Hipango HareteHARETE HIPANGO (National—Whanganui): E Te Mana W'akawā. This is my first Budget that I speak on as an elected MP of Parliament and as the Whanganui electorate MP. So the rural regions which are included within my electorate—Waverley Pātea Hāwera Manaia Eltham Stratford Te Kiri and of course W'anganui—they'll be wondering what this Budget might deliver for them apart from a jolly good taxing time. During campaign mode and post-election Labour and New Zealand First promised to W'anganui $6 million for the velodrome roof $3 million to the north mole $3 million to the port development and $3 million to rail—nothing; still waiting to deliver. Is it a case of a Government that's soon to be broke or a case of yet some more broken promises?The Budget is about priorities and carving out a piece of the Treasury pie: carving out and serving up some treasured pie; a decent piece of the Budget pie to whichever whatever whomever is considered of importance in priority—some of greater and others of lesser importance. This Budget should have been a Budget of pai ora: a healthy pie for those healthy pieces. However for Māori in New Zealand it is far from being a pai ora" and as National Party spokesperson for Māori tourism Māori and New Zealand tourism have been starved—in fact denied any slice of the pie. There is nothing—kua kore: nothing—for New Zealand and Māori tourism. The Government slashed $6 million from Tourism New Zealand's budget—a short-sighted cut that will cost the economy significantly through lost export earnings.The tourism infrastructure fund of $25 million—and under a National Government it was $100 million recognising the importance to grow that pie—has now been assimilated and immersed into the Provincial Growth Fund. You have to ingredient—you have to invest in—the pie in order to grow it. It's now a lesser priority mainstreamed into that $1 billion - a-year Provincial Growth Fund. At the opening and closing of the World Indigenous Tourism Summit in April 2018 Ministers Mahuta and Davis affirmed New Zealand tourism as New Zealand's biggest export industry contributing 21 percent of New Zealand's exchange earnings affirming Māori tourism as a crucial dimension to New Zealand's tourism sector. Where is the piece of the pie? Kua kore—nothing.So a rapid tourism growth industry in New Zealand—nothing is being invested there. How can we expect decent returns without those ingredients to this pie? The Ministers also each questioned whether New Zealand has capacity to sustain growth in our visitor numbers in spite of the obvious economic benefits these visitors have brought to our country. Not one slice of the pie—not even a skinny slice; not even a crumb. The New Zealand and Māori tourism industry is starved of any treasured slice or crumbs of the pie. No "kei te pai" in this Budget round—sorry New Zealand tourism; sorry Māori tourism.I move now to Māori development. Kua kore—empty. Not just broken—nothing. Whānau Ora: nothing despite the $20 million that had been promised during the campaign. Vote Māori has been halved—again Whānau Ora: nothing. Whānau Ora is about cultural and social transformation of Māori back into Māori hands. I simply do not buy the fact that mainstreaming and assimilating Māori interests into the Budget pie is the way to address this. Auē. What of Labour's promises to voters before the election? Whānau Ora: nothing—nothing healthy or nutritional about this Budget pie for Māori.Many are saying that this is a typical laboured approach under this Government. There are more Māori MPs in Government than ever before but this Government coalition still refuses to believe and back whānau and Māori communities.I acknowledge your Māori MP colleagues across the House your 13 Māori MPs having laboured. I emphasise e ngā mema mā despite your numbers—though they may be significant—sadly your presence and influence have lacked. It has fallen on deafened ears. It seems to have been that those priorities that you may have advocated for have been deflected and they're certainly not reflected in any way whatsoever in this Budget pie.It's a bad and unhealthy Budget pie for Māori interests and for New Zealand Māori Tourism. Auē. Kua kore—nothing."