn’s whanaunga and I am glad to see that Mr Quinn recognises Mita’s strengths and the work that Mita did on the groundwork around the Whanganui Iwi (Whanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Whanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill. 
It is great that we have come to the stage of the third reading where this part of Ngati Apa’s and Whanganui’s settlements can be settled so that they can go on to settle the rest of their claims. Once all of these claims have been settled—and I am not just talking about Ngati Apa or Whanganui but all of the Treaty claims—we can move forward. I think it is important that the country recognises that we have to go through this. We have to settle these claims so that we can move forward. New Zealand is built basically by standing on the shoulders of Maori and on their sacrifices and on what was done to our ancestors over the last 150 years. There is no place in this House or in New Zealand for the sorts of divisive politics we have seen over the last few days. I agree with our colleague Kevin Hague from the Green Party when he mentioned this issue. As a country we cannot afford to engage in this petty divisiveness where we pit one sector of New Zealand against another because we then have factions on the extremes that basically feed off each other. They give each other oxygen to survive. We cannot have extremism in any field in New Zealand because there is no constructive use for it. We as New Zealanders need to come together to get these claims settled so that we can move forward as a nation. 
On that point again I would like to acknowledge the work of the likes of Mita Ririnui of the Minister—despite the fact that he spent 90 percent of his 3-minute speech criticising us—and of the Maori Affairs Committee of which I was privileged to be a member although I was demoted to the Education and Science Committee unfortunately. I would like to just acknowledge the work that everyone has done in getting this bill into the House and through the House. Hopefully we can go on to settle all of the other claims as I said so that New Zealand can move forward as a country—as two peoples I will say with one sense of purpose going forward. I will always say that I was born Maori first but I am still proud to be a New Zealander. With those final words Mr Assistant Speaker huri rauna i to tatou Whare tena koutou tena koutou kia ora mai ano tatou . 
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To you Mr Assistant Speaker and members throughout our House greetings greetings and greetings once again to us. 
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Bill read a third time.