Horomia Parekura: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Horomia Parekura: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 26 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4049. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
: 
 Tena koe. Te pai o te rangi nei e te Kaiwhakahaere o te Whare nei ko te tae tata atu tatau ki te otinga o te hikoi roroa atu o tenei rangi. I a koutou o te hau kainga Tamanuhiri e mihi kau ana tena koutou. E tae kaha atu koutou tata ana ki o whanaunga tata ki te wahi nei o te Whare Miere te wahi e mahi atu nga tangata o te Karauna ki a koutou. E tautokotia atu nga whakaaro o te tuahine a Tariana ko te tukuna o te whenua ko te tahae hoki o te katoa o te whenua a koutou mai i te Karauna. No reira tena koutou. E te matua Noel e mihi kau ana ki a koe ki a ratou i roto i to tatou ropu kaha rua tekau ma waru tena koe mo tena. Mai i to haerenga mai i Muriwai tae atu ki te pakanga hoki ora atu ki te kainga i konei ke koe tena koe mo tena. 
I a koutou nga mea pakeke o te kainga e rongo atu tatou e kite atu tatou i te mahi i roto i a Tamanuhiri i a Rongowhakaata orite atu ki a koutou e mohio atu koutou i te mamae nga nawe e puta ana mai i te mahi o nga hoia no reira tena koutou na te mea he nui atu nga whakaaro i roto i a tatou mo te mahi kino i a Tamanuhiri he mahi kino he mahi taurekareka tera ano te mahi ki a ratou engari e kaha ana ratou hei ora atu no reira tena tatou. E te tuahine e Tariana kia kaha. 
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Thank you. The good thing about this day Mr Speaker of this House is that the long journey to this day is nearly over. To you the locals Ngai Tamanuhiri I acknowledge you in your efforts to get here in respect of your close relationships to this place the Beehive where people of the Crown work with you. I endorse the views of fellow colleague Tariana in respect of how land is offered and how all your lands were also stolen by the Crown. So congratulations. To you the elder Noel I acknowledge you and them as well in that mighty group of ours the 28th Battalion. Congratulations on your involvement. You came from Muriwai went to war returned home alive and here you are now. I commend you.  
To all you elders of home we heard and saw what happened to the people of Ngai Tamanuhiri and Rongowhakaata. It was the same with you. You experienced the pain and concerns that resulted from the actions of the soldiers so I salute you all because we have many views about the atrocities experienced by Tamanuhiri—it was bad stuff it was belittling but they were resilient and survived these ordeals so I acknowledge us all. Be resolute sister colleague Tariana. 
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Na te mea because this is my last chance to talk today from this side I thought I would embellish understanding that my relations from Ngai Tamanuhiri will always have my support and our support. I want to mihi to my whanaunga Na Rongowhakaata Raihania and everybody else up there. Kia ora koutou. He was 50 the other day. He looks like Tau Henare. Kia ora tatou. Happy birthday.  
As Minister Turia pointed out to cede all of their land through ungracious actions of the Crown is something that makes the mind boggle. I mean just imagine half these dairy farmers losing their land today. That is what we should do as a Crown: take their land off them. What is wrong with that Mr Finlayson? Take half the farms away from them; give those farms to the Chinese. Take those farms off them and give them to these people. That is exactly what happened here. That is the reality. That is what happened. They took the land off them. They had no say. If you have ever been to Muriwai my cousin Fuchsia went over there and lived there. I am not too sure what she was doing there but she always said it was paradise. If you go to Muriwai they have still got the old trees growing their whare is strong they feed you like billy-o and they are great people. They are great people. Barney Whaitiri always said that the water that laps here will always sustain us like our whakapapa did. Those people have passed on—a lot of them—Toko and all of those kaumatua who are not here today. But they have seen fit to come down here. 
I want to talk over a couple of the issues in relation to the settlement. I see there is a Crown mineral protocol in this function I say to the Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations—very interesting. I hope they strike gold. 
Hon Christopher Finlayson 
: Ha ha! 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I am not laughing; I am serious. I hope they do. 
Hon Tau Henare 
: But the Greens say no. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I do not care what the Greens think or you think; I hope they strike whatever and that it is put in real context that it is not given to them and then taken away. The Minister knows I have been on his case for a fair while. He is going to end up a sir I think some time. But you know all these Government agencies and these protocols—whether it is Work and Income or Child Youth and Family or the Department of Conservation which is in here. The Department of Conservation is always in here. I found it very interesting. When you get to the summary what does it say? I will read you what it says: “Is there any private land being transferred? No. … Are the public’s rights affected? No. … What are Statutory Acknowledgments?”. There are not too many of them but they are relevant to the Resource Management Act. There are a lot of noes in here from a group of people who never even had an answer—yes or no—and took everything. The deed of settlement is $11.07 million plus interest and the value of the cultural redress is getting there. 
