Davidson MaramaIn CommitteeDebate resumed.Part 1 Amendments to Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 (continued)MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): This has been a rather hefty vigorous debate tonight. All sorts of things have been flying across the Chamber including from the member David Seymour about me and my speeches. I have not once chosen to stand and take offence at any of them because this is a vigorous debate and I am up for it including right now. And actually after all of this all I was going to say and suggest to Mr David Seymour was that he do what I do which is completely ignore him. Jono Naylor: But you didn't. You didn't ignore him.MARAMA DAVIDSON: No no the only way I found out about what he said about me is that I got tweeted it. I got tweeted it. I found out later on what the member had said about me because people were hilariously laughing at it. So that is how I found out. Other than that my advice is that what I do is ignore him.So I will just carry on from there and say that what I wanted to outline in this contribution what I have got left is that I wanted to acknowledge the Ihumātao campaign against this special housing area (SHA) and support what my tungāne my colleague Peeni Henare of Tāmaki Makaurau has said. What I want to go back to very very strongly is that the Ihumātao community and the land it is trying to protect is right adjacent to some incredible ancient stone archaeological sites—incredible. The land that was proposed for this SHA—Part 1 of this bill extends the fast tracking. So we have to remember that that was confiscated land. That was confiscated land.The Ihumātao campaign to oppose this SHA this special housing area under the original legislation—I went to the Auckland Council governance meetings as well as the select committee meetings and listened to the presentation from the Ihumātao campaigners about protecting their land. You know what happened: both the council hearings and the parliamentary select committee hearings—across the House across the parties—agreed that this was a bit of a mistake this one. The approval for this one was a bit of a sham and there was sympathy across all of the parties for the muck up in this particular legislation.So I did want to bring the Ihumātao community and the people into the Committee tonight under Part 1 of this legislation because—too late too late—there was even sympathy and agreement across the parties and at Auckland Council. See this is what happens when you fast track the information. If Auckland Council had known properly and had all the information in front of it it admits that it would have made a different decision. This is what happens and can happen with this fast-tracked legislation and this is what I wanted to put to the Committee in respect of Part 1 of this bill. So they all admitted this and had some sympathy.I actually want to acknowledge that Nick Smith went to this community. He did. He gave them an ear but it was too late—it was too late. He had already signed it off. That is what this fast-track process did. He is stuck with it now. He is stuck with that legacy of this wrong decision for the Ihumātao community to not have their precious ancient Stonehenge" land protected under this fast-tracked consenting process. So that needs to be strongly acknowledged in this Committee and I wanted to stand and do that.I am sorry that David Seymour was offended at the start of my speech for something—all I was doing was giving an innocent synopsis of how he refers to me. Thank you."