Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. What a shocking contribution from that member Paul Goldsmith. Particularly—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'm sorry to interrupt the member. This is a split call—bell at one minute.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Particularly criticism of the—Hon Paul Goldsmith: It's not even worth 10 minutes.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —oh I'd love 10 minutes but you gotta play by the rules.The Hukapapa Man" as we know him Minister Jones—pure as snow as he would describe himself. It was terrible criticism given the impact that that provincial fund is making at the moment. I absolutely compliment our Minister for Regional Economic Development in terms of what he's doing and we had no problems unlike that member and other members of the Opposition in terms of supporting people in the North. What—should he just give up Mr Goldsmith; give up on your own because you're related? Cut that out. There are no thoughts of nepotism whatsoever. It's total support for good business and good strategies.It's ironic that I stand today and it's a sad state of affairs for us as Māori that we're celebrating a Budget that supports warm homes employment and investment in health—all of that has been done with this Budget and Māori are very pleased with this Budget—despite the nonsensical rubbish that we've had from the other side. We as a Māori caucus made a clear decision this time despite all the condemnation from the other side to embark on a universal-type strategy. As Minister Jones knows—and I've said this before in the House—most of our Māori people don't speak Māori. Most of them are not with Waipareira and the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA) sadly—sadly. Most of them are not attached to the Ngāpuhi rūnanga in the North. They're just normal people who go about their business every day in South Auckland in west Auckland—Hon Shane Jones: He tangata he tangata.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —he tangata he tangata—and in Porirua and what did they need? They needed assistance—they needed assistance. With all respect the foreshore and seabed who owns the water—all the different kōrero that goes down about who owns what and what Māori need and what Māori want is irrelevant to your average Māori out there. They need good housing. They need good health plans. They need good education and we're a Māori caucus who have delivered on that.Hon Dr Nick Smith: Why are you closing charter schools?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We have delivered on that. We don't want to be worrying about 0.1 percent of the funding that National gave their ACT mates; we want to worry about the main population. That member Nick Smith over there knows that. National did absolutely nothing for people. They just threw the ACT member crumbs. They never really cared about Māori—whereas we care about Māori. So we embarked Mr Smith on a universal strategy that saw an accommodation supplement of $265 million go to Māori—$265 million went to Māori—$443 million went to whānau whānau the National Party don't care about; a winter energy payment of $274 million; and a Best Start payment of $250 million. But according to the other side those sorts of numbers don't count. They want to talk about nonsense; we want to get to our people.We are absolutely rapt with the response from our people. We have people coming up to us in the streets thanking us for having a warm winter now. They're sick of freezing and dying under the previous National Government. It's terrible what our people have gone through. We have prioritised the things that are important and dear to our people. You can't talk about the foreshore and seabed and other kaupapa like that—which are really important might I add—while your people freezing and dying in cars. You can't do that. DEPUTY SPEAKER: I don't try to do it. Don't bring me into it.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: You have to prioritise—my apologies Madam Deputy Speaker. You have to prioritise—sorry Madam Deputy Speaker again. We have to prioritise what's really dear to them. In saying that this universal strategy has done well in getting to the majority of our people and we are pleased particularly with Minister Robertson and his commitment to this. But we know that Māori organisations and groups are watching us and we intend to deal with some of the requests that we have from Māori health providers from Māori nurses and from Whānau Ora groups—all of those groups remain a priority with this Government. They will form part of our strategy going forward a universal strategy and a targeted funding strategy where we'll get to all Māori. But in terms of this Budget we celebrate it because our people are in a much better position and they're in the right frame going forward. Kia ora koutou katoa."