Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Twelve years—12 years—this House has had time to get this together. For 12 years these people have been resisting and doing everything at their own cost—their own hours their own dollars their own researchers their own cultural integrity—and this is what the House comes to. Labour who nationalised Māori minerals gas and petroleum without any compensation to Māori is now today arguing why they don't support us. We've had to sit here and listen to you saying we need more public input; yet there were 13000 submissions. I could tell that some of them today didn't read any of them because if they had read them they would have seen that the very oil companies who you're sticking up for today Steph were the people who actually proposed this activity too. I put to you that you're not prepared for this debate. Yet our people have been doing 12 years—12 years—on their own fighting this.You guys got in and you promised my people—when you went around you eyeballed them and you told them this would be their nuclear-free moment. You made decisions that ended that sector and you've backtracked because of polling. Backtracked—don't even bother nodding to me. You sit there and the Minister is saying comments like If we'd had more time we could have had this tracked and we would have made more time to do this. The intent of the bill wasn't clear."—rubbish! Rubbish! You could have gone back there and changed that. You could have gone to select committee and I'll be honest: I don't care who owns this bill. I don't care. Te Paati Māori hasn't come in here for kudos. We're used to you guys taking our bills and owning it; that's not what this is about. This is about you taking ownership and showing our communities that you've got their back and you haven't. What was this other kōrero we had? We had "regulatory environment". I kept hearing all through this debate that it's about inconvenience the loss of profits. Oh the royalties! Well ask our whānau—this one over here saying there are tons of opportunities in Taranaki—ask us where those opportunities are as we clean up the mess after these extractors have gone; raped and pillaged our backyard. Ask them where the royalties are because there are no rights to Trans-Tasman Resources. They have no property rights. That is such a red herring. I've never heard such "caroopa" in my life and the reality is there is no onshore connection with seabed mining. It's not even a fossil fuel. I feel insulted that I've had to sit here and listen to you all pretend you understand what's going on here—you don't. It's been insulting to our people that we've had to watch these amateurs sit here and talk about things they have no understanding of. I cannot believe—thank you. Thank you to Te Pāti Kākāriki. Thank you to you who gets it. Our intelligence as Taranaki has been insulted today. We would be better off what leaving it to these self-serving capitalists—the 2 percent who own 50 percent of our wealth—who are sitting here telling me what we need to do and what's best for Taranaki? How dare he! E kī! E kī! [Is that right?! Is that right?!]Where are we today whānau when we show the world that it's OK to protect the international waters but your own people don't matter? Your own people—a Government with the largest mandate a Government with the largest Māori caucus. And I know we get on with so much—I know we get on with so much. When I heard somebody to my right saying "And this is why we don't support you and why we won't do business with" well you remember that on 15 October because don't you dare ring me—sitting there saying to me. We come here with passion for our people. We don't come here to be apathetic and lethargic. Where is your spark and your spike—where is it? Where is your kaha for your people? I sat there and I thought to myself "What is it that you're saying? Someone said that there are property rights; someone said that seabed mining is a fossil fuel." We have just been in a debate which my people have witnessed where everyone bar one has been completely out of their depth. And if that's what we have to get to to get to an inquiry after 12 years where they have won three court cases—the New Zealand law has determined this my friends. They have already made and set the precedents and you are telling me you need more information. What could you possibly have to learn that the High Court that the Court of Appeal and that the Supreme Court hasn't already determined? What could you possibly possibly have to learn? We do a lot of work together but I am going to put it to my colleagues today particularly to my colleagues in Labour—because you know what the foreshore and seabed did to us. You know why you moved that. I put it to you that you are a real disappointment to our whānau. Don't come knocking on that door. And I'm really disappointed that we have to do this today—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Poto Williams): Order! Order! Waiata"