Hauiti Claudette: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHauiti Claudette: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 20 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18153. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAUDETTE HAUITI (National): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. This is a very good Budget and it shows that New Zealand is heading in the right direction. It is a confident Budget for a confident nation and it is a great Budget for Māori. Budget 2014 reflects 6 years of hard work by this Government its coalition partner the Māori Party and by iwi andhapū from one end of the motu to the other. Budget 2014 looks ahead to build on the hard mahi done by all New Zealand households including Māori iwihapū and businesses over the last 6 years. This Budget resources Māori to assert their rangatiratanga for them theirhapū and theirwhānau. We are putting the rangatiratanga intowhānau for all our families in New Zealand with our new spending of a $500 million package to help families and tamariki. In addition $15 million has been invested in Whānau Ora navigators to increase capability and capacity.Māoriwhānau along with every other New Zealand family with tamariki and children under 13 will receive free general practitioner visits and free prescriptions. Ourpēpi and tamariki along with every other child will be able to participate in the extension of the rheumatic fever prevention programme. There is $20 million in additional funding for more drop-in sore throat clinics. Every eligiblewhānau as well as Māoriwhānau will benefit from the parental tax credit the extension of paid parental leave and the $33 million extra going to vulnerable children.In addition there is the area of housing. I hear the Opposition talk about housing and saying that there is not enough housing. Well this Government is investing $16 million over the next 4 years in repairing and rebuilding whare in haukāinga including those of ourwhānau inRēkohuWharekauri—the Chatham Islands. This is over and above the housing partnerships between iwi and other entities like the collective tribes of Auckland Kirikiriroa in Hamilton NgātiWhātua at Takaparawhau and TePioKawe in Western Bay of Plenty. This ismotuhake in action. In 6 short years this is what Māori have achieved under this Government. We aspire like all other Kiwis to see our dreams and aspirations—ourmoemoeā— realised under this Government.Looking ahead there are significant opportunities for New Zealand and Māori in countries around the Asia-Pacific region that are developing rapidly and demandingmore of what we can produce. Make no mistake about it our Business Growth Agenda is a Māori growth agenda. We are putting in place reforms to help businesses perform well particularly in the trade and export sectors. This Government is investing $8 million over the next 4 years to establish a fund to support Māori innovation and investment readiness. So when the Opposition talks about jobs this is where the jobs will come from. When the Opposition talks about housing Māoriwhānau are already benefiting from the housing initiatives that we have established and they are already benefiting from the housing collectives between our tribes and the Government and also private companies. So ourwhānau are benefiting.In addition to those export initiatives that I talked about earlier there is $69 million extra for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to grow New Zealand’s presence in China South America and the Middle East and to help 200 more firms break into overseas markets. Well that may very well be companies like the Chatham Island Food Co. Taha Valley WinesTorere MacadamiasHema Water or Mesa Meats. These are Māori companies serving our country. This Budget is good for New Zealand. It is good for Māori. It is a forward-looking Budget that speaks to the heart of Māorimotuhake. There is $12 million going to TeMāngaiPāho to enable iwi radio to continue its fantastic mahi in promoting Te Reo promoting dialectical reo and maiitērā iwi maiitērā iwi [from that tribe and that one].This Budget has families andwhānau at its heart. Māori are critical to New Zealand’s growth. This Budget is good for New Zealand and it is good for Māori. This Government is paying more than just lip-service to honouring our responsibility as Treaty partners. This Government has settled 69 claims compared with the six settled while Labour was in Government for 9 years—69 versus six. We have a $36 billion Māori economy under this Government compared with what we got from Labour which was the seabed and foreshore legislation and the raids on Tūhoe. This Budget is for a country that knows where it is going and from a Government that knows what it is doing supported by iwi around the motu. That is rangatiratanga. That iskotahitanga. Thank you.