Luxon ChristopherCHRISTOPHER LUXON (National—Botany): Firstly can I acknowledge and congratulate you and say congratulations on joining the Speakers' team as Deputy Speaker. I look forward to working with you and I'm sure you're going to do an absolutely outstanding job.It's a pleasure to speak on this bill as the iwi development spokesperson. Without doubt the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Amendment Bill is a very pragmatic piece of legislation as we've been talking about and the National Party supports it. The reason is as we've been talking about we want to unleash and we want to accelerate the potential of Māori business and we think that's a good thing. We actually think on this side of the House that accelerating business in general is a good thing and as we heard from some very eloquent speakers in the Hon Simon Bridges the honourable Todd Muller—people that I can learn so much from as I am new to the House today. They have been giving us some really good things that we could accelerate—Treaty negotiations. We could also accelerate having more ambition for aquaculture. We could also accelerate protecting those ocean sanctuaries which would be so important to also unlocking and unleashing the potential the ambition the aspiration of Māori business here in New Zealand. Obviously the issue or the problem that this bill is addressing is that iwi in some regions are facing indefinite delays in receiving aquaculture settlement assets from the trustee and that's due to the inability as we've all talked about of iwi in those regions to be able to reach agreement about how those assets should be allocated amongst themselves. Obviously this dispute process is incredibly time consuming. It's unduly delayed by any stakeholder including any individual and just the thought that one person is all it takes to actually stop the process and to stop that potential being realised is a big big challenge. It is frustrating for iwi because we want Māori participating in the aquaculture sector in the broader fishing industry and we know aquaculture in itself represents $600 million. It's 3000 people that are importantly employed all across the regions of New Zealand that desperately need that employment and we have to do everything we can I think to unleash and help Māori acquire and develop their own commercial assets.I have to say I've seen that firsthand in my former life as CEO of Air New Zealand. We had a challenge with actually serving prawns on board aeroplanes in business premier and we had to kick it off because we didn't know where those prawns were coming from. As an ethical supply chain where we'd signed up to the Modern Slavery Act in the UK we couldn't tell where those prawns were coming from. Were they from enslaved fishermen in South-east Asia or wherever? So we went to Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Porou had this great smoking operation which was just for smoking fish for iwi. Hon Simon Bridges: I bet they did.CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Yeah it was fish—it was smoked fish. Yeah it was smoked fish. We moved from prawn cocktails to smoked fish. And it was incredible because what we saw over a series of engagements was that we were able to work with Ngāti Porou to build a proper smoked fish operation to such a high standard to pass food safety quality standards and everything. It was a phenomenal process to be able to supply you all as fine customers of Air New Zealand on your services on the Tasman Sea—to have wonderful smoked fish coming from Ngāti Porou. It scaled up a business that can now sell that smoked fish all around the world to other airlines and to other caterers. That was a pretty awesome story and that's a pretty exciting thing when you see that benefit that financial ability passed on to the community which is fantastic. So this bill here gives very limited very discretionary powers to the trustee to allocate and transfer those aquaculture settlement assets to iwis. It also does in fact protect the interests of iwi who don't wish to claim the aquaculture settlement assets. So whichever way you want it it's covered. It's good news in that it doesn't fundamentally alter or manifestly change the core elements of the original base legislation and certainly the dispute resolution process. So I think the final thing I'd say is it's important that it is consistent with Treaty principles and that there is scope here for iwi and the Crown to work together in good faith and in partnership together. We support the bill and we commend it to the House.