Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): [Authorised te reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]I stand on behalf of the Green Party to oppose this repeal. The Therapeutic Products Act is taking—well actually this Government is taking us back to the future. This legislation was needed and it was overdue. When I think about the links of consultation engagement that the team has undertaken since 2014 at the outset of the work towards building a new regulator and then what I experienced out on the floor within hapū and iwi I say moumou—that's a waste. Because ultimately the Therapeutic Products Bill and this repeal is yet another piece of legislation that this Government is taking us back—just like Te Aka Whai Ora on the chopping block just like smokefree laws on the chopping block. And the work was well overdue. When we have legislation that sits back in 1981 for the Medicines Act and then we also have our natural supplements regulations from 1985—way not fit for purpose way out of date and not enough regulation to control its flow into our communities.Now I want to talk about the engagement and the consultation that I saw and the robust nature by which officials from Te Manatū Hauora the Ministry of Health and Te Aka Whai Ora led out in the consultation process. Within hapū and iwi we engaged because we had concerns. So we had the officials come to our marae—Parawhenua Marae in Tai Tokerau. There would have been probably about 100 whanaunga and those 100 whanaunga were angry about the potential inclusion of rongoā Māori.Now what I want to share with you is that actually the officials did a great job in listening. The officials were awesome in the way that they heard the concerns from our people and they took the heat from te Iwi Māori. But those that gathered also shared that there needed to be engagement there needed to be shared understanding and also standards and quality assurance in the rongoā Māori space so it was a work in progress. So I mihi to Peeni Henare for his work in listening and being a listening guide for te Iwi Māori in this space.Now rongoā Māori is a whole system of hauora led by mātauranga Māori. This isn't wishy-washy stuff; this is indigenous health systems. And it's a taonga guaranteed through article 2 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The rongoā Māori practitioners have gathered and the experts met and Peeni Henare listened. So I mihi to Peeni because our people understood that we needed change in terms of therapeutics products but also that rongoā Māori wanted to stand up through its own tikanga its own standards and work alongside as a complementary medicine to Western science. That's that mahi tahi that we see as tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti working together.Further in February 2023 I had the honour of facilitating in the forum tent at Waitangi. I invite my colleagues of the Government to join us in the forum tent at Waitangi some time—it'll put hair on your chest. Our people are fiery and they want to share their whakaroa openly within the forum tent. And Peeni Henare joined a panel alongside other Māori health experts to talk about the importance of hauora Māori but also about therapeutics products because it was so hot within the Māori community. But this legislation actually moved and changed because consultation was robust. The Government listened. The officials took the messages back into the ministry. They worked on the legislation to provide a dual pathway whereby we can still have robust regulation and then rongoā Māori could have that separation and the ability to self-regulation aka rangatiratanga. So I think that it's a shame that we've gotten to this point because did we really need to repeal? If there was a need to cut some corners or some red tape that the industry apparently is asking for why do a full repeal? Because I think it's a wasted opportunity after so much work has gone into it to build a robust machine that was and is and could have been something good for all New Zealand. Kia ora.