Mapp Wayne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Mapp Wayne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Volume:616;Page:12531] 
12.  
Dr WAYNE MAPP (National—North Shore) 
 to the  
Deputy Prime Minister 
: Does the Government expect that Maori will demonstrate ancestral connection over the whole coastline given that the Associate Minister of Justice said on 3 March 2004 that “Maori already have customary title over the whole coastline.”? 
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN (Deputy Prime Minister) 
: 
 I would think so since the area of mainland coastline with probably the least activity by Maori in 1840—that is the south-west of the South Island—has already been recognised as part of the Ngai Tahu rohe by National in the Ngai Tahu treaty settlement. 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: Will the ancestral connection result in Maori having co-management of the whole coastline as envisaged by the Minister of Maori Affairs in answers in the House last month; if not why not? 
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN 
: Ancestral connection triggers the involvement of Resource Management Act processes and as the member is probably aware the Resource Management Act processes involve a wide range of possibilities at the discretion of the regional council. Under section 33 of the Act for example there is already the capacity—in the Act passed by the National Government in 1991; the existing legislation—not merely for co-management but for full devolved management. 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: How will the strengthened ability to participate in the decision-making process over the coastline be implemented and will that not amount to co-management as said by the Minister of Maori Affairs? 
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN 
: It will involve a range of processes of involvement all of which are already set down within the Resource Management Act. Co-management is a possibility within the—[ 
Interruption 
] Some 13 years on the National Party discovers what it passed in 1991. The Resource Management Act provides for co-management. National Party members will clearly have an uneasy Easter regretting their past. 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: Now that the Minister has conceded co-management—[ 
Interruption 
] 
Mr SPEAKER 
:I know that was the last supplementary question but I will ask the member to repeat the question again and there will be silence this time. I am not satisfied with the noise that came from the Government benches. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I do not want any points of order. I will hear the supplementary question. 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: Now that the Government has conceded co-management as requested by the Minister of Maori Affairs surely that means this legislation delivers effective control over the whole of the coastline to Maori; if not why not? 
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN 
: I have not conceded anything of the sort. I merely remind the member of what I knew I voted for in 1991 in the Resource Management Act but clearly no member of the National Party at the time did and National has not passed that knowledge on to its younger members. There is a range of possibilities within the Resource Management Act. This does not mean handing over control of the coastline in its entirety to Maori. If it does I am not quite sure what the noise out there from many Maori is about.