Turei Metiria: Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTurei Metiria: Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 02 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9335. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]METIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to acknowledge the trustees of the Papawai and Kaikōkirikiri Trusts Board who are here just as I understand it or have been here this afternoon.Ko Tararua Te Maunga ko Ruamahanga Te Awa ā ko Tākitimu Te Waka. Nō Rangitāne me Kahungunu-ki-Wairarapa nō Ngāti Moe ahau; ko Ngāti Moe Te Hapū ā ko Papawai te marae.[The mountain is Tararua the river is Ruamahanga and the canoe is Tākitimu. I am from Rangitāne and Kahungunu to Wairarapa and Ngāti Moe. The subtribe is Ngāti Moe and the marae is Papawai.]Kia ora. Just saying.Pita Paraone: So you’ve got a vested interest.METIRIA TUREI: I have a vested interest in making sure the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Amendment Bill goes beautifully through the process. I am very pleased to be speaking for the Green Party on this bill and we certainly support it. I am looking forward to the kōrero that we are going to hear about this bill in the select committee actually.There are many trusts like these all over Aotearoa that use Māori land and Māori resources from years and years and years back from generations back and there are many reasons why those resources are being used by trusts like these. They are set up to provide support to Māori children in particular for educational purposes. I have myself been a recipient of grants from the Wairarapa Moana Trust for example and I know the extent of the need out there for this kind of charitable work and support for Māori children and young people. So I am really pleased to see this being recognised here in the House. It is a chance to express my personal—but also I think on behalf of many of us who have received these kinds of grants from these kinds of trusts—gratitude to those who do the work to provide that extra financial support to whānau who struggle. You cannot underestimate the importance of that.I want to just quickly acknowledge there are a whole heap of Māori MPs from Papawai.Ron Mark: Yay.METIRIA TUREI: Yay. I do not think I have got the list completely right so members please correct me if I am wrong: Ron Mark and Marama Fox. Peeni Henare I understand has connections. Is it right that Rino Tirikatene has connections back to Papawai? There are others. Joanne Hayes has connections back to Papawai. MPs who are no longer in the House: Edwin Perry who was a New Zealand First MP and Rāna Waitai who was a New Zealand First MP.Ron Mark: Tūtekawa.METIRIA TUREI: Tūtekawa had connections back to Papawai. Parekura Horomia I understand bless him had connections back to Papawai and maybe there are many others. What really interests me of course is that Papawai being the place of the first Māori Parliament has managed to produce so many Māori MPs across the political spectrum. There has got to be something in that I think.We are pleased that in terms of the bill the bill is an attempt to modernise the trust board and to provide it with more flexibility and opportunity to use the resources it has to improve its financial standing and therefore to improve the services that it can provide to Māori whānau. I am very pleased to see the focus shift away from Anglican children. I thought we were all Catholics so you learn something new every day.Ron Mark: No the Anglicans took the land from us.METIRIA TUREI: “The Anglicans took the land.” says Ron Mark. But I am pleased to see that the process is being cracked open a bit to make it more accessible and I think that again that is part of the modernisation of a trust board like this. Being able to have an opportunity to speak to some of the trustees from this trust board over the dinner break I feel very confident that the kaupapa the purpose of these trusts is in good hands. I am looking forward to the stories that we will hear in the select committee about the history of these trusts and there may be some concerns raised too. We will take those seriously as we consider it. But I am very pleased to be supporting the bill tonight. Tēnā koe.