Hon ANDREW LITTLE: The Waitangi Tribunal has been seized of issues for Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua for some years. It made some decisions back in 2017 that let to further engagement, further discussion, further review. It made an interesting point, or proposition, in one of its more recent decisions—I'm talking about the tribunal now—that suggested, in relation to the mandate held by the Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua Settlement Trust, that it may not have had a mandate for one of the iwi that it was representing, Ngāi Tūmapūhia, and it should have known that because Ngāi Tūmapūhia had been part of litigation challenging the mandate—notwithstanding earlier findings of the tribunal that that only way to deal with mandate is to go through the agreed process for withdrawing mandate. On balance, considering the tribunal's decision, considering the extra effort that went in and the improved package that was agreed to with the settlement trust, and having heard from all the parties and seeing the risk of further delay, I made the judgment that it was time to bring the legislation to the House.