 I think that with this claim building on what the Minister for Whanau Ora Tariana Turia said there has to be more than just a sign-off. As Tau Henare said let us get on with the business. This puts right a terrible wrong and for me it is a wonderful day to celebrate. That is why I want this. There is not one of those monsters up there and they will most probably see me on TV. You are not supposed to say anything bad about the press. It makes me bloody sick that all they are talking about is Maori being mad bad and sad and Tau Henare smoking. We are a lot better than that—yes we are. Maori is a lot smarter than that. These people have stood the worst of the worst in the sense of losing all their lands and they go home. 
The irony is that when the coloniser came and that little short Pakeha fella or British fella jumped up and said: “Land ahoy!” it was the first place in New Zealand they saw. You would not believe it the way they have been treated. I say that seriously not because they are here but because we need to be reminded about that and that it needs to be talked about. I know that the two Ministers sitting over there the Minister for Whanau Ora and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations were listening intently and bring some real credence to these partnerships and that is one thing the Minister and I agree on. It is no good writing out these protocols and these charters that say: “Be kind to them DOC. Be good to them LINZ. Be kind to them TPK.” and have nothing come of it. That is what seems to be happening. So Minister Finlayson again I would encourage you to keep an eye on it. If you do not want to use Tariana or somebody else you get me. I will keep an eye on it for you. What happens in the continuation is a serious part of progress. 
The sums here as much as they have agreed to them are but a pittance in relation to what was done. The land deal in relation to the forestry—that they get 50 percent and 50 percent is kept—is another issue. I am glad that the funds go with it but even in the sense of giving them the forestry and the purchase requirements just from my quick reading it seems to be a bit rich. I want to say that again Minister and I have been professing and offering you a whole lot of support. 
Here is a very important one because we ain’t quite there yet in finalising this. I notice in there that Young Nick’s Head is renamed Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head. It has been like that for 100-odd-plus bloody years as Young Nick’s Head. Why not get rid of it and name it Te Kuri a Paoa? What is this “slash” business? I do not know whether iwi agreed to it or not but seriously what is that about? I have brought that up before—“Te Kuri a Paoa / Keep Everybody Else Happy / Young Nick’s Head”. Rubbish! I know the Minister agrees with me. Chris Finlayson does not really care about that. But it is right. 
You know everybody wants to talk about young Kahui and that is a dastardly ugly deed: he patu wahine he patu tangata [ 
killing women and men 
]. No doubt about it. We participate in that and so do Pakeha. But the way it carries on in the press is that that is all we are—mad bad and sad. [ 
Bell rung 
] Mr Speaker you can ring the bell all you like but I will tell you this. I do not want to leave here today knowing what will happen and what has happened in a whole lot of other settlements. They have said: “We signed a charter with them. We signed a fisheries charter. We signed a Crown minerals charter.” and nothing titoi nothing out of it—nothing. That is a fact. I trust you Minister to do the right thing. 
That thing about that sewage—these are the people who get it. That water laps on them. But I have to say it is a damn irony after 150-odd years. I was privileged enough to go up to the signing at the reserve. Like I said I wanted to walk but they put me in a helicopter with the Minister and we got up there. I was privileged to be there. There was a conservationist American who got the land at the end of the day. But at the end of the day this is not about keeping the other people happy; this is about putting something right that was terribly wrong in this country and certainly we should be better than that as politicians and not just rise up when Maoris break a window in a shop or piss against a wall or something like that because that is what makes the news. 
At the end of the day I would certainly want to suggest strongly that Ngai Tamanuhiri are given every support as they go through. The deal is the deal—great. Whether it is the land they have got to purchase the forestry shares or whatever else they need a lot of help—ongoing help. It is not too easy to understand that the costs shoot up. There were no costs to the people who took them. They took it and they created wealth out of it. There has been no analysis of that. It is really critical in my mind at least that we send them away understanding that they will be supported and cherished. Kia ora tatou. Tera ano te mea i roto i aku mo te rangi nei. 
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So acknowledgments to us. That is what I have in me about this day. 
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It has been a great day for Maori to celebrate. On the Maori calendar it is supposed to be a good day for fishing and a good day for getting kumara ready for this party season. But this day should be remembered as the one when we did these four Treaty settlements together and we got a thing put right as well as we could as politicians and it is something we should celebrate. Do not give me this nationhood building thing and not show up to support it. Kia ora tatou. Thank you.