SpeechHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): Madam Speaker tuatahi e tika ana ki te tautoko i te mihi ki a Kiritapu Allan. Tēnei te mihi ki a ia. Ko te tūmanako ka piki ake tana oranga i tēnei wā.[Madam Speaker it is only right that I support the acknowledgment to Kiritapu Allan. I wish to also acknowledge her. The hope is that her health will improve in due course.]Just a lot of aroha from our team going out to our tuahine Kiritapu Allan who's going through a tough time at the moment but she has big support from our Government—and also from the Opposition too. We acknowledge the support from the Opposition in terms of their aroha given to Kiritapu.I wanted to use this short time to just correct my friend and whanaunga Rawiri Waititi. He seems a bit confused lately over some of the wins that the Māori Party have had over the last few years and so I thought I'd take this chance just to correct him over a few things. Doing a good job for his people no doubt about that but I watched him on TV claiming victory for kaupapa like the Māori wards: Māori wards was apparently all due to the Māori Party. Rawiri needs to look back a little bit because the Māori Party wasn't born when we started the fight for the Māori wards. In fact I recall speaking about the Māori wards here in the House in 2002 and as I remember the Māori Party started in 2004 so a little bit off there—the whanaunga—but kei te pai you know he gets a bit excited and he's had a lot of support from the media sadly. But never mind. So this is a kaupapa that is very dear to us driven by Minister Mahuta and finally giving recognition to Māori in terms of the different councils around the country. Sadly Hamilton is a bit off target there but never mind we have got that firmly entrenched.Rawiri also claimed success over the Ture Whenua—I think someone needs to remind him that Te Ururoa Flavell probably lost his seat because of his stance on Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill. Māori were enraged with the way that the Māori Party were treating Ture Whenua and in fact there were protests going up everywhere at the time. The Minister Meka Whaitiri put up a big challenge in that area and talked about Māori having more access to their land talked about a more friendly Māori Land Court and Te Ururoa Flavell in the end actually put a halt on what was happening in the Ture Whenua area. He wasn't able to save himself though Tāmati Coffey came through. But I was fascinated that Rawiri would again claim success in that area.He also claimed success I think in Ihumātao—I think he forgot along with his National Party mates that they were the reason for the debacle in Ihumātao. If it wasn't for the Māori Party and the National Party Ihumātao would not have happened—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Rubbish! What a fib.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —they put them in a special housing area that's a disgrace. And if Nick Smith could remind his coalition partner that they were in fact responsible for the debacle and we all know that the National Party would have dragged those Māoris out by the throat unlike ourselves who set up a wonderful solution a very pro-Māori pro-whānau solution that we were very proud of and it was another success for Māori and the Labour Party. But I just need the National Party to remind Rawiri before he goes on Marae and all the other shows claiming success that it wasn't the Māori Party's success—it was the Māori and the Labour Party who drove it. We need some acknowledgment particularly from Mr Luxon who is—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Oh so you drove the campaign?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We drove the campaign absolutely. I'm sorry we can't drive the campaign to get you on the front bench but your mate on the side there has probably got more of an opportunity as he sinks the National Party leadership. Also another big win for the Māori and Labour: the procurement process. What a wonderful process there—finally Māori getting more opportunity in terms of business and that's incredibly important the 5 percent that we've won. Another success: the Public Service Act now demanding that mainstream agencies deliver for Māori. We've got leadership being recognised and management being recognised and an emphasis on Māori leadership happening. The Hon Carmel Sepuloni knows this because she's driving that sort of process through her different agencies at the moment and doing some great work. Proud of the work that Minister Sepuloni is doing.But I want to finish by congratulating Rawiri Waititi because the Māori Party did do one great thing in the last election in the last campaign: they named Oranga Tamariki". So congratulations to the Māori Party! They gave Oranga Tamariki their name. Well done Rawiri and the Māori Party."