The Hauraki Settlement Overlapping Claims Inquiry Report : WAI 2840

This report of the Hauraki Settlement Overlapping Claims Inquiry,which follows an urgent hearing held in Wellington in April 2019.At the heart of this report are allegations by four claimant groups thatthe Crown breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi through theflawed overlapping claims policies, processes, and practices it adopted whennegotiating collective and individual settlement deeds with Hauraki iwi. Theclaimants say, as a result, Hauraki iwi were incorrectly offered redress withinthe claimants rohe. The claimants contend existing and potential settlementswere thus undermined, their mana whenua and mana moana rightscompromised, and their rangatiratanga and tikanga diminished.The claimants are all large, mandated representative bodies that are (orhave been) negotiating their own settlements with the Crown, often in parallelwith the Hauraki negotiations. They include two Tauranga Moana iwi andNgatiwai, whose respective experiences of the Hauraki settlement negotiationshave much in common.