Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Taku mihi ki a koe e Te Kaiwhakahaere. Huri noa i Te Whare nei kia pai tō tātou Matariki. Nō reira e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Madam Chair. I wish everyone here in this House best wishes for Matariki. Greetings to one and all.]E Te Kaiwhakahaere thank you for giving me this opportunity. I was getting a bit of a complex. I thought I was under there and you couldn't see me but anyway kia ora. I just want to say this is the first opportunity that I have had to speak on the Land Transport Management (Regional Fuel Tax) Amendment Bill and also it's the first time particularly that I've been able to introduce an amendment.So my amendment seeks to amend the Local Government Act 2002 and this adds a new section 81(3) after section 81(2). What it does is that it actually introduces section 81(3) Consultation with Iwi Prior to any Regional Fuel Tax Proposal". What it says is that "Before a territorial authority seeks to submit a proposal on a regional fuel tax scheme under Subpart 3 of the Land Transport Management Act 2003 the Council must open consultation with the local Iwi(s) of the region." I have actually heard this evening that word "consultation" and I've heard that word "consultation" a number of times.While we actually have been talking about this particular bill at no point in this debate has anyone had a kōrero about Māori or in particular the six Auckland iwi. In fact there is not one mention in this bill around consultation with Auckland iwi. In a lot of ways that there is a travesty because when you look at the representation within this bill at the moment there is none. When we think of the six Tāmaki iwi that make up the Auckland area there are actually over 30 marae and this large natural grouping accounts for over 150000 of those members of those marae.So I want to ask the Minister in the chair—and also what about the Māori MPs on the other side of the Chamber there? You are part of historically the largest Māori caucus—Kiritapu Allan: That's right.NUK KORAKO: —to be ever in this Parliament. That's right but where have you been? Where have you been? Why is there no consultation proposal in this particular bill? So why would you not consult with the Treaty partners? Why would you not consult with mana whenua?CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Order! Order! Not me.NUK KORAKO: Why would you not consult with representatives of the most disaffected groups who will suffer under this fuel tax? Why would you not consult with them?CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Order! I just need to remind the member not to refer to the Chair. Thank you.NUK KORAKO: Kia ora. So looking at this particular disaffected group they are actually part of these iwi; they are part of these marae. These are the blue-collar workers these are the shift workers these are the marae members these are the marae workers and these are the volunteers that actually are going to be affected by this particular fuel tax. So when you look at an example why would you not follow a piece of legislation called the Resource Legislation Amendment Act in which when we look at it iwi are actually consulted very early in the process and they're also consulted right at the end of the process so that they're not shut out? So why would you not actually put as my amendment is stating an amendment in here in this amendment—[Time expired]"