Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. I rise to take a call on this bill the Children Young Persons and Their Families (Advocacy Workforce and Age Settings) Amendment Bill 2016. My colleague Jan Logie previously mentioned that we are not supporting this bill at this stage the first reading. She highlighted some reasons.In my contribution to the House I want to focus specifically on my role as Māori affairs spokesperson and mention that Māori children make up 25 percent of our population but are 60 percent of the children in Child Youth and Family care. That reason alone surely should have mandated and demanded robust involvement consultation and consideration of Māori voices Māori experiences and Māori expertise at all levels of this review and from the get-go it did not. It was not until some political pressure was placed on the Minister for Social Development that some involvement of a Māori perspective was included in this review. That cannot be acceptable. That cannot be acceptable in the way that we run and govern a country. It cannot be acceptable when we are trying to overhaul a system and a department that is responsible for dealing with so many of our Māori children. The other reason why there is that low level of involvement and engagement in proper partnership with Māori expertise is that this very overhaul is so relevant to the care of whakapapa of Māori whānau hapū and iwi.So we have two things here: we have a department that is fully involved influences and holds power over a large proportion of Māori children and we have a piece of legislation that holds incredible influence over whakapapa Māori well-being whānau hapū and iwi. I do want to remind this House that from colonisation over generations we know that one of the biggest impacts on and fallouts of the harm to well-being for Māori families has been the disruption in whakapapa and the disruption of well-being in whakapapa. Here we have a piece of legislation that is fully fully involved in that.I also want to make the general point in this first reading that this is a bill that deals with the fallout. We need a review of the whole-of-Government systems that actually looks at the structures that contribute to all of our people falling into hardship falling into poverty and having it tough in the first place. To be clear: for example Māori unemployment saw the biggest increase across all of the groups in unemployment. It rose by 2.2 percent recently and is now up to 12.8 percent. I want to be clear that we have to keep in mind through all reviews of this and any other legislation that has a huge impact on Māori families that we cannot do reviews in isolation. We have to be mindful of all the other systems and all the other social economic justice and cultural problems that need looking at as we are reviewing our legislation. That is called responsible and sustainable governance.Just in closing I want to again indicate that I cannot support such a low level of Māori expertise in this review of the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act. I want to see how we can improve this but this legislation is only dealing with the fallout and we need to look at the structures. Thank you.