Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Thank you for the opportunity. I just want to respond to the contributions and I want to acknowledge the Hon Eugenie Sage for her support for the bill. She hit the nail right on the head—this bill is a about recognising Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the role that the mana whenua Ngāī Tahu has. It goes back to the Ngāi Tahu settlement where in that settlement it recognises that this is about a new age of cooperation between the Crown and Ngāi Tahu. Environment Canterbury gets it. That's why they have come to this House with this local bill to ensure that they can see the evolution of that age of cooperation through the appointment of Ngāi Tahu representatives to Environment Canterbury. So I want to acknowledge the member for her contribution in that respect.In relation to Mr Doocey: again no member divulges conversations that take place within caucus. But what I can say is that this local bill as a local bill has been through all internal processes and that that is why it has the support of the Labour members of this House. My role as the sponsor of the bill is to ensure that I can get the support to ensure its passage. So the Labour members are in support of this bill. It is a local bill so it has nothing to do with other bills that might be within various stages of this House. This is a specific local bill relating to Environment Canterbury.I also want to say that when we talk about the history of representation for Canterbury we mustn't forget that National took a top-down approach when it sacked Environment Canterbury back in 2010 and appointed commissioners. Yes the Labour Party was vehemently opposed to that action by the Government at that time. But this arrangement is a silver lining that emerged from that arrangement when commissioners were in charge and when there were transitional arrangements in place. This was a silver lining that came through and it's worked. That is why Environment Canterbury have brought it back to the House—they want to make it a permanent arrangement because it did work. Having the knowledge expertise and the contributions of Ngāi Tahu representatives at the council enhanced the decision making and made for better council decisions. That's why they've come back to this House: to ensure that.I can also go back to the Hansard of that 2016 legislation at the time where I spoke—we all spoke—in support of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu having the right to appoint members which incidentally was made express through the passage of that bill through the House. I even—thinking back to my contributions at that stage—said What is going to happen at the end of the transition period? That arrangement needs to continue on." And here we are today with this bill being brought back to the House to ensure that that arrangement can be put permanently into law. In relation to Mr Mooney's contribution: again he was quoting from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. That declaration is subject to domestic laws that we pass here in this Parliament. That's what we're doing—this is a local bill which has come through. This legislation is its own piece of law which is relevant for Environment Canterbury and the Canterbury region and which recognises its mana whenua Treaty partner in Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu having the right to have its representatives at the council level. So that's what we're doing here in terms of putting through this bespoke piece of legislation. This is only applicable to Canterbury—that is why it's a local bill. It doesn't apply anywhere else in Aotearoa. I struggle to think how it could actually because for such a vast geographical area there is only one single iwi mana whenua Treaty partner in Ngāi Tahu and that is why this arrangement can be brought through to this House and that's why Environment Canterbury are doing it through this local bill. I'll just leave that at that for now."