Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): In the Budget there is a group of New Zealanders who missed out significantly and that group is Māori. Māori got a measly miserly 1 percent of new spending in the Budget. Compare that with the amount of spending that Corrections got at 8.5 percent. We are going to spend 10 times more money on keeping Māori in prison this year than we are on keeping Māori out of prison.I knew there was something up in the Budget when Steven Joyce announced that there was going to be $93 million worth of spending over the next 4 years for Māori and then 10 minutes later Te Ururoa Flavell gets up and says there is going to be $122 million worth of spending for Māori over the next 4 years—so I am wondering where this extra $30 million comes from. Why is it that the Minister is pumping his own tyres? I looked at the Budget book and actually Steven Joyce was correct: there is only $93 million over the next 4 years for Māori initiatives and new funding. But if we just take out this year's amount alone $25 million is all that Māori get. If we start to scratch away at the surface we find that they are actually getting crumbs.The Māori Party members say they get all the benefits of sitting at the table with the Government. I say that actually they are outside in the foyer sitting at the coffee table and getting the crumbs of what the Government lets fall on to the floor for them. If you are going to get crumbs you may as well get crumbs that are recognisable. Instead the crumbs are so tiny they are atomic—you need an electron microscope to see that they actually are crumbs.Whānau Ora gets $2.5 million; just $2.5 million in new spending this year. When Whānau Ora was launched Dame Tariana Turia said it needed $1 billion and it is getting just $2.5 million. We all want Whānau Ora to succeed because we all have whānau; so we want it to succeed. But it gets $2.5 million and the Government and the Māori Party say that that is going to bring in another 2500 whānau. Well that would be good if it is true but there are just around 10000 whānau now after 9 years of Whānau Ora and they are saying that just $2.5 million is going to bring in another 2500 whānau. I just do not believe it.Then I was looking through more of the announcements. There is going to be—and this sounds really good—$1 million for Māori health for remote rural Māori communities to access health. I had a good look at it and what the Māori Party is proposing to do is to buy a bus—a bus that it is going to convert into a clinic. That bus—just one bus—is going to drive around Mātaatua—the Mātaatua area and part of the East Coast. Mātaatua is Waiariki—Te Ururoa Flavell's electorate and another electorate that they have no hope in Hades of winning off my fine colleague here Meka Whaitiri. So they are going to buy this bus do it up and that will cost about $250000 to $300000. They are going to start probably with a nurse maybe a doctor and a bus driver so there is going to be a heck of a lot of money spent on salaries. There is going to be money spent on accommodation. There is going to be money spent on gas. And how many times would a bus get around all of Waiariki and half of the East Coast in a year? I would say once maybe twice. So you think of it: old Koro whose gout is playing up if the bus went through the little remote rural community a week before is Koro going to say: Um nah it's all right. I'll wait for Te Ururoa Flavell's 'Panadol on Wheels' to turn up in 6 months' time and I'll get my gout seen to." No way. He is going to go into town he is going to go to the doctor or the pharmacy and get the pills that he would have got anyway. He is not going to wait for some bus to turn up. This is electioneering at its worst. It is pork barrel politicking. I believe that the only two things that this bus that Te Ururoa Flavell is going to spend a million bucks on is going to dispense will be Panadol and Māori Party propaganda.Then we look at the Māori Housing Network. It gets $3 million a year or something. Now the Māori Housing Network has apparently created 140 projects. Well how many people can live in a project? It is like how many people can live in a permit? There were 140 projects—and I wonder why it says "projects" instead of giving us the number of houses that it has actually built?Meka Whaitiri: Eleven over 9 years.KELVIN DAVIS: Eleven. We heard Winston Peters say it the other day: 11 houses over 9 years. But hang on it does get better—379 Māori homes have had repairs. I feel fantastic for those 379 Māori whānau who have had their spouting repaired—that is fantastic—but when you think of the Māori population being 450000 in New Zealand that equates to about 0.08 of 1 percent of Māoridom getting their houses fixed or involved in these projects that have not produced houses.Then there are the kōhanga reo. They get $5 million. I thought: "Oh that's excellent—$5 million." You know as a former school principal I thought of what I could do with $5 million—until you look at what the five million bucks is going to be used for. It is going to be used—not to invest in kaiako not to invest in children not to invest in resources but to invest in buying cars and vans and fixing the kōhanga reo vans. Now if a shiny van at the front gate is the mark of success for kōhanga reo then that side of the House—National and its mates the Māori Party—do not understand education. If it is going to put $5 million towards buying shiny vans and fixing vans then it should have put double that amount into investing into kaiako into tamariki and into the resources that will help those children to learn Te Reo Māori so that they can graduate to kura kaupapa and be successful Māori there.Māori youth suicide is going to get $8 million over 4 years. Now that sounds pretty good—until you compare it with the $40 million that Labour has pledged to invest every single year to get health professionals into every single secondary school plus another $40 million for primary mental health care in the communities.Now Te Ture Whenua Māori is going to get $2 million for educating the community about Te Ture Whenua Māori. The Minister for Māori Development has said—having spent money on all these hui over the last however many years telling people about how great Te Ture Whenua Māori is going to be but they still have to spend another $2 million just to convince people that it actually is of benefit.Adrian Rurawhe: It is more campaigning.KELVIN DAVIS: It is more campaigning. Then it is going to put some money into the Māori Land Service. The service has no business case. Nobody really knows what it is going to do. It has not been developed. It is going to start work I think 18 months after the bill becomes an Act. The Ture Whenua Act has just got widespread disdain throughout Māori communities; throughout Te Tai Tokerau throughout Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. Of the 20-odd consultation hui Labour MPs turned up to 14 of them and all 14 hui had motions from the floor to chuck this bill out. Nobody wants it and yet the Government has got to spend another $2 million over the next couple of years convincing those people that it is right and the community is wrong.Then there is Te Mana o te Wai Fund. This is the $1 million fund for whānau hapū and iwi to improve water quality—$1 million. I read somewhere the other day where the Government said that $2 billion is needed by 2040—$2 billion—to make water swimmable. Yet Māori get a measly $1 million to improve the health of the water—$1 million out of $2 billion. Now maths was not my strongest point at school—as a student or as a teacher—but $1 million of $2 billion is less than 1 percent. It is a drop in the dirty river—that is all it is.Family violence gets a bit of money. I say "a bit" but here is the clincher: in this Budget a worker on the minimum wage—and Māori make up many of those workers on the minimum wage—will get one extra dollar per week. One extra dollar. There is nothing in this Budget for Māori. We do not support it whatsoever."