SpeechDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. I'm delighted to rise on behalf of the Green Party in support of the Resale Right for Visual Artists Bill. It establishes the artist resale royalty scheme where visual artists will get a 5 percent royalty when their work is sold on the secondary art market here and overseas.It is tough work living as an artist in Aotearoa so this is really really important progress for our visual artists that they will finally get the royalties that their colleagues who are musicians and writers already have and have had for a long time. It contributes to a more equitable art sector and brings us into international standard practice.Now we note this legislation is a requirement of the Aotearoa free-trade agreement with the UK and the EU. We did not support that trade agreement. However we did support a similar change that was initiated by Labour looking at that amendment to the copyright law back in 2008. Since that bill did not progress past that select committee referral with the change of Government we thank Minister Sepuloni and her officials who have done so much work to get this bill to us today.The Greens' arts culture and heritage policy supports the protection of artists' rights and the recognition of their intellectual property. It also states that we need to and I quote support and promote the right of Māori to protect both traditional and contemporary Māori art and art forms via customary rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi".So we note the stated intention in the regulatory impact statement that this scheme design will have flexibility to account for changes arising from the response to the Wai 262 for toi Māori which includes the ability to recognise collective ownership of works and keep the definition of "visual artwork" broad so it can be responsive to any developments. We very much support that.It also notes that the engagement with Māori in the development of this bill was less widespread than had been hoped for. So we acknowledge that Toi Māori Aotearoa and Toi Iho charitable trusts were part of that consultation. They are formidable and very highly respected and representative bodies. So we encourage any Māori Pasifika any artists who have come from any nation or around the country to make their home here artists who are takatāpui rainbow disabled or from any other marginalised communities to make sure that you submit on this bill come to the select committee be heard and make sure that we're listening to what you have to say what the art sectors might have to say.I note that the Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage reported last November that the secondary art market had more than doubled for the 2021-22 year and that's because the secondary art market generally outperforms other markets in times of economic uncertainty which COVID brought us. So where auction house sales account for like 80 percent of all the sales they did very very well out of that but the artists made nothing with that huge growth. So I'm very excited that this artist resale royalty scheme means that those dealer galleries those independent agents those brokers those public institutions in Aotearoa and any of those other countries will be able to make use of this or are required to do this.I think people would be surprised about how many people who buy art privately will definitely do this because when you invest in art when you love art you're actually doing it because you respect the artist—or that's where I come from. In fact my father was an artist and a master carver. I grew up in a whānau of artists so I know what this bill means not just for our flashest artists who sell works for thousands and thousands of dollars who will probably benefit the most from this but for those still starting out and just getting by—and a shout-out you know to someone like my niece Savannah who's just trying to get a fledgling art business going; people who do their art while they have full-time jobs because actually our art is our cultural expression. It's our wairua. It's our mauri. It's our rongoā. So I think that this bill enhances the mana of our artists our visual artists and it makes life a little bit better. I will shout out then to the painters; the drawers; the engravers; the lithographers; the board cutters; the printers; the photographers; the sculptors; the collage and model makers; the crafters; the weavers; the creators of ceramics glass jewellery textiles metal ware and furniture; and those whose visual arts are created using electronic means. For all of them I commend this bill to the House."