Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Tēnā koe. Nō te tihi o Tauhara Maunga ka titiro ki ngā wai o Ōnekeneke e hihi ana ki te kōpua kānapanapa o Tamamutu. Ko te Heuheu te tangata ko Taupō te moana ko Kurapoto te whare tupuna ko Kuiwai te wharekai ko Ngāti Hinerau Ngāti Hineure ngā hapū ko Hinerēhua Ngāmotu tōku kuia ko Waiarangi Coffey tōku māmā ko Tāmati Coffey tōku ingoa. Ko au tētehi o te uri o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Ko au te māngai hoki mō te rohe o te Waiariki e mihi atu nei ki a koutou te whanaunga kua huihui mai nei i tēnei rā nei rā te mihi tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora koutou katoa.[Greetings. From the peak of Tauhara mountain I look to the waters of Ōnekeneke made famous by the fierce Tamamutu. te Heuheu is the ancestor Taupō is the lake Kurapoto is the ancestral house Kuiwai is the ancestral dining hall Ngāti Hinerau and Ngāti Hineure are the subtribes Hinerēhua Ngāmotu is my grandmother Waiarangi Coffey is my mother and my name is Tāmati Coffey. I am a descendant of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. I am also the representative of Waiariki and I acknowledge you my relations who have gathered here today; greetings greetings greetings one and all.]I am stoked to be able to stand here and contribute to what is the second reading of this the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill. It's with regret that I wasn't here for the first reading of the bill and my whānau Te Ariki. I apologise for that. I guarantee you though I will be here for the third reading and I am proud to be standing here for the second reading of this particular bill.As I stand here I think about my kuia Hinerēhua who would be very proud right now to see me stand here on behalf of our iwi and contributing to this very historic process. I bet when she passed away in 2005 she never thought that her moko would be standing here representing her iwi our iwi and also partly the Government too.My grandmother was a very staunch woman. She died in 2005 and it was three days after the death of my koro who passed just three days earlier. The joke amongst our whānau was that she couldn't live with my koro but she also couldn't live without him as well. And so three days was the time that it took for her to pass away—they were both very sick. And as I stand here today I honour her as well.This is a very comprehensive bill and as has been spoken about by my colleagues they have nit-picked through every part of the bill so there's not much left for me to say to be honest although I was pleased to be at the signing of the deed last year on 8 July at Waitetoko. It was a beautiful day. It's always a beautiful day when whānau come together. Usually they only come together for tangi and every now and then a birthday if you can make the time but last year at Waitetoko it was a significant event. Everybody was there: the Crown but also the iwi the hapū as well. I remember it fondly.My whanaunga and my colleague over here Louisa put it very well: that actually in the select committee report that came through there was the identification that there were quite a few—24—Wai claims that were to be included as part of that process and I'm very happy that that is going to be included in it. What's not going to be included are some of the sore points though which haven't managed to be sorted out—namely Lake Rotokawa Conservation Area; namely Motutere Recreation Reserve and Waiteti Landcorp farm—although I am proud to stand here today and say that only a couple of hours ago I was able to accompany a couple of our whānau to the Minister's office on behalf of Te Pae o Waimihia and deliver a letter—hand delivered to the Minister—about the particular take to do with Rotokawa. And I feel as though that's my job actually—being here in the House is to be able to connect our whānau our hapū our iwi with the Government. And today we did that. I would probably use the opportunity to signal to other rōpū that have been affected by that process—by those issues being taken out of the settlement—to actually understand that the door is open and just like that opportunity was created earlier today the opportunity can be created once again.I was very pleased just last week to be down at our Ariki's office in Tūrangi. And while I'm talking about our Ariki I've had a message from our whānau just correcting a record. My colleague over here Su'a talked fondly before about a visit that he made and he met up with Timi te Heuheu and made that reference. It wasn't in fact our current Ariki Tumu te Heuheu and I can understand the confusion in there. But I just wanted to correct that on behalf of the record: one he is still here with us and the other one has since passed away. So I want to just acknowledge that correction.As I say I was pleased to be down at our Ariki's office in Tūrangi just last week to see the action was getting under way with the iwi's action plan around wellness and well-being and I look forward to seeing the development of that and seeing that come through as part of this whole journey that our iwi are on at the moment. I was also humbled and pleased to hear that they were starting to have the conversations around what to do around the Tongariro National Park situation. Now the deed recognised the significance of the park to Tūwharetoa as a taonga tapu [sacred treasure] and records that Ngāti Tūwharetoa will be able to negotiate that cultural redress over the park along with other iwi and hapū with interests in the park within one year of the deed being signed. That is something that we can all look forward to. It is indeed a taonga tapu and I look forward to watching that as that progresses through the House. In terms of financial and commercial redress Ngāti Tūwharetoa have indeed received a share of the Crown forest land in the central North Island valued at $203 million as part of the Central North Island Iwi Collective settlement back in 2008. Ngāti Tūwharetoa will also receive an additional financial redress of $25 million and of this an on-account payment of $2 million will be made to Te Kotahitanga o Ngāti Tūwharetoa as soon as practicable after the deed is signed. This is a pleasant moment although it's not the big one. Consider this the penultimate conversation before we go in for the big one which is yet to come. I look forward to that moment. I look forward to seeing our whānau fill up this gallery and participate in that moment which is our moment which is a historic moment and I hope that my whānau can be down here to share in that occasion as well. So I absolutely commend this bill to the House. To my whānau up there—we're nearly there. Kia kaha. Kia ora rā.Bill read a second time.