Delahunty Catherine: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Delahunty Catherine: Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 26 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4056. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green) 
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 Tena koe Mr Speaker tena koutou te Whare Paremata. He mihi ki Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Te Reo Rangatira. He mihi nui ki nga iwi hapu whanau o Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa Ngai Tamanuhiri me Rongowhakaata. 
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Thank you Mr Speaker and salutations to you collectively of Parliament House. I applaud Maori Language Week the Chiefly Language and greatly appreciate the tribes subtribes and families of Gisborne Ngai Tamanuhiri and Rongowhakaata 
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Before I speak about the Greens’ support for the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill I would like to address Ngai Tamanuhiri and their negotiating team in particular. There is an English whakatauki “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” and I would like to apply that to my second reading speech which contained unmandated inferences for which I apologise wholeheartedly. My speech stepped over the line in terms of representation issues and no one from Ngai Tamanuhiri asked me to do that. I therefore express my regret and my respects to those of you who are here today from Ngai Tamanuhiri and those who were unable to travel who are here in spirit. 
But to return to the third reading of this bill which the Green Party is happy to support this is a significant moment in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. Ngai Tamanuhiri have travelled down the long coast to be here and the Green Party wants to pay respects for the long years of waiting and the long years of work. After more than 100 years of marginalisation including major losses of whenua detention without trial and summary executions in the 1860s which created unimaginable suffering and ongoing poverty there was I believe more than 20 years of hard work and struggle on this claim to reach this point and therefore it is time to celebrate your mahi and what has been achieved. 
My partner Gordon Jackman grandson of Doris Black of Muriwai was the archaeologist working on a small part of the preparation for this day and is unable to be here but we both feel deeply the privilege of the opportunities of learning a little about the history of Ngai Tamanuhiri and their rohe. The local opportunity from this settlement is the building of stronger relationships the Anzac commemoration events and the collective work on Te Wherowhero Lagoon which is part of this agreement. These are foundations and we are hopeful that Pakowhai Scenic Reserve can also become part of the building of those local relationships which make Te Tiriti a reality not just in law but in the hearts and minds. The commitment to Ngai Tamanuhiri having an enhanced participation in resource management processes in their rohe will also benefit everyone in Te Tai Rawhiti. 
Early today the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations spoke of the truly unique aspect of every Treaty claim process and this is so powerfully true of the matters at the heart of this bill. Part of the maunga Te Kuri a Paoa is a reserve that is now vested in Ngai Tamanuhiri and named Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head. When the white sails came over the horizon and saw those white cliffs everything occurred from that moment and has led to this moment and to the necessity for justice and redress. Naming is so important and the Green Party supports names as expressions of dual heritage but we believe that dual heritage must be fully acknowledged by both parties not just the iwi for healing to really take place. 
The struggles over Te Kuri a Paoa have been long and the Green Party wishes to acknowledge the importance of this maunga which the late Rod Donald MP our first co-leader visited in 2002 to tautoko the efforts for the maunga to be recognised as tangata whenua land and the first place where the cultures sighted each other. In 2002 another winter hikoi started walking to Wellington supported by some people who are no longer with us. Pakeha and tangata Tiriti katoa have reason to appreciate the gift Ngai Tamanuhiri have given the nation in their staunch upholding of the significance of Te Kuri a Paoa to us all. 
The redress in this agreement will also allow the implementation of some dreams and plans regarding the Wharerata Forest and wahi tapu the cultural economic future of tamariki mokopuna. Again we all benefit from this although like others in the House the Greens would like to see a larger quantum in this agreement. 
The one comment the Green Party would add to this and to all claims is the need for the Kawanatanga to resource the education of Pakeha and tangata Tiriti katoa because our role is to make sure the work done by the iwi themselves the Maori Affairs Committee and the Minister is recognised and understood by all as a living history that we are all part of so it can reach its liberating potential from the grievous history of colonisation which Ngai Tamanuhiri and iwi katoa have all suffered. 
 I would just like to finish by congratulating Ngai Tamanuhiri. The Green Party supports your ongoing leadership and your rangatiratanga. Earlier today David Clendon MP spoke about truth and reconciliation as well as Treaty settlement. I support his words and those of Metiria Turei that this needs to happen at a local and national level and it is time for Pakeha katoa to step up on those issues. But in the meantime just let me say that it has been a privilege to have been connected in a small way with the journey and to have lived within your rohe. I am humbled to have met you all. Kia ora koutou katoa.