The state and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs recently reached an agreement to settle the 30-year dispute between the state and OHA over income and proceeds from ceded lands.

State Attorney General Mark Bennett and OHA administrator Clyde Namuo, officials representing both sides of the deal, took questions on the ceded lands deal during a Hot Seat chat today.

Under that agreement, the state will give OHA cash and land totaling $200 million to end the dispute that centers on public lands turned over to the U.S. by the Republic of Hawai'i in 1898.

The issue of ceded lands has long been an emotional issue that continues to divide the Native Hawaiian community. On Saturday, nearly 200 people spoke or submitted testimony on a bill in the Senate that would approve the settlement. Sen. Jill Tokuda, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Water and Land and Committee on Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs, says she'll pass the bill out of her committee Tuesday and move it forward to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

You can catch excerpts from today's Hot Seat session in Sunday's Focus section.

Or go to The Hot Seat to read comments from today's chat.