Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Minister of Maori Affairs 
: In respect of the reported $1.6 million Haparangi A4 settlement what is the total amount to be paid to the proprietors and is he happy with all the details? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Minister of Maori Affairs) 
: 
 In respect of the Haparangi A4 the total settlement was based on the cash payment of $1.6 million plus the return of Crown shares in the property. I am happy that it has been settled. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Can I take it that the Minister is happy because he is unaware of the background details which include the proprietors of Haparangi A4 being given a request for an account that totals $825585—well over half of the receipts to the Haparangi A4 proprietors—and when will he do something about the Treaty of Waitangi industry and all the teat-suckers who are on it? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: Any costs associated with taking this action are a matter for the claimant and his or her legal advisers. There are a whole lot of teat-suckers who have more than their snouts in the trough— they have their whole heads in it. 
Mahara Okeroa 
: Why did the Government settle with the owners of the Haparangi A4 trust? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: The Maori owners and descendants of former owners of Haparangi A4 took action in the High Court against the Crown in 1996 on a number of causes of action relating to the Crown’s administration of the block since 1933. Officials recommended that settlement should be completed on the commercial aspects of settling the High Court action without specific admission of legal liability. 
Gerry Brownlee 
: Does this new tough talk from the Minister of Maori Affairs about treaty teat-suckers not only having their snouts in the trough but their whole heads reflect a total buy-in on his part to the U-turn that Helen Clark has announced on the Government’s attitude to Treaty of Waitangi and other race matters? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: Like my trim slim new look I have always said that and I am trying hard. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: If the Minister takes that attitude then what steps did he or any of his colleagues take to find out the facts behind the preparation of this claim and what steps did he take to ensure that the details were brought before the Maori Affairs Committee or his office as the presiding Minister or is this sort of practice to go on with the people the taxpayers and Parliament being totally ignored as what is right and fair? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: The settlement is totally kosher and it is fair. Any business after the settlement related to the cost is between the people we settle with and those who are creditors to those people. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does the Minister not understand his own responsibility in allowing the proprietors to be forced to go through a process controlled by one group of people namely Sir Graham Latimer and the Crown Forestry Rental Trust where $825000 is claimed of a $1.6 million settlement to 21 operations of which 15 are in some way associated with the law—and why we need 15 different law firms or practitioners I do not know—and six others are also to be paid out before the owners get anything at all? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: My understanding is that 23 need to be paid out and certainly there is a long history of people who have sucked off this industry. We are doing a lot better than people did in 1996 and 1998 when they paid out in relation to the kiwifruit settlements in Tauranga. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I seek leave to table the Haparangi A4 creditors demand that sets out the $825000— 
Document by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I seek leave to table the $92 million-dollar settlement for the Maori owners of the kiwifruit industry who were owed a duty of care by Treasury and the former Government and never got settlement until I arrived on the scene. 
Document not tabled.