Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): Tuatahi e mihi ana ki a koutou Ngāti Maniapoto i whakarangatira i a mātou i tēnei wā. Rawe rawe ki te kite i a koutou i tēnei rā nau mai he rawe kei konei katoa. Ka whakanuia mātou e koe i te aroaro. Ka kite ahau i a koutou katoa ka kite i tōku whaea i a Ngāti Maniapoto i ngā rā katoa ia rā. Koirā te take he rā pai tēnei ki ahau he aha hoki tana tino whakahīhī. Nō reira tēnā koutou haramai nau mai.[Firstly I acknowledge you Ngati Maniapoto who have honoured us by your presence today. It is great to see you today welcome it is great to have you all here. We are honoured by you being here in our presence. I see you all I see my mother I see Ngāti Maniapoto on all days every day. This is why this is a good day it is also very proud. I acknowledge and welcome you.]Lovely to see you all here today to celebrate this kaupapa and a special thanks as our Minister said to chair Bella Takiari Matua Tiwha Bell the former chair Matua Pat Stafford and Keith Ikin. It's just terrific some of the work and some of the contributions that have been made in terms of Ngāti Maniapoto. But I want to say that today is not a sombre occasion; this is an occasion to celebrate. We can be happy and we can have a laugh too—we can have a laugh too. It's not all doom and gloom.I want to celebrate the chief negotiator of Ngāti Maniapoto the Hon Nanaia Mahuta—homai te pakipaki for Nanaia. I'm really really proud of her as other Māori members are because she was the chief negotiator and she had to work with Mook Hohneck and Peter Douglas. I mean that must have been tough you know? It must have been tough to manage those two and get through a Treaty process and we know how hard that Treaty settlement process is as you go from Māngere down to Piopio and to all the different areas. I want to say to the tuāhines—who as we know are going through a bit of a tough time at the moment—kei te pai. We're all here to celebrate—we're all here to celebrate—and you know I always say that if you don't have a conflict of interest you can't be a Māori anyway. But we won't go there. We won't go there because otherwise I'd be conflicted out of this House. But I listened to Bella Takiari this morning and terrific was her kōrero as she talked about mana wahine. You know she's got that little sort of jive and then she sort of started her—I heard it Bella—and it was so neat because she was talking about our Minister Nanaia and what she had to do and how she had to work through this settlement. It's a tough business. It's a tough area—some of you know that. So when I think about Ngāti Maniapoto I think about mana wahine like Bella and like Minister Mahuta and I think about my mother. Every day when you talk about Ngāti Maniapoto she used to say that to me every second day You are Ngāti Maniapoto first and foremost—not Ngati Porou; Ngāti Maniapoto." Oh yes I got that—I even thought about that when she died. So I think about her today and how she'd be celebrating—how she'd be celebrating. This is a happy occasion. She was absolutely Ngāti Maniapoto as my auntie was who was the last of our line—98. Auntie Kath who died at Mokau the last of our line. She died—when did auntie die? Four weeks or two months ago at 98 years of age. She was the last of her line the last of the Batley line—another mana wahine. I've got another one up there—she's still alive—Auntie Christine. She's another mana wahine—these kuia. Now Maniapoto could you put her on your board please Bella? She's not getting quite enough votes and I want to use this occasion to promote her. That might be seen as a conflict of interest—it is!—but she runs Taumarunui. I'm so proud of her. The National Party promoted her she keeps reminding me. John Key went up to her place so we're trying to get up there Auntie. Peeni Henare has been there. But John Key and some of them have gone up and celebrated her—as Barbara Kuriger and them know—and she's another mana wahine. You know all these fantastic women epitomise Ngāti Maniapoto—epitomise Ngāti Maniapoto—so well done to all those women.I thought I'd better chuck a couple of men in because they're not too bad you know. Keith Ikin did a wonderful job and I want to mihi to him because he covered all the whakapapa stuff at Mum's tangi and that's really important—connecting all the Ngāti Maniapoto whakapapa.I want to mihi to Tom Roa because you know I think Tom Roa is a show-off—eh Peeni? We had our Wiki o Te Reo Māori last week. We started off and we were meant to have Tom doing the mihi. I mean he's only meant to do the mihi but he steals the whole show you know and he gives us a whole speech about—oh it was magnificent Tom. But you're not going to be speaking at another Government initiative after that—you can't steal the show from myself and Peeni Henare. So well done to Tom Roa and this is a day where we celebrate Ngāti Maniapoto people. Just before I finish I want to say hello and all the best to my uncle Alan Batley who's still the chairman of the Mokau marae despite my sister over here trying to unseat him I think at the—that's us though eh? That's Ngāti Maniapoto. But we're trying to get them together. My sister Huinga Rowanne and my uncle—and they're positioned strategically in the House today. So well done to my uncle and we'll work it all out as we try to do in Ngāti Maniapoto and in here. But what we must work out people is how we distribute this $165 million. When you hear about 90 percent of our people not being in the Maniapoto area I want to know what the process is going to be so that all Ngāti Maniapoto can benefit from this settlement. Will they have to go back to Piopio? I mean how on—oh no I shouldn't say that. Jenny-May Coffin will be furious! Oh it's a beautiful place Piopio—it is really. I mean come on I named my daughter after Āria. Her name is Te Aria because her grandmother told me to name her Aria. But really do we have to go back to our areas where there are 26 people living there to access our Treaty rights? We must come up with strategies as iwi. It's not just Ngāti Maniapoto. These are the things that we've been trying to work through for years and years myself and Rawiri Waititi's father-in-law—oh that's right that's another conflict of interest. John Tamihere is his father-in-law. John Tamihere—myself and John have challenged iwi to find the right strategies in terms of hooking up with their whanaunga because the reality is that your whanaunga live in Māngere they live in Ōtara they live in Porirua and some of them will never come back to Taumarunui Āria or wherever. They'll never come back but does that really give you the right? I ask you today to hold their right and hold their settlement rights. I think this is something that Bella and the board have to work through because too many of our people are missing out on their Treaty rights. Too many of our people are missing out on their Treaty rights and this is something we have to work out in terms of Te Ao Māori. We can only do so much in this Government. Whether it's a Labour Government or them it's all the same. We can't do everything for the people and we can't manage the operation at ground level. You have to and you have to work that process out or otherwise we'll always have to work through the allegations of iwi elitism and that type of thing. I'm not saying anyone is part of that iwi elite today; I'm saying let's think about how those rights are extended to our whanaunga in the urban areas. It's a kaupapa as many of you know that has been part of me for most of my working life and I'm proudly Ngāti Maniapoto although I never got voted on to the Ngāti Maniapoto board when I stood. I got close but that was about seven or eight years ago. I probably got—Rawiri Waititi: I think you'll still be struggling after that speech.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: He's right—I've probably got no chance now that I've been in Parliament. But it is fundamental and it is incredibly important. But I just wanted to say today that I want to mihi to you all and have a think about that. I congratulate us as a nation when we take these types of settlements—$165 million. Everyone in the House knows that the settlements are probably worth 10 times that amount. I see Rahui Papa there. Tainui: they settled $170 million in 1996 and they probably could have settled for $10 billion eh Rahui—$10 billion.We have given to this nation. Maniapoto—Maniapoto—has given to this nation. It's an honour to be part of your tribe and I honour my mother today. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa."