Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Tēnā koe. Ngā mihi ki ngā whānau o te iwi o Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki i tēnei rā. He rā motuhake ēnei mō koutou katoa. Ā kei konei mātou hei whakanui ki a koutou i te mutunga o tā koutou haere roa i roto i tēnei tukunga whakataunga Tiriti.[Greetings to the families of the tribe of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki on this day. These are special days for you all. And we are here to celebrate you at the end of your long journey in this Treaty settlement.]I stand to take a call on the third and final reading of the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Bill. I've stood in the House on many occasions to do this to a number of iwi in their third reading and every time I stand here I feel humbled that I have been part and parcel of helping to settle a grievance that happened so long ago for all of you. I stand here humbled that your mokopuna will benefit from the mahi that their mātua that their kaumātua did years ago to this day and to the future. So I am very very happy that we've come to this conclusion but also sad that some of the kaumātua that started this journey for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki are not able to be here physically but are here in wairua.I just want to carry on a little bit more about our select committee because it did work very hard with the Minister then the Hon Chris Finlayson to actually bring forward your bill. But as you heard in the House previously there were a few issues there that needed to be ironed out and I'm pleased that that has happened today. So of the 13 submissions that came to the Māori Affairs Committee we heard six and then from there we were able to move forward.I want to acknowledge the iwi negotiators. I think that you've done an amazing job especially with our Crown negotiators. That is not an easy thing to do to sit there and go through all the bits and pieces that are most dearest to your hearts. However we have got here and working through the advisers and the parliamentary counsel—as the Hon Andrew Little spoke about in his contribution—we have been able to get to a settlement where whilst we might not all be happy about it at least we're here and we can move forward.I want to add thanks to the whānau of Ngāi Tai for your patience—I did say that in my opening—and it has been a patience that I'm sure you would have got quite frustrated about just as frustrated as we get sometimes. However I think that today is a celebration for you all and I know that we're all very happy that we've got to this place. Along with the cultural redress that was discussed here just before my contribution and the commercial redress and financial redress I was pleased to see that half a million dollars had already been received by the iwi to actually support you in wherever it is that you wanted to invest that fund. So I'm really pleased that we were able to do that. My contribution isn't going to be long because I want to—and I looked on your website. I looked into your history—my own research—and I wanted to add to my contribution and commit to the Hansard what I found to do with what my colleague Nuk Korako started on about Tapuwae. I want to commit this particular part to Hansard if you will bear with me as I read it out: Tapuwae-Onuku. We of the sacred footprint in the earth. Ngāi Tai have a long unbroken genealogy and occupation of their lands waters and seas extending from the aboriginal Polynesian settlers pre-dating the Hawaiki immigrants. The symbol best describing this is the taonga currently residing in the Auckland Museum being a fossil human footprint dating from the founding eruption of Rangitoto 600 years ago and discovered on Motutapu island. A place long held sacred to Ngāi Tai for their many waahi tapu and association with the Tupua at that place. "Tapuwae-Ariki. The footprints of the high-born. Smaller footprints remind us of the many descendants & mokopuna (riki) who have crossed this region over that long period of time. Larger footprints remind us of our high-born chiefly lines (ariki) and ancestors. These remind us how important those leaders were and their value as navigators through our history. "Tapuwae-Otai. The footprints on our foreshores. Even our tribal name Ngā Tai resounds as the story of a maritime people unencumbered by any normal sense of boundaries. Where our vision was only limited by our imagination. It was the same vision honed by thousands of years of exploration facing the challenge of crossing the world's greatest ocean for survival. These descendants of Maui today carry his DNA and values into the new world of Ngāi Tai true inheritors and worthy recipients of a boundless legacy left by the ancients and their numerous descendants." I have recited that to go into Hansard for your mokopuna for when they come to this House into the future to research your history and to research this settlement. I wanted this to be something that they would find that they would connect with. I wish Ngāi Tai the very best for their future. I am proud and I commend the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Claims Settlement Bill to the House. Kia ora."