SpeechHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): E te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe. The Green Party is pleased to support the Thomas Cawthron Trust Amendment Bill. I congratulate Rachel Boyack and everyone in the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Cawthron Institute for all of the work that they have done in developing this bill.I'm grateful to the Cawthron Institute because I came face to face with a scampi there. One of the many aquaculture research projects that the institute has done involves being the first agency in the world to captive-rear scampi which are a species of clawed lobster. They live in deep waters. We've got species that are endemic to Aotearoa. They're quite a substantial fishery in the Southern Ocean but the Cawthron Institute's work here was aiming to establish captive-rearing so that scampi could be taken at peak condition and avoid pressure on the wild fishery. As Rino Tirikatene has noted the institute works across a range of sectors to benefit primary industries in Aotearoa particularly in fresh water in aquaculture and their base at Nelson and their research facilities on the Boulder Bank does enable and make sure that they're close to a really diverse community of interests in Nelson and Marlborough particularly in the aquaculture space. There are more than 300 staff and I noted too that they've got quite a programme of having guest workers where they invite others from other institutes and universities to come in and do research for a period of time and that helps encourage collaboration.This bill is important particularly because of the provision not just for modernising the principal Act but also for enabling Te Tau Ihu to appoint a statutory trustee to Te Tau Ihu's chairs forum to appoint that statutory trustee to join the Mayor of Nelson the MP for Nelson—in this case Rachel Boyack working alongside the Hon Dr Nick Smith in his new role on the trust board. That representation for Te Tau Ihu is really important because of the increasing work which the Cawthron Institute is doing in terms of Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā perspectives on issues like aquaculture.Just some of their research projects: I discovered something called oxygen nanotechnology which involves small bubbles of oxygen seeking to trap nutrients in the sediment of some of our eutrophic lakes. And it was the New Zealand Māori Centre for Research Excellence Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga which commissioned the Cawthron Institute to do this research to look at how we could have other techniques other than geoengineering some of these polystyrene rafts that are being put into lakes to absorb nutrients.And another really interesting project which again provided that bridge between Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā and māramatanga and just the Māori knowledge and more traditional knowledge was looking at the impacts of trout and people's different views around trout in our rivers and lakes in Aotearoa. Of course Fish & Game has done a lot with trout advocacy which is aimed at improving river water quality lake water quality and getting water conservation orders. Others perceive trout—as Tā Tipene O'Regan called them opossums of our rivers—as a pest. So it's how do we get some shared objectives here and the Cawthron Institute's research was looking at where is there a shared goal: restoring native fish habitat removing trout where rare species are threatened.So this bill in modernising the work of the trust board and providing for more diverse representation ensuring that there is a strong representative there for Te Tau Ihu iwi will take the institute further and build on its very good work particularly across our water spaces and the work that its staff and the board do. Kia ora.