Hipango HareteHARETE HIPANGO (National—Whanganui): Madam Deputy Speaker tēnā koe. Ka huri au ki ngā manuhiri i tēnei Whare. Nau mai haere mai anō mō te karangatanga o tēnei pire Te Pire Tuarua o Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou. Koinā.[Greetings Madam Deputy Speaker. I turn my attention to the visitors to this House. Welcome welcome again for the call for this reading of the Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou (No 2) Bill. Indeed.]As is tikanga protocol courtesy and appropriate decorum I acknowledge those who have gathered here in support of this second reading today especially the descendants ngā uri o ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou and I speak as member of Parliament for Whanganui as uri of Whanganui Ngāti Apa Ngā Rauru and Ngāti Rangi. I also speak as a member serving on the Māori Affairs Committee and I mihi to my colleagues in the House. I speak also as a National Party member of Parliament.For the benefit of those gathered here today to hear and hearken to the kōrero of this House may I briefly explain for the benefit of those gathered what the purpose of the second reading is. In that I for a moment seek your leave to turn to those gathered in the gallery to address them directly. This second reading of your bill—the people of Ngāti Porou with a 72000 membership comprised of 57 hapū and 48 marae spanning from Ōpōtiki around the coastal cape and lines through to Gisborne Tai Rāwhiti. This bill No. 2 has been before the Māori Affairs Committee for consideration after hearing and receiving the oral evidence in Gisborne and Wellington from 18 submitters whilst also receiving and considering in total 215 submissions.Accordingly I acknowledge the work and advice and support from the Office of Treaty Settlements Parliamentary Service and counsel for aiding the Māori Affairs Committee in our deliberations and recommendations. I also formally set on record acknowledgment to the former Minister of Treaty settlements the Hon Christopher Finlayson who addressed the House earlier. Indeed it will be the last time as a member of Parliament and a former Minister that he will speak to this bill—a last hook line and sinker for him. I also turn to acknowledge the current Minister the Hon Andrew Little who expressed back in 2004 his discontent at his Labour Government's views and the foreshore and seabed legislative passage. He challenged his party at that time and as I clearly recollect also so did Dame Tariana Turia. She crossed the floor she left the Labour Party and thus was the seedling and the beginnings of the Māori Party.I reflect on what my colleague Kiritapu Allan also shared. In 2004 on 4 May—the hīkoi the march here on to Parliament grounds. Many of us protested the Foreshore and Seabed Act and I mentioned in the first reading of this bill before the House that I travelled from Whanganui with many of my people and my pōtiki my youngest at that time and we marched unified with some 15000-plus New Zealanders Māori and tauiwi united in the belief that the Government of the day was wrong with that foreshore and seabed legislation.Now fast forward 14 years and seven months after that 4 May march in 2004 and here we are united with the second reading and passage of this bill the bill of ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou through to its final reading. This bill has cross-party collaborative support in the House and before the Māori Affairs Committee we duly considered and contemplated the detail of the bill and also made recommendations with proposed amendments for that. Those amendments will be made known to the members and to the rūnanga of the hapū of Ngāti Porou.Time permitting before I turn to the content of those amendments—and there are some 12 key amendments that are being discussed—may I just add some further context to my address to those gathered in the House. Being the last speaker—or the second to last but certainly the last speaker for the National Party today—it is somewhat of a challenge to come up with something fresh and so I'm fishing up some thoughts and ideas in relation to that.The purpose of this bill—it's been an arduous and at times treacherous adventure and expedition in pursuit of landing this bill. It's been exhaustive. It's been an expedition in search of fishing for and securing the legal expression protection and recognition of the continued exercise of mana by ngā hapū in relation to ngā rohe moana o ngā hapū—somewhat analogous to the mythological and much-marvelled adventures of Paikea. I will share at the third reading should I get the opportunity to speak the adventures of Kupe but for now I draw the parallel of the arduous journey that ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou have been on somewhat similar to that of Paikea.Paikea's story is well known to the people of Ngāti Porou. It is his story—Paikea's journey riding whaleback on that of tohorā the whale which surfaced after Paikea's call for help to Tangaroa. For the benefit of the general public who may be viewing and listening to my kōrero to the House I just share that Paikea was the story where an angry brother Ruatapu sought to succumb Paikea to vengeful might and dominance but for Paikea's resilience and resistance calling on greater powers to intervene and salvage him from the waves of cascading waters that were sent to swamp and swallow him finally making landfall on the East Coast Whangarā—not succumbing to the threat and escaping inevitable oppression and likely death.So this is the parallel that I make now in turning to this bill: all efforts to remain afloat despite being adrift reaching the safety of shores to forbear and in forbearance resuscitate and revive for the next generations. These parallels in this analogy indeed are that to the lengthy legal challenges and expedition endured by and now the ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou for a number of generations. And since 2003 it's been an intergenerational expedition carried and continued by many. And I hearken to the kōrero and reference and acknowledgments of the late Dr Api Mahuika and then I look up into the gallery and see kaumātua rangatira Herewini Parata continuing that leadership and Dr Mahuika's son senior legal counsel and the East Cape crusader Matanuku Mahuika—all with a vision shared and assured by fearlessness foresight fortitude and resilience; much like that of Paikea's story. And now there is a certain and sure belief and relief with the passage of this bill from its second reading into its third.Let me turn to a brief summary and time line of a not-so-brief and arduous journey with this legal fishtail. There's been reference and talk about how we have arrived at where we are today. Time will not permit me looking up—that I do not carry through to complete this and I shall at the third reading. But this journey started back in 2003 when the rūnanga of Ngāti Porou supported applications by their hapū to the Māori Land Court on the foreshore and seabed to have that declared Māori customary land. As we know the Ngāti Apa Court of Appeal decision was contentious and it was viewed by the country and many as being outrageous and thus that tracked through to the foreshore and seabed legislation.Just tracking through very quickly a deed of agreement was entered into in August 2008. That was ratified by the 47 hapū of the 57. The No. 1 bill was introduced into the House in September 2008 and then here we are today. The time line is much more extensive than that. I turn to acknowledge all those gathered here today in support. Kia ora.