Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Mr Chair and I think we just need to take some time to reflect on what's just happened. The iwi leaders have just put out a statement requesting urgency to the application to the Waitangi Tribunal. This Government continues to push this legislation through regardless of the fact that the iwi leaders have taken this application through and that there is potentially a claim which will need to be settled and they are continuing their ideologically-driven decision to push this legislation through Parliament which is going to shut down the partnership schools and destroy that model which has had a massive incredible difference in some of our most disadvantaged communities.I would have thought that members opposite on the other side of this Chamber would have had a little bit more heart a little bit more kindness and a little bit more aspiration for some of our most disadvantaged communities—the ones that they purport to represent the ones that they are elected in many of their electorates and what do they do? They come here and they ignore them. They come here and they ignore them and they have no compassion no kindness and no actual diligence to do their job as representatives of those communities.So it's a shame that we in this Chamber are going through this committee stage where we are debating the issue of the title and commencement of this legislation. This is the most critical part that this Government could show some leadership on in delaying the implementation of this legislation to allow for that Treaty of Waitangi tribunal claim to be heard and to be decided upon.I have a Supplementary Order Paper which will give this Government some time to do that. The Minister sitting in the chair could take some notice and actually delay the implementation of this legislation until 1 August 2020 which is what I recommend in my Supplementary Order Paper which would not only allow these partnership schools the time and the opportunity to be able to properly transition—not be shut down and then be made to reopen as a new model with very little time—but give them the opportunity to actually transition and then to actually be able to address some of these challenges. But it also allows for that Treaty claim to be heard.But what do we see? We see silence from the other members of this committee. Not one member opposite has taken a call to explain what they are doing. I ask the Hon Peeni Henare to take a call. He represents the Auckland Māori seat Tāmaki Mākaurau and I challenge him to stand up and take a call and talk about why he is not going to allow the Treaty of Waitangi tribunal claim to be heard urgently why he is going to vote for this bill to go through quickly without that Treaty of Waitangi claim being settled first.I challenge him to talk to his community and explain in this committee why he is going to make those schools close down before this legislation has been properly considered and before the Treaty of Waitangi tribunal has been able to conclude and hear the arguments. I challenge him to stand up and take a call because I think of South Auckland Middle School. It's a school which is in his electorate a school which has made a massive difference in many of the young people that he represents many of the young people who have been failing in the State school sector and whose lives have been turned around by that school.I think of a family friend Haimona who has been a student at that school who is one of the students there who has had his life turned around. He was going to James Cook college and his life was falling apart. He had the opportunity. His mother was someone who believed in her children who wanted to see her son not go down the same path that the other children and other people she knew were going down. She had the opportunity to send her child to South Auckland Middle School and that was the biggest decision she could make and had the biggest difference in that young man's life. I'm proud of where that young man is today. He succeeded at that school. He succeeded after that—going to Manurewa High School. He succeeded and now he's working for Air New Zealand and has a successful career ahead of him all because of what South Auckland Middle School could do for that young man. The aspiration for that young man that that mother had and that school had turned his life around and changed his life and he is one of the people who lives in that electorate of the member opposite and I ask him to take a call.