Tirikatene Rino: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 29 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9961. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Kia ora Mr Chair. I just want to make a brief contribution on Part 2. Part 2 obviously contains really the guts of the piece of legislation. It constitutes all of the respective bodies Regenerate Christchurch and Ōtākaro Ltd and really it follows very standard and sound practice the way that the entities have been set up.But I do want to just propose a pronunciation lesson on the name Ōtākaro Ltd. I have heard “O-to-karo” and “O-te-karo” and other different variations but if we are going to establish these entities let us make sure we pronounce the names properly. So I would encourage this Committee—and we have got helpful guidance because we have got macrons over the “Ō” and over the “ā”. So let us say it is Ōtākaro Ltd and people can just process that and maybe repeat it a few times—“Ō-tā-karo”. It is a beautiful name. Obviously it is a name for the Avon and you do see it all over beautiful Ōtautahi as we drive around our beautiful city.But just talking about Ōtākaro Ltd you know I do note the composition of the board and I do acknowledge the trust that the Minister has placed in some outstanding and very experienced company directors and chair governors—in particular Ross Butler who is the chair. We will not hold it against Mr Butler that he lives in Nelson but we know that he obviously has a very vast corporate governance experience and he chairs a number of significant companies across a wide range of sectors including Rangitāne Holdings Ltd. For those of you who do not know Rangitāne is a relative of one of the great South Island tribes centred up there in the Wairau region from the Kurahaupō waka. So I am pleased to see that Mr Butler has experience of working with the Māori economy. He has experience working with Māori organisations. I believe that if he can handle the politics of a Māori organisation he can pretty much handle anything—in particular his role as the chair of Ōtākaro Ltd.I do hope that the company that is charged with project managing and delivering on these key anchor projects is well capitalised to actually fulfil its role. We know that the Minister mentioned that he wants it to be a lean mean commercial entity and we certainly hope that. But we also hope that it has the actual resourcing to do its job properly and expeditiously.I know that all members here who are from Canterbury will lament the big doughnut that has emerged in the Christchurch central business district area. You know a lot of the development now has gone out to Addington way or out to Harewood way and there is still a lot to be done for the completion of these anchor projects. So we certainly hope that that doughnut will be no more and that it will be completed within a 5-year time frame in order to really step up its role to project manage some very important anchor projects.One other point I would like to make in terms of the disposition of land responsibilities which I think fall on Ōtākaro Ltd is to mention the piece of land Te Ihutai and obviously my relation over on the other side Tūtehounuku Korako will be well familiar with Te Ihutai. I think back to my uncle—we all call him uncle Uncle Rick Tau—Rākihia Tau who was the upoko for Ngāi Tūahuriri and I know that in respect of Te Ihutai which is a piece of land in the estuary there is some unfinished business around giving recognition or the return of Te Ihutai. Now there is obviously the devolution of powers from the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to Regenerate Christchurch and Ōtākoro Ltd I would hope that consideration would be had to the issues around Te Ihutai and perhaps the fact that that land is no longer available or is pretty much unsuitable for its original purpose which was a mahinga kai—a significant mahinga kai—for the hau kāinga Ngāi Tūahuriri back in the day.I would just appeal to the Minister through whatever influence he may have through the new bodies that we are establishing that some full consideration be given to the issue around Te Ihutai and that some compensation or recognition whether it be by a land swap or some other creative arrangements could be entered into with the owners of Te Ihutai with the responsibilities that Ōtākaro Ltd and Regenerate Christchurch will now have in their responsibilities as custodians and as developers of the land that is available in the Christchurch area. Kia ora tātou.