Tirikatene Rino: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12194. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Ā tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. E ngā mana whenua o Tāmaki nau mai haere mai ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei. E ngā rangatira huri noa i te Whare tēnā koutou tēna koutou ā tēnā tātou katoa.[And thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. To the local people of Tāmaki welcome to Parliament House in readiness here welcome. To the leading figures throughout the House greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you all .]I am pleased to rise and take a call in the first reading of this bill the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill. I support this bill following on from my colleague the Hon Shane Jones. This bill represents the many hapū and iwi of the wider Tāmaki-makau-rau each of whom have historical claims against the Crown. Because of the scale of the area under claim and the many hapū and iwi involved it was thought best to deal with those things that all claimants had a common interest in.In this instance a deed has been entered into. This bill gives effect to that deed that the Crown would vest ownership in 14 iconic maunga back to the collective and there will be a co-governance arrangement with Auckland Council and the Department of Conservation. The new body is called the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority. The Crown is going to contribute some pūtea to help with the set-up costs of this co-governance group and the council will have day-to-day management of the long-dormant cones on behalf of Aucklanders and New Zealanders. As well there are certain sites that are exempt which will continue to be managed under the Department of Conservation.Four islands are included in the redress—namely Rangitoto Motutapu Motuihe and Tiritiri Mātangi. The titles of these islands will be vested in the collective which will then very graciously gift them back to the Crown. The summit of Rangitoto and two small waka landings will be retained by the collective. The deed of settlement also gives the collective the right of first refusal over certain right of first refusal land for the next 171 years. Basically this means any land in Tāmaki deemed as sited on right of first refusal land must be offered back to the collective for the right of first refusal.The best place to take in the sight of all that land is the viewing platform of the Sky Tower. You could take that up another level because actually the best place to view the Auckland isthmus would be at the restaurant atop the Sky Tower. It is this rotating wharekai in the sky that takes in the truly wonderful beauty of the Auckland isthmus known today as Tāmaki-makau-rau. One can imagine if one thinks back to the day the many villages built upon the long-dormant volcanoes bush full of birds and harbours and swamps full of fish and fowl. It was a utopian scene worthy of a renaissance painting. I encourage my friends across the House to visit the Sky Tower during the day because you will be able to see what I mean. Going at night will serve no purpose because all you will see are pretty lights. But that is basically the beauty of the Auckland isthmus.I would like to take time now to acknowledge as I like to try to do in all of my speeches my own connection to my Ngati Rārua ancestor Tūpāhau and his confederate and relation Maki who stopped by Maungakiekie or One Tree Hill for a while. Hine-te-Ao who was from Maungakiekie and the Waiohua people gave birth to Tūpāhau’s son Korokino. His umbilical cord was buried with a sprig of a tōtara which became the tōtara that was cut down and later replaced with a California pine atop One Tree Hill. Korokino was the father of Toa-Rangatira. Tūpāhau would return to south of Kāwhia and there at Kiritehere he had another family with a woman of Ngāti Haumia namely Rārua. This whakapapa links me to the very old Ngāti Awa of the far north.It is no wonder people wanted to get to know the chief Maki. I am definitely no gun speaker of Te Reo Māori like my colleague Shane but I would like to give my translation of Tāmaki-makau-rau: “Tāmaki” belonging to Maki and “makau-rau” desired by many. So the land that belonged to Maki was desired by many. And who would not have been desirous? Picture the scene of a young Māori warrior on a brief trip to the much-heard-about Tāmaki-makau-rau. How could a visiting warrior fromdown in Pōneke not be impressed as he foiled his twin-hulled waka into Kohimārama Rangitoto in silhouette with the sun rising over the horizon? It is what we call a “melting Māori moment”.I guarantee you that Māori boy from Pōneke would be looking for the highest chief in the pā with the most beautiful and yet tempestuous daughter. In years to come there would be some whanaunga from down around the pā back in Pōneke who would ask: “Hey whatever happened to Tama boy?”. And the reply would be: “Didn’t you hear? He went up to Tāmaki a few years back and cracked it—got a beautiful missus a whare with plenty of land two fishing boats and her old man has got a box at Eden Park.” There are plenty of stories like that within the history of the isthmus such was the desirability of Tāmaki-makau-rau to all our Māori warriors of old.For many people since that time of Maki and probably before his time as well Auckland’s desirable location fertile soils its birds and fish and its picture postcard - beauty made visitors envious. That is the problem of Auckland. Even today it is too desirous. It has $800000 houses. No one can afford to live there. All the land is still in council hands—lands dare I remind this House that once were under the mana of these 13 iwi and hapū who make up this collective.So I would like to acknowledge all of the work of the Tāmaki Collective and the officials who have worked over many years to bring this portion of the settlement to a conclusion. I look forward to contributing within the Māori Affairs Committee and as we tautoko the passage of this bill through the House. I commend this bill. Kia ora tātou.