Kapa-Kingi MariamenoMARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tokerau): Mōrena Madam Speaker. Kia ora e te Whare. I like to think I'm going to be one of those who is listened to this morning. Mōrena tātou.I'm going to frame my kōrero from Te Tai Tokerau in terms of our experience of three waters—and the rohe spans if you're not aware from Te Rerenga Wairua tai te Atatū ki Tāmaki so that's a pretty big piece of dirt and that's where I roll.Te Tai Tokerau is particularly ticked off with this repeal and actually all the other repeals that are just rolling over us without any real debate and discussion particularly with Māori and particularly with Māori from Te Tai Tokerau. If this continues things like what happened at Waitangi with 68000 people rolling in—there's probably more to come.Te Tai Tokerau is ticked off to be honest and unhappy mistrusting and yet again isolated by this repeal process. Poverty in paradise—I want that to sink in. Poverty in paradise is where I live. This is not a pity party conversation; it is simply a fact. And when I listen to some of this discussion it just astounds me—the lack of reality. I don't know where the privileged live but let me tell you it is not where I know it is not where I live and therefore unless it's appreciated in a real way we will continue to be ignored and treated with the disregard that we already feel and have felt for a very long time.Hapū whānau marae iwi Maōri businesses Maōri providers and Maōri entities are always prepared. We're always prepared to take a risk because this is the opportunity—are they actually going to understand us? Do they really care and know about us? The general answer is no because privilege blinds and literally you can't hear us and it blinds you to the real reality of what it is for whānau in the Tai Tokerau.Yet again we're still prepared to take risks. We still think OK" and ironically three waters was one of those. Three waters was one of those and so much so that we gave ourselves a name Waipuna aa rangi. We got ourselves organised we got ourselves from Tāmaki to Te Rerenga Wairua. So you had senior senior Maōri leadership getting together and saying "OK is this the time? Is this the time that as Māori senior leadership we get together and we get ready despite the delay on the other side in some other parties? Don't know whether they want to—the other parties." We as Māori leadership got together with our iwi leaders our hapū leaders and we decided to get a structure together and we got that. And we called it Waipuna aa rangi. So we were feeling pretty pleased with how we were progressing this three waters programme.Hon Willie Jackson: How dare you do that!MARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI: I know; the audacity right? So we took the risk by agreeing to work together to fight together to organise and design together the state of infrastructure for water across the entity A rohe which reaches from Tamaki to Rerenga. We set up our structure. We even dared Willie to meet the likes of the Department of Internal Affairs team on several occasions.Hon Willie Jackson: Māoris are getting out of hand!MARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI: Exactly. I don't mind these interjections; they're quite nice.But it makes sense to me and the reason it makes sense to me is that it is understood in a very Māori way and that's the point that I often hear and heard particularly last night and the nights before—that it's not getting understood. So I want to make those points.We met with hapū we met with marae—many marae; not all 219 but a whole bunch. We didn't meet with all 31 iwi but as many as we could as we got ourselves organising together. Cyclone Gabrielle just came along and rolled us over and yet we continued to be ignored. Let me just mention the Far North District Council. There is a $660 million infrastructure deficit and no one's coming except this repeal—to just land right on the top of it. So mayor Moko Tepania wasn't in here yesterday and he wouldn't be because we met with him and we understand the reality of that Far North District Council. So when I hear this privileged conversation about well you know "There's someone throwing lawn cuttings over my gate; please somebody sort that out." we are nowhere near that. We are a rohe that is devastated by floods. We don't have enough water. When it's summer it's a drought and all of those issues. We deal with those on a daily basis.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just a note to the member that her time has expired. Would you like to make your closing comments?MARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI: Yes. In Whangaroa we still have to buy and boil our water—we have to buy it and boil it. We don't have the privilege of many others. We buy it in our shops take it home pour it into our jugs and we boil our water. What is that about? So in that regard and in all of my discussion this morning we simply cannot support this bill. We reject this bill and do not commend it to the House—please; if anyone's listening. Kia ora tātou."