Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): It is obvious to the Committee that what is more important to the National Government is stopping at 1 o'clock so its members can go and have lunch rather than deal with the issue at hand which is the homelessness situation in New Zealand. It is also a bit rich for David Thin-skinned" Seymour to stand up and start casting aspersions on the members of the Labour Party saying that they are petulant and accusing Grant Robertson of things when that member is No. 1 in the House for mocking and ridiculing other members. And yet when something happens to him or is said about him he is what we say in Māori a tangiweto—a tangiweto. He is a cry-baby. I want to address this directly and I have tabled an amendment to clause 10. It is a very important amendment. At the moment section 15(3) in clause 10 states: "Subsection (2) does not affect any right of first refusal that a person or group of persons has in relation to the land under any Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement or collective redress Act or deed." The wording here implies that this applies only to those Treaty settlements that have already been finished. I was at the Māori Affairs Committee today and we were talking about a number of iwi that have yet to have their claims settled such as Te Atiawa Tauranga Moana and Ngāti Pūkenga. Those are the ones that are before the select committee—not to mention that other noble iwi of my own that peace-loving passive humble iwi of Ngāpuhi who are yet to even have an agreement in principle or a deed of settlement signed. We are concerned that as it is written this provision in the legislation will not apply to those tribes that are yet to settle because we are talking about "under any Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement." So what I am proposing in my amendment after the word "any" and before "Treaty of Waitangi claims" is that we include the words "current or future Treaty of Waitangi claims." It is very small. It is not going to really require any major discussion. I just think that the Government needs to accept that it has missed out a little bit there and that we need to make sure this clause applies not only to settlements that have been completed but also to future settlements. Incidentally just coming from the Māori Affairs Committee we are going to be briefed on rights of first refusal (RFR) in the next few weeks. The officials told us today that no two RFRs are actually the same and there could be any number of differences. In fact they said there are about six or eight differences around rights of first refusal and it depends on the different settlement. For example what happens is that we are under the impression that iwi get the first right of refusal. That is not the case. There is a bit of a process that the Government goes through. The first process is it looks to other Government departments or agencies. For example a bit of land might actually be offered to the Ministry of Education if it wanted to build a school or a kura kaupapa or something like that. The second level is that it could be offered to a charitable organisation. For example Gloriavale is a charitable organisation. Land could be offered first of all to Gloriavale to help its charitable functions. And then iwi are the last cab off the rank. We are sick and tired as Māori of being the last cab off the rank all the time. Iwi should be at the top of the list. Iwi should be the first to get the right of first refusal not the last cab off the rank. Also I have to just make comment about David "Thin-skinned" Seymour and the way he is propping up the current system—David Seymour: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I would hate to give more credence to the accusation but I think it is important to uphold the standards of the House. It is not actually within the Standing Orders to call people by a nickname or moniker as the member has been throughout his speech and he should withdraw that.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Yes well—[Interruption] Order! I hear what the member is saying and there has been some latitude in calling people by various names. I just ask members to concentrate on the bill.KELVIN DAVIS: Mr Chairperson I will withdraw and apologise for being so hurtful. That is beside the fact that Mr Seymour is propping up the very system that is leading to homelessness. He is happy he said for a motorway to be built from Auckland to Wellington and that we compulsorily acquire land under the Public Works Act for any property owners who are holding up the works. However he will do that for cars and trucks and everyone else but he will not do anything for homeless people and helping people get into affordable houses. That just goes to show the priorities that the ACT Party has in terms of making life better for New Zealanders. David Seymour is happy for trucks and cars to get a fast access way from Auckland to Wellington Wellington to Auckland but he is not going to back New Zealanders to get into cheap affordable comfortable warm dry houses en masse. Thank you."