Turei MetiriaMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I te tuatahi ka mihi au ki a Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā tēnā koutou katoa.[Greetings to the House. First of all I acknowledge Rangitāne Tū Mai Rā accolades to you all.]The Green Party supports this bill and we are looking forward to it going through all its stages quickly and progressing quickly. There has been a lot of talk already from members about the redress and the history. One of the things I am really pleased to see in the bill—just to take a slightly different tack—is the redress the provision for Rangitāne to have positions on the management of the Manawatū River. I know it is the Green Party; we are talking about this. Ha ha! I say: yes please—more Māoris in the management of our rivers please. That is a great first step in the protection of our awa. I am a river kid. This is how we grew up: my dad when we were living in Ashhurst would come home from work and he had this really great Kingswood station wagon. He would pick us up and pick up the soap and we would be able to ride down to either the Pohangina River on one side of the Manawatū River on the other side of Ashhurst sitting on the back of the Kingswood doors. You know how you used to be able to put the door of the station wagon down you could sit on the back of it and let your little legs dangle over the side. Yes he would drive slowly down the hill to Pohangina or around to Ashhurst Domain to the Manawatū and we would swim and wash and just have this fabulous time. We spent summer after summer after summer in those rivers. So we know that these rivers at times have been devastated. Manawatū was one of the most polluted rivers in our country for a period there as a result of run-off from farms and from towns from these constant sources of pollution. But it was also where dad took us eeling. You know we were down there all the time getting food as well as swimming and having a wash. These were the ways we lived our lives. We were not posh Māori whanau; we were just ordinary working-class Māori living on the land that we belonged to swimming in the waters that we belonged to and taking sustenance from both when we needed to. That was just how you did stuff. But we had no control over what was going on and now at least one step towards that in this bill is Rangitāne having much more involvement in the protection of those awa—the awa that give us life the awa that were such a joy for ourselves in the past and for our kids and grandkids well into the future. It is a small part of the bill. There is a lot of description in the bill about the cost to Rangitāne of the confiscations of the sales of the failure to deal with the reserves effectively—all of those things. But there are good things as well that will prove enormously beneficial for Rangitāne themselves and for the wider community and for the environment. So I just wanted to highlight that. There are some great things that are going on with this too. Finally I just want to acknowledge Hēnare Kani who was involved in the negotiations—an absolutely lovely man with a big big heart who just puts a huge amount of work into this and also into environmental protection. It is a real passion for him: taking care of our kids and taking care of our environment. Whānau and whenua—that is what it is all about. So finally I just want to say congratulations to those who have negotiated to this point. There is a little bit more work to go but it is the last end of the process and I am looking forward to our participation on the Māori Affairs Committee as we see this bill through. Kia ora koutou katoa.