Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): I rise to support the Estimates for this theme and talk to Vote Māori Development Vote Treaty Negotiations and Vote Arts Culture and Heritage time allowing. In the Estimates consideration at select committee we heard that Vote Māori Development had received increased Estimates funding of 60 percent over the past 5 years going up from $195 million to $312 million. This has been spread across the four anchors for Māori development each of which I would like to touch on.The first anchor for Māori development is Whānau Ora which received $71.48 million. We were interested in the Estimates around what the outcomes measures might be for that funding. As my good friend and colleague Nuk Korako has described the seven components to the outcomes framework for Whānau Ora I will not reiterate them but we did have quite a detailed discussion as to how the Estimates funding might be spent and we are satisfied that it was well accounted for.The second arm to Māori development is whenua Māori and this received $1.79 million in the Estimates. This is primarily tied to the new Māori Land Service which will be enacted as part of Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. The Māori Land Service has several functions. These include land registration components of governance capacity building dispute resolution—which was quite important as this came to committee—and land utilisation. Again we discussed what the outcome measures are and we were told that this was for review after 5 years.The third component to Māori development is whare. This talks to Māori housing initiatives which received $22 million. We heard as the Minister has said that Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK) does not build houses; TPK is responsible for managing Government funds and for collaborating with Government departments. Having said that in the last financial year the whare component to Māori development has resulted in 22 affordable housing units and 136 whānau homes.The fourth part to Māori development is whakapapa. We heard that the Marae Ora programme will receive $10 million over 4 years. This is primarily around building relationships between whānau in the community and their marae. So we had quite a detailed discussion over Māori development.The committee then talked to Treaty negotiations with an appropriation of $400 million. We heard that 16 percent of these funds are going to claimant funding roughly the same amount is going to takutai moana and the balance—roughly two-thirds or 66 percent—is going to negotiations on and implementation of historical Treaty claims.We asked what the progress was because we have a target of settling all claims by 2020. We heard that 83 deeds of settlement have been signed and 54 deeds of settlement remain. There was also some interest in the select committee around the Post Settlement Commitments Unit which actually sits under the Ministry of Justice. We were interested in its role and responsibilities. We heard that this unit is responsible for 6000 historical commitments that it monitors. We were also made aware that it could indeed revisit previous settlements. Finally I would like to touch base on the arts culture and heritage fund and both congratulate the Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage on and thank her for the very generous funding that the Hundertwasser Wairau Māori Arts Centre received earlier this year: a further $3 million added to that previously received for a total of $7 million fitting the old formula of a third from local government a third from central government and a third from philanthropic sources. The Regional Culture and Heritage Fund is a fund of last resort and for the Hundertwasser Wairau Māori Arts Centre it was a last resort. We actually had the funding all ready to go and then the new seismic regulations as a consequence of Kaikōura added on the extra $3 million which the Minister and her officials were able to come to. So again I would like to thank the Minister for that and complete my contribution today. Thank you.