Tolley AnneHon ANNE TOLLEY (National—East Coast): Tēnā koutou katoa e Te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa a ngā hapū a Ngāti Porou. E ngā mana e ngā reo e ngā hau e whā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. [Greetings to the House. Greetings to you all of the subtribes of Ngāti Porou. The authorities the spokespeople those from the four winds greetings greetings greetings to you all.]I want to start by paying tribute to the late Dr Apirana Mahuika—Uncle Api as we all knew him—who began this great journey that ends here today. I can feel his spirit with us. I want to pay tribute to the many great rangatira watching over this historic day recognising the mana whenua of Ngāti Porou: Henare Pōtae Mokena Kohere Rōpata Wahawaha Tuta Nihoniho Tā Apirana Ngata Dr Api Mahuika and of course—I'm sure he is with us today—Selwyn Parata. I know that there are many many more and I know that you people in the galleries here today have them with you in your hearts and in your minds. The great traditions of Ngāti Porou their rangatiratanga founded in tikanga make them unique as does this historic day and the agreement before this House. Ngāti Porou have always stood apart firmly rooted in their rohe secure in their whakapapa and epitomised for me in the response that goes back to the 1850s when the offer was made to the rangatira to take up the position of Māori King. His response was—and I'm going to say it in English because my pronunciation in Te Reo would mangle these magnificent words—My mountain Hikurangi does not move. It remains steadfast. My authority comes from beyond from my ancestors." So today a historic day—and I give my apologies for not being present during the pō'hiri and the signing of the agreement. Today brings into law—l-a-w—what we in Tai Rāwhiti recognise as lore—l-o-r-e. That is it recognises the continuous exercise of mana by the hapū of Ngāti Porou over their rohe. The bill sets that out clearly. In the three major clauses relating to Ngāti Porou it talks about recognising the unbroken inalienable and enduring mana of the hapū of Ngāti Porou in relation to ngā rohe moana o ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou which is held and exercised as a collective right; it provides legal mechanisms to support the expression and protection of the mana of the hapū of Ngāti Porou; and it provides certainty about the use and administration of that rohe—three critical things that recognise that continuous exercise of mana. Actually to Ngāti Porou that goes back to the beginning of time in New Zealand because of course Ngāti Porou claim that when Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga the great fisherman fished up the North Island his waka Nukataimemeha was cradled on the top of Ngāti Porou's ancestral maunga Hikurangi. So of course in the Takutai Moana Act we only talk about from 1840 but Ngāti Porou go back long before that to the beginning of time. Can I pay tribute to Matanuku Mahuika the chief negotiator and his team. There was a huge responsibility on them to have an agreement see that law disappear and then negotiate again a new agreement without giving—I know because I saw the reports—ground. I know that the second agreement was negotiated in true Ngāti Porou style with grace and dignity with a complete grasp of tikanga and lore—l-o-r-e—but with an iron fist. That's the Ngāti Porou we know and respect and love. Can I pay tribute to the patience and the good grace of the hapū of Ngāti Porou. This has been a long long journey—a 15-year journey—that you have taken and today we have arrived at this place at our destination with all that mana with all that tikanga and with all those people of the past with us in partnership as we shake hands as we sign the agreement and we go forward together recognising that each one of us has a responsibility and we need to work on it together. So I say to the hapū of Ngāti Porou: thank you. Thank you for agreeing to renegotiate what you already had agreed with a previous Government. It's almost full circle where you began with a Labour-led Government a National-led Government came in the middle and the final signing and agreement is with a Labour-led Government. Perhaps that is the way that life should be. It doesn't matter who holds the Treasury benches; the important thing is the partnership that we negotiate and manage together.Kia kaha. Kua mutu tērā. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. [Be strong. That is over. Greetings greetings greetings to you.]"