Goldsmith Paul; Kuriger BarbaraTE PIRE WHAKATUPUA MŌ TE KĀHUI TUPUA/TARANAKI MAUNGA COLLECTIVE REDRESS BILLFirst ReadingHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I present a legislative statement on Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill. SPEAKER: Members will respectfully leave the House in silence. Kua tāngia taua tauākī ā-ture i raro i te mana o te Whare ā ka kitea ki te pae tukutuku a te Pāremata. That legislative statement is published under the authority of the House and can be found on the Parliament website.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: I move That Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Māori Affairs Committee to consider the bill.Tihei mauri ora. E te Atua nōu te korōria. Te Whare e tū nei tēnā koe. Te papa i waho nei tēnā koe. Te mana whenua o tēnei rohe kei te mihi. E ngā mate haere haere haere. Haere ki te wāhi ngaro haere haere. E te hunga ora tēnā tātou katoa.E Koro Taranaki tēnā koe. E te Kāhui Tupua e mihi ana.[The breath of life. O God yours is the glory. The House that stands here I greet you. The land outside I greet you. The host iwi of this region I acknowledge you. To the dearly departed pass on pass on rest in peace. Go on to the place of the unseen pass on pass on. To the living greetings to all of us.Sire Taranaki greetings. To the Clan of the Powerful greetings.]Ngā Iwi o Taranaki thank you for making the journey from across the motu to join us in Wellington for this significant milestone. I'm honoured to host you here in Parliament particularly your negotiators who have worked tirelessly to craft arrangements befitting your tupuna Taranaki maunga. Welcome. I acknowledge the members of Ngā Iwi o Taranaki in the gallery this afternoon and we join them in remembering their leaders and loved ones who have passed on before they were able to bear witness to today's milestone. The arrangements within the bill are attributed to the dedication of those individuals who have worked so tirelessly to finally see justice after all of these years.I acknowledge the Hon Chris Finlayson who signed the terms of negotiation with Ngā Iwi o Taranaki in 2017 and began the process of negotiation. I also acknowledge my immediate predecessor the Hon Andrew Little who concluded negotiations last year after six years of discussion. I acknowledge the previous Ministers of Conservation who have been part of these negotiations since the beginning. This Parliament will continue a bipartisan effort towards Treaty negotiations. Given the significance of this bill for all New Zealand it is my honour to begin today's reading. Today's reading marks another milestone for the eight iwi that make up Ngā Iwi o Taranaki in their journey to right the wrongs of the past: Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi Ngāruahine Ngāti Maru Ngāti Mutunga Ngāti Ruanui Ngāti Tama Taranaki Iwi and Te Atiawa. Through the eight individual settlements for the iwi of Taranaki the Crown promised it would return to negotiate collective redress over their maunga. Today is a key step towards the Crown fulfilling that commitment.The relationship between Ngā Iwi o Taranaki and the Crown in the past has been characterised by the loss of land life and identity. These arrangements acknowledge this hurt. For the Crown the most solemn part is the apology to Ngā Iwi o Taranaki. The Crown formally and publicly recognises the hardship and heartache it has caused your whānau and hapū and recognises the resilience of your iwi in the face of such adversity. We must acknowledge the hurt that has been caused by past wrongs so that we can look to the future to support iwi to realise their own aspirations and opportunities.I understand that Ngā Iwi o Taranaki asked that the Crown apology not be read out at the signing of Te Ruruku Pūtakerongo—the Taranaki Maunga collective redress deed—in September last year. The reading of the Crown's apology is a significant moment for Ngā Iwi o Taranaki and the Crown. It's a responsibility I will take very seriously at the point where Ngā Iwi o Taranaki wish for the apology to be read. The apology will not be read today. The Crown apology builds on the understanding Ngā Iwi o Taranaki and the Crown have reached about our shared history. It will reflect on that history in my speech to support the third reading of the bill. Today I will outline the arrangements for the record. At the core these arrangements will recognise the mountains within the national park as a legal personality to be named Te Kāhui Tupua. The land of Egmont National Park will also be vested in Te Kāhui Tupua. Once the land is owned by Te Kāhui Tupua the national park will be renamed Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki—the highly regarded and treasured lands of Taranaki. The highest mountain will also be granted a name change to a sole te reo name Taranaki maunga. Importantly these arrangements preserve the land as a national park meaning that the public will continue to have freedom of entry and access. This is important given the number of New Zealanders that respect and enjoy the beauty of the maunga. Scaling the peak has been a rite of passage for many a mountaineer.Furthermore the Department of Conservation will continue its operational management role with Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki. However within the national park all decision making will be guided by a set of core values known as Ngā Pou Whakatupua which represent the essence of Te Kāhui Tupua and reflect the cultural spiritual ancestral and historical relationships between Ngā Iwi o Taranaki and Te Kāhui Tupua. These values will sit alongside the core purposes of the National Parks Act.The arrangements include the establishment of Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi as a statutory body to act as the human face and voice of the legal person. This board will be made up of 50 percent Crown and 50 percent iwi appointees. Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi will also perform key statutory functions in relation to the national park including development of the national park management plan. The arrangements will include the ability for Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi to establish an asset management company to manage any assets owned by Te Kāhui Tupua other than the national park land. Along with the change of the ownership of the national park land certain Crown-owned minerals of high cultural significance to Ngā Iwi o Taranaki will be owned by the legal person Te Kāhui Tupua. The Taranaki Māori Trust Board will also be dissolved as part of these arrangements. A new entity known as Te Tōpuni Ngārahu will instead fulfil statutory functions for these arrangements on behalf of Ngā Iwi o Taranaki. Finally these arrangements provide for the repeal of the Mount Egmont Vesting Act 1978 which has been a significant source of pain for all uri of Taranaki.It is the Crown's wish that through these arrangements it can restore its honour and atone for the injustices it has inflicted on Ngā Iwi o Taranaki. No settlement can ever compensate for the true measure of what Ngā Iwi o Taranaki have lost; all that they have suffered cannot be remedied. However through these arrangements the Crown takes a step closer to lifting the burden of Ngā Iwi o Taranaki's heartache and begins to build and reinforce the foundations of a relationship based on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We're here today to advance these arrangements which will take Ngā Iwi o Taranaki forward while recognising the past. Ngā Iwi o Taranaki there are still a few steps left to walk. Today is the first reading of three. I look forward to hosting you here back again to support the passage of your legislation through the House. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Ko te pātai kia whakaaetia te mōtini.[The question is that the motion be agreed to.]