Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Kia ora. Tēnā rā koutou aku whānau. Kia ora nau mai haere mai ki Te Pāremata i tēnei rā.[Greetings to my kinsmen. Hello and welcome to Parliament today.]It is with great privilege that I stand to take a call in the second reading of the Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Bill (No 2) today. As one of my colleagues got up and said this is the only iwi to have this kind of arrangement when it comes to the moana—and it is—but I also just want to say that I belong to another iwi who also had a historic moment in the House with Te Awa Tupua bill. So I'm proud that I can base my whakapapa across two historic pieces of legislation that have come to this House and that I have had a part and parcel in making it into legislation.I want to acknowledge my cousins up in the gallery especially Herewini Parata who has led Ngāti Porou rūnanga through this process. I want to pay tribute to Uncle Api Mahuika. I remember meeting Uncle Api for the very first time and I didn't realise what blue blood Ngāti Porou was until I met Uncle Api. I was absolutely gobsmacked and thought Wow! Where have I been in this country that I haven't been able to meet up with him sooner?" Unfortunately he passed before I could really get to know our rangatira. He was the man that said that access to the beach will not be closed—that was back in 2009. He had foresight he had vision he took advantage where the foreshore and seabed bill fell down and he took advantage for my people—for my father's whānau—and I feel very proud that that has happened for our Ngāti Porou whānau.I am sad that 10 of our hapū are no longer part of this piece of legislation. I hope that they did listen to the contribution from Shane Jones the previous speaker that there is no plan B—get on board come on board—and with there being only 10 left out I think it can be done.I want to acknowledge ngā rohe moana for the work that they Ngāti Porou have done in getting around and talking with the rest of the hapū—the 47 hapū—that have joined this bill to make it the strength that it is and to clarify issues that were brought up through the submission process and to be able to let us move forward on this. As my colleagues have said this bill has taken a long time to get here to this part of its journey towards being full legislation and I think that it's been a good process. From where I stand and from what I've read and what I've seen and heard it appears that there has been no stone left unturned. They have gone out they have talked to our people and they have negotiated with them to bring them all on board and I say to the other 10 hapū please do come on board with this bill.Two hundred and fifteen submissions is a huge number of submissions on this bill and hearing the 18 in Gisborne when we went there was quite revealing actually with some of the mamae that was expressed there especially from Rongowhakaata. However when we start to look at the numbers of people that came to represent Rongowhakaata and when we start to look at whakapapa we are all family at the end of the day. So as whānau I hope that we can actually see through the hara and the mamae and let's get on with the work.I just want to look at some of the parts of the bill especially the purpose and the outcomes of this bill because at the end of the day we're all here to see it all go through so that our whānau can actually get on and do the mahi that they were born to do in relation to the moana.Some of the submissions that came through especially from the commercial fishers were around wāhi tapu. They were saying that they were concerned and they thought Ngāti Porou might just come out and make a place a wāhi tapu which just goes to show their misunderstanding of wāhi tapu. I'm sure that as we've got this far in the kōrero that's gone on the minds of those commercial fishers have been put at rest over wāhi tapu and that Māori just don't go out and do these things willy-nilly; this is very considered work that Māori do and that hapū and iwi do.As I was saying the bill seeks to achieve a few outcomes: "to recognise the unbroken inalienable and enduring mana of the hapū of Ngāti Porou in relation to ngā rohe moana … which is held and exercised [in] a collective right;". Really at the end of the day that sentence that I've just said is about collectivity. We also have to understand that while the commercial fishers were seen to be concerned they also forgot that Ngāti Porou are also commercial fishers so it is about collectivism. It's also "to provide legal mechanisms that support the expression and protection of the mana of the hapū of Ngāti Porou generally and in those specific areas where customary marine title rights are recognised in accordance with Part 4 of the Bill;".The third point: "to recognise that the Crown has a responsibility for public access in on and over the common marine and coastal area and a role in regulating it;". That's very key—that iwi have a considerable role in being able to manage those areas. It's also "to provide certainty about the use and administration of ngā rohe moana o ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou." That is about working in a collective way with the non-hapū non-iwi organisations around resource consent with the regional councils.This has been an amazing journey for everybody and I want to like my colleague Nuk Korako acknowledge the work of the Hon Christopher Finlayson in getting this bill to where it is today. It is a sad day really as I stand here acknowledging that yes this most probably will be the last time that the Hon Chris Finlayson will speak on a Māori bill in this House—on a Treaty bill. I think that we are all the more poorer for his leaving than we actually would like to consider ourselves and consider him. I think that he will go down in the history of this Parliament as one of the best Treaty settlement Ministers that has walked the corridors of this Parliament. I will miss him as I am sure there will be a number of other iwi throughout the motu that will miss his considered efforts and being able to resolve the large number of Treaty claims that he has and especially his respect and the honour that he gave to Uncle Api Mahuika.I want to acknowledge Rino Tirikatene for his leadership in our Māori Affairs Committee—he does bring about that real whanaunga view on how to run our select committee—and his considered efforts in making sure that we could get to the nub of some of the issues that were presented to us through the submission process.As I start to wind up my contribution here today as I said at the start I am very humbled to be a speaker on this bill and to be able to shepherd it through to its final legislative process—to Royal assent after the third reading—and I trust that the committee stage won't be too much of an onerous prospect for all of us and that we can move through quickly. Only God knows how long Ngāti Porou have waited for this and for us to muck them around would be a travesty as I believe it. So without any further ado it is my humble opinion and to be able to commend this bill to the House and may it speed through quickly. Kia ora."