[Madam Speaker, greetings to you and to all of you in this House of ours this afternoon, greetings one and all. It is a great honour for me to stand and speak to this bill today. But the House looks slightly different today because the hapū of Ahuriri are not in the House to listen to the speeches about them, about their claims, and their work on this bill in the many preceding years. I know that they are in the Parliament buildings, but they are not in this Chamber. Therefore I greet you, the hapū of Ahuriri who are watching this on the television while we discuss your bill and your claims this afternoon.