5. Question No. 5—Prime MinisterDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori) to the Prime MinisterQuestion No. 5—Prime Minister5. DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all of his Government's statements and policies?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON (Prime Minister): Yes I do and particularly our commitment to lifting educational achievement by removing distractions like cellphone use in the classroom to ensure that young people receive the quality education they deserve and lets them live the life that they ultimately want.Tākuta Ferris: Tēnā koe e te Pīka. He tāpiringa tāku.[Thank you Mr Speaker. I have a supplementary question.]SPEAKER: Yeah wait on. I'll call you eh. Tākuta Ferris: Kia ora. SPEAKER: You've just said you want to call—just do it again: Mr Speaker."Tākuta Ferris: Tēnā koe e te Pīka.SPEAKER: I call Tākuta Ferris. Tākuta Ferris: Tēnā koe.SPEAKER: Yep sorry about that.Tākuta Ferris: Ka tū māia ia ki tana kaupapa here kia tukuna Te Tiriti o Waitangi kia arohaehaehia kia pōtingia e te motu whānui me te mōhio iho ki te māwehe me te kino ka whai mai i muri? Does he stand by the policy to leave the door open to a referendum on Te Tiriti o Waitangi knowing full well the division and chaos that that will cause?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: On what we have agreed as a Government that we will pursue a Treaty principles bill to select committee and that's as far as it will go. Rt Hon Chris Hipkins: Point of order. With all due respect to the member's question I think he was asking about a referendum not about a Treaty principles bill.SPEAKER: Well does the Prime Minister wish to say more to that question?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: We have not committed to a referendum.Takutai Tarsh Kemp: How can he stand by the decision to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora the Māori Health Authority when it is an example of tangata whenua stepping up and being the solution to persistent inequalities in health outcomes?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Because our Government is determined to see improved outcomes for Māori but we don't believe the Māori Health Authority is the best way to deliver that.Mariameno Kapa-Kingi: What is his response to experts in child protection who have made it very clear that removing section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act will lead to many more tamariki Māori being severed from whakapapa an outcome that is inherently harmful and assimilationist? Tēnā e te pāpā tēnā koe. [I acknowledge you my elder.]Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: The primary responsibility for the State to look after vulnerable children is to make sure that their wellbeing comes first and foremost above everything else.Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke: Nō whea tana tikanga parahau hei turaki i te ture auahi kore o Aotearoa e kōkiri nei i te ao ka mutu ko te oranga o te iwi Māori hei utu i ngā tāke o te hunga whai rawa? How can he justify scrapping Aotearoa's world-leading smoke-free laws sacrificing Māori lives to fund tax cuts for the wealthy?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: We're not. We're going to make sure that smoking rates continue to come down each and every year as they have done under successive Governments. In the last decade daily smoking's gone from 16 percent down to 8 percent. Our Government will continue to drive that down."