Fox MaramaMARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā and thank you to the previous speaker Tim Macindoe who wished us all a happy Easter. I am certainly looking forward to getting more than a few hours on Sunday home with the whānau as I am sure almost everybody else in the House is. One thing I have learnt from being in Parliament as an apprentice MP for the last 2 years is that the people of this House come because they share a united passion: a united passion to make New Zealand the best country—or to enhance our beautiful country in fact and make it the best country possible by working in their individual electorates and in the House. We may differ on how we get there but there is one thing for certain: every member of this House comes to this House to do the best job possible for their people for their whānau and for this nation.It is with this in mind that I want to just set the record straight on a few things and I call it the myth-busting 4 minutes with Marama Fox. Let us start with the myth that no one owns the water. Let us just go straight to that one shall we because I tell you now: as soon as you allocate the water someone owns it all right. In fact that enhances the value of their property. It makes the value of a farm greater if you have a greater allocation of water and when you sell your farm you can in fact sell your water allocation separately. So no one owns the water? Well in fact yes they do.If we go down further: no benefit will come from having a royal commission of inquiry into institutional abuse of children in this nation. Well that has to be the biggest myth of them all. We need to lift the plaster off the scab and reveal what has been hidden in this nation that makes us one of the fifth-worst abusers of our children. It is endemic across our society; it does not belong to any one people or any one particular socio-economic group. In fact it belongs to all of us. It is a societal problem and until we reveal exactly the depth and breadth of the problem of sexual abuse of our children in this country then we will never overcome it if we continue to hide it. That is myth No. 2.In the 2 minutes I have remaining—I had better hurry up—myth No. 3: building a whole lot of houses will solve the housing crisis. Well there is some truth to that but not if they are not affordable. We do not need another 11000 million-dollar homes; we need another 20000 $300000 homes. We need another 20000-odd just in one place; homes big enough to house families. I tell you what an affordable home in Auckland in the middle of a development gives you: it gives you two bedrooms in a townhouse—upstairs downstairs—without a car-park and just a carport at low spec. If you are a family of five or more three or more or four or more in this country and you try to get an affordable home in Auckland you had better just give that wish up and try to find a way to buy the house you are currently renting because it is already out of control. So there is another one.Here is another myth: the myth that Te Ture Whenua Maori Act reforms will erode Treaty of Waitangi rights. That is a myth. The Treaty of Waitangi is central to the application of laws affecting Māori land. That the Māori land records will be handed over to Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)—another myth that shall not be further perpetuated amongst the lips of the members because now I have told them that it is a myth. I am hoping that they will have some faith in me as a member because I have actually read the bill. The Māori land records will not reside with LINZ; they will reside with the Māori Land Service.Here is another myth: that the bill denies Māori the right to appeal the Māori Land Service decisions. That is a myth. You have every right to go to the Māori Land Court.Here is another myth: Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill strips the Māori Land Court of its powers. It does not; the mana of the Māori Land Court will be strengthened. In fact it will be given powers to adjudicate over things that currently you have to go to the High Court for. If I had it my way do you know what? I would have kōti rangatahi kōti matariki kōti whenua Māori and kōti Māori united together to become the kōti Māori in this whenua.And with my last remaining 10 seconds here is the last myth. The last myth that people hold to is that a vote for the Māori Party is a vote for National. I tell you now a vote for Māori is a vote of faith in ourselves that we can be the change makers in this nation.