Williams ArenaARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. That speech started out so well where he acknowledged the work that has gone in at the select committee stage with the Māori Affairs Committee coming together to work on a long overdue piece of legislation because the Associate Minister of Agriculture is right when he says this is a long time coming. In fact the independent review started in March 2015 and has not been resolved until now. And who are the people that that hurts? That hurts people who need these resources which are passed on to them through the fisheries settlement which they are entitled to. It hurts the organisations and the businesses that are trying to get ahead in New Zealand's agriculture industry and make something of the plentiful natural resources that we have. And so it's important that this is resolved.It could be resolved now but instead unfortunately we've heard in the speech today that there will probably be an amendment moved at the committee of the whole House stage which the select committee has not seen and cannot be a part of forming the right kind of legislation going forward. That is a real shame because I think where we got to in the select committee stage was the right balance between the role of representative Māori organisations (RMOs) the role of iwi organisations within the structure that has been created by the legislation that sits underneath it and what is pretty heavy duty corporate structuring and took the committee a number of weeks to really grapple with about the implications of changing at the legislative level. So now we're back to the drawing board essentially and I am disappointed by that because I think we had really struck the right policy considerations.But that doesn't stop members in the Opposition from supporting it at this stage because this is much needed. There are powers in here like clarifying the levy-making powers which are really overdue and need to be made immediately if the organisations are able to continue in the way that we need them to to be able to realize the value of not only the original fisheries settlement but a number of other settlements which have occurred in the time since.This bill also makes a number of changes to the statute which then empower the underlying documents. These are—you know there's trust documents. There is also the limited partnership which manages Aotearoa Fisheries assets within the different iwi structures that have bought into it which need this empowering legislation to be updated so that it can maintain its business in the way that it has already organised it.There is this matter that we will be traversing in the committee stage with the Minister which we weren't prepared to traverse today because we have only just heard about it in the previous contribution. It is about clauses 37 and 25 which enable representatives from Māori organisations or RMOs to vote appoint remove and determine the number of Ko Te Ohu Kai Moana directors. That is really key to what I think the Minister was setting out for us and so we will need to understand that. I would invite the Minister to work collaboratively with myself and with my colleague the Hon Rachel Brooking on how he might arrive at something which is long term which is something that all sides of the House can live with to ensure that there is adequate representation around the table.I welcome his promise that he will be working with stakeholder settlement trusts when that had in fact been done by the Government before introduction at the first reading of this bill. But nevertheless more consultation is good consultation in this kind of area where people's assets and investments that have already been made are committed. With that I tentatively commend this bill to the House.