DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of ACT in support of the first reading of the Maniapoto Claims Settlement Bill. Like so many Treaty settlements over the past few decades, this bill is nearly the culmination of a process which involves many thousands of hours' work by hundreds of people to find peace for wrongs of the past, and it is an extraordinary process that our country has committed to over the last 36 years in order to try to correct some of the less desirable parts of our country's history. The fact that we do that is, in my view, an example of New Zealand exceptionalism. Not perfection; it doesn't extinguish the many wrongs that have occurred, but actually no country in history has ever been able to make history perfect. In fact, no country has been able to make the present perfect. And while we have great hope, we may not manage the future either. But what these settlements mean is that we acknowledge, and then redress to the extent possible within the practical realities of modern life, the wrongs of the past. And that's certainly what this bill seeks to do for claimants in Maniapoto.