Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Labour): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I enjoy listening to the language from members on the other side of the House who are clearly not describing exactly the detrimental effects and impacts on communities that this repeal legislation will do.Smokefree 2025 at its core is simply about saving lives. It was making sure that our tamariki and our mokopuna didn't grow up around tobacco they didn't grow up around cigarettes they didn't get tempted to have a sneaky cigarette because we know that once they do they are hooked. What this Government is actually doing is making it far more accessible. Despite their semantics and their words saying Oh no we still believe in the target." the facts are on the table. Smoking kills. It is very clear. Thousands of New Zealanders around this country are clear that they don't support this. The Government talks about having a mandate. Simply look at the numbers: New Zealanders have said they do not support this course of action. It is absolutely appalling that the Minister introduces this bill here off the back of repealing the Māori Health Authority. Every member on that side of the House has stood in this House and said "We're committing to smoking cessation programmes." Show me the money. Show all of those workers out there who work hard in our communities to stop people from smoking—on that side of the House it's all rhetoric. They are going to take the money that's going to be provided through taxes and they're going to give it to their rich mates. It's as simple as that. Follow the money. The lines they read come straight from the lobby industry for tobacco. It's as simple as that. They might sit down on that side of the House and say "No no; this is what our community have said." They've all said the same thing and those are drafted lines that are given to this Government to put through this terrible terrible bill.SPEAKER: I'll just make the point that it is quite contrary to the Standing Orders to suggest that anyone in the House is somehow beholden to anyone outside of the House—other than those who elect them of course. I just suggest that the member think about that in the balance of his contribution.Hon PEENI HENARE: Thank you very much Mr Speaker. The evidence will bear itself out.It's quite clear to me that on this side of the House—and to many of my colleagues on this side of the House—when that side talks about a black market actually what they mean is targeting Māori. That means that they're going to put more cigarettes more smokes into our community. Guess what! It's going to be Māori people Pacific people low socio-economic people who will be hugely impacted by this.We've heard terrible statistics. We've heard this Government say "Oh well you know it's already trending down but we don't want it to trend down too fast." That's the message that they're sending: "We want it to trend down but we're going to just slow it down a little bit because it's going too fast for us. We're not making enough money out of this." That's the sad reality of the work being done by this Government.I recall my cousin—actually member of the National Party—Mr Tau Henare who led the Māori Affairs Committee on an inquiry into Smokefree 2025. At the end of that inquiry Tau Henare a long-time smoker a lifetime smoker took the commitment to stop smoking. It's been an up and down journey for him but guess what? He's there now and I'm proud of him. The point though is that at that time some 50000-odd New Zealanders—Māori and non-Māori—signed a petition to say "This just isn't good enough. Let's set a target and let's make sure we eliminate smoking in our communities." Some of those people are in the gallery today; those hard-working people who made the target a reality for our people—the reality that this Government is stripping away. The likes of Sue Taylor; a staunch advocate for Māori health and indeed for this particular kaupapa. I want to mention one of my good tuakana Shane Bradbrook another man who fought really hard and sadly also copped the consequences from what we like to call in politics the dark arts. Hone Harawira a former member of this House campaigned up and down this country passionately and still does to this day. Anaru Waa Heather Gifford the many Māori researchers who have clearly made the case that smoking kills—this Government is going back on that and that's simply not acceptable. I don't buy for one second them saying that "We're still holding fast to the target yet continuing to increase the accessibility of cigarettes in our community." It just doesn't stack up. Throughout the course of this bill this side of the House will continue to prosecute this bill clause by clause line by line to make sure that the stink that comes with it will continue to hang around the neck of this Government."