Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou e ngā hapū maha o Ngāti Porou kua tau mai nei ki Te Whare Pāremata nau mai whakatau mai. Tēnā koutou e ngā mema o Te Whare e tū tautoko ana ahau tēnei pire tēnei pānui hanga tuarua. Tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Speaker. Greetings to the many subtribes of Ngāti Porou who have descended upon Parliament House. Welcome welcome. Greetings too to the members of the House who have stood in support of this bill this second reading of it. Greetings to one and all.]I'm very pleased to speak in support of this very historic and significant bill at its second reading. It was also a pleasure to chair the Māori Affairs Committee in our examination of this bill. It's always a pleasure to follow after the Hon Christopher Finlayson with his contribution because he just demonstrated his great depth of knowledge that he has on this particular piece of legislation.This is a long time in the making this bill. It's 14 years in fact since the original deed of agreement between Ngāti Porou and the Crown was commenced and was executed. So it's taken 14 years. It's involved two pieces of legislation and it's straddling all of the issues that arise when a deed has been entered into under one piece of legislation that legislation is repealed and a subsequent piece of legislation is put in place and then it's trying to marry things up but also ensure that the commitments that were made in that original deed are honoured and are continued through and that as much alignment as is possible takes place in the crafting of the final bill. I think that's what we hopefully have achieved here. I think we've done a very good amount of work with this bill. Certainly as Mr Finlayson said there were a lot of submissions a lot of industry submissions from the commercial fishing industry in particular and also significant interests such as Eastland Port as well. We've taken on board all of those submissions but I think at the end of the day what this bill is about is it's about ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou and I think that we must keep that front and centre with this bill. It's about providing for a framework to recognise customary rights. So yes there are other rights holders that exist in the coastal marine space and yet we have many hapū of Ngāti Porou that have rights that are extant rights. These are rights that have always been there and what we're doing with this bill is providing that mechanism whereby those rights can be recognised can be expressed and given legal recognition. But it doesn't happen automatically. There are significant statutory tests and various other hurdles I guess that ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou in certain situations have to jump over for instance to attain customary marine title. And there are also other mechanisms under this bill which are put in place by virtue of the fact that we are defining an area of the coastal space which is Ngāti Porou's and by virtue of that they have the ability—there are mechanisms in place for further recognition of hapū and their place.So it is quite complicated when you're dealing with the complicated history to this legislation the deeds that have been put in place and then also the very complex array of mechanisms and processes. It is very complex but I'm very pleased to be able to acknowledge Ngāti Porou for their patience—I think for their forbearance—in waiting their time and ensuring that the best possible job is done to ensure that we complete the task at hand. That's what we're doing. We're another step along the way with this second reading.I want to acknowledge the hapū of Ngāti Porou. There are 57 hapū of Ngāti Porou and 47 of them have ratified this deed. That doesn't mean the other 10 are not part or are excluded. All that it means is that 10 other hapū are pursuing their customary rights under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. So there is a dual tandem set-up of different pieces of legislation that will apply. But I want to acknowledge all of the hapū and I want to acknowledge Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou under the chairmanship of Selwyn Parata and all of the submissions in particular that we received in person all the way up in Kaiti in the wonderful venue of the Jesus Christ Repentance Community Church that we used as our venue. I think that did help maybe in the kōrero. So I want to acknowledge all of the submitters that came in particular the hapū the kaumātua and the wonderful kōrero and songs that were sung. But I also want to acknowledge that yes as is the case with all Treaty settlements you know there are some parties that may feel aggrieved or are unhappy with certain arrangements.Some submitters were quite confronting but that's just the nature of us being Māori with our cousins that may be over the way. We faced some confronting kōrero but all and all those issues actually can be taken care of. As I've mentioned when this bill passes there will be two pieces of legislation that will apply to the rohe of Ngāti Porou: the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act for those that choose to go down that track and also this particular piece of legislation which is exclusively for Ngāti Porou.So I want to acknowledge the work of our committee and officials just in closing because it is a very complex area and the officials had a big task ahead of them. We considered a weighty 80-page departmental report. Whilst we weren't able to put all of the issues that were of concern in the commentary to our report back to this House rest assured that all of those issues were considered and were given quite a hefty examination through our officials. So I want to acknowledge them for that. But just to conclude this day is another day in the step for Ngāti Porou. I want to acknowledge them again. They are the only iwi in the country that has this type of arrangement—there will be no other. So I'm pleased that we were able to play our part as a committee and I'm looking forward to further tautoko on this bill as it goes through its remaining stages. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa.