Mahuta NanaiaHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato): Tēnā koe tēnā tātou katoa. Firstly I want to join in support of my colleagues in Labour and across the House in supporting this bill. Alastair Scott thank you for introducing it—it was relatively painless before the Māori Affairs Committee. I do not want to traverse areas that members have already covered; I would probably be of no great use to the debate of the House to cover those matters. But I think there are points of clarification that will be useful which have not been focused on by members previously and that is around the dual translation of legislation.The committee considered in part the prospect of translating this amendment bill through this process. However we were advised by parliamentary counsel that the best way to address the issue of dual-language bills is when you are creating an entirely new Act. We thought about the precedent that it would set if we were to go down the path of drafting amendments in Te Reo Māori while the principal Act was going to remain in English and we considered that not to be a good precedent. However in saying that we saw the virtues of the Māori Affairs Committee starting to think about the way in which we could address the issue of dual-language bills. It just so happened however that Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill was the bill before us—some 400-odd pages—so whether or not we eventually decide to go for a dual-language bill in that particular instance remains to be seen but it would be of a good precedent-setting nature for the committee. The other thing that is of useful comment with regard to the modernisation of this bill is the rotation of the term of office for the board. It is helpful I believe that in the fifty-fifty representation of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Board they have outlined exactly how the rotation will occur and the term of office that each board member will serve. That is really to ensure that like all good boards there is active succession planning and rotation of members to be able to get the contribution of people to the activities of the trust.A lot has been said about the way in which funds will be distributed. I took some time—a little bit of time—to read the original bill. In terms of the distribution of grants they were also used for residential scholarships as well so I take it that that was to enable people to go to boarding school. That was a very real prospect in the early years in which the trust was in operation. I hazard a guess that many people went to Te Aute College and St Joseph's College as two schools within the Wairarapa/Kahungunu area. That would have been a very useful grant for families to receive to help their kids get to school and further their education.I want to endorse all the comments about education being a window to opportunity and a real way to lift the aspirations of people—no matter where they are from and what their status is so to speak. I know from very small communities that trusts like the Papawai Kaikokirikiri Trust have made a significant contribution to growing leaders within the Māori community so I want to applaud that as a continued ambition of the role of the trust.One minor bit of focus that I would like to draw the attention of the House to is that the select committee amended the bill to enable the trust to invest in more than just land. That is just recognising that the modern investment decisions that boards are making now go well beyond land and should the trust want to diversify its interests in whatever way it decides fit the bill provides for that. I think that is a really positive move forward.I also want to like Metiria Turei comment on the issue of the selling of land. The corpus lands remain intact and that is very clear. However should the trust want to purchase further lands and then sell them that is fine—they can do that but the corpus lands remain intact. I think that comes back to the original intent of the gift that established the trust: the strong connection since 1843 that people will have to the lands that were originally vested in the Papawai Kaikokirikiri Trust and also to reaffirm the tangata whenua connection of the people in the Wairarapa to these lands the benefits that come from them and the distributions to the various aspirations of the board. With that said this has had a fairly I would like to say speedy but I think average kind of passage through the role of the select committee. We did give it some strong attention. We did not want to dilly-dally around with its progress before the committee. I want to mihi to those trust members who came to the select committee. I think they were a little bit overwhelmed with the whole select committee process but we were all the richer for hearing from them the aspirations of their trust and what they want to do for the future. That just confirmed our belief that in modernising this legislation and enabling the trust to get on with its business having some guidance that can help its operations would be a very positive and fruitful exercise to help them achieve their aspirations. Nō reira tēnā tātou.