SpeechHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. E ngā reo e ngā mana tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. It's with enormous pleasure that I rise to speak on the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting Bill at its third reading. It's been a long time coming but it's been worth the wait because this institution is absolutely unique. It is the only institution of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. It's a taonga institution. It's a national icon for New Zealand for Māori arts and crafts and for Māori tourism. It's an enormously successful and vibrant business which highlights the very best of Māori arts and culture.I too would like to recognise the work of Harry Burkhardt and Tim Cossar and all the team at Te Puia for the work that you've done but also for what you've achieved over the years. Of course the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute has had a very long history built on the vision of Tā Apirana Ngata—the vision to preserve Māori culture by establishing Te Ao Mārama. That of course was the first carving school—which we've heard about today—and we've heard of some of the places where pupils from that school have made contributions to marae right across the country. Wharenui beautiful wharenui have been treasured and appreciated for many years and many years to come. That school of course closed only after about 10 years. But in 1963 the new institute opened and that opened firstly with a carving school; followed quickly by a weaving school; later—in the 21st century—the national stone and bone carving school; and more recently the canoe school opened. Today in New Zealand the Māori Arts and Craft Institute has an international reputation for providing excellent training and also the very best master carvers weavers and sculptors. Its functions are about promoting Māori culture teaching skills and educating and entertaining both local and international tourists. I believe over 500000 of them go through every year. The business has built up and expanded over many years through the hard work of everyone involved and through—mostly—the tourism and the training activities. And I'd just like to make a note that it does not receive any financial support from the Crown. So back to the bill—it provides for the assets and liabilities of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute to be transferred to Te Puia NZMACI Ltd Partnership and also provides for that partnership to continue to function as business as usual. As the Associate Minister of Tourism I actually worked with Te Ururoa Flavell when he was the Minister for Māori Development on this bill and was delighted when in August 2017 he signed—with the Whakarewarewa Joint Trust—the vesting agreement. The legislation before the House today will ultimately transfer the ownership of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Craft Institute from the Crown to iwi. We already know that the land on which the institute stands was returned to iwi in 2009. So this vesting agreement and this legislation completes the process of recognising the significant cultural traditional historical and spiritual association of Ngāti Whakaue and Wāhiao Tūhourangi and this area and Te Puia. So as I said it's been a long time coming but it is absolutely the right thing to do to return this organisation this institution with its land back to mana whenua. I wish everyone involved with Te Puia a long and very prosperous and worthwhile future. Kia ora.