Wall Louisa: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Wall Louisa: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
[Sitting date: 19 September 2012. Volume:684;Page:5484. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa) 
: 
 Kia ora Mr Speaker. E nga mana e nga whanau o Ngati Manuhiri tena koutou tena koutou tena tatou katoa. It is my pleasure to speak on the Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill as a member of the Maori Affairs Committee. I want to tautoko what our chair the Hon Tau Henare has just said and I want to share a little bit about what happened in the select committee. We appreciate the fact that he hosted us when we came to him to hear from his whanau. We had 140 written submissions and we heard 17 oral submissions on the bill. The key issue as has been outlined by the Greens and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations alluded to it was the opposition to the inclusion of Te Hauturu-o-Toi. In fact 95 of those submissions were against the inclusion. 
What I want to say about this process what I think we need to realise about this process of Treaty settlements is that for me I think it is our country’s truth and reconciliation process. It is recognition that we as indigenous peoples of Aotearoa have been colonised and we have had our lands and our resources taken from us. It is with the generosity of our hapu and iwi that we can actually move on. I mean these settlement processes are about moving beyond grievance and actually giving resources back to hapu and iwi so that we can construct positive lives for our mokopuna and our tamariki. 
What we need to acknowledge in this process is that in fact we are in a process. Ngati Manuhiri were ready to go. Why should we hold them back? Ngati Wai is on the schedule to negotiate next year. In addition to Ngati Wai we have Ngati Rehua we have Te Kawerau-a-Maki we have Marutuahu and we have Ngapuhi who also have interests in Te Hauturu-o-Toi. What we have done as a select committee is to recognise that there are mana whenua interests over this piece of land. A very rare thing happened through the select committee process. It was not just tokenistic rubber-stamping of the process. We as a select committee actually implemented and inserted clause 96A. That clause is titled “Involvement of other iwi” and it reads: “This subpart does not exclude representatives of other iwi from being involved with the Hauturu plan if other enactments provide for that.” So with the gracious consent of Ngati Manuhiri we inserted that. I want to acknowledge the whanau who are here for the rangatira that you have shown for the fact that you were ready to go but you have preserved the ability for the other whanau to be involved in what will be I believe co-management—and more than that because you have your own whenua on which you will build a marae or do whatever you want to do with it. But the fact is you will get some of that whenua back. 
I want to acknowledge the work of the select committee and my fellow colleagues on the committee. It was a process where we did listen and it made a difference and we are here today at the second reading. I am happy to be part of a Parliament that wants to get on with this reconciliation process to give the resources back to hapu and iwi and to let you do with it what you choose. Kia ora.