Korako Nuk: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 09 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1282. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National):Tēnā koe. Ko te hau mua ko te hau muri ko te hau tamawāhine ko te hau tamatāne e tū mai rā te tokotoko a Tānenuiāraki. E tuturu mai kia whakamaua ka tina tina haumi e hui e taiki e! Ā tēnā rā koutou ngā pou waitaka o tō tātou Matua Tīpuna ā kā mea nui ki te mihi atu ki tō tātou Matua Nui i Te Raki ko ia te tīmataka me te whakamutuka o koutou katoa. Nō reira ka mihi au ki Te Kaihōmai o kā mea katoa. Ka maumahara mātou ki a rātou kai tua kua wehe ki te ao wairua. Nō reira koutou rā o ia marae o ia iwi o ia waka e haere i ruka ki te ara o te whānui a Tāne ko tua o te ārai haere haere haere. Nō reira ā tēnā koutou o te iwi o Ngāti Korokī Kahuhura. E nau mai haere mai ki Te Whare Pāremata e mihi nei e tangi nei koutou ngā taoka whakahirahira koutou e tūmanakohia ake nei koutou e hāpai iwi nei nau mai nau mai nau mai haere mai.[Hail the winds of the north south east and west and from where the rod of the great heavenly Father is upraised. Stand resolute eternally gather join and unite! So acknowledgments to you esoteric pillars of our Father in heaven. The main things to thank our great Father in heaven for is that He is the beginning and the ending for you all and in regard to this I pay homage to the provider of all things. We remember too those who have departed to the spiritual realm and so to you all from every marae tribe and canoe that have traversed the wide path of man to beyond the divide; depart journey on farewell! So greetings to you the tribe of Ngāti Korokī Kahuhura.Welcome come hither to Parliament House here acknowledging and grieving you as elements of importance and much yearned for you that elevate people.Welcome welcome welcome draw near.]I want to welcome those manuhiri here today from Ngāti Koroki Kahukura. I acknowledge the work done by so many people to bring these negotiations to a conclusion. A Treaty settlement provides an opportunity to look back on our history. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the wrongs that have been committed in the past and to seek to put them right. It is an opportunity to begin a new relationship between the Crown and Ngāti Koroki Kahukura.The redress provided for these wrongdoings will never be perfect. It is impossible to restore everything that was taken. The Crown cannot take back the desecration of burial sites or the wrongful imprisonment of leaders; it cannot return every hectare of land that was confiscated or heal the many decades of hurt and hardship caused by this alienation but the redress this settlement offers Ngāti Koroki Kahukura will be significant for their future. It vests 15 sites of cultural and historical significance in Ngāti Koroki Kahukura. Ngāti Koroki Kahukura will also receive a package of cultural redress to assist them with securing their economic future and their social well-being. They will receive financial redress plus interest.I want to talk a little about the Waikato River and the Maungatautari—the Waikato—is of great influence to Ngāti Koroki Kahukura. This is recognised in the deed of settlement. The deed recognises that both Koroki and Kahukura are direct descendants of tohuka Rakataura aboard the great Tainui waka who gave Maungatautari its name. Koroki and Kahukura are also direct descendants of Hoturoa the captain of the Tainui waka. As the deed of settlement states Maungatautari and Waikato are inextricably linked to the identity of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura. Maungatautari and Waikato are inseparable and they are indivisible.It is good to see that the Crown and Ngāti Koroki Kahukura have been able to come to an agreement about how best to recognise the huge importance of these two living taoka. Ngāti Koroki Kahukura have endorsed the vision and strategy for the Waikato River set out in the Waikato-Tainui raupatu claims settlement. The area covered by joint management agreements between the Waikato Regional Council the Waipā District Council and the Waikato Raupatu River Trust has been extended to cover the portion of the Waikato River that is within Ngāti Koroki Kahukura’s area of interest.In the case of Maungatautari the tīpuna mauka of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura—the significance of what they have agreed to cannot be overlooked. Ngāti Koroki Kahukura consider themselves to be the tangata whenua of Maungatautari but they have graciously agreed to ownership of the Maungatautari mountain scenic reserve to be held by the wider community. This community is comprised of other iwi who also have customary interests in Maungatautari and members of the wider community connected with Maungatautari. It is appropriate that the deed of settlement recognises the generosity of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura in agreeing to this unique arrangement.I want to briefly acknowledge the work of Minister Finlayson in shepherding this settlement through the process and this bill through the House. We are lucky to have a Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations who is so committed to righting the wrongs that have scarred our history. The extraordinary amount of progress he has made on Treaty settlements under this Government speaks for itself. I would also like to acknowledge the Hon Tau Henare and the members of the Māori Affairs Committee who considered this bill in the 50th Parliament including the new Minister for Māori Development Te Ururoa Flavell.But my final acknowledgments are reserved for the people of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura those who have led them through this process and their negotiators. It has taken you an immense amount of hard work and patience to get to this day. There is however more hard work ahead for those of you who will be involved in maximising the economic and social well-being of your people through this settlement. But today is a day to celebrate and take pride in what you have achieved.Ngā kākā waha nui o rātou mā ka mihi atu rā. Rātou ki a rātou tātou ki a tātou tīhei mauri ora.[To the great orators of those ancestors who have gone I doff my hat to you. Let them remain with them and we remain with us. Behold therefore the breath of life!]Nō reira can I also wish the people of Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou e huri noa i Te Whare ki a koe e Nanaia ki a koutou ērā mema o Pāremata ngā mihi e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Merry Christmas and greetings of the new year to you Mr Assistant Speaker Nanaia and to other members throughout the House. Greetings to you all.]I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.