However, the dreams of Ngāti Maru were also expressed and felt by us, the Māori Affairs Committee, in our online discussions. The longstanding complaints of Ngāti Maru arose from the plunder and thus the withdrawal as a result Crown confiscation of half of their original lands in the 1860s. Some of the other speakers spoke about this part, as well as the Taranaki Wars and we all know of the refugees of Parihaka and its effects on Ngāti Maru when their land was confiscated.