Now, if I may, I wish to give the House some context for the settlement that we are discussing and why Parliament unanimously agrees that these injustices should be acknowledged and given redress. The Crown apology begins with the dispossession, displacement, and dislocation suffered by Ngāti Maru that began with the Crown's unjustified confiscation of almost half their traditional rohe. The damage caused by the loss of Ngāti Maru lands was compounded by the divisions created within the iwi when the Crown negotiated deeds of cession as a means of securing possession of the confiscated lands to make way for European settlement. The subsequent passage of the last remaining Ngāti Maru land through the Native Land Court individualised their customary land title, making the land more susceptible to alienation and further damaging tribal cohesion. Measures taken to ameliorate growing Ngāti Maru landlessness were ineffective, and much of the tribe's remaining land later came under Public Trustee administration and was subject to perpetual leases.