Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe huri noa ki a tātou katoa ngā kaihoamahi ngā hoamahi o Te Whare Paremata tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to us all fellow officials and colleagues throughout the House of Parliament greetings.]It is an incredible privilege to stand and tautoko the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill. I want to absolutely acknowledge the trustees and whānau who may be here listening to the final reading of this amendment bill tonight in the House—tēnā koutou katoa—particularly because I have had the privilege of visiting Papawai Marae in particular with my colleague Metiria Turei who does have Kahungunu whakapapa. I had the absolute joy of being taken down to the awa behind the marae and literally meeting face to face the tuna—the eels—in their awa which are being brought back to help bring both life and mauri back to the awa by the people of Papawai helping to keep their awa strong and healthy. I was able to help with the riparian planting alongside the awa down the back there—they had a pair of gumboots for me to borrow during the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election some years ago. So it is a particularly special privilege for me to stand and speak on this bill to support the trustees regardless of the fact that I do not have particular whakapapa to Kahungunu.At this point I also want to acknowledge the naming of the wharenui which is actually Hikurangi and which does connect me with my Ngati Porou whakapapa and is in actual fact a direct acknowledgment of the Kahungunu and Ngati Porou links. So it is an absolute pleasure to stand and speak today. I want to acknowledge with my colleagues the importance and the learning actually that the Māori Affairs Committee will have in the future in suggesting to colleagues to introduce members' bills as dual-language members' bills so that we can from the get-go include and introduce them into the House in Te Reo and in English as well. Ka pai Alastair Scott for supporting this bill through the House and for empowering the trust and the trustees and beneficiaries to take some control to be able to design some destiny over the way that they run their own affairs—we really support that. In my examination of the history behind the trust in 1932 a college was destroyed by a fire and they could not afford to rebuild that college. I understand that the trust was set up for the scholarships and that they were at that time and until now for Ngāti Kahungunu in Anglican schools in particular. The amendment in this bill seeks to describe better relationships between the key stakeholders and establish a more robust nomination process for board members which is fantastic; provide fairer distributions of putea for descendants—or tangata whenua as is the term—of Wairarapa; and to facilitate the long-term development of the lands. I do recall also in the Māori Affairs Committee the references to both Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu having vested interest in the trust but as my colleague Metiria Turei just described that was left wide for self-identification. I am a Queen Vic" ancient girl so I am absolutely pleased to see that the amendments mean that the scholarships no longer have to be restricted to Anglican schools. I do acknowledge that some of the Anglican schools—one of which I went to—have been struggling over the years. Nevertheless I fully support wider choices being made and empowering more choices for the scholarships to go towards whānau to see the education of their tamariki. I am particularly pleased to see—wrapping it up yes thank you—the Papawai and Kaikōkirikiri lands are maintaining those tūpuna whenua in this bill. They cannot be alienated. We have huge support for this bill. Kia ora."