Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Tēnei te mihi ki ā koutou Ngāti Kahungunu kua tae mai nei i tēnei wā e whakarangatira nei i a mātou tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou. He hōnore nui ki te tū i waenganui i a koutou i tēnei wā ki te tautoko i te kaupapa me hoki ki te tautoko i tō tātou tuahine tō tātou toa Meka Whaitiri tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Ahakoa tino taumaha i tēnei wā mō tō tātou tuahine kei te mōhio ia ko te kaupapa i tēnei rā koia rā te mea nui he tika kia mihi ki a ia ki a koutou hoki mō ō koutou tautoko i tēnei wā. Tēnā koutou. [I pay my respects to you Ngāti Kahungunu; by coming here today you honour us; thank you. I am privileged to stand among you today to support the occasion as well as to support our sister our champion Meka Whaitiri; I acknowledge your presence. Despite this being a trying time for our sister she realises that the most important thing today is this occasion therefore it is fitting that she is acknowledged as you are for your support today. Greetings to you all.]It's a privilege to stand in front of this grouping today Ngāti Kahungunu. All the mihis and history have been done so I offer a special mihi to Andrew Little. I want to follow up on the mihis to our MP for the electorate whose whānau is here today and particularly her mum May Whaitiri—lovely to see you Auntie May—who went to school with my mother at Hukarere Girls' College all those years ago. So we mihi to the mother of Meka Pānia of the Reef. Homai te pakipaki. [Let's give her a round of applause.]A wahine toa Auntie May just like your daughter who's been very brave and courageous in coming down to tautoko the kaupapa today. Tēnei te mihi ki a koe e kui.[I acknowledge you madam.]So much has already been said about the history and what's happened in the past. And I do acknowledge the kōrero from the Greens particularly. I've always said what they've said today that we can never get true and full compensation—an undeniable fact. Great kōrero from our Rōpū Greens today. However we have an opportunity now. The tribes have an opportunity now going forward. And so I suppose my question today for our group Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa is: what is the future? What have we learnt from past Treaty settlements? The tribe would've watched the investments from different tribes and we have to be very very careful going forward. So I'm really interested in how urban Māori are going to be factored in in the $100 million settlement. I'm really interested in what the investments will be. Sadly myself and Shane Jones have been a little bit critical as we all know of different iwi investments and decisions through the years. That's because the future of our people is so important. And I have to say I get tired of excuses from iwi leaders who refuse to invest in their people—who refuse to invest in their people. We've got to get past that. I understand Government obligations and of course the Government—whether it's National or Labour—have to support all the health needs the education needs all the needs right across society. Both parties have done that through the years but we as iwi and we as Māori have to make our contributions too. When you have your people sleeping in cars when you have Third-World housing in the North in the Tainui on the East Coast when do we as an iwi put our hands in our pockets? Or is it all about property development investments? When do the people see the fruits of the settlement?So that's a challenge I suppose I want to put to our rōpū Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa in this short contribution today: when will the people see the fruits of the settlement? Tainui constituents waited 18 years. Myself and Tamihere challenged them constantly. Is everything going to be left to the Government? That's not what Doug Graham signed up for. That's not what he signed up for with Tainui and Bob Māhuta. There's got to be a partnership. I'm not saying to use the full Treaty settlements in terms of investments—not at all. I'm saying come on. Let's allocate a percentage so that we can tautoko our iwi. And that's got to be the end result. So I put that whakaaro to you today and I thank you for coming down to support the kaupapa.Hōnore nui tēnei. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa.[This is a great honour. I acknowledge you all. Greetings greetings one and all.]