Horomia Parekura: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Horomia Parekura: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 07 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6385. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
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 Tena koe Mr Speaker. E whakaaro atu mo te pire nei mo te tu o te Maunga o Mauao me me nga awa katoa i reira me te takutai moana. E mohio atu tatou mai ra no a te tuku tiko ki roto i te wai e kare e whakaae atu ratou Nga Potiki. E mihi kau ana ki a ratou te iwi e whaiwhai tonu atu mo te take nei. E mihi kau ana ki te kaunihera e whakahuri atu to ratou whakaaro e whakaae atu te pirangi o te hau kainga. No reira mihi atu ki a ratou na te mea i roto i aku e mohio atu tatou e rereke atu tera mahi te tae atu o te paru tangata ki roto i te wai. I reira ke nga taonga nga kai o tatou mai ra no. He aha ai e whakaae atu? Te tino pohehe a te mahi nei e te Kaiwhakahaere o te Whare; e pirangi atu te kaunihera ki te tuku atu i te whenua i te wahi ki a ratou hei whakamahi atu i te mahi e kare e whakaaea te katoa. No reira e tino mihi atu ki te Whare nei ki te kaunihera e mahi atu i to ratou mahi. 
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Thank you Mr Speaker. I am thinking about this bill and Mount Maunganui with all its rivers and coastal waters placed there. We know that the release of excrement into the water has been going on for a very long time and they Nga Potiki have never approved of it. I commend them the people who have continued to fight this matter. I acknowledge the council who have changed their minds and have agreed to the wishes of the local people. So I congratulate them because within me we all know that releasing human effluent into the water is really abnormal. Our treasures and food have always been there since time immemorial. Why has it been allowed to happen? Mr Speaker of the House this action is really perplexing; the council want to give them the land the place for them to utilise but it will not allow the majority. So I really commend this House and the council for playing their part. 
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There are two words in society that people get mixed up: tiko and teka. Tiko is about excrement; teka is about embellished fibs. Maurice Williamson is gazing at me with real concentration because sometimes a lot of it flows from over there and we need to ensure that we can differentiate. It is difficult at times. 
It is difficult at times to differentiate between tiko and teka coming from over there. But this bill has put a surety into it. It ensures that we appreciate that excrement going into the sea is not a good thing and it does not matter who tikos—it is the same Pakeha tiko Maori tiko. But when Pakeha law tries to take away from the haukainga more than lore it is a bad thing and the council needs to be recognised for their efforts in turning this legislation round. 
I know my colleague Trevor Mallard would agree with me in relation to that even though sometimes he expounds on things in great language that are hard to differentiate. But it is important. It is important that we do not continue to dirty the water with the human water waste and allow it to carry on. God forbid if I were out there trying to get paua or kina and something that came from Maurice Williamson’s body was floating past there. That is how dastardly—that is how dastardly and reprehensible this excrement is. 
We have turned a blind eye. What has come down from the bottom has passed into the waters and it has taken the Maori people to object to it. It is great that the council has had the courage to not give the land to not let the development go ahead and to recognise what the tangata whenua are crying out for because this is a great thing. They are talking representatively of what all the people care about in Tauranga. It is no good sitting in your great pastel confines gazing out at the sea and saying: “Cor this is a beautiful sight” yet knowing that that creepy-crawly tiko is floating around in the water. That some people have used the idiom of teka to say that it is all right is not well. Maurice knows that he wants to listen to this because he believes in it. He is really a greenie at heart. He is not the extreme right masochist person that people think he is. He is a greenie at heart. 
This is more than the Greens. This is about human common sense. Do not pollute the waters. Do not put your foul management out there. Is it not great that we should celebrate that a few brave Maoris who live under the gaze of their mountain Mauao have decided to try to turn round history? This country is bad for it. Even over in Petone even around the foreshore you see it still coming out. So at least the Maoris and the Pakehas and especially that iwi there have stood together to defeat this korero teka about puta te tiko. We need to do it more in this country and make sure that we do not carry on with embellished fibs—that is teka—trying to ignore and deny that tiko goes into the domain that we all love and want to cherish and keep clean. Kia ora.