McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well what a privilege to speak on this short bill. I've had very little to do with the Māori Affairs Committee in my time in this House other than to turn up for kai—and I can assure you it's worth doing that! But I just want to speak about the Māori Purposes Bill at this second reading. Obviously we support this bill and I think rightly so. I think that the interesting thing for me about this bill particularly was the work those submitters must have had to do the five of them during their Christmas break because the submissions for this bill were due back on 26 January. We in this Parliament have a habit of doing this to voluntary organisations particularly and some of these are semi-voluntary organisations that this bill deals with. So they'd have had to work through their Christmas break to put the submission in to appease the rules of the House which I think is a little unfair and a little unfortunate but that's the way we seem to do things in this House. If you are suspicious you could have been suspicious we did it on purpose to avoid submissions but not in this case.This bill is interesting because trusts of all natures are set up at a time and a place and of course they often need alteration. Not only these sorts of trusts that are covered by the Māori Purposes Bill but all other kinds of trusts that deal with local entities with private people's operations they're all set up with a time frame in mind and those time frames and the rules that they are living under often change. So it becomes quite complex. But one of the things that really interests me about this bill—and of course as Harete Hipango said if you drive through the Rangitīkei you get to the top of it and there's Lake Rotoaira. You drive a little further through the Rangitīkei and just past the boundary are the Waitomo Caves. You wonder what the Rangitīkei had to do with that because most people think the Rangitīkei is around Marton and Bulls but in fact it stretches right up to this area. And one of the really interesting discussions I've had about Lake Rotoaira in my time in this House relates to trout farming. It's a very topical thing for the Māori communities in that area and frankly when you look at the way trout farming is operated internationally I think it's a huge opportunity for New Zealand that we've never used. I'm fortunate that my colleague Louise Upston's left the House because she of course is the member for Taupō and Taupō makes its money out of trout licences and trout fishing. But I don't think that there's any reason why the two couldn't have lived in harmony and Lake Rotoaira of course is a classic place that I suppose one could imagine—and I know the locals have imagined—being used for exactly that purpose and probably with good reason.One of the reasons that's often been talked about with respect to trout farming in New Zealand not taking place is the fact that it needs to protect the fishing licences and the fishing industry. I don't think trout farming would have any impact on the fishing industry at all. In fact the salmon farming industry has proved that; there's still a very vibrant salmon fishing industry where it's applicable in New Zealand. Of course it's a thing that doesn't happen in the North Island we very seldom ever find salmon running up our rivers but certainly in the lower parts of the South Island they do. Salmon farming in New Zealand is of course a massively huge opportunity for New Zealand and I think that trout farming—in an appropriately managed and an appropriate place—would have the same effect. None the less we haven't been able to achieve it and there were some very strong submissions made by the Māori community around Tūrangi by the people from Tūrangi with respect to trying to instigate trout farming in that manner. Another part of this bill relates to the way they manage the current use of Lake Rotoaira. The fishing that takes place there currently has historically run under the same rules as Lake Taupō. The local management I think now has the right to set those fishing limits and those fishing rules in a manner they see appropriate which is entirely appropriate in my view and I think it's proper that it should happen like that. Interestingly I think that if you look at New Zealand's history a lot of things that are reflected in this bill probably reflect some of the better things that have happened in the relationship between the Crown and Māori entities in New Zealand and these are all areas where the local communities have maintained some interest in what effectively are quite—in these two instances anyway—iconic pieces of New Zealand infrastructure I suppose you call it. Certainly the differences between Waitomo Caves and the lake are significant; one is a major tourist attraction the other one is a beautiful piece of water sitting at the southern end of Lake Taupō and the northern end of the Rangitīkei electorate. So I think this bill in its entirety is certainly good for the purpose it's been set out to achieve with respect to Māori trust boards. It allows Māori more autonomy with respect to the governance of some of their trusts and legal entities and it's obviously very good for New Zealand and for those communities involved. We support the bill. It's certainly not a controversial bill and there's been a number of Māori purposes bills passed in this Parliament; one passed in 2017 by the National Government. I don't think it matters which parties are in power or which parties make up the Government in New Zealand these kinds of issues are things that we need to progress through the House as quickly as we can. And clearly when you've got a bill that comes to the House with virtually no disagreement and no changes made at select committee which is quite unusual—obviously the bill's been put together with thought that's complete and does a very good job for the entities concerned. So we support the bill. I'm sure it will progress through the next two stages in the House with very little discussion probably. But none the less it's important for those people it affects and it's good for New Zealand. Thank you.