Delahunty Catherine; Mallard TrevorCATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare Nui tēnā koutou e te whānau whānui o Ngāti Pūkenga Te Tāwera and Ngāti Hā nau mai haere mai piki mai ki Te Whare Pāremata.[Greetings to you collectively the Big House and to you the extended family of Ngāti Pūkenga Te Tāwera and Ngāti Hā welcome come hither and climb aboard Parliament House.]I would like to start by acknowledging the negotiators and the team with Āreta Gray and others. I would like to also acknowledge your loss of your great man Awanui Black. I would like to acknowledge the connection that I feel very deeply to Manaia and to the Mikaere whānau and Harry Mikaere's work on this. I have not mentioned all the people I do not know all the people; I am very privileged to speak though about any of you.This is my last Treaty speech in the House before I return to Hauraki. I have been extremely privileged to speak on Treaty bills as a Pākehā in this Whare and extremely privileged that the last one should be for these people who have a connection to where I live in their rohe—part of their rohe. They have many many places to stand. I just want to acknowledge those places to stand as we have heard previously: Tauranga Maketū Whangarei—as my colleague has just described—and Manaia in Hauraki. I thank the people for travelling all that way. It is a long journey a very long journey. Not everybody gets to jump on a plane all the time like politicians. Some people have to drive those roads and we welcome you to this Whare.I am very pleased we have got here in time before the House rises. I know that Ngāti Pūkenga were very keen to get this done before the end of this term of Parliament and with all the complexities around some of this it has been a long struggle so congratulations—you got here; get it done. I know there are other issues to be settled around the moana but at least this iwi can move forward and say they have reached this point so all honour to you.I do want to briefly look back at the history and there is too much to talk about so I will just acknowledge some small examples of what has happened to these people. We say things very glibly in this House; it rolls off the tongue that after the Land Wars these people who were not participating in the raruraru were given £350 by the Crown for 50000 acres—50000 acres. It is hard to even hold in the mind's eye the scope of all that whenua and what goes with it: all the life the births the deaths the kai-gathering the tradition the culture the economic base of those 50000 acres and £350.Some things never change. However it was not just what happened in the 1800s that we need to stand up and talk about; it is also what happened through the Māori Land Court. You could say the Māori Land Court was an instrument of worse oppression than the gun because you can see the war coming but when the war is through the court it is a special form of torture. The way that the Māori Land Court treated Ngāti Pūkenga in terms of forcing the individualisation of land blocks—not only Ngāti Pūkenga many many many iwi experienced this but Ngāti Pūkenga experienced a full attack via these provisions.That is how a culture is destroyed as its collective being to individualise land blocks. The main commitment that colonisation took was to individualise to divide and to rule. In the 1970s this was still going on. I know it was because I moved to Hauraki in the 1970s and Auntie Betty Williams—whaea; kuia now—told me about what happened to her mother's land block in the 1970s and why she fought that in the 1970s when the small blocks were once again under attack by the Māori Land Court. The whānau blocks of land and more land were alienated.I just want to stand for a moment to acknowledge kuia Betty Williams who came to my valedictory on Tuesday but could not stay. She is from Manaia—she is Ngāti Pūkenga. When it comes to the redress that is in this bill people like her stood up and fought for their whenua and they fought for the Manaia Harbour and they fought for the rivers and the rohe. Multinationals wanted to take the land and explore that harbour the beautiful Manaia Harbour for mining and kuia like Auntie Betty and her whānau stood up. So we should never forget that this is not just about ancient history. We need to teach our people that this is about the 20th century's continual use of the tools of oppression against these people—not just in Manaia but right through the rohe of Ngāti Pūkenga. So just acknowledging that kuia who taught me that if you want to stand in her rohe you stand for Te Tiriti o Waitangi.It is good to see in the redress that places like the Manaia Harbour and the Manaia River are actually part of that and the beautiful marae that has been part of the restoration of resources for Manaia. I am sorry that I am talking about just this part of the rohe; I know there is a lot more but it is good to see and I know that they are leading now in education. Their kura kaupapa is renowned throughout the rohe. So it is to their credit that all of these things are happening. I want to talk generally now back to the settlement and back to an issue that I mentioned in the second reading because it was brought to us by Ngāti Pūkenga around issues of right of first refusal. I just want to say thank you. You Ngāti Pūkenga have inspired us te Rōpū Kākāriki to talk about the need for a review of the Treaty settlement process because there are anomalous things that happen that are not talked about but you yourselves brought this to us. So thank you for bringing that right of first refusal: the fact that it says in all the settlements that it can also be offered to a charitable trust. This to me is like saying: We've stolen your car and we're offering you back a hubcap but if one of the thieves' families wants to have the hubcap first you can have second dibs on that hubcap and it's a little bit bent but he aha!".So I think that Ngāti Pūkenga must be given credit for raising this issue and saying that just because it is in every settlement does not mean that it is right. That is why we stand for—we do not believe in full and final settlement in the Greens. We believe that Te Tiriti commits us particularly article 2 to an ongoing relationship of negotiation based on respecting the rangatiratanga of the tangata whenua. And Ngāti Pūkenga you sorry they—you are not meant to say "you" in the House because otherwise it means the Speaker and he gets cross with me—have laid down the wero to this Parliament about rights of first refusal. I want to acknowledge too that the Ministers are always open to debate on these issues and I really appreciate that. I really do appreciate that.So thank you Ngāti Pūkenga. Thank you for reminding us that—$5 million is not a hell of a lot of money but you are going to make the best of it and you are going to hold us to account and the apology is important. There is a lot to apologise for—getting back to the hubcap—but actually one of the most important things in this very positive settlement is the focus on education and cultural heritage. I wish that we all would dedicate our lives not just tangata whenua to educating everybody in Aotearoa about the true nature of the basis of this country and what has happened and how it has happened; who stole what hubcap from whom and how we are all part of the healing. I want to thank Ngāti Pūkenga in all of their sites where they stand so powerfully for bringing up the issues for standing for their own people and in standing for their own for actually challenging us to educate our own. Te Rōpū Kākāriki is committed that there should be this education there should be this respect and there should be this review of Treaty processes. Always honouring not settling is the kaupapa. Kia ora tātou. Ngā mihi nui ki ta Ngāti Pūkenga. Kia ora.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I just want to thank Catherine Delahunty my ex-classmate for her final contribution in the House. There have been a few Onslow College people come and go from the House and there is no doubt that Catherine has continued the passionate style to which we have been accustomed. Thank you Catherine."