O'Connor GregSORAYA PEKE-MASON (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Mana Whakawā. Whakamoemiti ki a koe e Ihoa o ngā mano ko te Matua Tama Wairua Tapu me ngā Anahera Pono me te Māngai āianei āke nei āe. E mihi ana ki te hunga mate o Aotearoa i tēnei wā haere haere oki wairua. Ki a tātou te hunga ora te Mana Whakawā anō tēnā koe. Tēna koutou ngā kaumātua nga kuia ngā rangatira ngā pakeke ngā uri o Rangitāne me Ngāti Kahungunu.[Greetings Mr Speaker. I give thanks to the Lord God of the countless multitudes to the Father the Son the Holy Spirit the Faithful Angels and The Mouthpiece now and forevermore. I acknowledge the dead at this time in Aotearoa may you rest in peace.To us the living to you again Mr Speaker greetings. Greetings to the elders the chiefs and the adults and the descendants of Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu.]It is with humility I take this call. Humility because all the hard work has been done. It's been done and carried out as a result of me only just recently coming into the House. I want to acknowledge everyone that's been involved with this both settlements—and this bill in particular—each and every one of you all and in particular Ngā Iwi.I want to acknowledge the passing of time on this bill and all the claims involved here. It is said by the old people—which is a term of endearment—There is no such thing as time; it takes the time it needs." Rangitāne me Ngāti Kahungunu this is your time. This claim dates back to the early 1840s but as we hear today there is still more work to do—a lot of work mamae to be worked through. But what's important is that we find a way today—and this is a way—to be able to try and make those little steps forward.I want to acknowledge—in saying that and acknowledging the 1840s—those who have passed behind the veil. It is because of them that we are here today; it is because of their sacrifices; it is because of their hard work that we are able to stand here today to work with tangata whenua Te Ao Māori Aotearoa New Zealand.I want to acknowledge my three-year-old mokopuna Caesar Te Ariki Paewae-Meihana uri o Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu; the next generations—his generation and others to come—who deserve and have the right to move through life in a way that upholds their mana motuhake their tino rangatiratanga that was handed down to them by their tīpuna.I want to touch very briefly but in a simple way on what this all means—this bill the redress—in a simple plain English way. I'm no lawyer; I come here because others thought I should be here. But I always think when I attend these meetings and I'm learning about being in Parliament how easy it would be if we can do things in a simple plain English language way.I just want to talk about the cultural redress. You've got overlay classification over Castlepoint Scenic Reserve and Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne. What I see here: it's a place where you can build that relationship where you can work together. Our mokopuna they have no boundaries. We all whakapapa to our boundaries. Most of us do; that's the way whakapapa works. But here we are today: we are in a colonial mainstream construct and this is what we've got to work with today. This is a way that we can look at to continue to try and find steps that progressively move us forward. They don't have to be big steps; they can be little steps. Nevertheless for our mokopuna let's look at them as being a step forward no matter how big or small. So that's how I think about the boundaries when it comes to Treaty settlement—not the easiest for anyone by no means for any iwi to navigate through.Customary fishing makes me think of growing up as a little girl when—might be showing my age here but hey—my pāpā used to go fishing over there at Ōpunake and come home with kai moana; there was plenty of kai for us. It was cool. We didn't know back then actually how rich and how valuable that was to us. But what I see here in terms of the customary fishing—because we're in a world today that's changed dramatically since then; some good some not so good. But nevertheless this is a chance for us to be able to hold on to that which is dear to us our kai moana; to be able to go and fish and to feed our whānau. The next one is the cultural redress of properties. I think we've all been involved in the redress of our properties our whenua. We've all been involved in it somehow shape or form with regards to land utilisation of what we've got left—albeit a lot of it's landlocked a lot of it's unproductive underutilised for whatever reasons. But I see the opportunity here for you to work together to be able to do something with this land whatever that might be; whatever you decide.Lastly a framework. It sounds very business-like—that's the world we live in today—but what I like about these frameworks from my experience is that they actually bring people to account. It brings the Crown to account; it brings stakeholders it brings councils to account around what's being proposed here. They have responsibilities; it's up to us to hold them to account.I'm reminded of a kupu o T W Ratana back in 1918 when he tirelessly worked to unite Te Ao Māori and restore Te Tiriti o Waitangi to its rightful place as the founding document of this nation. It was a time when he brought our people out of the darkness and into the light. And here we are today finding a way how we can continue to do that as a people as a nation.So I'm humbled in many ways to be here to be able to share with you all and to speak to this really important redress on behalf of us all and more importantly those that have done the hard work before me. I commend Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill to the House. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Chris Penk—a five-minute call shared with the Māori Party."