Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori ): Mr Speaker you're not going to sit me down today are you? Anyway what an admission and a confession—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): It all depends.RAWIRI WAITITI: —from that side of the House. I know; there's still time. I understand that because we've moved to this bill pretty quickly that you were supposed to give a speech on this. But anyway just listening to this I was fortunate enough—and thank you for the greetings and the mihi to the previous Māori Affairs Committee who myself and my great friend at the back there were part of in terms of the discussions around this particular issue. So Joseph Mooney it was awesome to listen to kōrero especially from Sir Tipene O'Regan and many others who submitted to that particular kaupapa. One thing I do recall was Sir Tipene O'Regan talking about the voice of urban Māori being preserved in this process. That was around the issue of Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust which I also had the privilege of sitting on at some point and moving it to a space where we were able to create alumni of students who were studying in the marine space and sciences and to give them an opportunity to apply for funding to get them through those particular kaupapa. But it was an awesome opportunity for Māori regardless of iwi and hapū but for Māori to participate and for Māori to be part of the greater conversation around our development. So education was one.Article 2 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi was about being undisturbed of our whenua of our taonga and the moana being one of those. So this bill grants greater rangatiratanga and mana motuhake over decision making when it comes to the fishing interests of those particular iwi and Māori organisations.But there have been issues. I just want to say in the third reading there have been issues around the drawdown of money and especially around the legislation when it came to registered iwi organisations and the mandated iwi organisations. My iwi was one. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui because of that particular legislation found it very difficult to draw down on the funds that were afforded to us through the onshore and offshore modelling and so it was a huge issue for us. I'm glad that this particular legislation is able to deal with those particular issues because we're talking 20 30 years of iwi not being able to draw down on it because there were iwi conflicts between our interpretation of mana where mana sat in hapū and not in iwi organisations. Iwi organisations were given the mandate I suppose by Governments to be able to negotiate at that particular level but actually in our communities it is actually hapū that hold that mana. This is why those conflicts happened when it came to registered iwi organisations and mandated iwi organisations. So I just wanted to declare that because these are some of the discussions that happened at the select committee process and so I understand this intimately—I understand this intimately.So I still believe that Sir Tipene O'Regan's advice to the select committee was to ensure that the voice of urban Māori was not lost in this particular legislation. This is why Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust exists because it gave urban Māori and those who lived away from their homes—and I know that it gave us greater mana in terms of you know Te Whānau-ā-Apanui had huge onshore interests when it comes to coastline but we're a small-populated iwi. So the offshore stuff in terms of population where Ngāpuhi had a huge population—the modelling to me I think needed a greater balance in terms of the distribution. Especially if you're looking after a fisheries interest that had huge coastline there needed to be better balance in terms of also the population of their particular iwi. This is just me having my opportunity to speak to this bill and to lay out some of the facts that in actual fact many of our iwi have faced over the last 20 30 years of fishing interests.Fifty percent of the fishing quota—you know if we look at the kina quota going up to 150 that absolutely needs to happen. That absolutely needs to happen because we've got huge kina barrens especially on the East Coast but giving us opportunity to get into the industry right? We're not all about stopping economic development. No we're all part of economic development and what we want is legislation that allows us to do that freely and a lot easier in terms of economic development of hapū in those particular spaces. I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou.