Rurawhe AdrianRt Hon ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour): Tēnā ra tātou e te Whare. I just want to start off by acknowledging the 230 employees at Winstone's in the Ruapehu District who are about to lose their jobs. I just want to send our thoughts to all of them. They'll be going through some serious issues right now and I think they should be acknowledged. So 70 percent of them are Māori. A great deal of them are mana whenua from Ngāti Rangi and I just want to acknowledge what they're going through.I want to reach out to my colleague Suze Redmayne as well and support what she's trying to do. I support Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as well. They are constituents within that electorate. It's really a situation where I believe that the Government needs to get past all the rhetoric and actually get in there and do something positive for that region. I would encourage the Minister for Regional Development to put his hand in there. I know he's made some statements and I encourage him to continue with that. I think a solution for that area is really critically important.Just a few stats: Mercury Energy has increased its profits by 159 percent. When we were in Government the cost of electricity there at that plant made up 15 percent of their cost; today it's 40 percent. Something is not right and we need a Government to actually address that issue otherwise those 230 families will be dealing with the issues that the Hon Louise Upston talked about. We're talking about an area that is quite deprived in the first place. They don't have the locally available support always. Turning up to a seminar on employment that might be a bit of a struggle. Before they know it the traffic is probably going to be red. We should try to avoid that situation. So I say to the Government actually stop those sorts of cuts. We don't need the chaos that's been created across a whole lot of areas.I also want to acknowledge the Horizons Regional Council. They've just made a decision to continue with Māori constituencies. I want to acknowledge former MP Jono Naylor for leading that discussion there and the chair Rachel Keedwell. I won't quote her because two of the words that she used about the Government would be surely ruled out of order and I don't want to trigger anyone opposite.Talking about being triggered it seems that some people get triggered by history. For example the Hon Willie Jackson wrote an article about the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins accepting that Māori did not cede sovereignty. Does that mean the Government does not have sovereignty? No. What it means is that the way in which sovereignty was achieved was not through Māori ceding it—that's the point. And that is history. I find it astounding that members can get up here and deny that that happened when we through Treaty settlements—dozens of them that have come through that say exactly that. I actually think it's time for this country to have a grown-up conversation around it. Ditch the bill on principles of the Treaty and actually talk about the relationship that we should be encouraging across our whole nation.Talk about triggering I find it interesting that some people just don't want to talk about it. Members in certain select committees decide No we don't want to have a briefing from the Waitangi Tribunal."Hon Kieran McAnulty: Really?Helen White: Really?Rt Hon ADRIAN RURAWHE: Yes it is shocking. I mean let's get enlightened about things and we might actually learn something from why they did the report that they did on Treaty principles because I think that this House could learn a lot from that. Through that bill that has not yet come to the House this is going to cause division across our whole country. So I mihi to the Rt Hon Chris Hipkins for actually setting the platform for us to be able to have a unified grown-up conversation around it. So Mr Speaker thank you."