Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Deputy Speaker. He mihi kau ana tēnei ki ngā uri o ngā hapū o Te Rohe o Wairoa: tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[I acknowledge the descendants of the hapū of the region of Wairoa: greetings greetings greetings to you all.]It's a great honour for me to be able to stand and speak on behalf of the Green Party in this the second reading of the Iwi and Hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa Claims Settlement Bill. I'm our new Te Tiriti spokesperson for Pākehā and I've got to say that I think that when these settlement processes come through the House I see the House at its best. It is a great honour and a privilege to be able to participate in this process which has been the result of such a long struggle for iwi and hapū and which presents such an opportunity for learning and understanding for Pākehā and for the Crown.I would just like to say that for the Green Party we always—at each stage of this—acknowledge that the settlements which are being so hard fought for and debated are debated and negotiated under the pressure of economic and social hardship and within the constraints of a Crown-imposed process to make the best deal possible in order to re-establish an economic base for your people. You've done well to get the fifth-largest settlement. I know the previous Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations said it was the fourth but my understanding is that it is the fifth—and I know it's a brave thing to contest the previous Minister. It is a very significant outcome and I want to acknowledge you for that.I also acknowledge the limitations which I think were so clearly put and have already been mentioned by the previous chair of the Māori Affairs Committee around Te Wairoa Tāpokorau Cluster 1 submission of the actual value and what was taken. I really want to thank that group for bringing that submission which really outlined to us the limitless possibility of this process as opposed to the possibility that has been constrained by the ongoing restrictions of the Crown—the full return of the land and the actual full financial redress which this is not. But this is a phenomenal achievement within the system that you have been given. I do want to acknowledge as a person standing in the place as tangata Tiriti that we have a responsibility in relation to the constraints that have been put on you and on all other iwi around the country and that is for us to be engaging with in this House and in the country as a whole to shift those boundaries and to open up those constraints.For me in these debates I always come back to the comparison with South Canterbury Finance when they went into receivership and to the Government bailout of $1.6 billion to I don't know how many people for a harm that was in such a short period of time compared to this the pain of generations and so much loss and so much harm. Relative to that is the $100 million which is a phenomenal result in this context. I feel aroha in speaking to this.I do also want to acknowledge the fact that this has been an over 30-year journey in the negotiation to get to this point. You know we're going back to the 1850s and 1860s for the original harm but the actual negotiation to get us to this point has been over 30 years and that is from when the claim was first lodged as part of the Waitangi Tribunal Wairoa inquiry district. You know that's more than my adult life that people in your iwi have been locked in negotiation and unable to move forward. That in itself to me is a wrong that I want to acknowledge here in this House.I also want to acknowledge the negotiators and all who supported them through this arduous process particularly those who have passed before seeing this outcome. That too is a pain in itself that has again been inflicted by the Crown's processes.So I would like to—and I guess this for me is more speaking specifically to any Pākehā that may be watching these speeches or looking at them—just want to go over a little bit of that history because it is not taught in our schools. It is so inherent and felt by tangata whenua in this country and is often not even known about by Pākehā so I do just briefly want to speak to some tiny bits of that history and what was done to help further our understanding which is an opportunity in this process.Firstly I want to acknowledge that the Crown didn't take Te Tiriti o Waitangi to Te Rohe o Te Wairoa so the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa did not sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Even those who did sign we know through court rulings did not cede sovereignty but that is particularly true for Te Rohe o Te Wairoa. Despite the Crown being able to have not seen iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa at that time somehow they managed to notice them when there was land to be taken. Between 1864 and 1868 the Crown purchased—and I do love that use of language in these settlements which again to me is another sign of that colonisation process still happening; it is the limitations on language and the re-truth" or the new truth that is being created by the Crown—83000 acres. They didn't survey the blocks to investigate who actually owned that land and who had customary rights and they didn't set aside the adequate reserves that they were supposed to. I think another way of describing that process is that they scammed and they stole.Then when there was fighting in other regions in the 1860s the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa actively maintained peace within that region. We have that history in other parts of Aotearoa which I think is often forgotten where the violence of the Crown was countered by peace in the iwi and hapū groups. They struggled to maintain that peace and war in this region began only when the Crown attacked Omaruharakeke kāinga on Christmas Day. As we are on our last day of this House sitting before rising for Christmas I think it is for me quite present that thought of an attack on that day. Those who were then engaged in defending themselves in the mid-1860s were captured and summarily executed or detained without trial on the Chathams.This was done by the Crown who traditionally in this country and around the world has spoken of itself as the upholder of justice. That was a particular breach and in the myth of that it has continued that breach and more and more land was taken.This settlement is an acknowledgment of that and recognition of your pain and loss and struggle. While that economic base was removed there was harm and there was attachment that was way beyond the economics of it—a huge impact on the potential of the people to the point that 90 percent of the tribe and hapū now live outside of the area. That severing of relationship which was a result of this has continued and we hope that as the settlement goes to the next stages some of that is able to be turned round. I do remember in the submissions that there was the hope and acknowledgment that in accepting this it's the opportunity to move forward and the Green Party wishes you all the luck in that. Kia ora."