Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Ā tēnā koe e Te Heamana ā huri noa i Te Whare nei e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.[Thank you Mr Chairman and my acknowledgments to you all throughout this Chamber.]I just want to acknowledge the fact that this bill has taken a long time as the previous speaker Rino Tirikatene has just reflected. With what he is talking about it could possibly take a bit longer. What I want to do is to say that the Government supports the three Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) to amend the Te Rarawa Claims Settlement Act 2015 Te Ture Whenua Maōri Act 1993 and the Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Act 2003.I really want first of all to acknowledge Meka Whaitiri because I know that when we were in Gisborne hearing submissions and when the Māori Affairs Committee has done the work on this bill Meka Whaitiri has always been very passionate about the different parts of the bill which is particularly reflected in her SOP. But I think the important thing here—unfortunately we are not going to support the SOP. One of the reasons is that when we looked at the bill originally it was actually about bringing this legislation into sort of the 21st century in some ways and also to provide more clarity around different procedures. This is the one here because what Meka Whaitiri's SOP 205 does is it addresses the primary purpose of the bill. Meka Whaitiri's SOP proposes to remove the part of the bill that clarifies the jurisdiction of the High Court and the Māori Land Court over the Wī Pere Trust and returns it pretty much to the status quo. Currently the High Court and the Māori Land Court hold jurisdiction but there is actually no clear demarcation. There is no clear demarcation of what the jurisdiction is that they actually hold.When we looked at this—this bill as drafted clarifies that the High Court has jurisdiction to settle disputes relating to the administration and the governance of the trust and excludes the Māori Land Court from having that jurisdiction. Yes we know that. We looked at that. But the argument that Meka Whaitiri has put forward in favour of her amendment is that the Māori Land Court has the appropriate expertise to deal with these matters. In some ways she is right. The Māori Land Court has expertise in matters related to Māori freehold land and that is why this bill still gives it jurisdiction over matters related to Māori freehold land itself.However there are other matters here related to commerce administration and governance where the High Court has the appropriate expertise. One other thing particularly is that the trust assets are not just limited to Māori freehold land. I think this is the real essence of this one. When we look at that there are other things that this trust is involved with. This really does bring it into you know more of a modern time and more into the 21st century. There is this argument around the commercial cost to go to the High Court. But when looking at it it is only on these really serious matters but there is also that disputes resolution process that they could go to.So I do think that this bill as it has been drafted does not need this SOP because it actually creates that sort of clarity and demarcation as to what the two courts actually do. The fact is that freehold land is not the only thing that this trust actually deals with. Kia ora.