Mahuta Nanaia: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMahuta Nanaia: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 18 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18708. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Labour—Hauraki-Waikato):Now that I have gathered my whakaaro about this prompted very well by Rino Tirikatene there is one substantive part of the amendments that I would like to comment on and that is with regard to the Hauraki Marine Gulf Park. This is in relation to some things that are happening with the council in relation to the Sea Change project. There are a number of iwi interests included in the Sea Change project and a part of the Hauraki Marine Gulf Park that are not totally captured by the mana whenua interests in this particular bill the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill. From what I can determine of the intention of clause 163(2) and (3) it is amended to include three more areas in the park and in some sense that is a prospective enabling provision. But in its practical application what it does allow for is the ability for the Sea Change project to proceed in a way that takes account of all the interests within the Tāmaki isthmus and this is a good thing.The Hauraki Gulf is a beautiful part of the Auckland isthmus. Part of my electorate extends into this area. A number of the mana whenua iwi named in this bill and certainly within my electorate boundary are involved in the ongoing broader management of the Hauraki Gulf. There are real opportunities to be derived from having a functioning Sea Change project which can benefit everybody who lives in the Hauraki area and the Auckland area. Often in the summer periods if you go out to Clevedon and out to Ngā Tai and Maraetai there you have an opportunity to experience the beauty and also the recreational value derived from those areas all along the coast right the way round to Coromandel. You see the real beauty of the Hauraki Gulf. You also have an opportunity to try some Clevedon oysters.The quality of the marine space is quite important and the activity both recreational and commercial and in the aquaculture space is a real opportunity there. So it seems to me that the provision in clause 163 in particular which is including other areas in this space and which is to be inclusive in the way in which the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act operates is a positive one and it is an enabling one. It ensures that the mana whenua interests expressed in the Tāmaki Collective bill can be expressed in the management and the Sea Change project.I would like to just comment briefly in a general sense on other aspects because the amendments are very technical in nature and they are quite straightforward. As I said previously they reflect the intent of this settlement. They amplify the ambitions around greater management for the maunga within the Tāmaki isthmus and they also provide greater clarity to the public about their access to maunga that many New Zealanders cherish and which now allows mana whenua to express their history as it relates to Tāmaki as my colleague Rino Tirikatene so eloquently put to it you earlier in the Committee.We believe that the bill should proceed forthwith. I look forward to seeing how this bill is implemented in terms of the spirit of collective relationships amongst mana whenua in Tāmaki Makaurau. This is a new way of doing things. It is a different way. I remain to be—hopefully—well convinced that this is a model that others can look to about how you work together in densely populated areas where there are significant overlapping mana whenua interests and a number of key historical and heritage sites like the volcanic cones within the Tāmaki isthmus. With that said again I say that I hope that the bill proceeds fairly quickly to its third reading.