Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā tātou katoa. The Greens are very proud to support the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting Bill. I have been sitting here listening to the kōrero and remembering the hearings that the Māori Affairs Committee travelled to Rotorua to hear from the whānau the hapū and the iwi that day after the first reading. The question that keeps coming up from me is: what would Aotearoa look like with the loss of our unique mātauranga Māori our arts our performances our indigenous knowledge and the evolution that all cultures go through that has brought us to the place of excellence that we are at today?When it comes to our arts and our culture this bill—I think I mentioned it in the first reading—is essentially at its core about giving back from the Crown transferring ownership back to the people that it should always have been with. I remember in the first reading I think I expressed that I was surprised that that hadn't been the case this whole way. So here we are doing what is right and catching up on what should have happened a long time ago but with particular acknowledgment of the crucial work to protect sustain develop and grow our Māori arts and crafts for our country and for the world.Certainly previous speakers have referred to the importance of our knowledge and of our taonga tuku iho for various industries—and that is absolutely right—for various enterprises and for that unique Māori entrepreneur nature which we have long known is a leading one for the world. This bill will allow the ongoing clarity and development to continue into those areas where we are leading where tangata whenua are leading the visions and the dreams for how we share and develop our generations of that knowledge and those enterprises are essential especially as we gear up to face the needs that a modern world is going to have to face.But I also wanted to acknowledge and drill down on the importance of our ever-evolving and moving culture and heritage just for its own sake simply for our mokopuna and generations to come. To be able to sustain life is to be able to care protect and nurture for our excellence in our own mātauranga in holding on to who we have always been and to be able to chart the most successful future paths for all of us and for the world and so that's merely to acknowledge the role that this bill is playing to support the transfer of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute also known as Te Puia to the partnership.Having said that—and now I'm going to refer specifically to the second reading and to the submissions—it became very clear sitting on the hearings in Rotorua that day that this is not a simple thing. This has many layers and most importantly the history of what happens when the Crown comes in over the top as we have seen through every single Treaty settlement for example: the history of the wehenga the raruraru that that creates the conflict that that creates the blurring of hapū and iwi lines that that has created and therefore the work that we have to do to repair some of that to acknowledge where voices and groups have felt invisibilised and missed out to acknowledge that the processes put over the top of our iwi Māori and hapū organisations have been colonial Crown processes and that in all of that over the decades over the years that Te Puia has been under the Crown a whole lot of stuff happened while all of this was happening.So that's what to me as an outsider of the rohe as an outsider and manuhiri to the iwi that day I heard to the point where I remember—I couldn't find it but I had to draw a whakapapa map as we were listening to try and keep up with the various—my colleague from the rohe Tamati Coffey is laughing because he remembers. I was right next to him and I had to draw a whakapapa map to keep up with the overlays and the intersections. I came away feeling like Game of Thrones has nothing on this understanding that everything went back to whakapapa. Everything all of the submissions went back to whakapapa went back to who was called what where and when who helped who who became who and this kōrero was richer than any Hollywood drama that could ever be dreamt up.I tried to keep a sense of it. I tried to understand as a non-local and as an outsider what had happened over many years—the cause of the various concerns and the raru that were raised. I think I managed to write down some of the quotes that I thought would come in handy when it came to me reporting back on the submissions. For example there were questions around: It should be Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao because—matua tupuna and mokopuna; that the bill needs to be corrected." I think I wrote down what Matua Anaru suggested: "that everyone just sit down and work out how to hoi the waka and to taihoa—hold on—taihoa; everyone just calm down and sit down and work it out."I heard submissions that talked about needing to uphold the bill or the intentions of the bill to protect Te Puia but also the process. I heard—I think it was from Harry—that hapū need to take the leadership to sort this out. There was a plea for us to not forget about the penny divers and the guides and the weavers and the storytellers and the carvers and the kaihaka and we heard that really clearly. There was a plea to acknowledge the hapū of Tuteata. There was some resistance that we should all focus on the three hapū of Whakauē—goodness knows how much more raru I'm causing right here by just retelling some of these kōrero. But I'm merely giving the House a sense of trying to work out what was at the core of these beautiful stories as well as honouring the range of voices and perspectives that came through that day. There were some changes that came from the Māori Affairs Committee as a result of these submissions. For example there was some suggestion that instead of the three listed entities of the bill it should be Ngāti Tūkiterangi Ngāti Hinganoa Ngāti Huarere Ngāti Taeotu Ngāti Hurungaterangi Ngāti Kahu. See what I mean? There was a whole range of fascinating and wonderful whakapapa that came through the submissions and the second reading is absolutely the time for us to recall that. But briefly out of the submissions I think the main thing there—the main change the main amendment—that I wanted to pick up was—see that submission hearing was I think in April and then July. So following the submissions meeting there was a special general meeting in response to some of the concerns about making the trust more accountable to its beneficiaries. So there were some amendments that were approved to the deed as a result—for example reducing the trustee term from five years to three years and implementing postal voting for trustee elections. That also was a reflection of some of the stories and the concerns that we heard on the day. I simply wanted to stand and honour the submissions—all of the submissions not just the oral ones but all of the written ones that we got through as well—and honour the changes that the Māori Affairs Committee made as a result and the hard work that our advisers and our committee went through to arrive at a place where we have introduced the changes back into the second reading of this bill in the House. I look forward finally after the decades of toil and sweat that it took many people to get here to support this to the third reading. Thank you."