SpeechHon GINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Ko te mihi tuatahi ki te Atua nāna nei ngā mea katoa. Ko te mihi tuarua ki te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe.E te maunga tapu Taranaki tū tonu. E ngā iwi e ngā hapū e ngā mana tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e huihui mai nei.Tēnā koutou e Ngā Iwi o Taranaki: Ngāti Tama Ngāti Mutunga Taranaki Iwi Te Atiawa Ngāti Maru Ngāruahine Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi Ngāti Ruanui tēnā koutou katoa.Nā reira kia hiwa rā kia hiwa rā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you to the Speaker of the House. The first greeting is to God to whom all things belong. The second greeting is to the House that stands here greetings.To the sacred mountain Taranaki long may you stand. To the iwi the hapū the authorities greetings greetings to you who have assembled here.Greetings to the people of Taranaki: Ngāti Tama Ngāti Mutunga Taranaki Iwi Te Ātiawa Ngāti Maru Ngā Ruahine Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi Ngāti Ruanui greetings to you all.And so be alert take heed greetings and thanks to us all.]When I reflect upon the journey that has taken us to this moment in time it is a long long road. When I think back upon what has brought us here and the wrongs done by the Crown particularly the harm caused by raupatu some of the most severe raupatu in New Zealand's history occurred in Taranaki for Taranaki Iwi. I reflect upon not only the loss of lives but also the devastation caused from separating a people from their land. I think about the hours and hours weeks months and years of negotiations with all of those different iwi. I think of all of the negotiators. I think of people who I know personally who were rangatahi—Liana Poutu and Jamie Tuuta—when negotiations started. It has been a long road to bring us to this pathway now. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Rangatahi"?Hon GINNY ANDERSEN: I think—I was about their age so yeah I'd say I was a rangatahi. So I think of all of those negotiations and I think how important this bill here today is to bring that all together and to give a legal entity to Taranaki maunga and how important it is to recognise that and to give it its own autonomy as a legal person. That only seems right and fitting for New Zealand today.The bill establishes and recognises Te Kāhui Tupua as a legal person giving it rights powers and duties and giving it the ability for those to be exercised and performed on its behalf and in its name by the joint governance entity Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi. I'd also like to acknowledge the fact that the bill provides that Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi is a statutory body with the purpose of being the human face and voice of that legal person so as to be able to carry out the conservation governance and some decision making within the national park. How important it is for that to be able to take place today.I would like to point out too that this bill in the House today and its passage—the Treaty relationship does not finish when this bill is passed. It is an ongoing relationship. It is not a switch that we can flick on or off and like the words that have been echoed by my colleagues it is important that when we come into this House and acknowledge the wrongs of the past we also rightfully remember that we do not want to create wrongs going into the future. As part of this bill we acknowledge the mana of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and as all of the parties here today speaking on that bill we acknowledge that mana. It is my view that that continues a commitment forward in terms of how we work together to make sure that that relationship is kept warm and breathing and alive and that there are clear obligations on both Treaty partners when we do that.I would like to finish by simply stating that one of my first memories of learning about Māori culture was when my father pulled a book off his shelf and sat me down and taught me about Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and what had happened in Parihaka. I grew up learning the importance of passive resistance and the lessons that Taranaki Iwi have taught to all New Zealand will I hope always be remembered. He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa."