Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā tēnā tātou katoa. I want to talk about four things. I want to talk about the community and voluntary sector charitable organisations. I want to talk about a couple of the submissions that were made to the Government Administration Committee. I was not on that select committee for this bill but I have read through those submissions. I want to reference one of those submissions to another bill before this House and I want to talk about clause 13 which has been struck out altering section 61 of the principal Act. Across our country charitable organisations play a very important role in society. The community and voluntary sector is one that the Government should be supporting. We have noted and noticed from feedback from the community from the voluntary sector and from charitable organisations that they are feeling quite unsupported really. I think through this bill there is a potential for them to feel even more unsupported and I will get to that later. I want to talk about submissions and one in particular that has been made by Te Korowai o Ngāruahine Trust. This trust is a post-settlement governance entity for the settlement of the Ngāruahine iwi. Their bill is before the House right now awaiting its third reading. I want to talk about this not only because it is in my electorate but also because I think the House needs to be reminded that participation by iwi post-settlement governance entities is a really important part of our democratic system. These are the organisations that have been mandated by their iwi to represent their people's interests in Aotearoa. So they have a mandate and I took particular note of their submission on this bill. I want to talk further about their settlement though because within every single settlement—and I want to remind the House of this—the Crown acknowledges breaches of the Treaty and then it goes on to apologise for those breaches. My point related to this bill is that when the Crown reaches an agreement with settlement groups—with iwi—it is really important that we do not go and pass legislation that impacts on them. What is the point of making an acknowledgment—what is the point of making an apology and then putting up some legislation that potentially hurts them? So that is why I am talking about this particular group and its ability now to engage at this level even though its settlement has not yet gone through. I want to acknowledge all of the submitters including this one. I come to clause 13 which has been amended and basically taken out. It was to amend section 61 of the principal Act with a very small alteration but the select committee as I understand it heard new information about the impact of making that change so it was removed. Remembering that this bill originated from the Statutes Amendment Bill that is before Parliament and that if only one member objects to any part of that Statutes Amendment Bill then that cannot pass so this part of that bill was separated out into its own bill. I want to make the point in reference back to what I have already said that it would not be appropriate now that this change has been made by the select committee for clause 13 to actually come back through a Supplementary Order Paper. That is my main point around all of this—I want to say to the House that that would be inappropriate in my opinion. This is a very short piece of legislation. There is not a lot in it so those four points that I wanted to make—I wanted to acknowledge the charitable organisations and the work that they do in Aotearoa; I want to acknowledge those submissions in particular the one from Te Korowai o Ngāruahine Trust; I want to reference it back to their legislation to the acknowledgments of the breaches of the Treaty to them and to the apology that they will receive through that legislation; and I object to any future inclusion of clause 13 of this bill. Nō reira e Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā tātou.