Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Kia ora Madam Speaker and can I add my words of support and acknowledgment to Ngāti Rangitihi particularly those who have travelled here today to sit and listen to politicians from across the House seek to put in our inadequate words the importance of this legislation the acknowledgment of the pain and suffering and the recompense and apology that is in the legislation.I think the contributions have been powerful. I do have to say to my parliamentary colleague Shanan Halbert that there is a time for reflection with respect to the elements that he covered that are better suited for general debates than they are when we have the people of Ngāti Rangitihi in the room and we are reflecting on their story. I felt that his contribution had veered to a disappointing level which in my time I have not seen happen when having a settlement bill reading.The bill itself is in three major parts and the first part is the reflection of the historical injustices that were perpetrated on Ngāti Rangitihi. I'm an historian. I did an English and history degree at the University of Waikato and actually I think these elements of the Treaty settlement legislation—which honestly harrowingly outline the experiences of tangata whenua and in this case Ngāti Rangitihi—are an absolutely critical part of lifting not only my understanding but my community's understanding and the wider country's understanding around the realities of our history. We should not ever seek to walk back from that however uncomfortable it is.But I do hope that in telling the history and the stories not only here in this House but as that occurs across the country and in school rooms and families the patience the willingness to look forward the willingness to rebuild again an enduring relationship with the Crown and the energy and the essence and the strength of essence that that requires for people to do that when they have been so negatively impacted in the past—I hope that gets captured in our ongoing conversations as a country.It is critical to acknowledge the history but I think it is also really important to acknowledge how peoples such as Ngāti Rangitihi have the courage and the will and the patience to be able to look beyond that past and rebuild again with the Crown. I think that should be acknowledged because that should give us all hope in this House that you bring the best of yourself to this partnership and it behoves us to do the same.Part 2 of the bill reflects specifically the cultural redress and Part 3 the commercial redress. This is all in the legislation. We will look forward to hearing that in your own voices and stories and perspectives at the select committee.I do want to support Tāmati Coffey the chair. I sit also in the Māori Affairs Committee on behalf of the National Party along with Joseph Mooney and I'm sure that we would be very supportive of his suggestion that we hear this on marae. We did have that experience on the Chatham Islands and it was very well negotiated and immensely powerful. I think it's all part of us as a committee understanding at a more deeper level beyond the words on a page beyond the voices that sit in front of us—actually to be in your space as well I think adds an element to the depth of joint commitment to this which is powerful and enduring.A lot has already been said today. I just want to conclude with an acknowledgment again from the National Party of the importance of this process the integrity of the process the patience that you have brought to it and a commitment that we all of us in this House will follow that with integrity through to the third reading. Kia ora tātou.