Tirikatene Rino: Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 04 November 2014. Volume:694;Page:603. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Ā e Te Mana Whakawā tēnā koe. E aku rangatira ngā manuhiri tuārangi nō Te Tai Rāwhiti kua hara mai nei i roto tēnei Whare Pāremata tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Nau mai haere mai ki Te Ana o ngā Raiona e takatū nei. E rau rangatira mā huri rauna i tēnei Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. To you my leaders and visitors from the East Coast who have arrived here in Parliament House greetings and acknowledgments to you collectively. Welcome draw closer to the lion’s den waiting here in readiness and accolades acknowledgments collectively to you my leaders of a hundredfold throughout this House and to us all.]I am delighted to speak in the first reading of this bill and also to round off the contributions from the Labour Party today. We wholeheartedly support this bill. Like all of these extended sittings these are historic sessions in Parliament and I do acknowledge our iwi from Te Tai Tokerau who have been here today for their first readings.I am reminded as we consider this bill of the great Minister of Māori Affairs in the third Labour Government the Hon Matiu Rata who initiated through the passage of Te Tiriti o Waitangi Act back in the mid-1970s this modern era of Treaty settlements that we are part of today. I do acknowledge him and especially because of his iwi Te Hiku o Te Ika who are here today to have the first reading of their bill. It is a very historic occasion.As I turn to this bill I am making only a short contribution but can I firstly acknowledge all of the rōpū who are part of the committee that will be formally constituted through the passage of this legislation. I acknowledge my whanaunga from Ngāti Pāhauwera and I see Toro Waaka up there who through the passage of the Pāhauwera settlements basically initiated the formation of this committee. That was also affirmed by Maungaharuru-Tangitū and I see Tānia and Bevan there as well—representatives from that.We are in the 51st Parliament now but highlights for me in the 50th Parliament were definitely the passage of so many pieces of settlement legislation and I do acknowledge the Minister and all the work that we do as members of the Māori Affairs Committee. During the 50th Parliament we saw the passage of the settlements of Ngāti Pāhauwera Maungaharuru-Tangitū and also the Te Urewera-Tūhoe settlement as well. They are all represented as members of this committee.This bill is about increasing Māori—hapū—involvement in natural resource decision-making. As I acknowledged through the instigation of the Treaty of Waitangi settlements in this modern era we are seeing a whole lot of unique configurations of joint management advisory committees—all sorts of different joint decision-making bodies in the local government space. I do commend that. I have got a very big electorate but if I look to the south we have got Ngāi Tahu and our regional groupings which we have for instance down in Murihiku or in the Canterbury region where they work very closely with the local authorities of those regions. I also acknowledge the Greater Wellington Regional Council which had its own self-initiated bespoke committee that was created Te Upoko Taiao—and I do acknowledge the Hon Fran Wilde who is in the House here today. I know that might not be in accordance with the Standing Orders but I do acknowledge the Hon Fran Wilde for her work with the Greater Wellington Regional Council.We are seeing the proliferation—and it is a wonderful thing—of these joint management bodies right around Aotearoa. From the north to the south east to the west local authorities are working with mana whenua with hapū and with iwi on resource management decision-making processes and long may it continue. Long may it continue. I guess our Māori aspirations as we have mentioned throughout our kōrero today are for tino rangatiratanga. We want an equal say. We do want an equal say. We want that partnership in natural resource management and we do want to influence the way that decisions are reached. These committees that are created such as the committee under this bill are a way and a means for our being able to express that partnership that kaitiakitanga those aspirations that we have. But this is given meaningful effect—meaningful effect—through this legislation.I do want to acknowledge the points made by my whanaunga nō te nōta Mr Paraone. I think he did raise some interesting points around the validity of decision making given that the committee has been operating for I guess over a year now and I am sure that those matters can be easily sorted out with us at the select committee level.I do also note the contributions from our fine member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti Meka Whaitiri regarding the exclusion of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi incorporated body. Given that this bill does encompass the Hawke’s Bay regional planning and the regional council which not only takes into account the land but takes into account water and the coastal and marine environment and given that Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc. is a mandated iwi authority for the purposes of fisheries matters in terms of the fisheries settlement—and I know that they have had applications that they have made for marine farming out on the coast there—there should be consideration given to their inclusion in this bill perhaps to make sure. Although I know that Ngāti Kahungunu is completely represented as well through the representation of all the hapū that together make up the wonderful iwi of Ngāti Kahungunu. So there are issues that we will consider at the select committee. I am looking forward to working with my other whanaunga Nuk Korako from Te Wai Pounamu Ngāi Tahu whānui and other members on those particular matters.Just to conclude my contribution today I did enjoy the contribution from the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell with his melodic utterance of the beautiful waiata from another whanaunga of mine from Ngāti Pāhauwera Canon Wī Huata who penned that wonderful tune. What a wonderful kaumātua he was. I do have fond memories as a little boy going up to Mōhaka and seeing him in full flight.For the record and just to complete my contribution the words of that waiata “Tūtira mai ngā iwi” are very very apt for our kōrero our deliberation on these bills this morning. But what I wanted to do is just for the record of Hansard correct a really common faux pas. There is an extra word that has been brought into one of the lines of “Tūtira mai ngā iwi”. For the life of me—it should not be there. It is “kia tapatahi”. The last few lines go: “Kia tapatahi Kia kotahi rā Tātou tātou e”. When I grew up we added a “ko” in there: “Kia ko tapatahi.” That “ko” should not be there and I have that on direct authority from the Huata whānau. So for the record of Hansard and for the benefit of Aotearoa for those people tuning in I want to ask that we remove that little “ko” that crept into that line.Louisa Wall: Sing the line Rino.RINO TIRIKATENE: OK I will have to call on my tuahine here to join me. Let us do the whole lot and then we will round it off:Tūtira mai ngā iwiTātou tātou eTūtira mai ngā iwiTātou tātou eWhaia te māramatangaMe te arohaE ngā iwiKia tapatahiKia kotahi rāTātou tātou eKia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. Tēnā koutou katoa.