Rurawhe Adrian; Carter DavidADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā e tika ana kia tuku mihi atu ki ngā hapū nei ki a Ōtaraua ki a Manukōrihi anō hoki ki Te Iwi o Te Atiawa oti noa ki Te Kaunihera ā-Ro'e o Ngāmotu ki Te Kaunihera ā-Ro'e o Taranaki anō hoki. Tēnei ahau e tuku mihi atu ki a koutou mō ō koutou ma'i ka ma'ia mai e koutou hei whakatū i ēnei pire i tēnei wā nō reira e tika hoki kia tuku mi'i atu ki a koe Jonathan Young te mema mō Ngāmotu tēnei te mi'i ake ki a koe otirā tēnā tātou katoa. [And so thank you Mr Deputy Speaker but at the same time it is apt that an acknowledgment is accorded to these subtribes Ōtaraua and Manukōrihi and to the tribe of Te Atiawa and accordingly to the New Plymouth District Council and Taranaki Regional Council as well. I acknowledge you collectively for the work that you performed to set up these bills. Therefore it is fitting also that I acknowledge you Jonathan Young the member for New Plymouth. I commend you but at the same time all of us.] First of all I want to acknowledge Mr Jonathan Young for bringing this bill to the House. I want to offer my thanks that the House referred this bill to the Māori Affairs Committee following its first reading. I think that that has had a huge impact on the progress of this bill. As I stated in the first reading this is a bill about a number of stakeholders with competing interests. I asked all of the different interested parties through my speech that they bring their compelling arguments to the select committee so that they could be considered by the committee so that we could try to make this bill work. I have to acknowledge first of all the New Plymouth District Council for its willingness to take a new look at the provisions of the bill. I acknowledge that it has moved considerably from where the bill was. The bill originally as the member for New Plymouth has pointed out—the history of Waitara and the Pekapeka Block in particular but also the progress of this bill. I want to acknowledge that first of all these submissions that were heard by the Māori Affairs Committee moved the members of the committee to take another look at the bill itself and to ask the officials to go back to the stakeholders interested in this particular bill and ask that they relook at the conditions of the bill. To that extent I join with Mr Young and acknowledge in particular Nashwa Boys for her work which I would imagine would not have been an easy task. So I want to acknowledge her input into bringing this bill to where it is today. The district council has moved considerably in that it has agreed to set up a hapū land fund. I think that is a significant move because it does a couple of things: first of all it provides the opportunity for the two hapū concerned—Manukōrihi and Ōtaraua—to be able to have what they have always wanted except by different means. What they have always wanted is the return of their land.This does not return all of the land; however it does provide an opportunity. It provides an opportunity to acquire land but it also provides the means by which that can happen. I think that ought to be recognised. I understand why the hapū are wanting to take extra time in considering it. It needs to be acknowledged in the House that they are going through their own process to get to a point of whether they agree with this bill or not. But what they do agree with is the extended opportunity to discuss this bill further. They agree with this second reading in this House. So it is incumbent upon this House to take note of that and to progress this bill to the next stage. I want to recognise the leaseholders as well. In fact I want to acknowledge all of those who made submissions to the select committee. I want to acknowledge the thoughtful and respectful and sometimes passionate way in which those submissions were made. As I said previously they gave the select committee the opportunity to relook at the bill and try to find a new way forward which we did in that select committee. The changes have already been outlined but I do want to talk about some of those changes. When we look at the interest of the leaseholders there have been changes to their interest in that they now have a longer period of time—that being extended from 12 months to 15 months in which to decide whether or not they want to take up the offer in the first instance. The great thing about that extension is that the price or the valuation of their particular property is fixed at the day of assent of this bill. I would think that is a good thing—although they are not locked into that either. If for some unforeseen reason the value of their property decreases they can opt out of that again. It also sets up a new entity for the two hapū so that they have the ability to purchase land. They also within this arrangement have a side agreement with the New Plymouth District Council that the district council will use the accumulated funds to purchase a 49 hectare block of land and—[Interruption] I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am finding it very difficult to speak above everyone else who is speaking. I think this bill is a very important bill and I think it deserves to be heard. Mr SPEAKER: That is a reasonable point of order but I am sorry to interrupt the member anyway because by a determination of the Business Committee I now call on Jono Naylor to commence his valedictory statement. Debate interrupted.