To Mr Prentice, to the Crown negotiators, Mr Swain and your colleague: although there are big challenges in this part of Aotearoa and the effects of land loss, of resource loss, and of dispossession continue to linger in the socio-economic statistics amongst certain pockets of our Māori community, not only in this part of Aotearoa but in other parts, today should be regarded as a day of celebration, of jubilation, and as we remember, going forward, the names of the tūpuna who sought to do the best they could in their time under far more trying circumstances. So with these few words, we salute the efforts of those who have been the architects of the settlement, and we wish the waka going forward a great safe and prosperous journey. Kia ora tātou.