When these matters come before the House—and this is a joint redress bill to those previous Treaty settlement matters that have been locked in under the deeds of settlement, but this is a history lesson for New Zealanders, also. The people of the tribal and the hapū areas who are here today are but a representation of a small part, because there are many of your forbears who are present in you today and, importantly, these bills are also about moving forward into the future—the aspirations and the hopes to be fulfilled. 