Maipi-Clarke Hana-RawhitiHANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE (Te Pāti Māori—Hauraki-Waikato): [Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]I have a few questions and I've also had a few relevant experiences recently that I think the Gangs Legislation Amendment Bill will heavily impact within my electorate and within my community and actually within my whānau.One of the first questions I have for the Minister of Justice is: what measures does the Minister have in place to mitigate Māori profiling? Another question is: how will the Minister ensure police discretion is used in a way that doesn't disproportionately discriminate against Māori? And then in clause 3 of the bill there is reasonable grounds". What is the definition of "reasonable grounds"?Some of these relevant experiences happen to me. As an MP the bigger picture of all of this is that actually I think I will be probably one of the most impacted MPs from this bill within my community of Rāhui Pōkeka. Every two weeks I will probably get pulled over for no reason. There is absolutely no reason why young Māori are getting pulled over in the streets of our communities. We are not gang members. We have no affiliations to gang patches whatsoever. But this is the racial profiling that happens consistently within our communities. And ever since October when I moved to Wellington part time I've never ever—me and Tamatha have similar situations.We're both young women from the Waikato places like Huntly and Tokoroa and when we come to places like Wellington with our flash suits and our flash get-ups we're not once pulled over by a police officer for no reason. As soon as I get back on my flight tonight I have fear or anxiety of getting pulled over for no reason—no reason. And there are so many experiences that I could share but I don't want to because it's not for this place to hear about because it could be quite traumatic. And I'm not trying to victimise myself or profile ourselves but these are the experiences that we face on a daily basis growing up in places like Huntly like Tokoroa like South Auckland.Recently I've been attending tangihanga throughout my electorate and I want to know from the Minister: what is the process of tangihanga now with this bill? Sixty police officers to a tangihanga throughout Hauraki-Waikato in rohe like Hauraki Ngāruawāhia Whatawhata having armed checkpoints with M4s and then on burial day having an Eagle helicopter circling the urupā of a cemetery as karakia commences as they lower the caskets of their loved ones. We have witnessed an enormous amount of police cars showing up at streets to marae to checkpoint at tangihanga. I would really like to seek clarity from the Minister: does this mean this bill now gives the authority to interfere in tikanga Māori such as protocols cultural considerations and tangihanga? And please bear in mind that some of these tangihanga are non – gang-related at all. They are non – gang-related at all. Some of these tangihanga that I'm taking about.I have asked these questions to the Minister of Police also and haven't had a follow-up. So it's not like this is[Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]Consistently we have seen these events happen within our communities through the Māori electorate seats.Another pātai is: if gang members are a part of tangihanga how is that going to work? And on an even more personal note it was only last week that one of my relatives passed away and he was part of a gang. The police and the community worked collectively together with the whānau pani and community to have a tangihanga that worked sufficiently throughout the community. I took the time to actually look around at the tangihanga at that time and think "How is this logistically going to work? Is every single member in this tangihanga going to get arrested? Am I going to get arrested because I'm a part of this tangihanga?" These are some of the logistical questions that we want to have answers to at a bigger scale with tangihangas happening.Now this happened as soon as this Government came into power. This didn't just happen recently; this happened as soon as this Government came into power. We have had multiple hui with whānau who have actually a really good relationship with local police officers. Now I know this may not be in the scope of the Minister of Justice's portfolio however I do believe that these kaupapa align. They have a very good relationship with local police. However when tangihanga like this have been happening recently in the few months that it has been happening they have been told that they're getting clear direction and indication from Wellington from this place here. They are not wanting to interfere in tangihanga with the M4s with helicopters. But these are police officers who are coming from outside of our local respected electorates coming into our town.Now I'd also like to add if I get the time—CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): You can keep going. You've got the floor.HANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE: I would also like to add that in my community it's where the police officers actually come to train. So in Huntly in South Auckland police officers are coming in big multitudes and coming to train in our communities. They have no idea what we go through. They have no idea who this community is. They just go for the biggest Māori population with the biggest crime rates come in mess it all up and then go home.I don't want our communities to get into gangs. I completely tautoko that. I don't want anyone to commit crimes; we're clear about that as Te Pāti Māori. But we have to remember that gangs came from the abuse of this State. They came from this House and we heard that last week. So I want to understand: what is the Minister going to do with the questions that I have just[Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]the many different relative experiences that we face in our communities like Tokoroa like Huntly like South Auckland throughout the Māori seats. Tēnā rā tātou.CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): I'm going to call the Hon Dr Duncan Webb but just before I do I just want to make a comment. I've heard a couple of comments in the House about select committee. Yes we have select committees and yes we have readings either side of those but this is actually a committee of the whole House where not everyone in the House has had the opportunity to be at the Justice Committee. Part 1 of this bill is quite broad around the purpose and the definitions and the intentions and so if someone has or hasn't been at select committee at this point there's an opportunity to ask questions so I just want to make that very clear."