SpeechHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's interesting hearing the discussion about this bill that we are debating this afternoon under urgency because I heard the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) quoted a couple of times and I just searched up and reflected on some of those reports that indeed have been discussed today. I was the Minister at the time when I released a report on 4 April 2013 that indicated there was $8 billion of potential with unproductive Māori land in New Zealand. That's a massive number. What's lost in translation hasn't been talked about today is that to return that $8 billion in terms of earnings and opportunity it would require $3 billion of capital because obviously infrastructure is important on Māori land. Fertiliser new grass species whether it's horticulture you've got to set up an orchard—it comes back to one fundamental thing often and that's water. And that's a debate that no doubt we'll have in due course with the Resource Management Act fast-track bill that will be coming back in here soon. There would be 3600 jobs created and I would think that that number is a bit light particularly with some of this land that has the potential to grow very valuable horticulture products and we know that there's more job creation involved there.Then there was another report that I released when I was Minister that was focused on Northland and Kaikohe and that report came about in May 2016 where I asked MPI to drill into the detail about Northland and look at that opportunity around Kaikohe. That's quite topical at the moment; I'm looking over at Duncan Webb and he's nodding. So in a 50-kilometre radius around Kaikohe there are about 4000 small parcels of Māori land. That is significant and that's 84000 hectares of land that's mostly unproductive around Kaikohe—so very large numbers and massive opportunity. This bill goes some way to allowing that opportunity to come along but it doesn't go as far as what the National Party would have liked to have seen. I want to acknowledge Chris Finlayson when he was Treaty settlements Minister for the work that he did because he really kicked off the reform that we're talking about today along with the Hon Pita Sharples; then it was transferred over to Te Ururoa Flavell who took it over and then it got bogged down a bit I think with the iwi leaders group. It did come in eventually into a shape and form into this Parliament; then the election came along then it sort of got turfed out of the Government's Order Paper and agenda. Now it's back to where it is today.So I think there's going to be more questions asked when we get into the significant part of this debate the committee stage because we're only talking about the second reading right now. There are some important questions that need to be asked of the Minister when she is in the chair: why this bill couldn't be widened out because it is quite narrow in scope. One important aspect that I picked up in this bill is that it will enable judges of the Māori Land Court to mediate without the need for a formal court hearing. In my mind I think that's going to be very important. That should help to speed up the process. So I see in this bill there are some important aspects of it that we support but we just feel there's an opportunity missed and that it could have gone further. Thank you Mr Speaker.