Hon PEENI HENARE (Minister of Defence): Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. The kaupapa for my kōrero today is partnership. I find it really odd that in the seven years of being a member of this House, I stood in this House alongside what I at least would consider a giant in the Treaty settlement space. Minister Finlayson, for his time, premised much of the Treaty settlements under his watch under partnership—not only just the ability to be able to settle grievance, but to establish new partnerships. In fact, this House passed many bills into legislation, making sure that Māori had partnership in many mechanisms through the settlement process, whether that be at council level, whether that be with Government agencies, or whether that be with the Government itself. We all stood in this House and supported those pieces of legislation, and, sadly, what we're seeing today from the National Party is dismissive of those achievements made by Minister Finlayson, but, more importantly—and sadly—actually attacking the kinds of partnerships we're growing on this side of the House. 