Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Tēnā koutou ōku rangatira. Rangitāne o Wairarapa Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua tēnā koutou. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua tēnā koutou kei te mihi kei te mihi nau mai whakatau mai. Nau mai whakatau mai ki te Whare Pāremata. E takatū nei he hōnore nui tēnei ki te tū ki te tautoko i tēnei pire. Tēnā koutou i te mahi tahi te mahi tahi kei roto i tēnei pire. Ngā mate huhua o te wā haere haere haere atu koutou. Ko tātou te kanohi ora e pae nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings Mr Speaker. Greetings to my esteemed colleagues. To Rangitāne o Wairarapa Rangitāne o Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua I acknowledge you. To Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua I acknowledge you greetings and welcome. Welcome to the House of Parliament. I am prepared and it is an honour for me to stand in support of this bill. I acknowledge the collaboration the collaborative work that we see in this bill. To the many dead of the time may you rest in peace. To us here today the representatives of the living greetings greetings one and all.]Indeed it's an honour to speak in support of this bill the Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Bill. Usually this esteemed position in the debate is taken by the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee and I'm pleased as a former chair of the committee—whilst I haven't actually examined this bill or had the honour of being able to hear the submitters and to go into great detail on all the provisions of this bill—I want to acknowledge the work of the committee that has done that work. I have the easy part to just rise to tautoko the good work of the committee and everyone that has been involved in this bill. As with all Treaty settlement bills this is a very significant day. I do want to again just extend my welcome to our manuhiri who have travelled to be here for this third reading and I want to acknowledge everyone as has been outlined by the Minister and Dr Reti who has been involved. These Treaty settlements span decades in terms of the work that's undertaken whether it's on both sides—on the iwi side on the negotiators—and the actual work that the Crown conducts through Te Arawhiti and their officials. So I want to commend Minister Little and his officials and everyone that's been involved in working through these issues. They are not easy issues to work through when we are dealing with Treaty settlements but I want to commend the innovation really that is encompassed in this bill being a joint redress bill. I've been here a few terms but this is the first of its kind I believe where we've got a separate bill which actually combines joint redress and deals with joint redress issues from different iwi. So I want to commend just the foresight and the mahi that is encapsulated within this bill.I know that there are some controversial aspects but I want to actually just focus on what this bill actually does which is all about joint cultural redress—joint" being the two iwi or the three iwi Rangitāne with Kahungunu—over some significant taonga within their takiwā. I think being able to have those connections to that taonga is so vitally important and that's what this bill does.So when we talk about taonga such as Wairarapa Moana taonga such as the awa—these are areas of I guess mahinga kai great abundance great historical settlements traverses I guess of the many hapū the many tribes of these great iwi. And to be able to have both of the iwi—all of the iwi—jointly recognised in this redress I think is a testament to the work of everyone that's taken part in these negotiations and finally in this settlement. There are two separate deeds of settlement—one with Rangitāne and one with Ngāti Kahungunu—and both of those deeds refer to the creation of this joint redress. This is what this bill does in terms of being able to complete that aspect of this important part of both of those deeds. It also ushers in the way for the completion of the Ngāti Kahungunu settlement as well which is also coming through this House. So it's really important. I was just doing a read of it and it's a pleasure to see a statutory board being created over the Wairarapa Moana the return of the Crown land parts to be vested and separate boards to be created with iwi representatives and those among local authorities and other appointees. So I guess that's all about progress as Dr Reti mentioned; it's all about moving forward. And I know these are really important markers in the ground for the iwi the mana whenua of the beautiful areas of the Wairarapa and up into the Hawke's Bay. So this is very significant legislation. It is innovative and I'm pleased that the parties have been able to follow through and be able to create the provisions in this bill which actually give effect to the return of those taonga or the ability to have overlay classifications and recognition of the mana of the iwi within the area and across those very special taonga—waterbodies wetlands and other very special whenua for all the iwi of the takiwā.Finally I note from the bill that there is recognition around customary fisheries in relation to Wairarapa Moana and I believe also the awa. I commend the work that all of the iwi of the Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa are doing in the customary fisheries area. I know in relation to the coastal fisheries there is a very active and well-organised iwi forum—the Mai Paritu tae atu ki Turakirae Fisheries Forum—and that actual group actually now includes Ngāi Tāmanuhiri up on the East Coast and it goes all the way down through Māhia through the Hawke's Bay and all the way down to the Wairarapa and to Cape Palliser. And within that takiwā are Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu and there is a great deal of cooperation and working together in a marine fisheries sense on their rohe take on their rohe moana and on looking after the customary fisheries which are so important to these people. I commend the work that they are doing at an iwi forum fisheries level. That goes all the way down to their individual marae and to their individual whānau. They have a very forward-looking plan of being able to upskill and being able to play their role as kaitiaki which is so very important. And that also extends through this bill—the elements of kaitiaki of upholding customary fisheries also complying with the law whether it be fisheries legislation or conservation legislation—but having those bodies in place which can regulate those very special customary rights which our people hold so dearly. So with that I once again want to just acknowledge the manuhiri who've come to witness this occasion and it has indeed been an honour to be able to tautoko this bill. I've done many a Treaty settlement bill and again they are all just hugely significant and especially this which captures the cultural redress aspects which are held so dearly by all of these iwi. I do want to acknowledge the tupuna from both Rangitāne and from Kahungunu who is vested in the taonga that is vested from this bill. I think that's hugely significant that that shared tupuna is acknowledged in that way. And with that I congratulate everyone involved and I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora mai tātau."