Ko te Manatū mō te Taiao te rāngai matua e kawe ana i te urupounamu a te Karauna ki te Uinga Rawa ā-Motu Wai Māori me te Ngāwhā ā te Taraipiunara o Waitangi.
The Ministry for the Environment is the lead agency for the Crown’s response to the Waitangi Tribunal’s National Freshwater and Geothermal Resources Inquiry.
I te Poutūterangi 2012, i whakaheia te tono e te Taraipiunara ki te whakawā nonoi nei i ngā kerēme e rua. He kerēme e hāngai ana ki ngā motika rangatiratanga ki ngā wai, ki ngā rawa ngāwhā hoki.
E hāngai ana tēnei kerēme ki te kaupapa here ā te Karauna ki te whakatūmataiti i ngā hinonga Kāwanatanga e whā (ngā pakihi hiko). I whakataungia tēnei me te kore titiro ki te tiaki me te whai wāhi atu o ngā motika Māori ki ngā rawa wai i whakamahia e ngā pakihi.
E hāngai ana tēnei kerēme ki ngā panonitanga whakahaere rawa ā te Karauna. Ko tā ngā kaitono, kāore te panonitanga nei i te āta whakamahere e pēhea e whakamana, e whai wāhi hoki ai ngā motika me ngā whai takenga ā te Māori ki te wai.
Kua wāhia te uiuinga kia toru ngā wāhanga. I pēnei ai, kia tōmua te whakawā i ngā wāhanga nonoi o te uiuinga.
Ko ngā motika me te whai takenga ā te Māori ki te wai me ngā pānga o te hoko atu i ngā hea o tētahi o ngā hinonga pakihi hiko e whā.
Ko te wāhanga tuarua i aro ki ngā tikanga whakahaere, ki ngā panonitanga wai hoki ā te Karauna.
Ko te wāhanga tuatoru o te uiuinga ka aro ki ngā motika, ki ngā whai takenga a te Māori ki ngā rawa ngāwhā.
Ko ngā paewhiri o te uiuinga Wai 2358, ko:
Ko ngā whakawātanga mō te wāhanga tuatahi o te uiuinga i mahia nonoi nei i te tau 2012. I aro ngā whakawātanga ki ngā motika me ngā whai takenga ā te Māori ki te wai mai i te 1840, me ngā pānga hoki o te marohi ā te Karauna ki te hoko atu i ngā hea hinonga pakihi hiko.
I puta i te Taraipiunara he rīpoata wāhanga tuatahi hukihuki i te Hereturikōkā 2012, i te Hakihea 2012 puta ai te rīpoata whakamutunga mō te wāhanga tuatahi.
I te Pipiri 2015, i whakatauria e te Taraipiunara kāore he whakahau raka mā te Karauna e nonoi tonu ai te tūranga o te uiuinga.
I whakatauria e te Taraipiunara, me kōkiri kē te uiuinga mā te aro ki ngā whāinga tōmua, he miramira i ngā tino take kei mua i te kerēme me ngā whakatoihara pūmau nui kei pā ki te Māori.
Ko ngā whakataunga mō te wāhanga tuarua o te uiuinga i tū mai i te Whiringa-ā-nuku 2016 ki te Whiringa-ā-nuku 2018.
I puta i te Taraipiunara tōna rīpoata tōmua mō te wāhanga tuarua i te Hereturikōkā 2019.
I te Hereturikōkā 2022, i whakahaerehia te Taraipiunara he uiuinga nahenahe tōmua e aro ana ki ngā āwangawanga mō ngā whakaritenga kia whai wāhi ai te Māori ki ngā kōmiti whakamahere ā-rohe i raro i ngā ture marohi Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA) me te Spatial Planning Act (SPA).
I puta i te Taraipiunara he rīpoata hukihuki mō ngā Tūranga Māori ki te Kōmiti Whakamahere hei putanga tōmua.
Ko te wāhanga tuatoru o te uiuinga ka aro ki ngā motika, ki ngā whai takenga hoki a te Māori ki ngā rawa ngāwhā me ngā kaupapa here, tukanga hoki ā te Karauna e hāngai ana ki aua rawa.
Kei raro iho ngā tino take kua whakatau mō te uiuinga (Wai 2358, #2.6.96):
Ka kōkirihia te Wāhanga Tuatoru o ngā whakataunga mai i te tau 2024.
Whakapā mai ki info@mfe.govt.nz mō ētahi kōrero āpiti.
In March 2012, the Tribunal granted an application for an urgent hearing into two claims. The claims are about Māori proprietary rights in freshwater bodies and geothermal resources.
This claim is about the Crown’s policy to privatise four state-owned enterprise (power companies). This was without first protecting or providing for Māori rights in the water resources used by the companies.
This claim is about the Crown’s resource management reforms. The claimants said the reforms were proceeding without a plan to recognise and provide for Māori rights and interests in water.
The inquiry was divided into three stages. This allows for the most urgent part of the inquiry to be heard first.
Māori rights and interests in fresh water and the potential impact of the imminent sale of shares in one of the four state-owned power companies.
The focus in stage two was on the Crown’s freshwater management regime and its reforms.
Stage three of the inquiry will focus on Māori rights and interests in geothermal resources.
The Wai 2358 Tribunal inquiry panel consists of:
Hearings for stage one of the inquiry were held in 2012 under urgency. The hearings dealt with Māori rights and interests in water as of 1840, and the impact of the Crown’s proposed sale of shares in state-owned power companies.
The Tribunal released an interim stage one report in August 2012 and its final report for stage one in December 2012.
In June 2015, the Tribunal determined there was no imminent Crown action to justify the continued urgent status of the inquiry.
The Tribunal determined that the inquiry would instead proceed on a ‘priority’ basis, noting the importance of the claim issues before it and the prospect of significant and irreversible prejudice to Māori.
Hearings for stage two of the inquiry were held from November 2016 to November 2018.
The Tribunal released its pre-publication report for stage two in August 2019.
In August 2022, the Tribunal held a discrete priority inquiry into claimant concerns about arrangements for Māori representation on regional planning committees to be established under the proposed Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA) and the Spatial Planning Act (SPA).
The Tribunal released an interim report on Māori Appointments to Regional Planning Committees in pre-publication format.
Stage three of the inquiry will focus on Māori rights and interests in geothermal resources and Crown policies and practices in respect of those resources.
The following have been confirmed as main issues for inquiry (Wai 2358, #2.6.96):
Hearings for Stage Three are scheduled to commence in 2024.
Contact info@mfe.govt.nz for more information.