Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Koutou Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki kua tae mai nei i tēnei wā i whakarangatira mātou i a mātou i tēnei wā tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou. Hōnore nui mō mātou ki te tū i mua i a koutou i tēnei wā. Tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou mō ō koutou kaha ki te kōkiri tēnei kaupapa mai i te tīmata tae noa ki nāianei. Tino rawe tino rawe ki te kite i a koutou i tēnei wā ā e tika me mihi ki a koutou i runga i tēnei rā rā nunui mō tātou te iwi Māori. Heoi anō ahakoa kua wehea kētia a Koro kei te tika tonu ka mihia tonutia ngā mihi ki a ia i tēnei wā nē? Nō te mea nō Tainui ia koirā tana ingoa wai tana ingoa ā muri a Koro Koro Tainui nē? Koirā tana ingoa tika me ki te maumahara tō tātou rangatira i tēnei wā. Ko tērā pea he ruarua noa iho ngā tāngata e mōhio i te wā he Minita o te Whare Māori nā Koro i whakatuwhera i taku marae a Ngā Whare Waatea. I tuwhera a ia i taku marae i runga i tōna mōhio ehara i te mea he marae mō mana whenua he marae kē mō tātou ko te hunga e noho tāone ana. Ko wai ka mōhio ka huri te ao mai i taua wā ka tae ka puāwaitia te kaupapa o Ngā Whare Waatea i tēnei wā ki ngā tōpito o Tāmaki Makaurau. Nō reira e te Pāpā e te whanaunga Koro moe mai moe mai moe mai rā. Ka nui tēnā. Ki a koutou Te Rōpū Nāhinara i tēnei wā mō tō mahi i ngā wā o mua ngā mihi ki a koe e hoa e te hoa ki a koe Andrew me Te Minita i ngā wā o mua Chris Finlayson e tika ki te mihi ki a tātou katoa tēnā koutou. [You of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki who have come here at this time your presence ennobles us; greetings to you all. It is an honour for us to stand before you at this time. I acknowledge you for your strength in leading this cause right from the beginning through until now. It is great great to see you at this time and it is only right to acknowledge you on this day this big day for us the Māori people. However although Koro has already departed it is still right to address acknowledgments to him at this time isn't it? Because he is from Tainui that is his name—what's his name after Koro? Koro Tainui isn't it? That's his name; it's right to remember our leader at this time. Perhaps not many people realise that at the time he was the Minister of the Māori office Koro opened my marae Ngā Whare Waatea. He opened my marae in the knowledge that it wasn't a marae for those with territorial rights but instead it was a marae for those of us who were urban dwellers. Who would have known that things would evolve from there to the point at which Ngā Whare Waatea initiative now flourishes right to the extremities of Auckland? Therefore Uncle kinsman Koro rest in peace. That is enough. To you the National Party at this time for your work in the past I acknowledge you my friend; you Andrew and the former Minister Chris Finlayson. It is right to acknowledge one and all; salutations.]In this week a big week for all of us in Te Ao Māori in this Parliament it was pleasing to see the attendance at the former Minister of Māori Affairs Koro Wētere's tangi. One that you attended Mr Speaker—rightfully so; he was an old friend and colleague of yours. And it was good to see members of the National Party there obviously and a great turnout from our own people.I think that our whanaunga there Koro would have been very proud about what he saw about what's happening today. He wasn't the out-front sort of X Factor show-off type of MP like Shane Jones. He was more like Nuk over there on the other side. He had his own style eh Nuk? Very like my mate Nuk over there. And I was looking at you too Ronnie but no I can't put you in that category! Ha ha!He was a relation to my mother June Jackson—June Batley. The whānau both married each other the Batley and Wētere whānau. But this is the type of kaupapa he dreamed about—this is the type of kaupapa he dreamed about. In his own way he had his own style. A relation of mine but can't say we saw things the same way in terms of economics. He was quite a Rogernomics supporter in his day the old whanaunga. Yes the Speaker's aware of that. But within that first and foremost he believed in Māori development. So he was different from other Māori politicians from the left going down the Douglas side but believing in Treaty settlements believing that groups should have their own way their own tino rangatiratanga—and so what a mover in terms of his own language and his own culture. And at the tangi the other day which we all enjoyed it was pointed out by Rāhui Papa from the other side that whilst we owe Koro Wētere a lot of gratitude in terms of the Māori language it was ironic that the man who led us on to the marae the other day Winston Peters could take some credit too because when Koro decided one day to speak in Māori in the House who did the point of order? Winston Peters. He asked him to explain what on earth he was talking about and Koro of course refused at the time. We didn't have our flash communicators here who translate straight away and because of a lot of that work done by our matua we are where we are today and so we thank Koro. Of course we have to thank him—I have to say this to the National Party—our Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters because if he hadn't have said Translate." we wouldn't have what we have today. So well done Winston—without doubt.SPEAKER: Order!Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you Mr Speaker. But I bring our matua in because this legacy is an important legacy and one thing our matua Koro talked about and I do recall this at different hui was alienation. We all know about alienation don't we? Because if you don't know about alienation then you don't know about Treaty settlements. And if any tribe has been done over in terms of alienation it's this tribe—it's this tribe. How do you explain to Pākehā people today what alienation means? Because you see if you can't access your language if you can't access your history if you can't access your whakapapa then you have no identity. You have no identity. And what chance what opportunity do your children have do your mokopunas have? What chance does that tribe have? It's one of the saddest parts I believe of Treaty settlements Māori alienation and it's a part that all New Zealanders should try to understand. The loss of communal ancestral lands had a huge impact on this tribe. They were left landless and that's been said today with uneconomic blocks and insufficient means to support themselves. So what happens to the tribe? The tribe is almost no more and the tribe disperses and goes in all and every direction—into the different areas of Auckland into the different parts of the country into South Auckland into West Auckland—and only a few people are left to carry the identity and the life of that tribe. I mihi to you today those people who carried the kaupapa—carried the kaupapa through all those traumas. When people talk about the impacts of colonisation look what happened to our people—look what happened to our people. I know having had different kōrero with different Ministers particularly this Minister sitting by me Minister Little when we talk about impacts and we talk about our people sadly in a dysfunctional way—because we fill all the worst statistics sadly in terms of domestic violence and abuse and all that and we're trying to change that. The previous Government tried to change that; we're trying to change that. I know one thing: you get your people to know their culture their language their identity and you will have a change and you will have a future. This is what this tribe now has because they know who they are they know who their tribe is they know what they're going to say to their children and they know what they're going to say to their mokopuna. They're all going to speak—well they're not all going to speak Māori but our kids are speaking Māori our mokopuna are speaking Māori. That's how important the culture is—that's how important the culture is. And I know from my work within my organisation that when we have had families who know their reo who know their whakapapa who know their history those are families that do well. So my hope from this settlement is that the progress that is going on within this tribe continues and that they benefit from the hard work and the history and the trauma that the tribe has gone through and you carry on as you have for the last few years. The money is nothing. What you have done in terms of working through this settlement and in terms of what we overcome as Māori should shine through to your children and your mokopuna. So I mihi to you all today and to the House. It's always an honour to speak on these settlements. And I mihi to our Minister here one of the—I was going to say one of the best Pākehās around but there's plenty of good Pākehā eh Mr Little? But he's one of our best Ministers that you could have along with Minister Finlayson—what a job he's done. I thank you all for your attendance today. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ā tēnā anō tātou.Bill read a third time.Waiata"