Tirikatene Rino: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 05 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10818. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Ngā whakamoemiti ki a Ihowa o ngā mano matua tama wairua tapu he whakahōnore ki ngā anahera pono ko te māngai anō hei tautoko mai aianei āke nei āe. E te tini e te tā o ngā maunga whakahī o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Nau mai haere mai ki te Whare Pāremata e takatū nei. Nau mai ki “Te Ana o te Raiona”. Ka nui te harikoa o te ngākau kua hara mai tātou i tēnei wā. Nō koutou tēnei rā. Ko tēnei te rā whakahirahira harihari koa te ngākau. E aku rangatira e te āpōtoro e Doc ka nui te mihi ki a koe. Ki a koutou e te whānau tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Praise to Jehovah of the multitudes father son and the holy spirit. Honour the faithful angels. The spokesperson will support once again now and for ever yes. To the many and the elite from the illustrious mountains of Kaipara greetings and salutations to you collectively. Welcome come hither to Parliament standing here in readiness. Come hither to the “Den of the Lion”. I am full of joy that we have come here at this stage. This is your day. This is an outstanding day and the heart is rejoicing. To my esteemed elders and to the apostle Doc I am full of admiration and to you the family salutations greetings and congratulations to you all.]This is a very historic day today and I am so delighted to be able to speak at the final reading of the Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill. This is such a historic day. I think I might adopt the tone of our Minita over there Pita Sharples. We do not need to go through all the formalities. I know that I would like to acknowledge the history and the whakapapa and the significant achievements of the rangatira of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara—I have spoken a lot about that in my earlier speeches—but today is a day for celebration. It is a day to acknowledge the journey that has been taken and all of the great leaders and people who have taken Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara on this historic journey right up to today and the passage and the final passing of this bill.Just like our Minister here I would like to do a roll-call of all the marae of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara: Puatahi Arapārera Kakanui Haranui and Rēweti. Welcome to them all. It is just wonderful to have you all here. I know you might have—excuse me Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sorry; I am straying off the protocol. But it is wonderful to be here and to see you here kanohi ki te kanohi all of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara.Can I particularly acknowledge the claims committee and all those wonderful kaumātua who have awhi-ed andtautoko-ed this very big passage of the bill and the mahi and the claims to this point. In particular I would like to acknowledge Takutai Moana Wikiriwhi whom I see up there in the gallery—Āpōtoro Doc Wikiriwhi as I know him. It is so wonderful to see him here. I remember as a young lad playing my cornet for the Reo from Pōneke when we used to travel up to Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei. Uncle Doc is the hardest-working āpōtoro throughout the whole of Tāmaki. We went on many a tour of duty through the hospitals seeing rangatahi to the prisons and through a lot of the duties that we were doing I was at his side playing my horn for all of our ceremonial whakamoemitihīmene. So it is wonderful to see him here today on this celebratory day.Can I also acknowledge Naida—Naida Glavish whom I see up there. Tēnā koe e te whāea rangatira [the matriarch figure]. It was wonderful to see her just a couple of weeks ago down at Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura celebrating my cousin Mark—Tā Mark sorry—Tā Mark Solomon’s investiture. It was wonderful to see her there. Can I also acknowledge all of the other trustees—GloriaTīmotiHaahi Walker andWaataRichards—who have so amazingly led Ngāti Whātua through the passage of this settlement.I do want to take a moment because this is such a historic day and I do want to acknowledge the influential rangatira chief of Ngāti Whātua o KaiparaPaora Tūhaere. I have spoken of him before and I want to take this opportunity to speak of him again because he was the paramount leader ofNgāti Whātua o Kaipara when his uncle Apihai Te Kawau passed on. But I do acknowledge Paora Tūhaere because I would not be here in this Parliament had it not been for him because he suggested—it was his idea—that we have Māori seats in Parliament. But it was not just four Māori seats at that time; it was that if there were 50 seats for Pākehā there would be 50 for Māori. So I acknowledge his great foresight and his great leadership that we are still here today some 160-odd years later representing our Māori electorates. There are a few more of us now. There are seven of us. I would like to encourage our whānau to really get involved and get on to that option. Use the option to get on the Māori roll so we might be able to get more seats. I know through the reports yesterday that it was not looking that promising with the numbers but I have trust in our whānau that they will do the right thing and get on the Māori roll.I do acknowledge Paora Tūhaere and I also do acknowledge the history ofNgāti Whātua o Kaipara because Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara were very loyal to the Crown—very loyal to the Crown. Not one shot was fired in anger at the Crown. They were so loyal to the Crown that the Crown robbed them of their land. There was no way that Pākehā New Zealand was going to let Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara share in the growth of Auckland. I have mentioned that in my previous speeches but I do want to put it down there on the record. You would not get an iwi that was more loyal more supportive or so enthused about the future promise that Auckland offered than Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. And they were so let down. The Crown as we know failed in so many ways to protect Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara as it has done to all iwi as we have heard earlier this week with Ngāi Tūhoe in the signing of their deed of settlement and as we have spoken about earlier today with my relations from ngā iwi oTe Tau Ihu o te Waka. The Crown has failed in so many ways.Like other tribes Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara gave up land for the building of railways towns and schools. When this land was not used for its purpose the land was alienated and never returned to the original owners. That was standard modus operandi of the Crown. It is great that after the passage of time and through the Treaty settlements—which I am proud that we have been a part of when we have been in Government and also I acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Chris Finlayson for his work while being in Government—we have seen progress happening over the last 20-plus years in terms of Treaty settlements. We see the redress and the statutory recognition of sites and financial redress which are now going to flow through to Ngāti Whātua through this settlement. But I want to stress that perhaps you can have the financial packages and the commercial redress and the like but what is the most important aspect of these settlements and every iwi will agree is that it reaffirms the presence of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara the permanence that they have to their community to their whenua and to their ancestral landscape. That is very important and I am pleased that measures are being taken in this Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara Claims Settlement Bill to do that.Finally can I just acknowledge the Hon Parekura Horomia because Parekura Horomia and I we spoke at the second reading of this bill. It was the last time that he spoke in this House and I just acknowledge that. I am pleased to be able to step up here now and mihi to you all and I do acknowledge our chief Parekura Horomia. Just to conclude I would also like to give an apology from Shane Jones. He tried very hard to be here today for Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. Unfortunately he is a bit māuiui today but he promises to apologise to you. I understand he is going to apologise with crayfish atthe hākari. I will leave you to follow that up with him. Ka kitea taku kōrero i tēnei wā. Ki a koutou Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[I have found what I wanted to say now. To you Ngāti Whātua of Kaipara greetings salutations and congratulations to you all.]I commend this bill to the House.