Ferris TākutaTĀKUTA FERRIS (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe e te Pīka.[Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]My colleagues have laid out a lot of the detail so I'm not going to labour and repeat what they've said. But let's get to the point: this bill was the result and a response to this country's most horrific terrorist act that we've ever had to suffer really. It's just a brutal piece of our history and we shouldn't just fluff around the edges of it because it's a critical piece of where this legislation came from.As I've just sat even just today at its second reading listening to the comments and the kōrero that comes out I just can't help but recognise how many times the word gangs" is used to make points relative to this piece of legislation. We shouldn't forget that the word "gangs" is being used across a number of pieces of legislation in this House. Unequivocally across all of those bits of legislation that use of the word "gangs" has been associated with a disproportionate negative effect that will be laid at the feet of te iwi Māori—and I just want to remind everyone of that because I just can't get over how easily it's just glossed over here.Speaking of glossing over we've heard from this side of the House that the select committee process was a bit of a 50:50 it was pretty good one side pretty good the other side. My view of that is that it wasn't really 50:50. That's just a shining review that it doesn't actually deserve. In as much as the chair of the Justice Committee thinks it's all good to make quips about parliamentary hunting trips as things worth discussing in this discussion I think we should—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Can I ask the member to come back to the bill please.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Yeah sure I think we should come back to the bill.So obviously Te Pāti Māori does not support this bill in the slightest. Inasmuch as under this law gang members and their so-called associates—so-called associates—a lot of the pieces of legislation including this one before this House rely on the discretion of police. It's a power that's been exercised a lot in this country for a long time and it has never favoured Māori—ever.So another colleague over there in the Justice Committee is talking about the responsibilities of MPs to be here representing their constituents. Well I can guarantee him that I'm 100 percent here representing the constituents who voted me in.Mark Cameron: Just not gangs.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Oh yeah OK we'll get to you later. Yeah just not gangs—just not gangs—yeah like the big blue gang over there or the gang of farmers up North or any bunch of people.But let me get back to the kaupapa or the kōrero. So associates and the exercise of discretion it's never been exercised favourably for Māori. Within the remit of this bill—me I'm a young man who has had to attend gang tangi. I could easily fall into the category of an associate of a gang member—easily.Mark Cameron: Well just don't have an FPO.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Yeah good on you mate. Good on you bro.Mark Cameron: We're neither of those things. Just talk about the FPOs maybe that's a good idea.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Have you ever been to a gang tangi? Have you ever had to go to one? Oh well ka pai. Kia kaha ki a koe. Kia kaha.So effectively creating a double standard leaving Māori as second-class citizens in their own country the country in which they're the principal sovereign they're the principal constitutional rights holder—this is the treatment.So to wrap up I want to bring this House back to the reality that this House is responsible to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It is responsible to its constitutional partner te iwi Māori; in fact te iwi Māori are the sponsor of the Crown's constitutional position in this country and they deserve more respect out of this House and its laws."