SIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you, Mr Chair. Firstly, I'd like to acknowledge that the member Rino Tirikatene, who's brought this local bill to the House, has done so on behalf of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Environment Canterbury. I want to acknowledge that the member does represent that iwi, and that they no doubt have concerns—around the performance of local government, and control over the way land and water is used in decision making—which they feel they need to have a voice on. I can understand why, because, for many, many years, local government, local councils disrespected the values of communities—particularly Māori communities—all over New Zealand, by building waste water treatment plants in front of their marae, in places like Māngere in Auckland, by dumping all the rubbish in landfills and estuaries where communities collected shellfish and exercised their customary rights. So it's quite understandable that Māori communities—whānau, hapū, and iwi—all around New Zealand have concerns about the performance of local government and the exercise of decision making over natural resources in particular.