Jones Shane: Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 19 February 2014. Volume:696;Page:16152. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour): I te tuatahi me kōrero ahau i roto i tō tātau Reo Māori hei tāpiri atu ki runga i ngā kupu kua puakina i waenga tonu i a tātau i tēnei ata hei tautoko i te kaupapa arā ko te waka e whakaterengia ana i raro i te ture hei hari hei hāpai i ngā taonga roa noa e tāria ana. Kātahi tēnei rā ka whakawhiwhia atu e te Karauna ki te iwi ko rātau ngā uri mai i ngā tūpuna i mamae ai i tō rātou wā i roto i ngā mahi i mētia e te Karauna. Nā reira a Te Tau Ihu tutuki noa ki tēnei taha o Te Wai-a-Raukawa Te Moana-a-Raukawa tēnā koutou. Tēnā koutou i tēnei rangi tēnei rangi whakahirahira tā te mea ko tā koutou i ōhia ai kātahi ka tutuki ki te kapu o te pepa i raro i te ture i raro nōki i te tāhūhū o tēnei Whare tō koutou whare te Whare Pāremata. Nā reira Te Tau Ihu ngā kokonga katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Firstly I must speak in our Māori language and add my sentiments to those expressed this morning amongst us to endorse the passage of this bill which is responsible for the development of long-awaited resources. At last this day the Crown has provided to the people who are descendants of the ancestors who suffered in their time through deeds imposed upon them by the Crown. We have reached the day where the tribe will soon receive these resources from the Crown. And so to those of you of Te Tau Ihu stretching across to this side of Cook Strait the Sea of Raukawa greetings to you collectively. Salutations to you on this day of great significance because that is what you collectively have hankered after and now it has been done. It is at last on the palm of the paper under the law and under the ridge pole of this House your House Parliament House. And so to you Te Tau Ihu and to all corners of the Chamber greetings to you collectively greetings.]I rise to support the earlier speakers and remind us how long this claim has been wending its way through the process. I have recited some of the history on earlier occasions and have shared the pleasure of sitting on the Māori Affairs Committee for a brief period of time during one of our visits down in Te Tau Ihu to hear the submissions.There are several elements I want to focus on in the Te Tau Ihu Claims Settlement Bill. First I want to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations theHon Chris Finlayson. I want us to focus on something that I genuinely believe will over a period of time prove to be an extremely intelligent thing to have done. I am not being facetious to the Minister. I refer here to the ability of the iwi to actually enforce their protocols.Often iwi find that once these settlements have been entered into Governments come Governments go and Ministers move on and do other things with their lives. Goodness me I can think very vividly of the time when Doug Kidd was the Minister of Fisheries—a personality not unknown to these people. I think also of Douglas Montrose Graham who irrespective of what might be said about him outside of this House I have no compunction whatsoever in saying he did a lot of the heavy lifting in the original stage of the Treaty settlement process. I recently saw him at the mate for one of our matuas of the Tai Tokerau the late Laly Haddon otherwise known in North Auckland rugby lore as the “Black Tracker”. I had no qualms whatsoever in escorting him around the marae and sitting with him on the marae in that area.But the point I am making is about cultural redress in clause 32: “The Crown must comply with a protocol while it is in force. (2) If the Crown fails without good cause to comply with a protocol the relevant trustees may subject to the Crown Proceedings Act 1950 enforce the protocol.”—if the Crown fails the relevant trustees may subject to the Crown Proceedings Act enforce the protocol.I think that in times to come that simple provision will be an injunction to the courts to ensure that these protocols which do not have the same force and standing of property rights do represent an attempt on the part of the Crown to ensure that Māori are no longer marginalised in a range of areas whether it be fisheries whether it be landscape management whether it be heritage or whether it be standing up for those cultural resources the Tau Ihu iwi feels are integral to their identity.The other thing that is important for us to emphasise today is that this claim covers an area that is provincial. We need to ensure that the Crown as it goes forward with its Māori affairs policies and economic development policies in the regions of New Zealand never overlooks the endowments and never overlooks the rights that the smaller iwi in the regions are receiving.It could have been that Te Tau Ihu in times gone by was regarded as one homogeneous group of Māori. That is not the case in this bill. This bill recognises each particular iwi just as the bill to deal with the Muriwhenua tribes—when it wends its way into the House—will recognise my grandmother’s iwi a small iwi by the name of Ngāi Takoto. I doubt it even has 1000 members although as a consequence of economic stewardship that I am sure will be skilful its numbers will grow in time.The point I am making is that it is very important to claimants that they see their particular identity not melded into let me say larger organisms. But that is not always the case. A choice was made by the Kahungunu iwi which thought the Treaty claims would be better dealt with by dismembering the broad Kahungunu iwi community into more specific parts. That is not an approach that will work with the Ngāpuhi tribe. The Ngāpuhi tribe has the largest claim outstanding as I am sure the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations will agree. That is the largest tribe with outstanding claims. It has members in excess of 125000. Whether or not they are active members or they are the great-grandchildren of our forays into Ngati Porou is another matter—that is another matter. In fact I am quite confident that a number of them are growing more confident that their whakapapa in Ngāpuhi is no longer an item of embarrassment.I would say to the Minister who has also got heritage responsibilities that Christmas Day 2014 will be 200 years since my matua Ruatara brought Samuel Marsden to Aotearoa along with our other matua Hongi Hika an unrivalled chief. The less said about that today the better.I think we need to celebrate what this group of Māori iwi have achieved. The task will not be easy to transform this into a durable flow of economic benefit but you have made your choice. The Crown has taken it as far as it believes it can and the fact that there is no more internal dissension is something the Ngāpuhi people need to learn.Given that the Ngāpuhi claim could very well be in the vicinity of $250 million if that was put on account it would earn 5 percent per year. A 5 percent yield on $250 million is about $13 million. The squabbling has gone on in the Ngāpuhi area for over 6 years. Six times 13 is not far from $80 million. No mana-munching personality in the Tai Tokerau Ngāpuhi iwi is worth $80 million. Kia ora tātou katoa.Bill read a second time.