Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Gosh! What a contribution from that previous member Simon Court. The irony sits in the fact that we've just—Simon Court: Point of order Mr Speaker! Given that the member enjoyed my contribution so much I seek leave from the House to have another five minutes.SPEAKER: I don't reckon.TĀMATI COFFEY: How bizarre. SPEAKER: No I'll further rule. I've given the call to Tāmati Coffey. You can't interrupt another member to take a call. I think we'll start that time again.TĀMATI COFFEY: OK sure. Thank you Mr Speaker. The irony of that previous member's contribution is that we've just finished about in this very House the Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua Claims Settlement Bill and that's poignant for this moment because the member stood and he talked about how all of these spooky little concepts like te Oranga o te Taiao giving effect to the Treaty were at odds and had no place in future environmental management. I completely disagree with that and I think that he's at odds with the previous contribution from his own party which supported the Ngāti Kahungunu settlement and which actually talked about the environment in their settlement and the relationship that they're intending to have with their environment. And they're not the only ones. We're at the end of a very long journey in this House of addressing our historical wrongs when it comes to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The Crown has accepted the wrongs over the many years and we have had settlement after settlement. That has changed the game. That has changed the game and it has meant that Māori do have expectations that if we are going to reform our environmental management system they do want a more meaningful say. So it was through the work of the Environment Committee—I want to take a moment to thank the Minister for actually giving us a really good run-in to this bill here. Through putting up the exposure draft into the Environment Committee that created all this engagement with practitioners with iwi and with lots of different stakeholders all across the country so that they knew what was coming. This has been well signalled. We understand what this is; this isn't a shock. I do hope that we get more contributions in through the select committee but I should think that actually the first lot of submissions that we got with the exposure draft actually highlighted some of those main points and hopefully those different stakeholders will see that a lot of that has tried to be addressed in here. So the opportunity to be able to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi—yes it is a change. But obviously we talked about it as a committee and we thought we actually need to develop that a little bit more. We need to give some more guidance about exactly what that looks like so that people that are practitioners that use this legislation can do it with ease. The concept of te Oranga o te Taiao: again we broadly talked about it with the exposure draft. There was the requirement—we heard a lot of people saying that they need more guidance in that space as well and more clarity and legal certainty to be able to implement it. And hopefully we can move in that direction. But I think it's a credit to the Minister and a credit to the direction of this legislation that we're willing to engage in good faith because that's what our iwi Māori have done for a very long time in this House with their own Treaty settlements; they have engaged with this House in good faith. And we're engaging with good faith back again. The role of Māori in the system is going to ensure that we uphold our Treaty settlements ensure that we uphold those commitments and those arrangements and ensure that Māori maintain the established decision making and participation at a regional but also across the board at a national level. We know that the Resource Management Act (RMA) has not supported the aspirations when it's come to housing for Māori especially—for Māori especially because there is a lot of under-utilised Māori land sitting all across the country that could absolutely be part of the housing crisis solution. But actually the RMA hasn't done a great job in being able to take those barriers away and enable that development to carry on. So I look forward to the kinds of changes that we're going to see in this area. I want to note as well that there was a statement put out by the housing Minister Megan Woods when she talked about these reforms and being able to set a national direction on things like papakāinga—we've never had something like that before. I look forward to that and how that might roll out in our various communities. Practitioners like University of Auckland's Māori architecture professor Anthony Hoete talked about current planning restrictions not keeping up with the needs of Māori. Even the concept of moving away from individual dwellings into multiple buildings on one site—all of this is enabled by the new direction that we're taking in the system.And I wanted to talk to the point that the previous member made about where the voices of the community are going to be upheld. And I want to tell him that actually it will be and we've been really cognisant of making sure that our communities all across Aotearoa have a say. And so similar to the RMA communities are going to be able to make submissions into the regional spatial strategies into the natural and built environments plans and we've got that regional planning committee that's going to ensure that any person or any entity can make a submission into that process.Whatever happens here it's an exciting time for iwi Māori to be looking at these reforms and seeing themselves reflected in these changes at a regional level and at a national level as well. And I'm very glad to understand that there will be an independent national Māori entity that will be monitoring the Te Tiriti performance in the system and that will be able to provide input into the national planning framework to be able to provide recommendations to both central and to local Governments as well. And it's intended to do it in a way that does not usurp the mana of Māori in any area. I look forward to these changes and I commend it to the House.SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call Sam Uffindell—five minutes.