Little Andrew; Rurawhe AdrianNGĀTI TAMAOHO CLAIMS SETTLEMENT BILLIn CommitteeHon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): I seek leave for all provisions to be taken as one question.The CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There appears to be not.Parts 1 to 3 Schedules 1 and 2 and clauses 1 and 2Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations): Thank you Mr Chairman. For the benefit of the members of Ngāti Tamaoho who are in the gallery let me just take a moment to explain the process that we're doing at the moment. This is called the committee of the whole House stage.We work very hard to make sure that the bill for your settlement is absolutely perfect and in doing that the amazing staff of the Parliamentary Counsel Office have found some mistakes. So with the agreement of your negotiators we are in the process of correcting those mistakes. We have to do that at this stage of the House and I'm going to read out sort of explain what the changes are and then as I understand it from our very good friends in the National Party—they said they're not going to debate these changes—Hon Christopher Finlayson: No.Hon ANDREW LITTLE: —so we will fly through this. That's the Catholic influence on that side I might add. It explains why we don't like the 1688 Bill of Rights. And we will conclude that part and then the House will resume and Mr Rurawhe who is technically the Chair of the committee right now will sit in the fluffy chair at the back and pick up the position as Speaker of the House and we will then get into the final debate and therefore the final stage of your settlement bill. I did want to make sure that everybody was clear about that so you're not confused. And on that point can I just say that the Māori Affairs Committee reported the Ngāti Tamaoho Claims Settlement Bill back to this House on 5 July and recommended it be passed without amendment.The bill is to comprehensively settle Ngāti Tamaoho's historical Treaty of Waitangi claims. This Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 36—Supplementary Order Paper" is parliamentary language for "amendment" or "change"—provides two minor changes to the bill. Changes set out in the Supplementary Order Paper update wording regarding the administering body of the Hunua Falls. So there are two changes. The first clarifies in clause 52(3) that the provision relates to the Hunua Falls reserve land as defined in subclause (1). What it does is add the words "of the reserve land" after the words "as if they were the administering body". And the second change is to clarify in clause 52(9) that interests may be varied as well as renewed by adding the words " or varying" after the word "renewing".These are minor and technical amendments—that was itself evident. They make no change to the redress package and I'd like to thank the Parliamentary Counsel Office for their thoroughness in ensuring that the bill is accurate and correct and frankly almost perfect—in fact it is perfect. Not only members of this committee but members of Ngāti Tamaoho can be assured that they will have a perfect bill on which to proceed. On that basis I commend this bill to the House for the two changes outlined in SOP 36."