Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koe tēnā koutou katoa Te Ātiawa te toki te tangatanga e te rā.[Thank you and acknowledgments to you all Te Ātiawa the adze that can remove the very sun.]As I uttered the words about the toki of Tokomaru waka and how it refers to bindings that cannot be undone by the sun it is appropriate as I think of the kotahitanga of all of you here today to honour this third reading of the Te Atiawa Treaty Claims Settlement Bill and the fact that not only do your people remain bound and working through historical grievances and issues together but the glare of the sun—likening it to the challenging up-and-down harshness the wero of trying to include all the different voices the different hapū and iwi through this settlement process can often be a threat of undoing. And yet you stand here remaining strong and committed to doing the best you can for the future as well. We just had the final reading of the Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill and at the end of that you have graced this whare all of you Taranaki whānui—you stood and graced this whare with your waiata with your pao with your chanting with your tūpuna words—still mopping up the stains of the tears that had to fall. It is the epitome of the dignity with which our people hold themselves through all the pain through all the grievance through all the difficulties and then there you are standing strong proud loud beautiful and blessing us with your voices and the history in the words of our tūpuna. I want to mention that because it is an incredible symbol. It is an incredible tohu of the amazing strength and generosity that our people have in spite of some of the incredible injustice—not just the fact that every acre of land was taken from Te Atiawa through war through perpetual leases through other Crown mechanisms tools of alienation tools of theft—and yet you are here today. We are here all morning. It is a long morning. It is a beautiful long morning for all of us. I quickly had to visit our wharepaku and on the way I met some of our Taranaki kaumātua community in two whole other offshoot rooms that were filled with all of you and it is beautiful. You are here having gone through all of that not just this settlement but generations of injustice—generations—and you are here proud and beautiful and strong. We cannot overemphasise what an incredible thing what an incredible testament to your people this is. I had dinner a couple of nights ago with a group of Māori women. It is often said that it is a dangerous thing when Māori women group together and have a kai. Really we are scheming—always scheming. Certainly Te Atiawa wāhine are no exception. I had a kai with some amazing wāhine Māori including some Te Atiawa wāhine. I want to acknowledge the privilege that I have had and the friendships—the lifelong friendships that I am a part of—with some incredible Te Atiawa Taranaki wāhine and the learning that they have given to me including through the teachings and the transfer of their own stories and their own knowledge of the injustices and of the strength of Te Atiawa Taranaki whānui history and people.The ongoing exercising of the authority and the kaitiaki responsibilities of Te Atiawa people—ongoing over generations mai rā nō; mai i te tīmatanga—has never stopped. It has never stopped in the face of incredible injustice and mamae including those tūpuna who were taken south in an unjust way and then treated with injustice. Some of them were never to return. The importance of whakapapa and the severing of it in those instances of that particular injustice—whakapapa is everything to us. The mamae that is carried when our whakapapa is severed in that way is ongoing. So again it is a testament to the strength and the uri who will continue the whakapapa.I want to pick up on the right of first refusal in this particular settlement. We the Greens are of course supporting the Te Atiawa settlement but the right of first refusal—I want to acknowledge my colleague Catherine Delahunty for calling on a briefing from the Crown officials about this right of first refusal and the subsequent kōrero with Minister Finlayson. In some bizarre way it is actually the right of third refusal and it is not actually the right of first refusal. So this is bizarre. Then there is also the situation where if you have something stolen and then offered back to you for $23 million—a price that you cannot afford—where is the justice in that? That is particularly relevant to the leasehold land in Taranaki. That is important because again the Greens will always say that these are not full and final settlements and they are not justice. If we want to honour Te Tiriti relationship then it is a permanent and ongoing relationship that has to be based on justice. I want to acknowledge one of the previous members Mr Young and his particular plea that he hopes that this is a step towards trust. The Crown has to prove that. It is the onus of the Crown to prove that trust. As far as I am concerned across Aotearoa the Crown has not yet gained that trust from Te Iwi Māori. The injustices are ongoing and continue to this day and there is lots of work for us to do if we are ever to be in that fully trusting and fully just relationship. Although I acknowledge the good work of the Crown in negotiating the difficulties of these settlements we are a long way away—we need generations of time to pass where the Crown stops creating further injustices and then we might think about some trust.In the short time I have got left I also want to acknowledge my colleagues Jan Logie and Catherine Delahunty again: the peace walk they went on that left from New Plymouth and the learning that they had—which my colleague Catherine Delahunty has spoken about—and the further learning on the injustice of what happened to Te Atiawa and to Taranaki whānui and how important it is for our country for our children and for all of us to come to terms with those stories of the injustice not just for education but to help us seek true enduring justice for our entire country as we go forward. That is the sort of Te Tiriti relationship that the Green Party would like to see.We wish Te Atiawa the best of kaha and strength as you go forward. We wish to celebrate with you. We wish to acknowledge the hardships the disagreements—that the voices have not always been smooth and agreeing because that is what happens in this Crown-mandated process. You have done amazing with all of that. You will continue to. From the Green Party and from myself ngā mihi nui ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa. Tēnā koutou.