Halbert ShananSHANAN HALBERT (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. The disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora the Māori Health Authority today returns Māori to disproportionate harm. I want to take a moment to acknowledge all the kaimahi all of the health practitioners all of the kaiurungi who have done the hard fight year in year out to where we got to establish an independent voice for Māori in the structures of our health system that we know wasn't working for them.When I return to my marae at Moawhango I want to go back and tell them that I've done better for them by serving in this House. Today some in this House will have to go back to their marae to tell them that they are returning their whānau back to a system where our people die seven years earlier than their non-Māori counterparts. The blood of their tūpuna will stain their hands for ever.I wonder if the doctors in this House who have supported the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority today have abandoned their ethical principles that they were once asked to uphold as medical professionals—to act with integrity and in the best interests of their patients. Just not the Māori ones. How morally bankrupt do you have to become to sell out your own people and communities for a couple of trinkets and baubles of political office and a bit of a campaign clickbait? It should be a timely reminder for all people that it might be our health sovereignty and opportunities they are stealing today. But rest assured they are coming for yours tomorrow.Te Aka Whai Ora isn't bureaucracy as the Prime Minister so casually regards it to be. It's a chance for Māori to make meaningful decisions about improving their health outcomes through commissioning the services they need delivered in a way that they want rather than have the same stale ideas rammed down their throats by the greatest pack of bureaucrats that we have ever seen—the other side of the House.The establishment of Te Aka Whai Ora included the Waitangi Tribunal's hauora report and by God I am disappointed that we didn't have the respect to wait two days to hear of that hearing. This is a breach of mana motuhake the incremental steps that this work has done to achieve better outcomes for Māori to give Māori a voice steps towards tino rangatiratanga.I want to acknowledge those that put the work in to put the hearing in place before the Waitangi Tribunal: Lady Tureiti Moxon Rawiri Jansen and all of our Māori health practitioners. Today I salute you for the hard yards that you've done and by God we stand with you moving forward.I want to push back on the non-Māori across the House that take cheap shots at Te Aka Whai Ora and say it didn't deliver anything. That is false. The strength of Te Aka Whai Ora lies in its independence from the Crown and its ability to provide coordinated and independent Māori-focused advice policy advocacy and commission and one year in we have seen incremental change. We have seen outcomes—and tell me of a structural shift in this country's history in Aotearoa New Zealand where we have measured the achievements and results within only 12 months but we only do this to Māori. It is unfair it is disgraceful and every Māori on that side of the House every member of this Government should hang their heads in shame. And when you go to your own marae you tell your whānau that you are disgraceful.