The Māori land in Auckland has 265 properties in Māori freehold land title, covering 8,600 hectares of land. This represents less than 0.1 percent of the Auckland rating base. That's not much but it's an opportunity for Māori to engage meaningfully with our local council to talk about solutions and opportunities of how they can get involved and they can start to develop their whenua. "Auckland Council supports the proposed amendments set out in the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Bill (the Bill). The proposals align with the council's current policies regarding Māori land rates. The Bill also provides council with new powers that will enable us to address long standing issues"—they say—"with rating Māori land. In particular, Auckland Council supports the proposed amendments to: expand the categories of non-rateable Māori land, [to] empower local authorities to write off arrears"—yes, that's right, to empower our local authorities—"[to] treat rating units of Māori freehold land used as a single economic unit as a single unit for rating purposes to reduce the number of fixed charges that apply, [that we] enable Māori freehold land to be apportioned on request into separate rating areas so that separate occupiers of the land can be rated directly only for the portion of … land [that] they use". For Tāmaki-makau-rau, this is an opportunity to work with Māori, and we've seen steps. We've seen their aspirations in Auckland for Māori wards. They celebrate the work that this Government has done. So thank you very much. I commend this bill to the House.