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As the mandated enity it is the Trust Board’s responsibility to communicate with its claimant community – FAILED

As the mandated enity it is the Trust Board’s responsibility to communicate with its claimant community; however to date they have failed to do so. With only 80 people attending the 6 consultation hui, but yet the Trust Board have spent $603,000 worth of OTP funds trying to do so.

So here we are at an impasse; although the Minister of Maori Affairs has advised, “It is the mandated entity’s responsibility to communicate with its claimant community”, the entity refuses to communicate openly and freely. The Governments AIP offer is publically available; all of the funding details are publically available; the NKKWTB deed is publically available; but the entity still refuses to communicate openly.

I must admit I’m perplexed; I can’t see how the government expects the land claim process to succeed unless they can convince the Trust Board to openly communicate.

What is the Post Settlement Governance Entity?

32.  What is the Post Settlement Governance Entity?

Trust Board Reply:

The Post Settlement Governance Entity is the organisation that will receive any assets that form the Treaty settlement. That organisation must be elected and appointed by the Iwi who are registered for that Claim. The PSGE must meet rigorous standards set by the Crown, around governance, legal status, constitutional requirements, representations, transparency and accountability.

So 48,500 acres stolen, 8,157 acres proposed to be returned by the Government; that’s 17% we get back?

The Hui Booklet says we once had 50,000 acres, and we now have 3% (as per AIP page 43) in Maori title; which is 1,500 acres. So the government must have stolen 48,500 acres, and now they are proposing to give back 8,100 acres; right? So, what we’re actually getting back is 17% of our stolen lands.
 
The AIP says roughly the same thing but we’re sort of getting back 8,157 acres; the reason I say sort of is because the Government has put various restrictions on what we can do with the land.

Will there be further Road Shows after the voting?

25.  Will there be further Road Shows after the voting?

Trust Board Reply:

There may be further Consultation Hui after the final ones planned in September 2013, if there are requests from whānau in other communities. However, the turn-out to Consultation Hui has not been high, whereas there have been many hundreds of people connecting to the Trust Board through the website and Facebook page, and the Trust Board is putting information from all the Consultation Hui on both those sites as a way of ensuring that this information reaches as many of our iwi as possible.

What are the roles of Marae delegates on the Trust Board?

33.  What are the roles of Marae delegates on the Trust Board?

Trust Board Reply:

Each Marae selects its own delegates, suing whatever process they wish. The Trust Board does not have a role in selection of Marae delegates. The Marae delegates are accountable to the people of that Marae, and they must represent the interests of that Marae at the Trust Board.

Who gave the right for the Trust Board to carry the mandate for WAI 116?

29.  Who gave the right for the Trust Board to carry the mandate for WAI 116?

Trust Board Reply:

The Trust Board received the mandate from the people of each of the Marae and in Tamaki Makaurau after elections held in 1998, 2001 (this election was facilitated by TPK) and 2003. At each of these elections, this Trust received the support of the people to carry the mandate. The Trust had to meet rigorous requirements from the Crown, in terms of advertising Hui, maintaining a database of people who attended and voted, minute-taking at these meetings, and reporting to the Crown.