Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I have got just one question around Part 4 for the Minister in the chair and that goes to clause 47 Interpretation". It is page 50 for the Minister's benefit and it has a definition of "private premises" which "means a private residence a marae or any other premises to which members of the public do not frequently have access". My question to the Minister is as to why there is specificity about a marae. There are three categories there: a private residence which could mean a number of things; a marae which can mean only one thing; and "any other premises to which members of the public do not frequently have access" which means pretty much everything else. I think my Māori caucus members will have some questions about this—as to why there is this specificity about marae.I had a think about this when I first had a read and maybe the definition offers some protection to a marae but from what I am reading it does not. It singles it out specifically as a place that is different from a private residence and any other premises to which members of the public do not frequently have access. I think some of my Māori caucus members may actually dispute whether or not a marae is in fact private premises because of the kaupapa of a marae. As to why a place of worship may not be included within the definition of "private premises"—or sports clubs or any other organisation that may have a well-known base or centre or physical building—why has that place not been specified under "private premises"?I bring that up—and I think other colleagues might be better qualified and will probably take a call—in the context of what happened around the Urewera raids and the damage that they had on the communities and the relationship between the police and those communities which were centred on Māori communities. I cannot find a reason as to why there is a generic definition of "private residence" and "premises to which members of the public do not have frequently have access" and a marae of all things is singled out. I think there would be quite a lot of people in our Māori communities and those who are in and around communities where the marae is a centre of that community who will want to know why they have been singled out. I have asked my colleague David Parker who is on the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee as to why that is the case; he does not know. I think it is a fair enough question as to why marae are singled out.It is a sensitive issue because marae are sacred. They carry a lot of mana in the community in terms of what happens there and the people who are in and around them. If we are singling them out as private premises and if that interpretation of private premises gives them a different status from other buildings or other centres in the community I think those communities deserve to know why. I am open to it being for a protection reason and I have tried—and maybe I have not got there yet—to find whether or not it gives them a special status that protects them a little more but I cannot seem to find that. I think given the context of what has happened in the past—and even without that context—I say to the Minister that it seems very odd to me as to why "private premises" can mean a private residence other premises to which members of the public do not frequently have access and a marae. I think that is a fair enough question for the public to get an answer to."