Korako Nuk: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 29 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9946. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Kia ora Kaiwhakahaere. Mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. I want to just first of all acknowledge all of the previous speakers particularly as we are talking about the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill because it has cross-party support. We call that kotahitanga—actually working together. Also the other part of this is that it is a really unique template and the fact is that this template can really serve other parts of New Zealand well in the future.I just want to come back because there has been a lot of talk about Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Ngāi Tahu iwi and also mana whenua. My colleague and whanauka Rino Tirikatene actually brought up the fact around the Treaty of Waitangi—first of all when we actually did discuss the clauses of the Treaty of Waitangi at the Local Government and Environment Committee it was considered. But I think that the most important part of this is that when you look at mana whenua in Christchurch—in Ōtautahi Canterbury Te Wai Pounamu—we understand the Treaty and what you see there particularly in Christchurch and particularly in this bill is that this is the Treaty of Waitangi in motion. That was the situation here right from the darkest days in 2011 when the earthquake struck when Rūaumoko visited us for the first time. The situation here though is that everyone came together—that is what kotahitanga was and particularly with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. They were actually included right from the beginning as a major stakeholder. They set up a committee in conjunction with the Crown and in conjunction with Christchurch City Council and all the other major stakeholders. It was called Te Awheawhe Rū Whenua. I was privileged enough to be a member of that committee.That was the first part of this whole thing put in motion. What we had was the emergency. Then following the emergency we actually had the recovery and the rebuild. What we see now is the regeneration of Greater Christchurch in this legislation.We have seen the inclusion of mana whenua Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu all the way through this process. What happened here is within the bill itself what we have seen is an acknowledgment. It is right throughout the first part of the bill particularly in the inclusion of a major stakeholder within that collective—that is Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.What the select committee did was it really looked at this—and particularly in the second part of the bill which I want to talk about—and that is the recognition of mana whenua. That was strengthened through the select committee process. I think the important part of this is that Te Tiriti o Waitangi has actually been very very much in motion all the way through and that is particularly why the decision that we came to was that it had already been included in how we were implementing this legislation.That is the first part of it. The other part is how well we all worked as a committee. I am particularly using the word “kotahitanga” again—collective working together. That is really the hallmark of this bill the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill. Kia ora.