Turei Metiria: Reinstatement of BusinessText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTurei Metiria: Reinstatement of Business[Sitting date: 09 December 2008. Volume:651;Page:70. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]METIRIA TUREI (Musterer—Green): I just want to make a short call on the motion concerning the reinstatement of business. In particular I want to raise an issue referred to by Mr Cullen—that is one of the pieces of legislation tabled in the House after the House rose. It did not have its first reading. It was the Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Bill—a bill that concerns the negotiations that arise out of the foreshore and seabed legislation between the Crown and Ngāti Porou. A number of other iwi are intrinsically affected by this legislation. One is Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. I remember them coming to the Fisheries and Other Sea-related Legislation Committee in 2004 where they talked about their mana moana being taken over by Ngāti Porou how they were struggling to get any recognition of their mana whenua and their mana moana in negotiations with Ngāti Porou in the settlement legislation that was already under way and how they were being locked out of any right to have a say over what was their rohe and their mana.That was one of the major issues that continued throughout the debate on the foreshore and seabed legislation: that those smaller iwi those smaller hapū would continue to be locked out because the Government would negotiate with the big boys like Ngāti Porou and continue to lock out those smaller ones. Those larger iwi who were negotiating were themselves not respecting the rohe of these smaller and less well-resourced iwi and hapū. Therefore the situation was going to be exacerbated not only by the foreshore and seabed legislation which would strip away their rights to take action in the court but also because of the ability for those big iwi to negotiate directly with the Government. We have seen that exact result. That exactly has played out as was feared at the time by those smaller iwi.This legislation should be taken out of the reinstatement motion. It should not be continued with in this way at least until after the review is done. The Green Party believes that it should be taken out because it is unfair legislation and that the foreshore and seabed legislation should be repealed. What should be here instead is the repeal of that legislation. It should also be taken out at least until the review is completed because there is no concept yet as to what is likely to happen as a result of the review.I have made no secret about my extreme disappointment that the Māori Party failed to get the foreshore and seabed legislation repealed as part of its negotiations and that it took ministerial positions in those negotiations even though it failed to get the foreshore and seabed legislation repealed. I would have thought that that would be an absolute priority and I am very disappointed it was not as are the 4000-odd people who wrote submissions on that legislation and who wanted it repealed the 2000 who wanted to be heard by the select committee but could not be heard the majority of the 200 who were able to be heard—and Tariana Turia was on that select committee; she heard those submissions and knows the strength of that—and as we saw the 20000 people at the front of Parliament on the day that that legislation was passed. So it is extremely disappointing that that has not happened so that this issue would itself be resolved because then this legislation would not be necessary.I do not believe that the foreshore and seabed legislation gives hapū or iwi any greater right to negotiate with Government. The settlement legislation is there to make that happen. But in this case given that there is an apparent review of that legislation there still remains the remote possibility of its being repealed. The continuance of this legislation is inappropriate at this time and we continue to support those small iwi directly affected by this bill and all other iwi and other Māori who support the repeal of the foreshore legislation and the elimination of the confiscation of property rights that the foreshore and seabed legislation was.