Jones Shane: Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
Jones Shane: Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
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Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
: 
 Tena koe Mr Chairperson. I direct the attention of the Committee to clause 50 which is on pages 17 and 18 in the Minister’s Supplementary Order Paper 207 to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. I have a modest and very helpful contribution in the form of an amendment to clause 50(3)(c)(i). As a reflection of the very shoddy process rushed drafting and deprived opportunity for people to have their democratic chance fully exploited I invite the Government of the day to support this small change. It may come to pass that I am the only Maori member who will effect a small change to this legislation. If that be the case I want  
Hansard 
 to note that I did not need to leave my party to enjoy this status. 
I want to tell Tau Henare and Paul Quinn the man who injudiciously and unwisely boasted that he read 500 pages that Mr Quinn did not spot that error in subclause (3)(c)(i) where the Crown seeks to weaken and further make the Maori position in the seabed and foreshore more marginal unknown to the member from Waiariki Te Ururoa. On that point I must say that the term “muru” means to plunder and thieve. “Muru roa” will be a name that will always—not Ururoa—be associated with this bill. 
Te Ururoa Flavell 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. Kei te whakahe au i tera momo korero e whakaiti nei te ahuatanga o taku ingoa. Ko maua kei te mohio ki a maua. Kare au i pera rawa ki a ia. Kare au i hiahia kia pera rawa a ia ki toku ingoa toku whakapapa. Me tuku whakapaha tonu a ia ki a au otira ki oku tupuna. 
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I object to that kind of talk which belittles my name. We know each other really well. I do not behave like that towards him. I do not want him to belittle my name and my genealogy. He must apologise to me and my ancestors forthwith 
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The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Rick Barker) 
: The member makes a fair point. We should use each other’s names in this House respectfully. I invite the member to withdraw the comment he has made and continue. 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: Whakapaha ana au. I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. There is an equally well-known Maori saying—and indeed it is repeated in the Bible—“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. That rhythm and pattern of behaviour started with that member in his description of one of my new-found colleagues Mr Harawira. However let me come back— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Rick Barker) 
: I entertained the member’s point of order not for him to make a further one. If the member who was offended at the time took offence then it was for that member to raise the point of order and seek a withdrawal. The fact that the member did not raise it does not leave it open to the Hon Shane Jones then to make the point on his behalf. The fact is that Te Ururoa Flavell has taken offence at the misuse of his name. It is a fair point and I have asked the member to withdraw the comment. 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: I withdraw and apologise. I direct our attention and the attention of the member from the Maori Party back to the contribution that I am making which whether or not he likes it he will be voting for. It involves the change of the word “of” for the word “by”. Mr Quinn has called out “Whereabouts?”. It is on page 18 of Supplementary Order Paper 207 which he has not read in new clause 50(3)(c)(i): “to inform iwi hapu”—[ 
Interruption 
] I want the House to note when we move from the word “of” which is probably a possessive particle—unlike Tau Henare not possessed by Beelzebub—to the word “by” the introduction of the word “by” enables the readers and the leaders of the hapu to understand that the obligations of the Crown will impact them. It will potentially have an inimical impact on them or it could be irrelevant. 
I am inviting Tau Henare Paul Quinn and Te Ururoa Flavell to support this simple modest very helpful and pro-democratic contribution this evening to bring lucidity to what in many respects is very dense and largely incomprehensible legislation which is not unlike the contributions blurted out from that member who lives in Te Atatu but who will never represent Te Atatu. 
I should go on. I do not want to overplay the importance of this amendment but I will bring it to the attention of the Attorney-General in the spirit of reasonableness. Not unlike a number of members on this side of the Chamber he is no stranger to the finer points of the English language. So not for us these coarse contributions not for us these banal outbursts; we leave that to that portion of the rump of National which is soon to disappear when the party vote declines. It will be rather sad but rough justice that the member who fled from Winston Peters will watch that portion of the vote for the National Party bring Winston Peters back in and him out. He will go like the takutai moana—the ebbing of the tide. 
I need to come back and be relevant. A tremendous level of importance is attached to ensuring that when notice is given to our Treaty partners the Maori Party ensures that it does not look as if the Maori Treaty partner is being possessed by the Crown in the way in which the Maori Party is now possessed by National. No this has to do with a likely impact.