Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's a pleasure to rise and inject some lifeblood into this debate. It's at 9 p.m. this evening and we're talking about the Māori Fisheries Amendment Bill second reading.Hon Member: It's a good bill.DAN BIDOIS: It is a good bill and it's a bill that has taken some time to get here. It was actually carried over from the previous Parliament and it's now in the name of Shane Jones—Matua Shane we call him. And—Hon Tama Potaka: Matua Tararā.DAN BIDOIS: Yes Matua Tararā. The bill implements recommendations from a review that is periodically done on a statutory 10-year basis. It's my pleasure to rise and support this bill on behalf of the National Party. This bill aims to give iwi organisations and mandated organisations more authority over the assets and the organisations that control Māori fisheries allocations—in particular two organisations I wish to speak about: Te Ohu Kaimoana and Aotearoa Fisheries Limited. Those are the two entities that this bill focuses on giving iwi more authority and control over in this process.We have had a select committee—this has been through select committee—and I'd like to commend the hard-working members of the previous Māori Affairs Committee which I believe one Tama Potaka was a member of. The select committee did a thorough analysis and recommended a bunch of changes to this piece of legislation. Most of those changes are being taken forward with respect to making sure that the governance arrangements for the appointment of board members is allocated appropriately and making sure the shares are allocated in such a way as to protect the interests of and the shared representative interests of all the iwi involved.Now just to explain Te Ohu Kaimoana for those of you tuning in at home performs a range of functions important to the fisheries sector. First it provides advice. It secondly is guided by 58 mandated iwi organisations. And thirdly and I'd say probably most importantly it protects iwi in customary fishing and commercial interests for these organisations. So it's got an important role to play in the governance arrangement for protecting iwi interests with respect to fisheries. And so we ought to make sure that we're modernising and updating governance arrangements to make sure that these entities are actually being run on a representative basis and also being run efficiently and in the best interests of all iwi interest groups involved.What else I can raise from the select committee is there were some concerns that actually were raised in the select committee and I just wish to point out for you the minority view that was put forward by the National Party at the time around amendments to clauses 37 and 25 which the National Party opposed because we think—well I think that it's quite clear in the select committee report that essentially we want to make sure that there is a clear process by which people are appointed to the boards of these companies. That's why we opposed certain elements that were discussed in the select committee—clauses 37 and 25 in particular.Otherwise it's you know just more broadly in the second reading of this bill. This bill is a good bill. It updates the legislation. It modernises the governance arrangements for these entities. It gives iwi more control and more control is mana motuhake. More control is tino rangatiratanga. And so I think it is on that basis that I commend this bill to the House this evening.