Hayes JoanneJOANNE HAYES (National): Kia ora. I stand to take a call on the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill and I too want to just pick up on a couple of threads from the speech of Kelvin Davis the previous speaker when he talked about Kahungunu and his travels around the North Island. I must say that Rangitāne my ancestor on my mother's side also lived a pretty roaming kind of life which begat Rangitāne ki Wairarapa Rangitāne ki Wairau Rangitāne o Tāmaki Nui ā Rua and a few other Rangitānes around the place. As I said my mother hails from the Wairarapa. Her ancestress down there is a woman by the name of Ākura and I too also whakapapa into the Papawai Marae through her. Just a little bit about the Papawai Marae—the Papawai Marae was the first marae in the country to hold the Māori Parliament so it has got some amazing history behind it. I am very proud to come from the Wairarapa and proud of the history that I learnt later on as an adult as my mother became more and more open with her whakapapa which she held fairly close and to herself. My mother was very driven when it came to education and I must say that our educational background as her children was derived from that. That kind of got into the head of my father as well. They said to us that the only way to success and freedom was to have a good education. So this particular bill the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill is about education and the education of Māori. I am pleased to see that it has widened out because our whakapapa across Aotearoa New Zealand is wide and it offers the ability for everybody to be able to gain from the funds that this trust generates on an annual basis. So when we start looking at the land amounts or the acreage we are looking at a quite significant land block which at around about that time would have totalled 722 acres—nothing to be sniffed at—and the revenue gained from that has helped a number of our mokopuna go through the education system over time. Previous speakers have touched a lot on where the bill has come from. I too want to thank Alastair Scott my colleague for bringing in this member's bill as its sponsor and I thank the whānau who took the time to bring the old bill and work with Alastair to modernise it into today-speak which has resulted in a widening of the number of people who can actually access the education funds. When we start to look at that area around the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts' lands we do see a steeped history of the school—as the previous speaker said—being built burning down and not really coming back to its full strength. But when the submitters came to the Māori Affairs Committee I was really impressed with the way that the trust has been set up for educational purposes. I believe as I stand here today that it is one of the leading Māori educational services in our country. I was very proud to hear what they have done and how they are doing it. As I said there is lots that this bill has changed—all the little tweaks and that—from the 1943 Act which had 10 board members down to having eight board members. There is the way those board members have been going through selection with four of them coming from the Bishop of Te Upoko o Te Ika and four obviously from within the tangata whenua or mana whenua of Wairarapa Kahungunu and to be able to not throw the baby out with the bathwater—to have it so that once their term finishes or the office becomes vacant they can actually reapply and go back on. The other area that I was looking at in the old Act was the remuneration for these boards of trustees. I see in the new bill that there is a facility in there for that because they do work hard and they are appointed because of their expertise and ability within the education field and within their representation of the iwi as well so it is nice to see that there is some sort of remuneration for them with this bill. There is not a lot more that I want to say. I just want to thank the members on the Māori Affairs Committee ably led by my colleague Nuk Korako and I look forward to the further progress of this bill as we move towards its Royal assent. I commend it to the House. Thank you.