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DAVID GARRETT (ACT) to the Attorney-General: Will any legislation replacing the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 contain a clause preventing the Māori owners of sections of the foreshore and seabed held under customary title from charging or attempting to charge other New Zealanders for access to the beach?
 
 
Hon JIM ANDERTON (Leader—Progressive) to the Attorney-General: Is it Government policy to grant customary title in the entire Northland coast from Mangonui up the cape, and down to the Hokianga Heads?
 
 
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM (Green) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Is the Government committed to ratifying promptly the amendment to the Rome Statute reflecting the resolution adopted by the States parties to the International Criminal Court at their review conference in Kampala on 11 June 2010, incorporating aggression as a justiciable crime?
 
 
PAUL QUINN (National) to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: What recent progress has the Government made towards its goal of settling historical Treaty of Waitangi claims by 2014?
 
 
NICKY WAGNER (National) to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage: What is the Government doing to preserve New Zealand’s film heritage?
 
 
Hon JIM ANDERTON (Leader—Progressive) to the Attorney-General: Does he stand by his statement that 2,000 kilometres of coastline could be put into customary title?
 
 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations) : Ngāti Apa rohe, Ngāti Apa tangata, te iwi o te maunga tupuna i a Parae Karetu, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

[To the region and people of Ngā Apa, the people of the ancestral mountain Parae Karetu, greetings to you, greetings to you, and greetings to you all.]
 
 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations) : I move, That the Whanganui Iwi (Wanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Wanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill be now read a second time. Perhaps because I am Acting Leader of the House, I will resist all efforts by the chief Government whip for the House to lift before 6 o’clock; I think we should work to rule—work until 6 o’clock.
 
General Debate 16/06/2010
 
A few days ago the Prime Minister announced an agreement on the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act. National and the Māori Party have worked very hard on this matter since 2008 to try to heal the wounds inflicted on New Zealand by that odious legislation.
 
 
DAVID GARRETT (ACT) to the Attorney-General: Will customary title give its iwi holders an effective veto over coastal activities such as aquaculture, building or extending a building over foreshore or seabed, and undertaking any excavation of the foreshore and seabed, given that customary title grants title-holders “the right to permit activities that need a coastal permit or resource consent”?