Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. [Interruption] There was such a—Hon Dr David Clark: I raise a point of order Madam Chair. My question might have been answered Madam Chair sorry to interrupt. I could not hear over the cries of Marvellous" from the Opposition who was actually taking the call. I noticed some of my colleagues sat down and stood up again likewise because they couldn't hear who took the call. CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): It's because I have such a quiet voice Dr Clark. Angie Warren-Clark has the call. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Thank you Madam Chair. Gosh it's great to get a call. It took some time; I've been jumping up and down for quite a number of minutes now. I want to first of all begin with congratulating the Minister as well. This is an absolutely transformational piece of legislation and as a member of the Environment Committee I have to say it was a real pleasure to look at this piece of legislation and to be part of the Government making this significant shift. We are not going to be talking about Part 1 but I do have to just acknowledge the fact that as Minister Nash has noted we are removing or getting rid of Housing New Zealand—putting them into this body. It's all about moving forward. It must be wonderful for those staff to be in such a journey moving forward. Look I'm going to have a talk about the purpose of the Government policy statement (GPS) tonight and a lot of people have already raised the issues that I had questions about. Having sat on the select committee we have quite a few answers in there. However I wanted to just note around the overall direction around the multi-decade outlook. This was an issue that we discussed quite at length in the select committee and we talked about: what does multi-decade mean? It came down to a normal definition. However the intent behind the discussion was really about the fact that we have a plan going forward as a Government and that the GPS looks at a long-term view. Now we know what we inherited. We know we inherited this mess—this homelessness mess. We know that it's going to take a long time to fix this mess but this is the beginning of this transformation and I'm so very proud that we've got here.I want to also acknowledge the submitters who came and spoke to us with such hope and that was across the whole sector. They spoke to us with such hope and such positivity around what the content of this bill was about and they wanted to work in partnership. They've been asking for it and now we are giving them that.So I wanted to just address that multi-decade outlook but I also wanted to raise—which hasn't been raised—clause 24(1)(e) "the Government's expectations in relation to Māori interests partnering with Māori and [the] protections [of] Māori interests:". So in Part 1 of the bill we built in a clause. It's not a standard Treaty clause; it's actually a clause with a little bit more specialness to it. So it talks about the Treaty of Waitangi and the principles and so I would be interested in the Minister explaining to this House—for the benefit of perhaps the Opposition who have not yet risen to take a call on this transformational piece of legislation—how that is intended to occur. I think it's really important because essentially we are looking—when this GPS is written—around consulting with local government other Government agencies Māori and mana whenua infrastructure providers developers community housing providers and other essential partners. So there is this huge list but particularly in regards to the special place for tangata whenua and the Treaty of Waitangi I'd be very interested in the Minister talking to that point and expressing how that will be carried out. With that I have another couple of calls that I'm going to take a little bit later but with that thank you Minister.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): Before I call the next member can I just advise that I have alerted the Minister to the fact that he's not likely to answer the questions just posed by the member at the very tail end of his speech because they're in Part 1. The rest of the speech was perfectly in order addressing Part 2 but the question you asked right at the end Angie Warren-Clark was related to Part 1."