Sio WilliamAupito WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): It is quite clear to me when it comes to the National Government that Pacific people have not been its first priority. The New Zealand economy looks good on the surface but working New Zealanders have not been receiving a share of that success. Multinational companies and big banks are doing it good but falling education levels in many families mean that our children are doing it bad.Under National speculators with rental homes in Auckland have been doing it good but New Zealanders sleeping in their cars and garages have been doing it bad. Big businesses like health insurance companies have been doing it good but people waiting months and years for elective surgery are doing it bad. The question I would like to ask of that Government is: what is the point in having a so-called strong national economy if the working New Zealanders—if the rest of New Zealand—are not sharing in that success?There are over 350000 Pacific people in New Zealand. This is the future workforce of New Zealand. Sixty percent of them are now born in New Zealand. We are growing three times faster than any other population and we have a median age of 22 years of age compared with 37 for the rest of New Zealand. Sixty-six percent of that population lives in Auckland. I proudly say wherever I go that I represent Māngere—the gateway to the nation; land of the young beautiful and gifted; home of world champions. And the reason why I repeat that is that our young people must feel that they are supported that they are cared for and that we want to encourage them to reach their fullest potential. But sadly under this Government in terms of unemployment—while everybody else has been doing good—Pacific people are still at 11 percent. We have a greater unemployment number than Māori; far more than Pākehā which is at 4 percent at this time.Here is the big issue: on Saturday there was a group of 500 people from all of South Auckland who came together and I asked them: what is the No. 1 issue for you? Housing—for Pacific families it is housing. Our homeownership at the moment is 16 percent. In 2013 figures it was 18.5 percent. That means 74 percent of our Pacific population does not own a home. How sad is that? Is that not an indictment that this Government's policy does not favour Pacific people? It is even more reflected when you look at the median net worth of Pacific people: it is $12000. The median net worth for the rest of New Zealand is $87000. That is the gap—$12000 median net worth for Pacific and $87000 median net worth for the rest of New Zealand. That is the gap.There are a couple of things that the ministry has said that it would work on and the outcomes are education language and culture and the third outcome was going to be employment and entrepreneurship. We know that this Government does not prioritise Pacific people because it simply wants to sweep them aside. The Pacific Business Trust is—basically we do not know what is going on there. We have not heard anything. It has sold off the asset that is in Ōtāhuhu. We do not know what it is doing. When it comes to Pacific language we have an asset called the Pasifika Education Centre an asset that was born in 1974 under Phil Amos who was the Minister of Education at the time and was established in 1978 in Ponsonby. That asset the Pasifika Education Centre will cease to exist as we know it as of 1 July because that is how long this Government appointed its board members for. It then becomes an entity under the Manukau Institute of Technology. Do you see the point I am making? Pacific people are not this Government's first priority.When it comes to education we have heard this Government laud the increases in early childhood education participation. That is good and that is largely as a result of the effort by families. They have lauded the increases in achievements in level 1 and level 2 but when we look at tertiary education levels—level 4—there has been a continued—