1. Ngā painga Māori i te tikanga taiao Māori values in the Proposed Plan
Mana whenua of our region have invested their values in the process and content of the Proposed Natural Resources Plan. The Council has welcomed and supported their commitment and together they have developed a plan that emphasises the importance of values, particularly the connection and collaboration with community and mana whenua. This is a very significant commitment that has taken place over the last decade and whose origins go back to I want to briefly cover the intention, process and implications of mana whenua values in the proposed plan. These have been addressed in detail in my S32 and S42A reports.
It is important to remember Maori diversity which contains the full spectrum of attitudes and interests regarding resource management. Whilst iwi investment in the PNRP was drawn from their shared concerns and beliefs held in common, they have distinct perspectives on the environment and their own priorities for its management. They have put these aside to create a plan that is enabling and educative. Iwi are along with GWRC also of course resource users themselves and will increasingly be active applicants in the post settlement era.

2. Whaitua Implementation plans
Mahi Tahi -
Mana
Whenua
GWRC
Ara Tahi (COU-MOP)
RPS integrated
Te Upoko Taiao
PNRP integrated
Shared objectives for
water management
Whaitua Implementation plans
RMA
LGA
NPS
Tino Rangatiratanga
Mana Whenua
Ngā kawa –
me ngā tikanga
Kaitiakitanga
PNRP
So where did this partnership commitment come from. The three house model. GWRC house, Mana whenua house, and the place we come together. From talk to walk. We have talked together, planned together and now look to implement together. GWRC has had a formal relationship with iwi of the region since Initiated by iwi leaders they developed a governance charter of understanding with Council and a forum known as Ara Tahi or “one pathway”. We engaged iwi in the development of the RPS and integrated their issues into the objectives. Ara Tahi meetings in increasingly focussed on iwi concern for the mauri of water and their concerns for effects on the region of declining water quality. The result was Te Upoko Taiao; an award winning planning partnership that received national recognition. The partnership means that all matters pertaining to the PNRP have been reviewed in conjunction with iwi of our region. Māori values are not just in the plan they are fundamental to the plan, influencing all matters including process and content. This has happened through a number of ways principally through the shared understanding of councillors and iwi planning representatives.
WIP
WIP

3. 6 Matters of national importance
the relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, waahi tapu, and other taonga
The PNRP looks to implement S.6 of the RMA through a due diligence approach. This is increasingly supported by NPSF requirements to demonstrate how mana whenua have been included in freshwater decision making. So what are Maori relationships?...what are their culture and traditions, what and where are their ancestral lands, water and sites, waahi tapu and other taonga?

4. Kaitiaki Key Drivers
Lack of tangata whenua involvement in resource management decision-making.
Loss of mauri, particularly in relation to fresh and coastal waters.
Continuing loss of quality, quantity, and access to mahinga kai and natural resources used for customary purposes.
Degradation and destruction of places, sites and areas with spiritual, cultural or historic heritage value to tangata whenua
These four issues are the motivating factors for tangata whenua engagement and were brought to the table through Aratahi. They essentially paraphrase Section 6 and the approach of the plan is to address each of these issues through policies, objectives, rules and methods.

5. Mauri To Work together To influence To integrate To educate
To reduce contamination
Stock exclusion and non point discharge
Serious concerns regarding the decline of the mauri of freshwater and potential impacts on the region is the primary generative driver that led to iwi investment of mana whenua values in the PNRP. Ara Tahi meetings 2008/9 focussed on their concerns about the mauri of freshwater and the implications of increasingly degraded water quality for the region. Iwi expressed a desire to have more influence through provision of advice to Council and determined to write a combined iwi management plan for freshwater. They abandoned this in recognition of the limitations of the regulation regarding iwi management plans (to have regard for) in preference to joining Council in the review of the regional plans.
Their intentions are expressed on this slide; to influence through sharing of values, to bring values together through integration, to educate plan users on values.
Mauri was not deconstructed in the PNRP and has been positioned as the overarching objective and measure for water quality. The mauri of water is most effected by the presence of contaminants; particularly human and animal waste. The focus on mauri in the plan has driven and supported strategies to improve water quality by reducing contamination and process for doing so through collaboration.
Mauri responds to the RMA definition requirement of safeguarding the life-supporting capacity of air, water, soil, and ecosystems
An energy or life force that mana whenua consider exists in all things in the natural world, including people. Mauri binds and animates all things in the physical world. Without mauri, mana cannot flow into a person or object
Storm water network plans
Waste water regulation timeframes
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6. Mana Whenua Mana Moana Mauri Ki uta ki tai Mahinga kai
Māori customary use
Ngā Taonga nui a Kiwa
Ngā wāhi tupuna – places of significance
Our thinking has been expanded. Mauri as an overarching outcome and measure of water quality, ki uta ki tai emphasises both a whole of catchment approach, cumulative effects and the need to consider matters together. Mahinga kai is an objective for water quality, which directly connects instream and human health. Mahinga kai being the species, places and activities associated with customary harvest, Māori customary use is about how people interact with water in their daily lives for their personal and spiritual wellbeing, Ngā Taonga Nui a Kiwa is the inheritance of water, the large entities that iwi identify with, that are the focus of treaty settlements, the management of which will continue to be the central focus of our relationships with mana whenua. Ngā wāhi tipuna are those places of particular significance We have looked both backwards and forwards. We have examined the idea of partnership and what matters to each other. We have been challenged and we have made concessions. We are better for this. Iwi expressions of values have encouraged others in the community to bring their values forward. We have a community that wants to put forward their views about water.

