Mahuta NanaiaHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Minister for Māori Development): Tēnā koe kia orana. Tuatahi e tāpiri atu āku whakaaro ki ērā i waihotia te mema a Willow-Jean Prime arā ko te hanga o tēnei Whare he wāhanga mō te iti me te rahi ngā pouaru ngā pani me ngā rawakore. Koinei te tāhūhū o te whare e akiaki nei e tiaki nei e mātou tēnei kāwanatanga ki ngā kaupapa matua kei mua i te aroaro o te hunga pōhara nō reira tautoko ōna kōrero.[Greetings. Firstly I would like to add my thoughts to those expressed by the member Willow-Jean Prime namely the structure of this House which includes parts for all the widows the orphans and the poor. This is the theme that we of this Government are exhorting and looking after the main issues facing the poor therefore I support her speech.]I just wanted to respond to some of the things that have been raised in the committee in relation to the Māori development portfolio and we do have a good story to tell. But it's more than that: we want to see action on the ground and we have a plan because we know that for far too long too many people without opportunity have not been benefiting under the previous administration. The points that were made by the chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee that much has been gained across the whole Budget for Māori and in particular our having a focus in the Māori development space to grow further opportunity is exactly the plan that Māori have been calling for. In fact they voted with their feet because they knew that this plan would work.The member Willow-Jean Prime actually pointed to all the different parts of the new funding that would channel support to where we think it could make a critical difference in line with the rest of what the Government is doing. Take papakāinga housing—we know that it's not just about building houses; it's about whānau enterprise and it's about developing land opportunities and sustainable housing opportunities. We will see more of that under this Budget.Also in the area of rangatahi we have the Minister of Employment who has a plan which actually builds on the proposition that our young people want to work they deserve work and they deserve sustainable employment. That must be done in partnership not only with business not only with Māori collectives and Māori enterprise but also with local and central government. We need a joined-up solution for our rangatahi because for far too long far too many have been dropping off the radar with nowhere to go.Also I want to pick up on the point raised by the previous Minister for Treaty Settlements around Te Ture Whenua. See this is the difficult thing: the previous administration was prepared to throw money at a Māori Land Service without knowing whether or not they could get the legislation over the line to actually support that direction of travel. People voted with their feet in the Māori electorates because they knew that that approach was not actually going to deliver real gains for Māori whānau Māori trusts and Māori collectives who really wanted the solutions to come back to them in real ways. That was politics gone wrong and certainly National paid for it.There was another point that was raised in relation to the Budget and this was something I spoke on at length at the select committee. Actually if you look at the total budget and the difference in the last year of the previous administration the total budget was around about $328 million. For the 2018 Budget the total vote was $342 million. Now that's an increase and I explained to the select committee that the difference in the numbers was that we had around about $37 million that was put aside in the projects that I've identified in the contingency funds.So the next question falling off that is: why was it contingency? In the papakāinga space we knew that in order to develop the types of projects that had multiple benefits rather than just building a house—multiple benefits like whānau enterprise community development—ensuring that that dollar was a part of a circular economy to deliver far greater gains we could continue to develop the model that we knew worked in this approach. It's much the same in terms of the rangatahi space.Also I wanted to just lastly come to the point about Whānau Ora. Now why would the Minister throw more money at Whānau Ora before the review outcome had been found? He wouldn't. The point of the matter there is that we had campaigned on the approach to reviewing Whānau Ora to see what worked to ensure that a commissioning approach across three different agencies done three different ways could identify where the real opportunity of doing things differently might be. Now I don't know what the outcome of that review will deliver; neither does the Minister. But it would be prudent of him to ensure that the review took its natural course before he made a final determination about where to next because that is the question.We're committed to outcomes for Māori. We're committed to gains that will see real opportunities real jobs sustainable incomes and breaking the cycle of inequality and poverty that's been around far too long.