Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): It is not surprising that this request to continue wasn't supported because—the truth be known—my esteemed co-leader Rawiri Waititi was giving facts and the ecosystems of colonisation are really hard to swallow from those who are the absolute emboldeners; the absolute empowerers of that type of situation.So tonight we look at housing: 100000 people in Aotearoa will be sleeping rough on the streets in tents in cars in garages and unliveable houses—things that the super-wealthy could never truly ever understand. We have instead the Government congratulates itself on a Budget where 30000 of those who will be homeless will be Māori a large proportion who are made up of rangatahi. Māori currently make up 50 percent of the social housing wait list and by no doubt they will be some of this one over here's whanaunga. Therefore they should be given 50 percent of the social housing Budget but no—no. What we have is a Government ruling by denial.Our people should not be forced to pay over half of their income to feed the super-wealthy Government and their coalition's landlords. But that is where we're going to land. We have instead a Government that's cut first-home grants locked another generation of Māori and Pasifika out of home ownership.They've continued to make sure the buffering of the feathers of the landlords are looked after sitting there comfortably pushing themselves as they've saved $245 million over four years—which is about 8 percent of the $3 billion handout they're giving to—guess who? That's right the landlords. They've also cut Māori housing by $40 million and action to address rangatahi homelessness by $20 million. In the meantime they're giving $3 billion to who? The landlords. That's it. More than the sum total of Tiriti settlements combined. Oh my gosh the parity around here just continues to stun us.Education. How extraordinary it is that [Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]have been funded less than 1 percent over the last decade and yet kura kaupapa continue to be the highest-performing educational systems in this country. Our tamariki and mokopuna to us are worth more than 1 percent. But again that's because we're a future-focused party unlike this coalition Government.Te reo. Te Matatini is receiving $1 million less per year—that's a 5 percent cut. Matariki funding has been cut by 45 percent overall. Funding grants for the Aotearoa reorua and bilingual road signs has been cut. In fact you could arrive to this country and not know there was even an indigenous language.Climate change. Funding for matauranga Māori approaches to reducing agricultural emissions has been scrapped.Justice in Aotearoa can only work when tangata whenua assert our tino rangatiratanga to use our own tikanga-based models of restorative justice. But no: despite the fact that we make up all the worst numbers and all the worst stats we are locked out of being involved in anything. This week this nation—in front of the world—is being brought to sit and see the perils of those who have had to suffer and the community of survivors who have had to suffer in State care or abuse in State care—long day. My aroha to those whānau. Instead what we have is a Government intent on repeating the cycles and nothing has been learnt from history.We have people here for the first time discovering that they may have a new idea—and in fact teaching rangatahi how to iron may be a way to actually sit themselves and navigate through justice. We have 70 percent of our Budget that needs to be allocated to 70 percent of the tamariki in Oranga Tamariki. But no we're not going to see that. Instead we're going to get mega-prisons cuts to section 27 reports in sentencing and cuts to programmes designed to address the over-incarceration of tangata whenua.The measly tax cuts they've given us are a disguise. They're an all-out war—they're an all-out war that you have waged on tangata whenua and the poor and the struggling. In 1889 King Tāwhiao funded Te Peeke o Aotearoa the first Māori bank with our Māori currency. This was after decades of Pākehā financial institutions using debt as a tool to de-possess our people of their lands and their autonomy.Imagine if we were to create a Māori bank today while the Māori economy sits at $70 billion and is projected to reach $100 billion in the next five years. Just imagine if we would disconnect from $100 billion from the New Zealand economy from the Government's Budget and redistribute wealth to our own people and our own future. We are already a significant portion of this country's primary sector: fishing quota forestry lamb sheep beef production 10 percent of dairy and 10 percent of kiwifruit. We have over 60000 small to medium-sized businesses 20 percent of this population—almost a million and growing—and it's you who will be in debt to us. Kia ora koutou.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): Just for a bit of clarity for the House: the member can have an additional five minutes because this was a new call. The original call that was given to Rawiri Waititi was an invalid call. So if the member wishes she can take an additional five as a part of that new call.DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: Thank you e te Pika.[Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]While we have the onus to sit here and reflect about the measly tax cuts that you are giving to disguise the all-out war that you're waging on tangata whenua and indeed the poor. This Budget removes half-price transport $5 prescription fees; they have cut minimum wage benefit increases support for disabled communities while putting $1.9 million into what? Prisons. Because the only solution this Government has in its Budget is to prison its way through justice. You're going to have rangatahi iron their clothes through justice in boot camps and then prison the rest of yourselves through a lacking in innovation. The sad thing that we can see for Aotearoa: well the 20 percent—a million—of Māori the median age of 28 are going and growing and thank goodness participating. Because if Te Pāti Māori has proven anything it's in our period when we have had to sit there and initiate our people to come out and show you what it is that they think on Budget Day. The only thing that can be remembered is the tens of thousands of Māori tangata Tiriti tangata Pasifika who got up and showed you exactly what they thought of your Budget.If you were to sit there and reflect on what the articles and what the headlines and what the media were looking at it was the activation of our people throughout the motu who showed you exactly what they thought of this out-of-touch absolutely out-of-reach focus on only one group of people in Aotearoa—and that is the super-wealthy who thankfully do not make up the median age of those who are 28 years old.I put to you from Te Pāti Māori that this Budget is short-sighted in the fact that you have incurred and are continuing to put pain on ordinary people: on ordinary people who work hard; on tangata whenua on your tangata whenua who don't belong anywhere else but here. And they will continue to grow and remember who was with them in their time of need. The activations that we saw at the railway station walk on to Pāremata [Parliament]; the activations that we saw stop traffic in the way that they did in Tāmaki Makaurau in Waiariki in Te Tai Hauāuru in Te Tai Tokerau.The activations that rose in a minute's notice to show this Government how out of touch you are with the fact that you continue to think the arrogance of serving one group of people with one source of truth and one source of income is the only thing that will ever matter in Aotearoa. You instead will be remembered for your legacy.Tom Rutherford: They.DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: Your legacy—they—will be remembered for—thank you. They will be remembered for their legacy; they will be reminded and thanked for their legacy that they have left to remind a nation what we will never ever do again.This was the signings of a licence; the signing of a licence that proves that this will only ever be a one-term—thankfully—coalition Government. There is no way that people are going to forget the pain that those who are disabled that those who are takatāpui that those who are workers that those who are in hospitals that those who are public servants that those who are teachers that those who are nurses that those who are police that those who are unable to work that those who are students that those who are unable to afford homes. This Government and its coalition will be remembered for being the meanest-spirited Government ever.[Authorised reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.][Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]There is no way that not a single person affected by this Government is ever going to forgive it in 2026.So let's look at the health. Today we have seen—and yesterday we have seen—the behaviour of political leaders who lack the decorum and indeed the relevance and relatability to our people. Who instead of using their sphere of influence to make life easier and better and relatable for those struggling in fact get to resort to name-calling; get to use words that we have absolutely fought our lives against hearing our disabled communities have to hear in this place. What we have sadly is a Government that is so privileged that even its ability to use the House right is lacking.So I want to remind and conclude that Te Pāti Māori will continue to breathe life to what could be—if we work together and dared to believe in what the economy that had the Tiriti been respected; that had the behaviours of white supremacism the repealing and dismantling of kaupapa that advance our people being revolted we would have had a much better Aotearoa. Kia ora rā koutou.