Coffey Tāmati; Salesa JennyTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o tēnei Whare. Ko wai rā ko wai rā te tangata nei? Ko Tū pea ko Rongo pea. Aku mataara tahia te kī tahia te wānanga he aro mākite he aro māwhiti. Ko māwhiti kura ko māwhiti ora. Ko te wehi ki te whare he whare mātahi e Hui-te-rangiora e tū ake nei ki runga. Uhi wero haramai te toki. Haumi e hui e tāiki e.Te Whakatōhea kei runga rā tēnā rawa atu koutou. Koutou kua tae ā-tinana mai kua tae i tawhiti kua tae i tata nei rā te mihi ki koutou katoa.[Thank you to the Speaker of this House. Who who is this person? Perhaps it is Tū perhaps it is Rongo. With vigilance I sweep clear the statements made I sweep clear the place of learning a perceptive insight a transcendent understanding. It is noble transcendence it is transcendent wellbeing. The respect to the hall a hall like no other Hui-te-rangiora that's tall. Safeguard challenge the adze comes forward. It coalesces it assembles it is bound.Te Whakatōhea who are up there many greetings to you. You who have come here in person come from afar come from near I greet all of you.]I had a colleague say to me on the way into the House today Where's Te Whakatōhea from?" I said "Ōpōtiki"! And do you know what it just made me realise that your story is still needing to be told. Amongst those that know Ōpōtiki amongst those that know the injustices of the past amongst those from the Eastern Bay—the Waiariki rohe—we know those injustices. Today we've got a document which is going to pass into legislation which is going to tell your stories. And your stories will be shared in the kura all around Aotearoa so that they know exactly what happened to your iwi. They will know the impact that the Crown had in stifling and putting a spanner in the works of the development of Te Whakatōhea. And that's a great thing because it's only through information—as my colleague from the Green Party Jan Logie said previously it's only through talking about it out loud that we will get a bit of better understanding around Aotearoa for the plight of Ngāi Māori katoa puta noa i Aotearoa. So I encourage you to get out there and start telling your story because it's a doozy and it's sad—and as you sit here today and you think about 20 30 years ago your koroua your kuia that started this journey who are no longer here because they've passed on: we need to honour them and the decisions that they made. Willie was right when he talked about it before. They made some big bold decisions to step out at the time to challenge the deed that was on the table that the Crown had put up and rightly so. Look at the offer that's there now; they have been vindicated in that decision. Some of them aren't here to tell that story but the right thing was done and for better or worse you're here today telling that story. We're all sharing the story too because we will all go out into our communities—and some colleagues will be better off because they'll know where Ōpōtiki is—but we will all be there to share in this journey. While the work will be done by the Māori Affairs Committee in the new Parliament actually the fine-tooth combing of this legislation will occur—and some whānau who are out there who maybe don't support this settlement they will come forward and they will have their voices heard too because we owe it to the process to be able to try and make this the best piece of legislation that it can be. I heard today at Pipitea Marae Te Kāhautū jumped up and talked about hei rā rongoā and I really like that and that's stuck in my head because this is a day of healing for you as the tribe as the iwi as the mana whenua in Ōpōtiki; it is a day of healing for you and I think that's really really appropriate. I love seeing some of our babies up there in the gallery and some of our young ones our tamariki—and you Nan and you and you. I love seeing some of our young ones here because I see some of our older ones here and I think what will this journey look like in another 20 or 30 years' time? And some that are sitting here in this gallery might not be around then and the baton will be passed on to some of these younger ones that are sitting here. And you think that you've just got a free ride to Wellington? No there's a little hook in that invite for you rangatahi mā that actually you are on this journey officially—your ticket into here today hooks you into that process. So may you look and learn and listen and understand this place because it's really important that you do. The sooner you wrap your head around how this place operates and how it ticks and how it works the sooner you can start outsmarting the system. I'd like to think that at the start of this Treaty settlement process for all of our iwi there was a lot of good faith and a lot of aspiration in their heart for this process and you will carry those aspirations as well as you travel into the future. And aspiration is what it's all about because it was your rangatira that signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It was your rangatira that signed up to the hope and the aspiration that was contained in that document. And yeah it's the Crown's bad for what happened then. The Crown did a disservice to Māori all around Aotearoa by not fulfilling the promises in Te Tiriti. I truly believe that our rangatira that signed that Treaty went into it in good faith and thought that good things would come. Well it's taken a while but good things are coming and you're here today and we just need to never forget what happened there—but we need to start charting a pathway into the future. And our young ones that are here: you are the key to that. Our old ones that are here today—older ones that are here today—it's your job to pass on some of that; some of those stories the stories of hurt; the stories of pain but lift our young ones up so that they can carry on the journey over and above today. This is just the start though. Even after the third reading in the House when you're all released and the legislation becomes Government law it will just be the start. So to you Vaughan the new chair of Te Tāwharau o Te Whakatōhea good luck. Your people are there. You've been on the journey; you've been put into that position so kia kaha e hoa. I think about the good things since I came into Parliament in 2017 the amount of times as a member of Parliament around our rohe that I've been up to Ōpōtiki to hustle for the mussel factory to hustle for the harbour development to cut the ribbon on the mussel factory to watch the progress of the harbour development the houses that have been built up there just the goodwill that's been shown by our Government—I feel as though I can stand here proudly. Whether it was with New Zealand First as that coalition Government or whether it's now as part of our Labour Government I feel as though I can stand here proudly and I can go to the Caltex to fill up my car in Ōpōtiki and go to the bakehouse and get my scone and feel as though I can look whānau in the eye and actually say that we've done as well as we could have done in the short time that we've been in Government for the good people of Ōpōtiki for Te Whakatōhea. And the settlement is another part of that process and another one of the wins because we should also not allow ourselves to get dragged down into the negative stuff because there's a lot of negative stuff and you can go down into that negative whirlpool if you choose to—but you owe it to your tūpuna you owe it to the rangatira who signed Te Tiriti on your behalf. You owe it to our kuia and kaumātua who aren't here and our kuia and kaumātua who are here to be able to move forward with positivity in your heart and do the best job with the tools that you've got. This is a big day for you and I want to acknowledge you. I love the quote that was given earlier at Pipitea as well: "May this be the start of an honest relationship". Te Whakatōhea me te Karauna mahi tahi.Ki a koutou katoa kua tae mai nei ki te tautoko i tēnei kaupapa whakahirahira rawa atu nei rā te mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tāwharautia Te Whakatōhea. [Te Whakatōhea and the Crown working together.To those of you who have arrived here to support this very important work I acknowledge you. Thanks and greetings protect Te Whakatōhea.]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a split call. I call on the Hon Gerry Brownlee for five minutes."