Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Ka pai. Tēnā koe e Te Heamana. I daresay there will be a few tongue-twisters this evening with the contents of the two bills in front of us. First of all I stand in support of my colleague Meka Whaitiri's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 205. She started to talk about the role of the Māori Land Court and the role of the High Court and I would like to support her particular SOP out of concern about when jurisdiction such as this is changed. I just briefly want to look at Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. In the principles in clause 3(4) of that bill it talks about (a) Māori land endures as a taonga tuku iho by virtue of whakapapa: (b) tikanga Māori is central to matters involving Māori land: (c) Te Tiriti o Waitangi is central to the application of laws affecting Māori land:" and so on. There are several others there but you get the general gist of what I am saying there. I support the SOP from my colleague because of the concerns with regard to the ability for the High Court to understand the types of matters such as whakapapa and to understand the types of matters such as tikanga. I do so not to say that the High Court is not of high quality but to say that it is all about the precedents and it is about the involvement that the Māori Land Court has had with Māori land. In dealing with matters pertaining to Māori land whether it is trusts or organisations the size of the Wī Pere Trust or whether it is trusts or organisations of a much smaller nature—of which a lot of the Māori land blocks are across Aotearoa—they are not all under big control. But I think too—and we will no doubt cover this throughout the length of this evening—that this also signals to a lot of Māori land owners across Aotearoa who will be asking: "Well is this where things are heading in relation to Māori land jurisdiction and Māori land ownership?". I have got some serious concerns about that which is why I stand in support of Meka Whaitiri and her Supplementary Order Paper 205. We have had some feedback over the past number of months since this bill was taken off the Order Paper—and we find it back now—from Māori land owners across Aotearoa who do not see this as simply a trivial matter of taking it out of one jurisdiction and putting it into another. There is a far more serious impact that could befall many of the Māori land blocks across Aotearoa. Now I want to turn to Supplementary Order Paper 231 in the name of Minister Te Ururoa Flavell with regard to the form of money that was allocated to Te Pūtahi Pāoho and that will now because of the result of Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori of April last year—and I understand that these are some technical matters that just need to be cleaned up. We support that like we do for Te Reo Māori. We want to see that money be used for the purposes of Te Reo Māori. I just have a question for the Minister and I guess it is directly or indirectly—I will leave that to your discretion sir—about when that money is appropriated for Te Mātāwai and its exact purpose. Given that Te Mātāwai has been operating for a year now I have got some questions around the administration. Like I said sir I will leave that to your discretion. But we do support that particular SOP so that the functions of Te Mātāwai can get on with it. I am curious to hear a little bit more about those. So just to wind up my short call I support Meka Whaitiri's SOP 205 and of course SOP 231."