Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. First of all I would just like to thank Anita for her service and wish her all the best on her new journey ahead.We have heard all of these nice words. We have heard that if you change the name it is a good start. The bottom line is that regardless of the words that you put into this particular bill I support my colleague Marama Davidson in saying that actually it is the institution that is the problem. If the Minister for Children was brave and bold she would address the pleas by many adults who came through a State ward system—the many adults who came through this particular system and are now asking for a royal inquiry into the treatment that they received in State care. If this Minister cared about it we would address that and I am sure we would see many of the issues from a royal inquiry inform a better piece of legislation. At the moment what we have is legislation that really only tinkers around the edges really only acknowledges some parts of the wider problem and I feel tries to put a coat of paint over what is a really big issue.Take the wording loving home" in the bill—I have seen those words right throughout the bill; "loving home". How about this Government just provides our families with homes? That is a good start. There are no homes in this country for families. We have families sleeping in cars and this particular bill is putting forward an expectation that we are going to provide loving homes. Of course we want to do that—of course—but let us be realistic. There is a housing crisis in this country and families are out in the cold. If you look at some of the whānau who find themselves in those situations they are not there because they choose to be; they are there because of a failure by this Government to actually address so many more issues that feed into this particular bill.Scores of submissions were given on this bill and I have heard commentary from the other side of the House about the types of submissions that were made and how long we have been waiting for such meaningful change. If only they had considered Pūao-te-ata-tū as a good foundation—the great work the group did and the report that was provided for the Government in the late 1980s. You will find a lot of answers there—a lot of answers. As I read through this bill it just does not quite match up to what was essentially a great piece of work that would see Māori culture at the forefront of service provision for our people—for our people because let us be honest most of those tamariki in State care are from Ngāpuhi. Most of those tamariki in Tāmaki-makau-rau are from Ngāpuhi.When I consider the provisions for strategic partnerships with Māori I wonder just exactly how this Government expects people like Ngāpuhi—the tribe of Ngāpuhi approximately 130000-odd people with no settlement—to actually be able to provide the care that we are hoping to give our tamariki. That is a real challenge and a real question and I am sure despite the language in this particular bill that there are some realities out on the street—some very harsh realities. Those realities tell us that not all iwi not all hapū and not all whānau have the capacity to do that despite the willingness to do it. Those are some serious challenges that we put in front of this Government to make sure that the language in this bill the essence of this bill and the intention of this bill are right so that we make sure that we address the problems and make sure that tamariki are in fact at the forefront of all we do. At the moment the words I am hearing in this House—that is all it is; it is words. That is all it is—it is simple words.On this side of this House it is with regret that we will not be supporting this bill. We have pointed out the reasons why in our minority view. I am sure that as this bill progresses through its next stages in the House there are going to be a lot of speakers from this side of the House because this is important and we do want to get it right. Let us go through this with a fine-tooth comb. In closing my contribution I reiterate that we will not be supporting this bill."