Rurawhe Adrian: Taranaki Iwi Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Taranaki Iwi Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 15 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9757. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te W’are. Āe e kī ana te korero: “He puke ao tā Kahurangi he rua tā Taranaki he pou tā Maru W’akatare he pou ‘oki tā tēnei w’akatipuranga.” Ko Taranaki Te Maunga ko Taranaki Te Iwi ko Taranaki Te Tangata e kore e pau te ika ūnahi nui ti ‘ei mauri ora!Otirā kei te ‘aere tonu te reo poroporoaki ki a rātou mā te tini me te mano kua hinga mai nā puta noa te ro’e o Taranaki. Otirā e tika ana kia tuku atu te reo poroporoaki ki a rātou katoa nō reira e oki e moe e moe ā kāti mō tēnā!E tika tonu kia tuku mihi atu ki ngā uri o Taranaki Iwi ā nō reira ki a koutou kua tae mai ngā hapū o Taranaki Iwi a Ngāti Haumea Ngāti Haupoto Ngāti Kahumate Ngāti Māhanga-ā-Tairi Ngāti Moeahu Ngāti Tamarongo Ngāti Tara me Ngāti Tūhekerangi koutou katoa anei ahau e tuku mi’i atu ki a koutou i tae mai ki te w’akarongo ki te pānuitanga tuata’i o te pire nei. Nō reira nau mai ‘aere mai w’akatau mai![And thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. Yes the saying goes like this: “Kahurangi has a worldly hillock Taranaki has a chasm Maru W’akatare has a pillar and so has this generation.” Taranaki is the mountain Taranaki is the tribe Taranaki is the man and will never perish for they are like a tough scaled fish; behold the breath of life!The farewell tributes continue to them the myriad the thousandswhohave fallen throughout the region but at the same time it is fitting that they are all accorded a farewell; so rest sleep and slumber. Let us leave that there.It is right that the descendants of the Taranaki tribe are welcomed and so to you the subtribes of the Taranaki tribe who have arrived here—Ngati Haumea Ngāti Haupoto Ngāti Kahumate Ngāti Māhanga-ā-Tairi Ngāti Moeahu Ngāti Tamarongo Ngāti Tara and Ngāti Tūhekerangi; all of you—I welcome you who have arrived here to listen to the first reading of this bill. So welcome welcome and greetings.]I too want first of all to acknowledge the speech from the Minister. He has outlined some of the historical account in the very short time that we have available so I want to just merely rather than repeating that endorse the words that he has said.Like the previous bill the historical account is somewhat sad reading but I stand again to acknowledge all of the things that are in that historical account. I want to also point out to the House that that is a negotiated historical account. From my experience of being part of a Treaty claim you do not always get what the claimants want inside that historical account. No doubt at the appropriate time if that is the case for Taranaki iwi they will have the opportunity to have their say perhaps through the select committee process on those issues that may not represent the magnitude of the breaches of the Treaty from their perspective. I think that is important for us to be mindful of—that this is a negotiated historical account.But I do want to acknowledge all of the things that are in that historical account. I cannot begin to imagine the intergenerational and historical trauma that is borne out by the generation of today which bears those Treaty breaches. I want to acknowledge just how difficult that is and as I said in the debate on the Te Atiawa bill this iwi makes a significant gift to the people of New Zealand by accepting this settlement. It is but a fraction as Kelvin Davis pointed out in his speech in the Te Atiawa debate. It is but a fraction of the value of what was lost.But more important than that—why would you do it? Why would an iwi settle for maybe 1 or 2 percent of the value of what they lost? I have been in a position to ask myself that. The only reason you would do it is for the future generations so that future generations can have the opportunities that were denied to our parents grandparents and great-grandparents through the process of colonisation through the process of raupatu through all of those processes that were totally foreign to our people and denied us being full citizens of our country. So that is why you would do it I think.I have read some of the press releases or interviews from Te Kāhui o Taranaki Trust and they are very positively focused. They are focused on the future. They are focused on how things can be improved for future generations. So I acknowledge the people of Taranaki iwi and the settlement trust for their tenacity in getting to this day which is 1 day out from a very significant date which the Minister has pointed out.I continue to acknowledge the work that has been done by the trust but I also want to acknowledge the negotiators Jamie Tuuta Mahara Okeroa Wayne Mulligan and Tokatūmoana Walden. Tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou e kaha ana ki te ma’i i ēnei mahi.[I acknowledge you who worked hard at these tasks.]It is not an easy path to navigate the pathway of the settlement process. There is a lot to contend with. I did it once and I think Jamie has done it twice. I do not think I would have the stamina to do it twice. I particularly mihi to you Jamie.The Minister also pointed out some of the mechanisms that are within this Treaty settlement bill. There are 25 statutory acknowledgments. I just want to touch on that mechanism. I think the best part about the statutory acknowledgment of those 25 sites is that any person from Taranaki iwi any whānau any hapū can attend any one of a number of processes including the Resource Management Act processes and quote the statutory acknowledgment as part of their connection to that site. That is an important mechanism. I do wish that it was for a longer period. But I understand that the very first ones were for 20 years and so every one since then has been for 20 years. I do not want to take up too much of the House’s time otirā [although] I want to just acknowledge the Taranaki iwi. Nō reira kāore e roa tēnei tū oti noa e tika ana kia mi’i atu ki a koutou mō ō koutou kaha kia mahia ēnei mahi kia whakaae ki tēnei pire nō reira tēnā koutou ā tēnā tātou katoa.[Therefore this call will not be prolonged but it is right that your efforts to do these tasks and to approve this bill are acknowledged. So well done and congratulations to you and to us all.]