Flavell Te UruroaHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): Tēnā koe. We are supposed to be talking about the Appropriation (2016/17 Estimates) Bill—I am struggling to find out what Helen Clark has got to do with any spending around the time. Be that as it may there is plenty of food around tonight so that is good.Firstly I want to congratulate the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Christopher Finlayson on ushering so many Treaty bills through this House—far and away more than the Labour Government in its time. The work is not over yet we know that so I just want to put on record a real congratulations to him.The second thing is the issue that was around consultation to do with Te Ture Whenua—I digress a little bit but there is money in Te Ture Whenua so I can talk about it and the accusation of a lack of consultation with Māori. Well give me a break—the consultation started within 5 years of the original bill being put on the table with at least half a dozen wānanga throughout this country. Indeed during the time that I have been Minister there have been three consultation rounds in one year and it would be really helpful if members of the House read the bill so they stopped spreading lies around the country—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No. The word lie" has been used a couple of times and we will not have that any further in the debate.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: In that space we know that the law is currently being considered by the Māori Affairs Committee which is good. We need to have all those ideas come to the table and I am looking forward to the discussions coming back. Can I say that in respect of Te Matatini and the note about spending that there was an increase and we might expect that—yeah not enough but I take the point and we are trying to give assistance there. In respect of the Kermadecs that is interesting because two of the tribes—and I am a bit disappointed that some members believe that those two tribes agreed to a kaupapa about their mana whenua in 10 minutes. It does not reflect well on those members nor those tribes because they signed an agreement to say yes they agreed with the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill. Be that as it may I note that the New Zealand First Party as I understand it supported the Kermadec bill in the first reading—Darroch Ball: Select committee—just the select committee.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: No the first reading—therefore supporting that motion. So it is a bit rich to tell us that we should have voted this way or that way. Those members have got to get their own act together.Can I just say that in terms of spending I am happy about where we have got to. I think we can always do better but going back to the discussion around housing in terms of the repair projects we have been able to reach 223 whānau 42 new affordable homes—mostly affordable rentals—infrastructure for 113 new homes and four emergency houses. So we have been able to put some money into the housing area as spoken about by Mr Paraone. We also have in the Whenua Māori funding space a Māori Land Service—I can say that that one is going to move into the future—there is a budget of $14.2 million to support the establishment of a Māori Land Service.Pita Paraone: New Zealand First is doing more for Māori than the Māori Party is.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: A kaupapa that is important to Mr Paraone is Te Mātāwai and he should know that Budget 2016 provides $12 million over 4 years for the establishment of Te Mātāwai. I am pleased to say that pretty much all of the positions on Te Mātāwai have been filled with not too much rocking of the boat. There are two more positions to go and we should have the first meeting of Te Mātāwai before the end of the year so that is really awesome—that is 13 members.Can I also add another note that is probably close to the Labour Party and that is that the Māori Television Service has been able to get $10.6 million added to its budget. I acknowledge the efforts of the Hon Parekura Horomia in his time in being able to push the Māori Television Service along. It has been really great. I am looking forward to going to Tūrangawaewae in a week or so. We will be able to make some announcements in respect of our iwi call to have a day of commemoration for the Māori Land Wars or Nation Land Wars New Zealand Land Wars—call them what you like. That has been very much a call from iwi throughout the country and we will be able to as Budget 2016 said give $4 million over the next 4 years towards that kaupapa. The date is still to be determined and also how that money will be distributed but it is really exciting to go to Tūrangawaewae. Ki Te Koroneihana o Te Kīngi Māori ka tū ā taihoa ake nei ki te whakatakoto i tērā kōrero ki mua i te aroaro o Te Ao Māori. [In regard to the Māori King's coronation I will rise to put that before Māoridom in good time.]Budget 2016 has been good in terms of Te Puni Kōkiri where we are going into the future and under my leadership at this point in time. We can always do better of course and we will attempt to do that into the near future. Kia ora tātou."