Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you Madam Chair for that guidance. I've got three distinct questions that I hope to get addressed. I totally understand we cannot for the Minister of Health to answer—and I understand the answers I may get may not be satisfactory but when I asked about one of Te Aka Whai Ora's key initiatives around Māori data sovereignty I only had the part around data breaches being addressed. So I'm just—not with the hope of being repetitive but just in the hope that it actually gets addressed around whether Te Aka Whai Ora's initiative around Māori data sovereignty will continue and commitments from the Minister around the initiative continuing as we see Te Aka Whai Ora being disestablished. As I've said this is because it is a key Tiriti obligation of the Crown to protect Māori data sovereignty and so I'm keen to get a sense of where that is heading.The other question I had was—I know we've been canvassing employment issues with a degree of detail but I was interested in particularly getting a sense as to the ethnic wage gap which we know that different agencies have—because there's different levels of reporting around the ethnic wage gap yet we know that it is quite present across Government agencies and in the private sector as well. But I'm curious to get a sense of what level of commitment and analysis the Minister has engaged on the impacts of reductions of the ethnic wage gap as part of the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora because Te Aka Whai Ora presented an opportunity by having a by Māori for Māori" approach to actually address that ethnic wage gap and gender wage gap as well that is present particularly in the health sector. So I wanted to get an understanding of whether any analysis was done in relation to the ethnic wage gap in particular.I also wanted to pick up on a comment—and sorry for the shuffling of the papers because I wrote it down; here we go. One of the previous answers from the Minister where he reiterated his comments in the first and second readings of this bill in relation to employment was that he hopes he'll be joined and guided by those workers. I take the Minister's personal commitments and despite obviously our opposition to the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora is the Minister confident that those assurances are enough in terms of safeguarding that ongoing feedback loop that he is committing to? For example should the Minister be replaced by one of his colleagues who has perhaps been far more outspoken in anti-Māori rhetoric there are no safeguard mechanisms then beyond the Minister's own words around being guided and joined by the workforce to address Māori health outcomes.So look I take the Minister's personal commitments but that doesn't necessarily speak to the safeguards in this bill that would protect say another person coming into his role who may not hold those same views actually then being led by the workforce to address Māori health outcomes. So beyond those personal commitments I'm keen to get an understanding of what safeguards exists to ensure that no matter who is in his role there is that feedback loop that he is committing to creating to address Māori health outcomes."