7. Mahinga kai & Māori customary use
Kaitiakitanga
Role
Mahinga kai & Māori customary use
Measure
Mauri
Objective
Wāhi Tapu
Place
These are the Four Original issues identified by iwi of the region during the regional policy statement development process, issues addressed in S6 of the RMA. These are the places and customary relationships that S.6 talks about. They work together as a matrix in the PNRP to implement S.6. Mauri as the overarching of objective for all water quality….are we working to enhance mauri?...will this activity diminish mauri are the higher level questions we should all consider. Recognition of kaitiaki is a requirement of the RMA.The PNRP recognises the role of kaitiaki in determination of mauri. Mahinga kai and Maori customary use are important measures for doing this and these are integrated throughout the PNRP as core objectives for all water quality. The PNRP recognises cultural landscapes of mana whenua and protects places of significance to them, recognising the role of iwi in their protection.

8. The Mauri of water Establishes mana whenua kaitiaki role in regulation
Integration – brings values together, setting limits and managing environment together
Māori recognise themselves in the Plan
Plan users are more aware of Māori values
Plan directs users to mana whenua
Delivers NPSFM and next step from RPS

9. Contact recreation and Māori customary use
In my opinion, the shared objectives for all water quality and quantity is the most demonstrable and significant representation of partnership in the proposed Plan, signalling a commitment to manage all the region’s resources in a manner that provides for the established priorities of mana whenua iwi.
Māori customary use of water is not well understood in the wider community. While mana whenua share many values and uses for water with the general community, there are customary values and associated practices that are particular to Māori and expressed differently by individuals, whānau, hapū and iwi. Examples include the ritual use of water supported by karakia (prayer) to begin and end processes and journeys, baptism and dedication of infants in water that has a particular association with them through whakapapa, the use of water for blessings, healing and removing negative elements from people and places. Schedules B and C are rich in examples of customary use, past and present.

10. Aquatic eco system health and mahinga kai
Shared objective:
Aquatic eco system health
and mahinga kai
Mahinga kai, the place, the species and the activity. All important measures of water quality. Links to human health through consumption. M2 establishes a kaitiaki monitoring network. Kakahi – the weak and the strong. the toughest and the most vulnerable. The largest freshwater mussel, rugged, live is any environment, best filterer, able to cope with dirty water, formerly abundant etc etc. Relies on the koaro to reproduce; the koaro are sensitive to poor water quality and lack of breeding habitat.
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11. Te Whaitua - The Catchment Te Upoko o Te Ika - The Region
Te Wāhi -The Place
Protection and Restoration
Schedule C
Te Whaitua - The Catchment
Ngā Taonga Nui a Kiwa
relationships recognised & provided for: Schedule B
Ki Uta ki Tai
Whaitua set local limits
Te Upoko o Te Ika - The Region
Mauri outcome
Te Upoko Taiao regulatory partnership
Integration of Māori values
shared objectives;
Māori customary use and Mahinga kai
Te Wahi – The places that people think about the most. We listed these and thought hard about how we could protect them. We agreed that those places should be protected and restored and we reviewed discharge and BOLR rules including permitted activities. We required that resource use at these places be avoided if at all possible. It became formative in how the plan dealt with Maori values. We realised we couldn’t protect values associated with water quality at a site. This led to them being elevated to regional scale; mahinga kai and Maori use.
Te Whaitua. Catchment scale. This is where we recognise and specify mana whenua values and relationships. Partnership requires us to recognise what our partners most value..Nga Taonga Nui a Kiwa does this. Recognition that whaitua or Ki Uta ki Tai is the appropriate scale for setting limits is a very good fit for mana whenua. It is where they are strongest and enables them to speak from knowledge and authority as mana whenua.
Schedule B: Relationships are recognised and provided for…..
Te Upoko o Te Ika The Region. Te Upoko Taiao as the regulatory partnership committee. Identifying and giving regulatory effect to Maori values held in common.

12. Summary Implements RMA/NPSFM Mahitahi – working together
Expanded perception – cultural landscape
Support for whaitua
Te Mana o Te Wai
Enables operative kaitiakitanga
Gives effect to Treaty settlements
The PNRP establishes a future where we will increasingly work together.
The NPSFM requires us to demonstrate how mana whenua are involved in determination of limits
Future monitoring plans will be required to include matauranga Maori
Direction of MFE policy requires implementation of TMOTW whereby the community determine the characteristics and objectives required for water bodies
This is consistent and equally important to completing the plan through the implementation of the whaitua process
kaitiakitanga is a requirement of RMA
This plan has been developed through an era of Treaty settlement. Mana whenua and the Crown have settled past grievance and pushed reset on the relationship. Giving effect to Treaty settlements not just in the form but in the spirit of settlement is what our future is about. Working together as partners for the sustainable management of the environment.
Ehara taku toa takitahi, he toa takitini – This work in partnership is the work of many.