PAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you, Madam Speaker, and it's a pleasure, always, to talk in the House. Just can I acknowledge our Minister of Local Government, the Hon Nanaia Mahuta, for bringing this to the House and getting traction, because this isn't about a race-based philosophy. What this is about is reducing barriers. I know when I see Māori land around Aotearoa New Zealand—1.4 million hectares, much of it unused, undeveloped—and owners who have aspirations for the use of it being unable to develop this land, facing an array of challenges, unique at that—but the worst thing is that they are subject to rates and they go into arrears because these things just have not got the use and the potential of it for them, at ease, to make the land profitable or usable in whatever way that they feel fit. So these legislative changes are part of a wider programme to support Māori land owners, trustees, and their whānau to realise their aspirations. 