Quinn Paul: Māori Trustee Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeQuinn Paul: Māori Trustee Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 05 May 2009. Volume:654;Page:2863. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PAUL QUINN (National):It is a pleasure to take a short call. I want to focus on and address Part 2 of the Māori Trustee Amendment Bill. As the Minister of Māori Affairs rightly pointed out in his brief overview of this part it is about the transitioning arrangements between the old organisation and the new organisation. It is appropriate that we reflect for a bit of time on transitioning because that is something that this Government has done extraordinarily well. It has transitioned from the previous Government to the new Government. In fact we have done outstandingly well in terms of for instance getting through our 100 day programme. That is particularly important in terms of transitioning to ensure that the right things are in place and life can go on. That is what we are particularly good at.Part of that process is to clean up the mess that was left behind. That is evidenced in this part which originally made reference to 1 July 2008 when this bill was supposed to have become an Act. Of course the previous Government was totally unable to do that so we have had to take on the responsibility. We have changed that date to 1 July 2009 which is mentioned in this bill. We have been able to push it through with determination because we care about the Māori people. We care about economic development. We do not stand there and just talk about it. We do something about it. That is why the transitional arrangements in this bill will come into force in July 2009.Hon Phil Heatley: Talk talk talk.PAUL QUINN: We are sick of talking. Unfortunately my colleague and friend Kelvin left the Chamber when I last spoke about economic development. That is not part of this debate so I will not talk about it but I am happy to talk to him about economic development because that is exactly what we are on about—aspiration for Māori iwi and hapū. We do not talk about it; we are getting on.This is exactly the Government to push through the transitional arrangements in this bill. As I said in an earlier call it is about making sure that prior to the enactment of this bill in July 2009—and members should remember that date July 2009 because we will stick to that; we will not put it in the bill and sort of think about it—the new corporate sole as it is described in the bill will take over all of the legal requirements of the existing organisation. Simplistically the existing organisation will go out of existence. It will have in place for instance contracts with employees or contracts to deliver and if we do not have these transitional arrangements no one will be able to pick them up. An employee will have a contract with the old Māori Trust Office and if he or she is not covered by these transitional arrangements he or she will not have a contract for employment. We want to make sure that these people are cared for because we are a caring Government. We care about making sure that these transitional arrangements go into place.Once we have the Act in place in July 2009 as we have timetabled we will then be able to move on and meet the needs of Kelvin who really should be on this side of the Chamber—H V Ross Robertson: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I know the member is a new member and I did not pull him up on the first occasion but I will on the second. On both occasions he has used a member’s first name. Under the Speakers’ rulings members must use a member’s full name his or her portfolio or his or her title.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): That is correct. I ask the member in future to refer to the member by his or her full name.PAUL QUINN: Thank you Mr Chairperson for that guidance and I apologise to the member. I hope the member Mr Kelvin Davis does not take offence. If he has taken offence I ask him to please accept my apology. We will have to have a beer in the pub later. Anyway I get back to the business at hand and focus specifically on these transitional arrangements. It is important that these are put in place so that we can have a seamless transition.