Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): It is really important that the Greens get on record the voices of those disabled people their families and their carers and communities who have been cruelly stressed by the announcements from Whaikaha over the past couple of days. I think it's really important that while the Minister for Disability Issues is at pains to make sure that this is not a funding cut as such that doesn't recognise that particularly for disabled people family and carers their access to services their access to care and all of the supports that they need has been underfunded for decades and decades. It is simply not good enough for a Minister who has the responsibility right now to not have asked and ensured that more funding is taken into account when it comes to disabled people who are continuously—continuously—at the end of the line when it comes to funding acknowledgment value and support.The fact that the Minister for disabled peoples and of Whaikaha is trying to uphold a narrative of austerity that these changes to how disability support services are delivered and the changes to rules and flexibility around how people access and use the funding are driven from having to watch the wallets of Government—that is a really unjust and if I can be clear quite hostile narrative to have to burden on carers of people of disabled people themselves and their families. What that is essentially trying to blame is that we are having to tighten our belts in an area that has had its belt tightened for generations when instead the choices that Government gets to make is that this area of funding should have a priority and has to be increased—but the focus has come down to who's getting a pedicure? That is quite a cruel cruel way to apportion blame of systemic underfunding to the fact that the wellbeing of carers and the wellbeing of disabled people are interlinked. They are not separate. We have to have our carers cared for.Anybody who knows what a role it is what a massive role it is to be part of the village of caring for disabled people anybody who understands that can understand the complete and utter exhaustion that can happen for those carers who we know also consider it an honour and a privilege to be able to care for disabled people. But it pulls on a lot. It pulls on a lot of our carers' spirit and energy and resource. Why on earth would any Minister want to focus on what they do for their wellbeing instead of focusing on the systemic undervaluing of our caring sector that has been this way for decades of undervaluing?And that is what I wanted to put on record for the Green Party today having heard directly from advocates whānau parents particularly of children who have been quite devastated by this news. I acknowledge that the Minister admits and has some regret about the way it was communicated out but this is also what happens when you don't work with the sector. As a former prevention of violence Minister I know firsthand what it is like for the sector to not believe that you are doing things to them instead of with them for the community to not believe that you are doing things to them instead of with them. So the consultation the discussions and the solutions directly with disabled people and their carers and advocates has to be a priority in any funding changes. Even they have said they are open to looking at where we can do better with current funding but let's not be distracted away from the bigger issue here which is the further dehumanising of disabled people and their families that has already been the status quo; the pointing out of blame when we should be apportioning it to the underfunding and therefore increasing funding to this sector non-stop. Thank you.