Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): Thank you, Madam Speaker. You know, it may not surprise the House to know that National supports this bill. Indeed, over all my time in Parliament we have supported every single historic Treaty settlement claim bill that has come to the House. There's very simple reason for that, and that is that we support fulsomely the historic Treaty settlement process, a process, indeed, that the Bolger National Government fundamentally—there was some work before that but fundamentally—started, and I, as Māori man, as a New Zealander, believe that there were past wrongs that we need to right. There will be some, a very small group in New Zealand, who pooh-pooh that and don't take that view—the sort of the Hobson's Pledge view of life. But the reality is, if we go back to—not the last century; the century before that—the 1850s, the 1860s, the 1870s, there was wholesale land confiscation in this country and Māori iwi and hapū had their lands, had other taonga, taken from them through trickery, sometimes through force, through war, and that needs to be put right. 