SpeechTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pīka o tēnei Whare otirā ki a koutou katoa Ngāti Kahungunu Rangitāne kua huihui i tēnei i tērā Whare i tēnei rā. Nei rā te mihi ki a koutou.[Greetings to the Speaker of this House and to all of you of Ngāti Kahungunu Rangitāne who have gathered in this in that House today. This is my greeting to you.]Can I give my acknowledgments to you of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne for making it to Wellington today. Not all of us have made it to Wellington and I acknowledge that there were a few of us missing at the pō'hiri today but we're about to spend the next six months together. So that's a really good time for us to be able to drill down into the settlement drill down into the details of the settlement and look into how we can make sure that we make this the best legislation that we can all things considered.Can I say to our whānau from Rangitāne from Ngāti Kahungunu thank you for honouring this process; thank you for entering into it. It's a tough process. As many speakers before have said it can be a divisive process as well. The Treaty settlement process has been something that we have been doing for quite some time in this Whare for better or for worse. But the overall objective is to try and make sure that everybody leaves with their mana intact and I hope that through this settlement through your settlement we'll be able to do that as well.You come at a very auspicious time as well; a time when the country is talking about things like co-governance and things like co-management. It's a hot topic at the moment. There are some people in the House of Parliament who believe that it is something to be feared and something that we shouldn't be encouraging. I want to put that on the table right now as something that I hope that you can help us with because as we traverse forward into this space not just for your settlement but for lots of settlements we need to put a message out there to the rest of Aotearoa—as your local MP for Wairarapa Kieran McAnulty said earlier—that co-governance and co-management is nothing to fear. We as a country have been doing this for quite some time and in many parts of Aotearoa it's happening really successfully.But there is a darker part to this conversation and it started coming through in some of our select committee hearings. There's a very organised group of people who talk about the co-governance and co-management as not being democratic and that it's against the principles that we all stand for. It's against the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi."—we've heard that one too. So on this journey we're going to need some support if we're going to continue to do what we believe is right.Let me put on record too that the New Zealand Labour Party are committed to settling all of our historical Treaty settlements here in Aotearoa—we're absolutely committed to that. We need to stick true to things that we know work: things like co-governance and co-management. Through your bill hopefully we'll be able to not get some of those submissions through the select committee but no doubt we will because it's a place where we hear from all sides all opinions. You will be subjected to that as well; to hearing some of those submissions.As the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee I look forward to progressing your bill through the House and in quite a different approach we're looking forward to actually travelling too. I know like much of the country that many of us have been locked down and staying in our whare. Through our Māori Affairs Committee we've been managing to do Treaty settlements via Zoom which isn't really what we want; we would prefer to be there ā-tinana ā-wairua so that we can come there and we can actually takahi te whenua [walk the land] look you in the eye—kanohi ki te kanohi [face to face]. All of that really matters when we're dealing with Treaty settlements. We've made a decision as a committee that we were very open to travelling out to your rohe so that we can get a bit of a tiki tour around the sites of significance of the pā in your bill. A decision was made this morning.So I did note to the committee that whilst it's our intention to travel it also relies on our hosts wanting to have us there as well. So that's something that we'll wait for your instruction on. If you'll have us we would love to travel to your rohe so that we can talk through and see and meet and eat together with you as well. We'll leave that discussion for another day.The whole process through the select committee is one of honour and one of mana. We as committee members completely acknowledge the work that's been done to get to the deed of settlement point and we see ourselves as committing an administrative task in this whole Treaty settlement process but an important part of that too. Scrutiny is good and we look forward to dissecting the bill taking your advice listening to the submissions and that process will happen immediately. The call for submissions will go out. The usual time frame is a six-week process to call for submissions so that we can gather those in from around the country and tee them up so that we can listen to the kōrero—the good the bad and the downright ugly as well. We look forward to having you before the committee but we look forward to travelling out to your rohe as well.I've got nothing left on this other than to say to Rangitāne and to Kahungunu nei rā te mihi ki a koutou katoa. Kia kaha kia māia kia manawanui.[This is my acknowledgment to you all. Be firm be brave and be stout of heart.]Let's do this. I commend this bill to the House."