Can I begin by acknowledging those we acknowledge and apologise to today: the Moriori people who will share this moment with us. Can I acknowledge that today in this Parliament we are reclaiming your rightful place in the history of New Zealand and the history of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands. Today we acknowledge the Moriori as the tangata whenua of the Chatham Islands and we apologise, on behalf of the Crown, for the failure to address the deeply felt and longstanding grievances of your people. We acknowledge that those failures were both actions and inactions. Acts of omission are sometimes as powerful as acts in themselves.