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Download AudioA Labour MP fears the select committee considering a bill to amend the Takutai Moana Act could get bogged down in misinformation.
The bill will overturn a Court of Appeal judgment setting out the test for customary rights in the marine and coastal areas.
Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister says the court has gone much further than parliament envisaged when it replaced Labour’s Foreshore and Seabed Act, and he wants to set a high bar for acknowledging Māori rights.
But Manurewa MP Arena Williams says the Government is trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.
“The justice committee will now be asked to prioritise essentially hearing for ordinary New Zealanders who have seen the ads in the newspapers, they’ve seen the Hobson’s Pledge ads and they think the beaches are being taken away from them,” she says.
Arena Williams says the bill will extinguish more than 200 proceedings with multiple applicants, who will be denied justice.
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