Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): E rau rangatira mā e ngā iwi kia ora mai tātou. It is a pleasure to rise and speak to the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Bill here today in its first reading. The journey for this bill started on 26 February—in fact a bit before that but on 26 February 2010 the Crown recognised the mandate of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust which the 2013 census shows has roughly 498 members. Here we are today on the second to last sitting day of this the 51st Parliament and this settlement process is now making its way through the House.The benefits of the settlement will be available to all members of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki wherever they live. The redress was negotiated by the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust. Some redress in the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki deed of settlement is also jointly provided for with Ngāti Whanaunga Ngāti Tamaoho Ngāti Koheriki and the Marutūāhu Collective. Members of the House have talked to some parts of the settlement. I have also drawn out parts that I thought were particularly poignant. I will not redress what others have spoken to. I would also just comment that Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki are one of the 12 iwi groups in the Hauraki Collective and one of the 13 iwi groups included in the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Act 2014.If we look at Part 1 of the bill the historical account much of that has been presented here today so I will move on to the acknowledgment. I want to highlight several clauses. What I first want to highlight is clause 9(5) and I want to read here: The Crown acknowledges that by failing to set aside one-tenth of the lands purchased during the pre-emption waiver period for public purposes especially the establishment of schools and hospitals for the future benefit of Māori including Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki it breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles." I think what struck me next was subclause (10): "The Crown acknowledges that its agent pressured Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to pay their rivals to withdraw challenges to the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki applications for title to the Whakakaiwhara and Urungahauhau blocks." Subclause (11) then strikes me: "The Crown acknowledges that Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki permanently lost the ownership and use of land at Mātaitai despite the Crown's assurance that this land would be used for the rehabilitation of returned serviceman" as my colleague Nuk Korako spoke to "including a Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki serviceman when it purchased the land." The member Nuk Korako described how that came about.If we move to the apology what I found interesting there was—and we have heard from the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations several parts of the apology but it was actually clause (10)(a): "Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki sought to establish mutually beneficial relationships with European settlers and the Crown by welcoming them into your role and offering land but the Crown did not honour this gesture. Instead its acts and omissions undermined relationships that should have been based on good will and mutual benefit. The Crown broke its promise to protect your interests confiscated your whenua and promoted policies which had devastating economic social and cultural consequences for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki."The cultural redress is extensive—a vesting of 15 cultural redress properties. Part 3 "Commercial redress" talks to commercial property redress and minerals in such associated lands other than what the Crown Minerals Act 1991 allows and there is also a right of first refusal. As was mentioned by my colleague the financial redress is $12.7 million with $500000 already on account.I look forward to this bill coming to the Māori Affairs Committee so that we can explore and so that we can take public submissions and hear what the voice of the public says on this bill. We always find that when we take public submissions our final deliberations are always better. They always more informed. Very rarely does the initial bill as it appears end up being its final form and I think that is a good thing. So I am very much looking forward to this bill coming to the select committee and at its first reading I commend it to the House."