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Tama Potaka: Maori Crown Relations Minister on the shifting of functions between Te Arawhiti and the Ministry for Maori Development

Published: Aug. 13, 2024, 9:02 p.m.

The M\u0101ori Development Minister says iwi will welcome clarity about the responsibilities of major M\u0101ori agencies. \xa0

The Government is shifting some functions of Te Arawhiti \u2014the Office for M\u0101ori-Crown Relations\u2014 to the Ministry for M\u0101ori Development.\xa0

Te Arawhiti will now focus solely on negotiating Treaty of Waitangi settlements and Takutai Moana applications and the Ministry for M\u0101ori Development will focus on economic and social development, and other such matters.\xa0

Minister Tama Potaka told Mike Hosking there\u2019s been a lot of concern around the context of how Treaty related and M\u0101ori issues have been engaged with, but both he and Iwi and M\u0101ori leaders throughout the country want their confusion sorted. \xa0

He said that they don\u2019t want ambiguity in this space, and neither does he. \xa0

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