Wall Louisa: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWall Louisa: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10826. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. E ngā mana e ngā reo ngā whānau o Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Ngā mihi matua Doc Whaea Naida ā tēnā koutou.[Thank you Mr Speaker. To the authorities languages and families of Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara greetings salutations and acknowledgments to us all. Greetings to you Doc Madam Naida and also to you collectively.]And tēnā koutou to all the whānau who have travelled here today. This is a very special day for you. I acknowledge the efforts of the tribe over the last 21 years to get to this point of having your own Treaty settlement legislation the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill and I hope that today brings a lot of satisfaction. What you need to know is that within this House we come from different parties but on this issue we have absolute consensus.We also have absolute consensus about the fact that you have forgone your true settlement if we were to give you back exactly what was taken from you. When I think about that generosity it sometimes makes me cringe. I have just done some maths. Nanaia said “Don’t do it!” but I have. You had 340000 acres and you ended up with 3 percent of the land that you originally had. I have just worked out that with the $22 million that you are getting back we are basically giving you $66 per acre. I have just looked at some land on the internet. Five acres of land in North Auckland is worth $565000—$565000. So when people think that we here in the House are giving you too much I think New Zealanders really need to wake up and actually acknowledge the leadership of Māoridom in this settlement process because it is you who have brought us to this position. It is not us here; it is you. And what I want to recognise is that it is Māori—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order!LOUISA WALL: I am not talking about you Mr Assistant Speaker and I think the context was pretty clear; I was talking about the whānau from Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. It is the whānau who actually want to look to the future in a positive manner. They want to look to a future that provides opportunities for our mokopuna and our tamariki who are the future of our country. So I thank you on behalf of New Zealanders for that generosity and for enabling us as a country to move on.What I do want to reiterate is some of the kōrero from the Hon Parekura Horomia. It has been really sad being here today and not having Pare and I think everybody would acknowledge the contribution that he has made to the process. So I thank Parekura but I also thank everybody who has been involved in bringing us to where we are today.He focused in the first reading particularly on names. He talked about how important names were and he basically said that a lot of the names that we have around the motu but particularly in your settlement were photocopied and basically imported. What I want to highlight is that within your deed of settlement what you have done is reclaim your names and the New Zealand Geographic Board is going to acknowledge it. So instead of Lake Ōtotoa it is going to be Lake Rototoa. Instead of Māori Bay it is going to be Maukatia Bay. Instead of Mount Auckland it is going to be Atuanui. Instead of Crocodile Island it is going to be Te-Motu-o-Marae-Ariki. Instead of Shelley Beach it is going to be Aotea Beach. Instead of Hatfields Beach it is going to be Ōtānerua Beach.Why is that significant? Actually it is incredibly significant because names are important and what it means is that Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara will for ever—for ever—be surrounded by and be part of the geography that is tūturu Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.What does that mean for us as New Zealanders? We are going to for ever recognise that status—the fact that you were and are the original sovereign of that area. I think those are incredibly significant developments within this Treaty settlement legislation because what it does do is for ever acknowledge that you and the whānau of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara have an imprint that can never be erased—it can never be erased.I am here to celebrate with you. I am so proud to be a Māori member of Parliament and to be able to be involved in these processes. I look forward to further engagement and also to looking at how you will take this settlement and what you will do with it because I think one of the critical challenges we have today is us providing ourselves with jobs for our whānau. How can we partner and develop the pūtea that we have to ensure that our tamariki mokopuna are going to be sustained by us but in partnership with others? I note that there is an introductory letter to the Minister for Primary Industries on your behalf so that you can look at what sorts of relationships you can start to develop with the ministry.I congratulate you. I congratulate all the people who have worked so hard and I just thank you again on behalf of the people of Manurewa but also the people of Aotearoa New Zealand for your willingness to move on and enable us as a country to look to the future with positivity and pride. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.