Henare Tau: Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Amendment Bill — Second Reading Instruction to Committee In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Amendment Bill — Second Reading Instruction to Committee In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 19 November 2013. Volume:695;Page:14924. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TAU HENARE (National): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. I was going to give a very very lovely Tau speech. I was going to talk about Māori TV and even congratulate the Māori Affairs Committee on a job well done—on a job in fact where the questions that were raised by members of the Māori Affairs Committee have turned out to make some changes to what is the Māori Television Service and what is the Māori Television Electoral College.I got a tweet this afternoon from none other than Clare Curran saying that if it was not for her none of the hard questions would have been asked. I mean for goodness’ sake! It is 2013 and this—I do not use these words often—Pākehā lady from Dunedin comes to our select committee. She is not a member of our select committee but she comes to our select committee. She does not think any of the natives on that select committee or the other Pākehā people on that committee can ask any hard questions. What she is out there saying and tweeting is: “They couldn’t do their job. I’m Clare Curran. I’ve come in on my white horse”—I do not know whether it was a white horse or not; actually I just made that part up—“and I’m the one who’s asking the correct questions.” But she fails to realise that questions were actually asked by the late Parekura Horomia way before she even came to our select committee questions were asked by Shane Jones and questions were asked by all of the committee members including the Green Party and including—well I was going to say New Zealand First but he is not a member of New Zealand First any more and I am not talking about myself. Questions were asked by those members of the committee. And I tell you what. It was through those questions that were asked by all of the committee—Clare Curran: Well how about talking about the issues?Hon TAU HENARE: Oh be quiet. Be quiet. You had your turn. You had your turn. The questions that were asked were asked by all of the committee and in fact it was through those questions that MrTūwhakairioraWilliams actually stood down from being the chair ofTe Pūtahi Pāoho. It was because of those questions that we asked that we have Willie Jackson who is the chair now of the new organisation.Tracey Martin: For now.Hon TAU HENARE: Oh for now—well for whenever. It does not matter. The fact of the matter is that we did our job. We knew what we were doing. And it was not Ms Clare Curran riding into our select committee trying to help us. You want to read the tweet. You want to read the tweet. I tell you it smacks of that old colonial European thing that the old natives cannot do the job by themselves. And I tell you what. Guess what? We have done the job. I commend this bill the Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Amendment Bill to the House.