Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Whoa! So here is the proposal for the Act in and of itself. It is huge and it is a big telephone book - sized thing. Then you have got the Supplementary Order Paper which is about the same size. We the Green Party really wanted to support Meka Whaitiri's point of order to have the Supplementary Order Paper referred back the Māori Affairs Committee. I regret that we have not been able to do that.I want to put on record just a couple of quick points in this Part 1 debate in the Committee of the whole House stage probably picking up mainly on the principles relating to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The Greens will not be supporting Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. I think in terms of the principles in Part 1 we will continue to uphold that the whole entire land reform absolutely needs to be driven by Māori. It concerns Māori land. It needs to be fully understood fully driven and fully accepted by Māori. I do want to thank the advisers and all of the work that has gone into this enormous set of reforms. The advisers have been on the select committee through this particular piece of legislation and have been incredibly grateful to them—for the advice we continue to receive and also for the attempts from the advisers and from the officials to help us on the Māori Affairs Committee come to terms with what we were dealing with.My colleagues and I on the Māori Affairs Committee were somewhat vindicated when it became known that we were not just struggling ourselves to fully comprehend all of this bill—that actually Māori Land Court judges and Māori lawyers were themselves also constantly advocating how large and unwieldy this piece of legislation was. In that respect I do want to thank the officials and the advisers for trying really hard to help us all understand it clause by clause and come up with clear summaries and presentations to help us understand that.Notwithstanding their incredible hard work and their openness to engage with all of us I think at the core of the Greens' opposition is that—quite differently from the previous bill we just debated the Māori Purposes Bill where that was driven and worked with the group concerned—we are yet to see the mandate the understanding and the drive from Māori on a collective basis to this piece of legislation. That is notwithstanding that actually some or most of the changes could actually be beneficial. We have to first at least understand that.I just wanted to go back and pick up on the Part 1 principles. The Waitangi Tribunal after its analysis and notwithstanding all the subsequent amendments did stipulate that if we are going to be making such large reforms to address the barriers to Māori land utilisation and to prevent further Māori land loss and alienation then we need to at least be very sure about what is causing that in the first place.The Green Party was very clear in our support through all the readings that the empirical research should have been done so that we at least had a clear evidence-based reference point to start with where we actually knew exactly what the barriers and what the challenges were and we could perhaps address them more specifically. So reasons of mandate and reasons of having a clear evidence-based research platform are just two of the main top overall reasons why the Greens will continue to oppose this Te Ture Whenua legislation overall.I wanted to probably lastly just pick up on the Minister's address at the beginning of this Committee of the whole House stage where he touched on the consultation that has been held with this bill. I have maintained that the indication of the success of the consultation should not just come down to numbers. A successful consultation for any legislation should not just rest on how many hui and meetings were held around the country. What I would prefer instead is if the consultations were able to provide us with a clear mandate and understanding from all of our people from all of our landowners.I think just lastly in this particular call at this place in terms of principles in upholding tikanga Māori through land governance I wanted to agree with my colleague Kelvin Davis that we are wary of setting up or upholding the inequities between different whānau and land groupings and holdings and organisations. We are wary and we feel that these matters are too important and that we do not have clear direction about the success. Thank you.