Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te W'are otirā e tika ana kia tuku mihi atu ki te tokomaha o ngā tāngata nō Waitara kua tae mai ki Te W'are nei nō reira koutou i tae mai ki Te Whare Pāremata Manukōrihi Ōtaraua Te Atiawa koutou katoa. Tēnei ahau e tuku atu te mihi ki a rātou.Nō reira he tika hoki kia tuku mihi atu kia whakapiri tōku nei mi'i ki ngā mi'i kua mihia e te mema a Jonathan Young. Nō reira ka tuku mihi atu ki a ia ki te mema me tēnei pire. Kei te mihi atu ahau ki a ia mō ōna ma'i katoa ka mahia mai e a ia i roto i ēnei āhuatanga. Nō reira tēnā tātou katoa.[Greetings to the Speaker and indeed it is right to greet the large number of the people from Waitara who have arrived at this House therefore to those of you who have arrived at Parliament Manukōrihi Ōtaraua Te Atiawa all of you. I am delivering my greetings to them.Consequently it is also right to deliver greetings to append my greetings to the greetings which have already been expressed by the member Jonathan Young. Therefore I acknowledge him the member and this bill. I acknowledge him for all his work that he has done with regard to these matters. Therefore greetings to us all.]It is a great honour for me to speak on the third reading of this bill. I spoke on the first reading and the second reading. In the first reading I spoke about all of the competing and different interests that a number of groups had. I talked about what each one of those in my opinion—what their interests were. I reflect on the words of the Hon Andrew Little in his contribution and I would add to what he has contributed around looking for a perfect solution. The unfortunate part is that to provide a perfect solution for one of those groups will provide an imperfect solution for another and the Māori Affairs Committee I believe did a very good job on working through all of those issues along with the member Jonathan Young. I want to commend him for his patience and his understanding because it cannot have been an easy task to shepherd this bill through every stage of this process.It has been a very long process. The first reading was in September 2016. We are now 27 months later. It hasn't been rushed. It's been a very slow process but I would say a very thorough one as well. It's also a pleasure for me to follow the contribution from the Hon Chris Finlayson. I think Mr Finlayson's contribution contextualised what happened before this bill and Mr Young and Mr Little have talked about everything that's happened up until now.I want to add my thoughts around this and my thoughts are mainly about the future. Some of the things that Mr Finlayson spoke about were the challenges of coming to a solution but I would also add in there the generosity of everyone that was involved in it to try to find a solution. In particular I also really want to acknowledge along with colleagues the contribution that Nashwa Boys made to bringing us to this point because she did work closely with every single party on this bill and in her own quiet way challenged all of us to do better. I think that was the right thing for her to do and for us to hear.Not everyone will be happy with this bill but as I said before a perfect solution for one group would be an imperfect one for other groups. Thinking about the future what this bill does is provide the avenue for both the Waitara hapū and the Waitara community to fulfil their aspirations and gives them the means by which to do it. I think that's a really important point to note. It won't happen tomorrow but over time it will happen. I say to those who really don't want this bill to go through today that this is just one part of a long-term solution I believe. I think I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that passing this bill today in its third reading is much better than not passing it because not passing this bill will have implications for much longer than passing it today.I hope that over time we are proven correct and that the benefits of this bill—this Act as it will be—will provide the means for Ōtaraua and Manukōrihi the Waitara hapū to establish themselves in the way that they would like to establish themselves and to achieve the aspirations that they want to achieve. As I said in the first reading of this bill and at that time we had not yet had the third reading of Te Atiawa Claims Settlement Bill—we had that about a week or so later—I talked about the opportunities that Te Atiawa Claims Settlement Bill would have for all of the hapū. It's well-known that the hapū weren't happy with everything that was in that bill and the process that that bill took but I'm certainly hoping that this today—this bill and the future of the arrangements within it—adds to their ability to be able to achieve their aspirations.I want to encourage the new entity that has been established—Te Kōwhatu Tū Moana. I believe that through this vehicle the hapū will be able to achieve those very aspirations that I talked about. I believe also that help and ongoing relationships with both local government and central government will be critically important in the days ahead for the Waitara hapū.Nō reira kāore e roa tēnei tū. Oti noa e tika ana kia mihi ake anō ki a rātou i mahia ngā mahi mō tēnei pire.[Therefore this speech won't be long. So then it is right to acknowledge again those who carried out the work for this bill.]I just want to as other members have acknowledge the New Plymouth District Council Mayor Neil Holdom the Taranaki Regional Council and the leaseholders who no doubt were going through stages of wondering what was going on with this bill. I hope that the future is much better for the whole community. My hope is that this bill will add much more to the community the wider community of Waitara. I believe that through this particular bill that will be so. Nō reira tēnei ahau anō e tuku mihi atu ki a tātou katoa nō reira.[Consequently I am standing to deliver greetings to us all therefore]I commend this bill to the House.