Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Ā tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā mauri ora. E mihi atu ki a koutou ngā rakatira o Te Wī Pere Trust ki a koe e Te Kaiwhakahaere e hoa o Te Kura o Tipene e Alan ngā mihi. Nō reira huri noa i Te Whare nei piki mai kake mai hōmai te wairua.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and wellness to you. I acknowledge you esteemed ones of the Wī Pere Trust and to you the director Alan and friend of St Stephen's School greetings. So ascend and come aboard throughout this House bring forth the spirit.]I rise in total support of the Māori Purposes Bill. This is a bill that the Māori Affairs Committee has worked very very hard on. It is also indeed a bill that we have worked on in a very very collegial and cross-party way which is very very typical actually of the Māori Affairs Committee.This was no doubt helped by the fact that we all agreed on the need for this particular bill. We agreed that it also needed to be relevant in the 21st century. In saying that about agreement I said that we agreed to most of it but there was a part of the bill—and I want to acknowledge this part—that we had disagreement on. It was only one part of it. But I particularly want to acknowledge my colleague from the Labour Party Meka Whaitiri. Meka worked very hard on a provision that she was keen to see changed but that ultimately this House during the Committee of the whole House stage actually voted down.Meka Whaitiri's Supplementary Order Paper 205 was around the jurisdiction of the courts in relation to the Wī Pere Trust. I think the argument that Meka Whaitiri was arguing is in principle a good one and that is that the court that has the expertise in a particular area should be hearing the cases related to that specific area and secondly that we should ensure that the court costs are not a barrier to disputes that are actually being resolved. However our view on this side of the Chamber was actually what the bill achieves in its current form—it was about that one: the Māori Land Court does have particular expertise we acknowledge that in matters related to Māori freehold land. Under this bill it has jurisdiction over those matters. However there is the potential for other types of disputes to arise related to commerce related to administration and related to governance. The High Court of New Zealand has the expertise to deal with these issues and has a wider expertise than the Māori Land Court.I would also like to point out that we could expect to see only very serious cases making it to the High Court. And there is a disputes resolution process which is contained within the bill that should prevent most if not all cases from making it to the costly stage of a case before the High Court. So we were very comfortable with the form of the bill as it is and the very clear demarcation of jurisdiction between the High Court and the Māori Land Court.I am not going to go into any more great detail on the provisions of this bill because I think the Minister for Māori Development another old boy of Hato Tipene College has actually covered that very very well as previous speakers have. One thing about this bill is that it is good to see that the Wī Pere Trust is thinking about how it can better use its resources to improve the lives of its beneficiaries by making better uses of the assets. This is very much about wealth creation for shareholders within the trust. It is actually not about wealth redistribution. And on this side of the House that is exactly what we tautoko.On that note I actually want to thank again and acknowledge all of the officials everyone who was involved but particularly my members of the Māori Affairs Committee who actually brought this bill all the way through to where it is today. On that note I commend this bill to the House. Nō reira e mihi atu ki a koutou kia ora.