Ferris TākutaTĀKUTA FERRIS (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe e te Pīka otirā tēnā tātou. Moumou te pango. Koinā te kupu kōrero a te iwi Māori mō tēnei momo mahi tētahi mahi kāore ōna tino take tētahi tangata kāore ōna tino take. Moumou te pango. He moumou anō hoki te kōrero i te mea ahakoa te nui te whānui te whārahi te hohonu rānei o te kupu whakamārama kia mārakerake te kite atu kei te taka ki te hunga taringa turi. Te taringa turi o te Kāwanatanga hou kua ara ake mai nei e mea nei ahau he aupēhitanga. He aupēhitanga i runga i te iwi Māori e kore te iwi Māori e whiti ki te ora te oranga nuitanga i whakaarohia i wawatahia i ōhākīngia e ō rātou mātua tīpuna i roto i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Moumou te pango.Ara ake nei au ki te waha i ngā ōhākī me te tū a te Pāti Māori mō tēnei o ngā pire e tuku nei i te iwi Māori kia mauherehia i roto i ō rātou whenua ake o Aotearoa.[Thank you Madam Speaker indeed greetings to all of us. Waste of black. That is the phrase of the Māori people about this type of action an action that has no real purpose a person that has no real purpose. Waste of black. It is also a waste of a phrase because despite the magnitude the breadth the length or the depth of the words of explanation so that it can be clearly seen it is falling on people with deaf ears. The deaf ear of the new Government that has risen that I am saying is an oppression. An oppression of the Māori people the Māori people will never make the transition to good health the magnificent health that was considered that was aspired to that was bequeathed by their forebears and ancestors in the Treaty of Waitangi. Waste of black.I rise to give voice to the parting with and the position of the Māori Party with respect to this bill that allows the Māori people to be incarcerated in their own land of Aotearoa.]Indigenous incarceration is well understood right around the world. In post-settler colonial societies the indigenous people of those nations are overrepresented in incarceration in discrimination in justice in police and corrections—in every possible place you can be exercising authority. This is well understood. If people in this House don't understand that you need to catch up quick. Because what you are doing today what you are doing in this bill is extending—extending—that history. You are doing nothing to address it.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Can we refrain from the word you" please. Don't bring the Speaker into the debate; talk to the Government.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Kia ora. Well they are doing nothing to find any solutions. As my tuahine has said the work of Moana Jackson was dedicated to understanding the nature of the justice system—not only in Aotearoa but across the world—and the profound impacts that these types of justice systems established in post-settler colonialist societies have on the indigenous population. It is unequivocal—it's unequivocal—and I see hear feel none of it in what's been presented.Young Māori men young Māori rangatahi Māori who arrive in courtrooms around this country they come largely unsupported feeling a sense of whakamā—whakamā for they have strayed from where the ethos and the heart and the kaupapa of their culture for ever hoped that they would be. So they often arrive under-supported they often arrive with no economic backing and they are fodder into a minefield that sees them sent to jail five times faster than anyone else. These are not things that are up for contest; these are not things that need to be researched. And here we are taking away one of the remaining available supports for those young Māori for their families as they come into the justice system in our country.I can speak to this firsthand and it's a real shame that the Minister of Justice isn't here just to listen—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just one of the things in this House: we don't refer to members who aren't in the House. So a lot of learnings going on tonight.TĀKUTA FERRIS: Well i runga i ō mātou marae ka tū atu me te kōrero mō te hunga nā rātou ēnei kōrero i taka. Nā ki te kore e tae ā-tinana mai ki te hua me te whakarongo ki ngā kupu whakahoki ērā o ngā kōrero e mea nei he kupu mana-kore. Engari kei te pai tēnā rā koe.[Well on our marae one stands and speaks about those who made these statements. Now if they do not appear in person to consider and to hear the words of reply those types of statements it is considered words with no authority. But that's OK thank you.]But I can speak to this from firsthand experience that a young person in our whānau found themselves unfortunately before the justice system and at the behest of obviously legal aid—the minimum requirements to get them through the court procedure. Had we not been there to support that through this young person would have been straight to jail. The information that was able to be gleaned from the whānau members and presented in a manner that's acceptable to the court and made available to a judge—to provide context for that young person—had an impact on the ruling. That is now gone with this decision. You might say it's still there but it's not because these whānau can't afford to pay for it.So I reflect again—for the person that I'm not supposed to talk about—and his view that on the whole colonisation was a good thing for Māori. And here he is extending the reach and the impact of colonisation into the next generation of young Māori who will arrive in justice in courts around the country under-supported under-resourced and at the mercy of a court that by its very nature over decades of time has incarcerated those people.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you. The speaker's time has expired. I let the member run over because I rang the bell a little late."