Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): Kia ora. I like my Labour colleague am a little bit flustered because it's certainly a change of news and approach that I was going to take with this kauwhau tonight because we have been on a long journey—we've been on a really long journey—and reflecting on the works of our ancestors our tūpuna and confirming the Māori fisheries settlement in 1992 then looking to amend and consult and since 2015 we are now at a standstill again.In 2015 the consultation on these amendments commenced. And I reflect on the then chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana Jamie Tuuta who as Te Ohu Kaimoana chair came to this Government and said in 2017 We're nearly ready to go"—because we had undertaken extensive consultation extensive consultation to get to a point where they were ready to submit to this House these amendments. And the Māori Affairs Committee did the work. The Māori Affairs Committee did the work and heard the submissions. Now as a former CEO of a mandated iwi organisation I appreciate what the Māori fisheries settlement has done for te Iwi Māori and know the transformation that it's provided in an asset base that we are able to grow and sustain our people.So these amendments here I believed we believed at its first reading last year—the Green Party stood in support seeking for it to go to the select committee and receive further submissions. We supported this amendment because it was an opportunity for us to show support for iwi rangatiratanga. That's the basis of these changes: to enable iwi to appoint and govern this fisheries asset together according to their own tikanga. I am frustrated because we're 32 years on since the settlement in 1992 and we are nearing a space whereby the Government engaged with Te Ohu Kaimoana and Te Ohu Kaimoana went out to the Mandated Iwi Organisations (MIOs) and the Representative Māori Organisations (RMOs) and consulted on how to give effect to rangatiratanga how to improve governance arrangements how to empower Te Ohu Kaimoana and how they can better work together to achieve the benefit back to our people. And now we are hearing we are being stalled.We are being stalled again at this very late stage considering the work of the Māori Affairs Committee who heard the voices of iwi they heard the voices of the RMOs and they said "Yes we take on board your whakaaro and we provisionally accept what you're saying and we'll amend and give recommendations back to this House." So I was ready to come in and say "Tautoko tautoko mārika tautoko this amendment to the Māori fisheries bill." Because as an uri of the fisheries assets I look to support the way with which the dollar can come back to our people and empower our people in the way that it can sustain our future generations. Simon Court: Are you supporting it?HŪHANA LYNDON: I am absolutely supporting what we were doing today but now that we are pausing to go out and consult further I worry about the pause that it will have for te Iwi Māori again.Simon Court: It's called democracy.HŪHANA LYNDON: This is te Iwi Māori's opportunity to put forward something that was agreed to. They agreed and they came forward after many years of consultation—Simon Court: You've still got to make the law.HŪHANA LYNDON: If I could get my words out—because I'm getting heckled by my colleague. I'm not even here to debate with my colleagues of the House; I'm here to support te Iwi Māori because they did the work and they came back through the Māori Affairs Committee and the Māori Affairs Committee came to this House and gave clear recommendations. We're here to tautoko that we are not here to put the handbrake on Māori aspirations and Māori desires to manage the fish asset better.So this was to improve governance arrangements. This was to empower rangatiratanga and also empower Te Ohu Kai Moana through the levy to do the good work that they do because of course they've grown in the way that they do their mahi. They are key advocates and protectors of the fishery settlement but they're also leaders in submitting and providing iwi voice into this House.And when we think about what we have coming forward into the future we need to listen to the voice of iwi. Iwi have told us clearly that they support this. Te Ohu Kai Moana is the vehicle to do this. And you know I think about some of the challenges because when you're out at sea it's not always smooth sailing. There are rough seas ahead. While those rough seas have been many years 2015 through to 2024 and still we can't tutuki still we can't get this through in a timely te Iwi manner which is what the chair of Te Ohu Kai Moana of his generation Jamie Tuuta said to the Minister of the time "Get this waka moving. Let's get this legislation through fast so that we can get on with the business." But hang on taihoa wait a minute. We're going to pause again and we're going to go out and we're going to consult some more because we know better. Well moumou. Moumou e hoa mā. Moumou wā [Waste of time people waste of time]. I look forward to telling my iwi when I go home to see them next week. No no no no—Kei te mōhio ēnei hunga o te Whare Pāremata. Kei te mōhio rātou kāhore te iwi e mōhio ana. Kei tēnei Whare tonu tēnei mana ki te whakahē i wō koutou mahi mō wēnei tau roa. Roa te haere roa. Nōreira ae he mahi pōhēhē tēnei o te Kāwanatanga. [These people of the Parliament house know. They know the iwi don't know. This House still has the authority to disagree with your efforts throughout this long year. It's been very long. And so yes this is a misunderstanding by the Government.] We do support this amendment as it stands and the recommendations that came through the Māori Affairs Committee. I don't want to belabour the point because actually it's all changed and I voice the disappointment that we are not able to move this forward at pace as per the request of our iwi and Te Ohu Kai Moana to get the waka moving.In closing—because I'm not going to waste my 10 minutes on this now—I need to regather my thoughts and talk to my people about how to consider what's just happened.A Ngāti Awa whakataukī to close: ahatia ka pukepuke te moana ka whakawhiti ai a Ngāti Wai. And that talks about even though when the waters get challenging and the rough seas come Ngāti Wai will persevere. On behalf of people of the moana I express my deep worry that we're going to put a handbrake on this really important piece of legislation that te Iwi Māori—Simon Court: Take it to select committee and have it out there. HŪHANA LYNDON: —and our iwi mandated authorities—which you won't know about. You won't know about te Iwi Māori; you don't know the work that our tūpuna put in.Simon Court: Oh I do I do. I've sat on committees for three years.HŪHANA LYNDON: No you don't. No you don't.Simon Court: Yes I do. Yes I do. HŪHANA LYNDON: No no no no no. He kaimahi ahau ki roto i taku iwi [I am a worker within my iwi] and I will not—I will not—put up with that type of heckling. Nō reira e te Whare tēnei ahau ka noho i tēnei wā. Kia ora.[And so to the House I will take my seat at this time. Thank you.]"