Luxton CameronCAMERON LUXTON (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise on this third reading. I was able to speak on the second reading of the Whakatōhea Claims Settlement Bill and I talked a lot about the history in there but I want to start with how important it is to have an apology written down in a bill such as this. That really does mean that a side takes ownership of what had happened—that the Crown agrees about what had happened and the responsibility that the Crown had for these historical travesties that took place. This has been a long time coming as we've heard the other members of the House speaking tonight say but it has been a long journey that Whakatōhea has had to take in multiple iterations to seek justice. I am proud to be speaking on the third reading for the ACT Party in support of this bill to give our shoulder to your effort of seeking justice.As I say it's been a long time in the history of what had happened in the Ōpōtiki district and the surrounds. As I said in my second reading these stories were something that I'd heard from down the coast where I grew up in Papamoa Kuhawaea and I knew some of the stories but to have it laid out in the narrative as it is in this bill so that you can actually see what was done and the hurt that was caused and really understand why an apology is the least that can be done.On Saturday I drove across up the Motueka Gorge and drove through the whenua that is that of Whakatōhea. I drove through in the early morning and saw the beautiful sunrise and the stars and the moon and the hills and the green grass. It is a paradise and it was a paradise in 1864 and it was burnt in 1865 1866 and for 180 years after. To lose a connection with such an amazing place such a beautiful place and such a part of you must only hurt. This bill does not return all of this. It doesn't go near addressing as the previous speaker Marama Davidson said a full compensation. It's only a token of what could be done but I hope that the things inside this bill—as crass as it is—the commercial settlement and the ability to rebuild an economy base and a business and a future for your people that brings people back to the land that is yours to have a reconnection to take part in that beautiful place and that paradise that is the whenua that was taken away. The land is a gorgeous place and you're a gorgeous people to be so gracious in accepting an apology.I hope that future generations will look back at what was done tonight—as the member Adrian Rurawhe had said I hope we look back and are proud of what the Government and Whakatōhea have agreed and that people feel that they are being addressed going forward in perpetuity; people feel that the past has been accounted for if not paid but accounted; they've been acknowledged but we can actually look forward to a future in Te Moana o Toi to a place where we've got all the abundance that God's gift of our land can give and that we no longer treat it as people have in the past but again treat it as people treated it in the great past.I look forward to future drives through your rohe seeing what Whakatōhea can do seeing how Ōpōtiki and the district can thrive and Whakatōhea you're going to be an essential core undivided part of that. I'm still a young man I hope and I'm looking forward to being an old man and seeing what you can do. So thank you very much.