Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Labour): Kia ora. Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you very much. Tuatahi Madam Chair e mihi ana ki a koe mō tō kaha ki te whakaputa i tō whakaaro e pā ana ki tō hoa. Ngā mihi aroha ki a koe. [Firstly Madam Chair I would like to acknowledge you for your strength to express your thoughts about your friend. Heartfelt acknowledgments.]Just speaking to clause 4 supporting the Hon Phil Twyford's view—his amendment—in terms of Māori Pasifika women and those who are under the age of 30 or disabled I was the employment Minister for three years. I was wanting to ask the Minister: as she looked at this did she have a look back at some of the work we did with these groupings? We had employment action plans for all of those groups. We had a Māori action plan. We had a Pasifika action plan a women's one a disabled one and I think it would be incredibly helpful for the Minister to have a look at those reports which told us about the different disparities about the problems particularly that Māori workers have faced over the years.When I became employment Minister back in 2017 the Māori unemployment rate for instance was close to three times what the mainstream or Pākehā unemployment rate was at the time. It's really important for our Minister here to get her head around I suppose some of the barriers and some of the problems that so many of those Māori workers were facing and have faced. Under my chair we got to facilitate the Māori strategy with a woman by the name of Janice Panoho who was a very senior union organiser within the Public Service Association and a very dear friend of mine too might I add having organised with her many years ago. I think that this—Hon Member: Is this relevant?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Well I'm talking about this amendment that has been put up by Phil Twyford which identifies Māori Pasifika and women as groups who need the support and who will be disproportionately affected by this bill.As we know lower job security particularly impacts these groups and the question I have for our Minister is: is she going to go through those reports that were put up—the employment action plans that were put up by each group—that traversed all the different areas? When you look at the disabled report you will see what some of these workers had to face. They couldn't even get through the door sometimes—they couldn't even get through the door. Never had a chance. It was terrible and I think it's emotive reading for a lot of us. We don't actually understand and then when you see the barriers in terms of these trial periods it can be heartbreaking for so many of them. And of course the percentages are weighted so much against Māori against Pasifika against women against the disabled community that we had to put in targeted programmes.I ask the Minister: will those types of programmes still be receiving support from this Government—programmes that looked after young people looked after women looked after Māori? Mana in Mahi was one of the big successes. That can be a success for everyone which is something I worked on with one of the current coalition partners—He Poutama Rangatahi getting nephs off the couch. These supported the Māori rural areas very very much. So I ask again: will the Minister be looking at these plans talking to some of the chairs a number of them women who have done extensive work in our communities? I think that it could be good for all parties if she was able to do that.