Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you Madam Chair. We are discussing title and commencement and I wanted to take a moment to speak to my Amendment Paper because I have a specific amendment around the commencement date. My amendment would move the commencement date from 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025. There is a very specific reason I've put this amendment in place. I've been discussing this legislation with members of my community who work in the health sector—and I see we're having a switch so it's Mr Chair now. So I've been discussing the removal of the Māori Health Authority with health leaders in my community who have shared concerns with me. One of the matters they've specifically raised with me is that providers who have been receiving direct funding from the Māori Health Authority have actually been rushing over the last few weeks to complete what we call in the sector the accountability documentation". For those new to the House or new to this who are watching the accountability documentation is documentation that NGOs community providers have to provide to funders.So the reason I raised this in relation to the commencement date is that we've also had discussion and there has been reports since the introduction of the Māori Health Authority that have focused on I guess the effectiveness of the authority in its infancy. We've been talking about its infancy. One of the things I would like to recognise is that when you do introduce new agencies new organisations there is always a transition time where it takes time for things to get up to speed.One of the reasons I am asking the Minister to seriously consider delaying the implementation of this legislation is because I know those agencies that have received funding have actually just been completing their accountability documentation. What that would do would allow health officials and others who assess it—like the Treasury for example—to be able to look at that accountability documentation that providers are currently working on and assess it and determine if this bill actually needs to be put in place or if there are other changes we would potentially like to make to it.Because we are pushing this through under urgency we don't have that select committee process and there are matters that could normally be considered. I think one of the things that is really important is to actually get a sense check—is the authority working? Is it working as we intended? So a delay in the commencement date of a year would allow that to happen. So that's why I've specifically put in place this amendment from 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025. Because when I've been talking to providers and to health leaders who work in the health system in my community of Nelson they have raised that concern with me around the speed of the legislation both coming through the House but also its implementation time frame—so on the back of those accountability documents. And we all know they look at saying "Have the outcomes been delivered? Has the money been spent in the intention it was supposed to be spent?"I think if health officials—the Treasury the Minister and his officials—were to see the outcomes that had been delivered by some of those providers it may lead to a rethink on whether first of all this bill is even needed in the first place whether there were other tweaks that could be made to it whether we said "Actually we're not going to introduce it like we are now; we're going to do something slightly different." And I think it would allow everyone to take a breath. Because I think that's what we need to do here: we need to take a breath. Because I think we're hearing from—within the House—the voices of our communities who are saying "This has not even had its opportunity to shine this authority. Give it some time. Give it some time to breathe. Give it some time to grow."So this is probably the last opportunity I will have in the Chamber to speak on this very important bill. And I just want to place on record as a Pākehā New Zealander whose father was one of the first Pākehā leaders in the health system in New Zealand to sit on a committee as the only Pākehā leader to work on Māori health initiatives by Māori for Māori I am so proud of his contribution—he is devastated and I am devastated. This is a shameful shameful bill and I bring the voice of my father Jonathan Boyack and his mahi into Māori health in New Zealand here today to say "We should not pass this bill.""