SpeechHARETE HIPANGO (National—Whanganui): Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou Te Arawa waka Ngāti Whakaue Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao. Nau mai whakatau mai ki te pānuitanga tuatoru o tēnei pire.[Greetings Mr Speaker. Greetings Te Arawa waka Ngāti Whakaue Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao. Welcome welcome to the third reading of this bill.]When I stand in the gallery to address our people who have travelled from afar throughout the motu and to those who have come from Te Arawa there's always a sense of trepidation and an immense privilege—but also an immense responsibility—to be able to address and to speak to what effectively is the bill of the people who have come from afar gathered for the passage of this into third reading. I also reference because this is televised that members of the public who are listening in this is part of their learning and lifting and raising of awareness as well because the nation that we are of today is still being carved out. The threads of the different communities that we come from in Aotearoa New Zealand are still being interwoven into the fabric and shaping the face of our nation today.So I turn to speak to this third reading of the bill as it passes into law the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting Bill. This is not a Treaty settlement bill so that members again for the benefit of those in the public are aware of the difference. I stand and speak as uri as a descendant of W'anganui. I am the member of Parliament elected to represent the people from W'anganui. I am a member of the National Party. I also stand to speak with the responsibilities of shadow Attorney-General of Māori Crown relations of Treaty negotiations and Māori tourism. So all of those areas of responsibility that I carry I carry with a sense of immense regard and a sense of the enormity of responsibility that comes with that. Every single one of those portfolios that I have the privilege and the burden of carrying at the moment are interwoven into this bill in some way or another.Again the third reading—for the benefit of members of the public who are listening in because I know the people who have come from Te Arawa know this—this is the summing up debate on everything that has been canvassed and addressed in relation to the bill. I sat briefly on the Māori Affairs Committee and I had the distinct privilege to be able to sit in and to listen to the kōrero—I am a lawyer in my former life—the evidence of what the people were speaking to and the relationships of the people affected by this bill.The third reading is a summing up debate. It's been mentioned by previous speakers also the record from the first and second readings of this bill has been captured in Hansard. Before I came to speak in the House I reflected by perusing some of the kōrero that has been documented and recorded now into the history of Hansard. A lot of that is about the chronology the history of how the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute has come to be. It is indicative of the journey that has been carved out the pathways of all those who have been formative in the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. This vesting bill is effectively about the Crown recognising and duly doing as it ought to vesting the assets and the other responsibilities back to the people of Te Arawa.So in August 2017—I'll come to the chronology around the legal passage of this bill. In August 2017 the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell—one of yours—was the Minister for Māori Development and he with Whakarewarewa Joint Trust signed the vesting agreement. After that it came to be that the bill came before the House—and you'll see that I've got papers spread out before me here—for its first reading on 19 December 2018. From there it was handed in to the charge and responsibility of the Māori Affairs Committee. That's when the people came to Te Arawa to listen to the kōrero and to listen to some of the concerns. It is always a privilege to be able to be part of the most intimate kōrero and to hear some of raruraru and the problems.It had been put to the Māori Affairs Committee that we resolve some of that by way of inclusion in the bill. However we recognise that as Crown agents there are some things that are just beyond our privilege and our responsibility and that it is for the people to ultimately resolve your differences. The second reading of the bill had come about on 14 November 2019 and I had the opportunity to speak to the House in relation to that. I've talked about the chronology and the pathway of the institution in terms of its legislative passage but also how it came to be. That was a vision of Sir Apirana Ngata and that vision has been fulfilled by the people of Te Arawa.This institution is in the presence on your whenua. It's in the presence in your hearts and minds. It has been carried from your tūpuna and will be carried through you into the future generations. Sir Apirana Ngata had that vision and that vision has been captured as we know in his w'akataukī: E tipu e rea mō ngā rā o tōu ao."For the benefit of members of the public listening in that w'akataukī that message from the heart is "Thrive in the days destined for you your hand to the tools of the Pākehā to provide physical sustenance your heart to the treasures of your ancestors to adorn your head your soul to God to whom all things belong." and I think for many of us in the House today this is to be carried through in days to come. The Institute of the Māori Arts and Crafts encapsulates that—to carry from the past the present through into the future.So it's well known and it's now documented in Hansard but also in this bill that the vesting of the assets—and we talk about the structure but the structure houses everything that we've talked about: the knowledge the presence of the people who have been there and have gone before and the presence of those now as a gift to the future. When I spoke at the second reading I talked about the relationships and we are very strong in terms of the connections that we have to the areas that we come from and how we interweave and relate in carving out those relationships.John and Pine Taiapa: Pine Taiapa came to Pūtiki my area at the mouth of the Whanganui River and imbued the essence—coming also from Te Arawa the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute he having graduated there with many others travelling around the motu—and carved into our w'are karakia St Paul's Anglican church and also to the w'are tupuna. When I go home that is a correlation of the relationship to our people through to Te Arawa because of Pine Taiapa and that association. It's a privilege to stand here to support and commend the third reading of this bill so that it's carried through and made into law. To the people who have travelled from Te Arawa today will be a celebration but it just signs off a legislative passage. Kia ora. Tēnā tātou katoa."