Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā nō reira ngā mihi ki te whanauka o Te Waka o Tākitimu Ngāti Kahungunu ki a koe ki a koutou o Te Waka o Kurahaupō. Tēnei te mihi ki ngā rakatira o Te Hāhi Mihingare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. E nau mai haere mai whakatau mai ki Te Whare Pāremata nō reira e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[So thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and acknowledgments to you the relative of the Tākitimu waka particularly you Ngāti Kahungunu and you collectively of the Kurahaupo waka. I acknowledge you esteemed ones of the Anglican Church greetings and accolades to you all. So welcome welcome greet the House I salute you all.]It is indeed my pleasure to be able to speak on behalf of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill in the third reading. I want to acknowledge those who are in the gallery today who have come all the way from Papawai. I also want to acknowledge you too Mr Scott because I know you have been sitting there for quite some time because I saw you come in. It is only part—almost the finish—of the journey that you have been on to bring your bill to the House and to actually have it go through the parliamentary process and then get it to the third reading stage the final reading; so greetings to you. When I see you there I think of my uncle Ben Couch the Hon Ben Couch because as you probably know he came from our village Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa o Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Kaitahu tūturu Ngāti Uripehu [Rāpaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa of Banks Peninsula a Ngāti Uripehu a true Kaitahu].I want to first of all acknowledge two wāhine toa and they are the ones from Kahungunu from that area—and I am talking about Meka Whaitiri and Marama Fox. They are members of the Māori Affairs Committee and they were very instrumental in assisting my colleague Alastair Scott whom I also acknowledge now who was responsible for shepherding this bill through the House. I want to acknowledge those but also the Māori Affairs Committee which took great pride in ensuring that this bill had a smooth passage through to where we are today. I also want to acknowledge all those who submitted to the Māori Affairs Committee and in particular again acknowledge those trustees of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts. Their input in the drafting of this bill and also in the select committee consideration process has been very important in shaping the final bill itself which we are actually debating here today in Parliament.This bill amends the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Act 1943 to enable this trust board to better manage its functions—and that is the essence of this bill. You could also say that this bill futureproofs the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri trusts and brings them into the 21st century as well. When the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Act was established it was in response to a need to make more practical use of the income available from the lands held by these two trusts. But it was also important to retain the trusts' purpose of furthering mātauraka—of furthering education.We have heard here in the House from Meka Whaitiri about some personal things that the trusts have done particularly for her children. As an old boy of Hato Tipene College St Stephen's College in Auckland I know that there were many of my fellow students whom I went to school with who were actually beneficiaries of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts so I acknowledge that again.This is really in some ways when we talk about this bill and we talk about mātauraka why the administrative changes had to be made to this board—because it needed some flexibility in managing its assets. It was about flexibility. But we can also look beyond that to the kaupapa of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri trusts which is actually as I said about furthering mātauraka but particularly in the area of the Wairarapa. This is such an important kaupapa based on raising Māori educational achievement which is a key priority for this Government in particular.When I look at the incredible work that is being done here by our Government in the realms of Māori education—looking only at the number of Māori 18-year-olds achieving NCEA this has risen from 44.6 percent to over 70 percent. When we look at other Government achievements there is also an importance placed on the rise of the whole of the Māori population around mātauraka. There is also a much higher number of tertiary students Māori who go to university. There has been a huge increase particularly over the last 9 years—as a matter of fact it is up over 60 percent. Also we have kura hourua or partnership schools in place with specific goals of lifting achievements for Māori. These are actually being supported by the incredible idea of getting those who are not doing so well in mainstream schools and putting them into these partnership schools so that they may learn—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): OK the member has now had 3 minutes on his research notes and I think he could come back to the bill now.NUK KORAKO: I just want to acknowledge that throughout the country there have been trusts community groups and other organisations that like the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri trusts are doing their bit to raise achievement for Māori. So it is good to be able to come to this House today to support a bill that assists the trusts board in carrying out its great work and to extend that. It is certainly our hope that by allowing the trusts board more flexibility to effectively run the trusts it can get even greater benefit for students of the Wairarapa.Just to reiterate the objectives of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri trusts the first one is to better describe the relationship between the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Board the Bishop of Te Upoko o Te Ika and tangata whenua ki Wairarapa. Also the second one is to establish a more robust nomination process for board members and the third is to provide fairer distribution of funds for tangata whenua of Wairarapa. The other part is to facilitate the long-term development of the lands that are actually being held by the trusts. This bill will achieve these aims well and I am glad that it has widespread support within the House.I just want to reflect on a couple of things though that came up in the select committee and also came up in the different readings of the bill. These include changes to the bill particularly around the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act by changing the way that the bill would deal with issues of personal capacity related to mental health issues. There was the other one that Meka Whaitiri mentioned and highlighted which came from Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā which was around the Te Reo Māori version of the bill itself. I completely tautoko her in the fact that if we are to do a bill in dual language Te Reo Māori and English it needs to be done right from the beginning. But we are learning as we go and that is the whakaaro of the Māori Affairs Committee that we do want to support and continue to support.So looking at this bill it is indeed as I said before a bill that futureproofs this now. It gives you more leeway to be able to be in charge of your own destiny. So on that note I wish the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri trusts well but I also wish for the recipients of the funds that you will provide to our Māori rakatahi that you continue to do that and we will see the fruits of this in the future. On that note it is my pleasure to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.