It's with great pleasure that I stand here to take a call on the second reading of the Ngāti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill. It's been a very long journey for the iwi to get here. If we look back, although rangatira affiliated to Ngāti Hinerangi signed the Treaty of Waitangi in Tauranga in 1840, it wasn't long before the iwi was at odds with the Crown. From the 1860s onwards, Ngāti Hinerangi was constantly in battle to retain their whenua. It was in protest against the colonists' insatiable demand for land that Ngāti Hinerangi joined the Kīngitanga movement in an attempt to slow land sales, and was also involved with them in battle, alongside Kīngitanga forces, in both Taranaki and in the Waikato. Then, their warriors returned to support Tauranga Māori and participated in both the crushing defeat of the British military at the battle of Pukehinahina at Gate Pā, and also their own defeat at the battle of Te Ranga.