Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tū ana tēnei uri tēnei kōiwi o te Tai Rāwhiti o te maunga Whetūmatarau o te maunga Hikurangi tonu o te awa Waiapū o ngā marae o Hinerupe o ngā hapū o Hinerupe te whānau a Hinerupe te whānau a Tāpuhi hoki nō reira mihi hōnore ki a koutou ōku whanaunga o Ngāti Porou o te Tai Rāwhiti. Nau mai tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Before you stands this descendant these bones of the East Coast of Mount Whetūmatarau indeed of Mount Hikurangi of the Waiapū River of Hinerupe Marae of Hinerupe subtribes of the Hinerupe and Tāpuhi wider kinship groups and I am honoured to greet you my relatives from Ngāti Porou from the East Coast. Welcome to you all greetings to all who are here.]I have a mum who is my Ngāti Porou side who lives in Ruatōria and who has lived there for many years—a couple of decades at least. Like many Ngāti Porou she was born and raised in Wellington but she has had the privilege of moving back to the coast to our tūrangawaewae and so as an urban Māori I have often sent my young children back to my mother when I've had some busy work or some busy projects. I've sent them down there to give me a hand so I can do what I need to do as a mama and they've been very young when they've been down there and spent lots of time—all of my children have spent lots of time living there. I've been able to spend some time living there.One of the stories I remember today goes to the core of what this legislation Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Bill (No 2) is trying to do in protecting the customary rights of Ngāti Porou and ngā hapū over their moana—essentially upholding mana moana for ngā rohe o Ngāti Porou and ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou. When I'd often send my young children down there they'd be there for months actually. They'd become very accustomed for that time to the way of life in Ngāti Porou in Ruatōria and Tararua Hicks Bay. Then I'd go to ask them something in Auckland back in their urban setting environment rushing out the door like we do when we are urban dwelling with young children and trying to get breakfast down them. I remember they came back from being months in Ruatōria and I sat them down at the breakfast table opened the cupboards with all of the flash cereals that we have—all of those flash sugar cereals that are there that are convenience foods that are in our kai cupboards. I said Which one of these do you want for breakfast?" They both looked at me—they were probably three and four and they both looked at me blank in the face and asked for crayfish. And they were serious because that's what they had been having for breakfast every morning in Ruatōria and that's what they expected from the kai cupboard in Auckland in Manurewa.That goes to the heart of a lot of what this legislation is wanting to uphold—the customary and protection rights of ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou over their moana and it is the connection literally for our mokopuna to know who they are by how that kai kāpata has fed them and how that doesn't just feed their tinana but it feeds their wairua and it feeds their whakapapa connection to who they are. That was the first story that came to mind as I was trying to get to the core of what this bill is actually about.I absolutely want to honour Papa Api Mahuika for his vision when he felt that things were going to go awry with the foreshore legislation and I will again say that part of the reason why I'm with the Green Party is because we have always held strong to our political position of upholding customary rights for hapū and kaitiaki rights for hapū. So that's why we opposed that legislation and Papa Api felt that it was going to need some work to actually protect what was looking threatened—the ability to maintain those kaitiaki responsibilities over moana. So he did some visionary work. He led some visionary work around the hapū of Ngāti Porou to get this legislation put into place. And then of course the marine and coastal area legislation came in and my understanding is that that is the legislation for other iwi to have similar interests upheld and so Papa Api is always first to the line—that's so him.I also absolutely have to acknowledge Papa Parekura as well simply also because it is a lot to do with him that I stand here at as a servant in this House for our people. So I mihi to our tūpuna of Ngāti Porou and our whānau of Ngāti Porou and very proudly as Ngāti Porou.I did want to mention that it appears that 47 of the 49 hapū have signed the amendments to the Ngāti Porou foreshore and seabed deed of agreement from 2008. I want to pick up where other members have mentioned those hapū who may be seeking other pathways. I wish them the best also in maintaining their kaitiaki and customary rights over their moana. I think that includes Te Whānau a Te Ao and Te Whānau a Rua. And on that I just went into schedule 2 of the actual bill. It was quite neat going in to find my particular hapū. The schedule looks at the management arrangements for particular area rohe of Ngāti Porou and so in Part 1 Te Whānau a Hinerupe which is one of my hapū are a part of the area of Pōtikirua to Whangaokeno in the bill. Then Te Whānau a Tapuhi one of my other hapū are in the details of management arrangement for the area for the rohe of Whangaokeno to Onepoto.So I look forward to receiving this legislation in the Māori Affairs Committee where I'm deputy chair and hearing the hapū and the rohe and the moana rohe that I know of intimately and am connected to intimately. I think it's important to uphold the vision of this good work as well because it attempts to entrench and protect the mana moana a little bit better than what it was looking like before Ngāti Porou were able to negotiate this deed. It establishes customary title and future customary title rights to exercise those permission rights over those rohe and so I was pleased to see that those resource consents will require consent of the hapū before the council even has jurisdiction to consider them which I think is right. The work of upholding those kaitiaki rights has never stopped and has always continued and it will continue. But this legislation assists with some funding to help set up the management and also has further legal rights to further entrench those kaitiaki and customary rights.So again I think it is right to acknowledge the whanaunga o Matanuku Mahuika for driving this legislation on behalf of those hapū. It's his story of addressing some of the fears that we all know came through initially—including from the original foreshore legislation background to this—about iwi and hapū going to block off beaches and access. I pick up the example that Matanuku talked about which is where yes those are discretionary powers—for example rāhui to protect the sustainability of kai moana stocks and with Mount Hikurangi Ngāti Porou has the ability to close the mountain for up to 50 days but at the most it might be one or two days and it is always for protecting that rohe for protecting the maunga for the benefit of everybody. Those are the discussions and conversations that I look forward to all of us in the House leading and using our profile and platforms to uphold the understanding that upholding mana moana for hapū and iwi all over Aotearoa is for the benefit of all of us.So as I close there was another—oh yeah. I'll close with another story—30 seconds. Many many many years ago my dad was asked to speak at one of the prize-givings at the Te Araroa school and one of the reasons he loved speaking up the Coast was because of the koha. He would literally receive big chiller boxes of kai moana as his koha for speaking on the East Coast and then he would bring it back to Auckland and skite about what he had for all of us. That's what this bill is all about. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker."