Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Ā tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā tēnā tātou katoa. Ko te mea tuatahi i tuku mihi atu atu ki a koutou ngā uri o Wī Pere kua tae mai ki Te Whare Pāremata nei. E whakapiri ana taku mi'i ki ngā mi'i kua mi'ia e ngā rangatira o Te Whare nei nō reira tēnā koutou katoa. [Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker but at the same time my acknowledgments to us all. The first thing is to acknowledge you the relatives of Wī Pere who have arrived here at Parliament. I add my tributes to those accorded by esteemed ones of this House. Therefore well done to you all.]It is a pleasure to take a call on the third reading of the Māori Purposes Bill and of course the major part of this bill is on the Wī Pere Trust. I want to acknowledge the work of the Māori Affairs Committee and its chair Tutehounuku Korako for the work that they did. I had the pleasure of spending a day in Gisborne hearing evidence from submitters and I want to acknowledge all of the submitters for the information that they provided in a very dignified and straightforward way. I think that the changes to the governance arrangements of the Wī Pere Trust are very important. I would not characterise them as my colleague Pita Paraone from New Zealand First has characterised them. I would characterise them as empowering—empowering decision-making from a Māori world view. Along with that goes the responsibility on the trustees to continually uphold the legacy that they have inherited and I believe that that is exactly what will happen. So I congratulate the trustees and I should also acknowledge the Minister the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell as well for the work on this piece of legislation and for bringing it to the House. I think that the governance arrangements up to now—with certain ministerial involvement—was shall we say from a different era and a more paternalistic time so these new arrangements are far better suited to a modern trust that is operating on behalf of all of its beneficiaries in a modern world. I do also join with my colleagues who have acknowledged the contributions of the beneficiaries through their submissions around their concerns. I sincerely hope that the changes that we will pass into law today are a mechanism that also empowers the beneficiaries to participate in the arrangements of the trust in their collective interests. I want to acknowledge the concerns and questions that were raised through that process. I am very satisfied that they have been addressed appropriately and so I support this legislation. I also want to turn my attention to the other parts within the Māori Purposes Bill—in particular to new Part 1B of the Māori Purposes Bill which was inserted in the bill through Supplementary Order Paper 234 at the Committee stage. Ā tuku i Te Reo mihi atu ki ngā uri katoa o Te Rarawa i roto i tēnei wāhanga o te pire nei.[And so a welcoming word to all the descendants of Te Rarawa in this part of this bill here.] I want to send my greetings to the people of Te Rarawa and acknowledge the significance of this part within this legislation. Having Te Rūnanga o Te Rarawa a pre-settlement entity that is a charitable trust with the name Te Rūnanga o Te Rarawa which was the mandated iwi organisation for the purposes of the Maori Fisheries Act 2004 and then having their settlement go through—as many of us in the House know there are certain requirements of the Treaty settlement process that require a certain type of entity to receive settlement assets and of course you end up with two which are the pre-settlement entity for the iwi and the post-settlement entity for the iwi. One has the settlement assets from the Treaty settlement and one has the settlement assets from the Maori Fisheries Act. They are incompatible and they have a process that they have to go to for Te Ohu Kaimoana—their own process. So the insertion of this new Part 1B in the Māori Purposes Bill resolves very tidily and neatly that situation whereby the settlement assets can be transferred from the charitable trust into the new post-settlement governance entity. Not only does it do that but it also recognises the new settlement entity as if it had been recognised in the 2004 Act from the time of 2004. I think that is definitely appropriate in this instance because it is the same beneficiaries and it is the same governance but they are two separate settlement arrangements. I think what that does is it highlights the fact that the Treaty settlement process is not wholly consistent with the requirements of the Maori Fisheries Act 2004. So along with acknowledging all the wonderful things in the part of the bill that relate to Wī Pere I think it is important that we also recognise that there is a significant change. Nō reira tēnei ahau e tuku mihi atu anō ki ngā uri o Wī Pere oti noa ki a tātou katoa o Te Whare nei tēnā tātou.[Therefore here I am once again acknowledging the descendants of Wī Pere and furthermore to us all of this House thank you.]