Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. Tihewa mauri ora ki te whei ao ki te ao mārama. E mihi ana ki te rangi e mihi ana ki te whenua e mihi ana ki ngā tāngata. E ngā hapū maha o Heretaunga Tamatea ōku whanaunga o Ngāti Kahungunu nau mai whakatau mai nau mai whakatau mai ki te ana o te raiona ā ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei.Harikoa te ngakau e whakatū ana au ki te tautoko i tēnei pire i tēnei pānuitanga tuatoru.Ka huri too me mihi atu ki a rātou kua whetūrangitia ngā mate huhua o te wā haere koutou haere koutou.Hoki mai ki a tātou te kanohi ora pai nei tēnā koutou ōku whanaunga tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Madam Chair. Life bursts forth through the dawn to the world of light. I greet the heavens I greet the land I greet the people.To the many tribal groups of Heretaunga of Tamatea to you my Ngāti Kahungunu relations welcome welcome to the lair of the lion; that is to this House of Parliament which stands here. I am thrilled to stand and support this bill on its third reading.I must make mention too of those who have departed this world; to you I say farewell farewell. Coming back to us to the land of the living to my relations tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.]I am truly delighted to stand and speak in support of this very important bill the Heretaunga Tamatea Claims Settlement Bill at its third reading. I too would also like to add my welcome to our manuhiri tūārangi to all our esteemed guests from Heretaunga Tamatea who've travelled from far and wide. It was wonderful to hear the kōrero in the Banquet Hall to welcome them to Parliament. This is truly a significant day and it's always an honour to speak on Treaty settlement bills but this is significant—the fifth-largest settlement among my whanaunga of Heretaunga Tamatea Ngāti Pāhauwera and Ngāti Kahungunu. So it's always an honour to welcome whanaunga to the House of Parliament.I know it's been said in many other readings—and I acknowledge my tuahine Meka Whaitiri the Minister and member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti—in terms of the people of Heretaunga Tamatea of the wonderful marae that they represent all throughout their takiwā. But I wanted to just take this opportunity for the record of Hansard to announce and to list all of the hapū that make up Heretaunga Tamatea. It hasn't been done and there's quite a few but I want to make sure that they're all included in my kōrero today.The first one starts off Ngāi Tahu ki Takapu—oh Takapau sorry. Not a good start. Let's start again—let's start again. Ngāi Tahu ki Takapau Ngāi Tamaterā Ngāi Te Ao Ngāi Te Hauapu Ngāi Te Hurihanga-i-te-rangi Ngāi Te Kīkiri o Te Rangi Ngāi Te Ōatua Ngāi Te Rangikoianake te tuatahi Ngāi Te Rangikoianake tuarua Ngāi Te Rangitekahutia Ngāi Te Rangitotohu Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri Ngāi Te Whatuiāpiti Ngāi Toroiwaho Ngāti Hāwea Ngāti Hikatoa Ngāti Hinemanu Ngāti Hinemoa Ngāti Hinetewai Ngāti Hotoa Ngāti Honomōkai Ngāti Hōri Ngāti Kautere Ngāti Kere Ngāti Kotahi Ngāti Kurukuru Ngati Mārau o Kahungunu Ngāti Mahuika Ngāti Manuhiri Ngāti Mihiroa Ngāti Ngarengare Ngāti Papatuamāro Ngāti Pīhere Ngāti Pōporo Ngāti Pukututu Ngāti Rāhunga Ngāti Takaroa (Ngāti Tākaro) Ngāti Tamatea Ngāti Te Rehunga Ngāti Toaharapaki Ngāti Tukuaterangi Ngāti Ura ki te Rangi and Ngāti Whakaiti. Those are the hapū of Heretaunga Tamatea and we welcome you to Parliament today for this significant occasion.Can I acknowledge the Minister Minister Little; his predecessor Minister Finlayson; the former chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Tutehounuku Korako; and I guess I acknowledge myself as the current chair. Ha ha! Kia ora. I'll take the opportunity. But I'd like to acknowledge all those who have been involved in this phase of this settlement. But of course we know that this stretches a long way back further than our particular mahi. This goes all the way back to the signing of Te Tiriti to the hapū of Heretaunga Tamatea who were thriving independent hapū communities who wanted to engage with the Crown and who wanted to engage with the settlers and who were unfortunately let down terribly. As we've heard in many settlements in this House the dispossessions of land—I'm always saddened to hear the stories of that modus operandi of the Crown the insatiable appetite for land. They went to all sorts of devious means to devour those lands from our hapū as Minister Little outlined in his speech whether it was secretly adding on a whole chunk of additional acres—thousands of acres of land—to a deed without any consent without any consultation; whether it was the passing of the Native Lands Act in the 1860s; whether it was breaking down the Māori tenure our tenure of communal ownership breaking it down into ten individual names and then through all sorts of means ensuring that that land was dispossessed whether it was putting our whanaunga into debt whether it be by survey titles and the like—all those sorts of means which were inflicted upon these people and which led to them having just a tiny fraction of their ancestral lands.We know that this takiwā of Heretaunga Tamatea—some of the richest most fertile soils. Anyone who drives through the Hawke's Bay and admires it from the mountains to the coast all the way through can see the abundance of wealth and prosperity that has been generated from those lands. Many of the descendants of these owners have worked hard to help the prosperity of that region and now finally we can use this settlement as an opportunity for Heretaunga Tamatea to recapitalise themselves and to reassert and to engage more fully whether it's in Hawke's Bay regional planning processes right across their ancestral landscape—whatever—in the commercial sphere in the resource management this settlement provides a platform for that.I see that time is running short but to conclude my speech I wanted to just acknowledge Mrs Tānira Te Au who told the special kōrero about the haka Tika Tonu" from Houngarea Marae. Heretaunga Tamatea Kahungunu—famous for their waiata. Famous. I certainly hope we get to hear some of the top ten and that haka reverberate in this House at the conclusion of this debate because this is certainly one of those occasions which is cause for celebration and remembrance and we do both on this special solemn occasion. So without further ado can I once again mihi to all of those who have led this including all of your tūpuna who paved the way before and can I wish Heretaunga Tamatea all the very best for the future. I commend this bill to the House."