I do want to start my acknowledgment today by noting the Ngāti Maru lament that is outlined in the summary of the historical background, which is: "Maru Hāhā. Hāhā te whenua. Hāhā te tangata. Maru of extreme loss and breathlessness. The land is deserted. The people are gone and gasping for breath." I really hope that this process comes to represent the Crown taking its knee off your necks so that Ngāti Maru can breathe again and that this may be a point in time of a severing of a path of treachery to a path of honour, which is what I believe settlement processes could represent for us as a country. 