Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. I'm wanting to follow on from my Labour colleagues and point to a tabled amendment if that's all right from my colleague Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan. He put forward a potential—Hon Kieran McAnulty: Good guy.HŪHANA LYNDON: It's all right to carry on?CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Yes.Glen Bennett: He's a good man.HŪHANA LYNDON: Oh yeah yeah. No I was just going to say because we've got a few named amendments up there so I just wanted to talk to the Green one. My colleague Dr Lawrence put forward a change again similar to my colleague from Labour that we should be up front about what the intention of this legislation is to replace the electoral legislation and Māori wards and Māori constituency name with actually the repeal of Māori wards and Māori constituencies. We know that ultimately the referendums will be divisive in our communities and they will see an end to the potential of what Māori wards have bought us for the last three years.By naming this legislation and being honest about what is going to happen at least we can show New Zealand that this is an upfront piece of legislation and being really clear that ultimately we understand and know that the referendums will be the death star for Māori wards.The Repeal of Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies Bill" if we were to move ahead with that as the name of the bill would place at the centre what the ultimate outcome would be. It's really disappointing where we're at because we heard in submissions the fact that it's been a natural progression of hapū and iwi relationships that the way that community has been moving—and we've heard from Māori leaders who have said this legislation and this repeal misses the heartbeat of New Zealand and where we have been moving as a country. Now we're at a place where we're not being up front about the fact that we're going to acknowledge that referendums are going to roll across the country. The referendums will see a flood of external pressure on our communities and ultimately Māori wards will be no more. So the proposal to change the name to the "Repeal of Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies Bill" is being straight up. It's about owning the destination because ultimately it is going to see the end of Māori wards as we know them. The past referendums have disempowered Māori voice. The past referendums have provided a divisive platform for Māori and for Māori voice in local government so let's adopt a name that's straight up. Let's be straight up about where this will end up landing and it will see the end of Māori representation in local government.I want to refer briefly to a report from the Auditor-General that we received in the Environment Committee. It was really awesome. It was a review of hapū and iwi relationships in local government since 2019—awesome report because it profiled four councils who have grown their relationship with hapū and iwi. Māori wards are plus/plus. It was a plus/plus opportunity. They do not take away from those important relationships with hapū and iwi whether they are settled or not but placed at the centre of it Māori community hapū iwi and the opportunity for and/and. So I recommend that we seriously look at the name. What is in a name? A name is so important just like Whakatāne just like Whangārei. Kia ora.Arena Williams: Madam Chair—HŪHANA LYNDON: I haven't finished. I'm on a roll—let me go.CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): That was too quick.HŪHANA LYNDON: So it's my proposal that we get to a point where we have the honest conversation as the committee and following on from my learned colleague who has spoken to the fact that we need to be straight up about the destination where we're heading as this legislation will see an end to Māori wards and Māori constituencies across the country. So there is strong tautoko from te Rōpū Kākāriki that we adopt the name "Repeal of Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies Bill". Kia ora."