Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Kia ora Mr Speaker. E tika ana ki te mihi ki a koe e hoa mō tō poroporoaki i tēnei wā. Whai muri i tēnā ki a koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[It is only right that I commend you on your farewell at this time. After that greetings to all of you.]I was thinking about doing something positive after I heard Minister Henare and particularly Chris Bishop who started off so promisingly. So I was going to do something positive but I won't.Today I want to talk about teams—strong teams and weak teams. On the other side we have a particularly weak team. This myth of a strong National Party team has to be exposed because it's a team that sadly is toxic; sadly backstabs everyone; sadly leaks information; and sadly can't find the right leader. Well they had a promising team but they kicked them all out. The wonderful Anne Tolley over there—oh just wonderful; she should have been here for a long long time—and the wonderful Nikki Kaye and the wonderful Amy Adams and I wouldn't get too carried away about Paula Bennett but whilst we had the odd argument no doubt about the political prowess—no doubt about the political prowess. The point is that that could have been the team and now who have they got? They've got come-back-from-the-dead Gerry Brownlee—who's the leader again?—Judith Collins much better on TV than she is a leader; and Paul Goldsmith who doesn't know if he's a Māori or a Pākehā! It is a team that New Zealanders have no faith in—that's been exhibited in every poll going. Every poll tells us that New Zealanders don't like them they don't like their style and they don't like their angriness.Simeon Brown: This is an embarrassment.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: There you go there's one of the embarrassments. Sadly that's the face of the new National Party—fundamentalist right-wing anti-community anti-women. They're a disgrace—they're a disgrace. But this is the strong National team they talk about. Compare them with our team. What a leadership team we have. The fabulous Jacinda Ardern; Chippie" Minister Chris Hipkins leading the way there; we also have Megan Woods doing the business managing the borders so brilliantly; and the very honest dependable brother Minister Kelvin Davis who our Māori caucus are so proud of. And I haven't even talked about the rest of the top 10: Phil Carmel David Parker Nanaia Mahuta and the brilliant Andrew Little—and I say he's brilliant because he asked me to join the Labour Party but we won't go down that track. But anyway—Chris Bishop: Oh come on.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —this is the team—no no no Bish no; be the nice Chris Bishop instead of the horrible one. But the reality is that this is the powerful strong team that is driving this country.Alongside that team we have the wonderful Māori caucus that my mate Meka Whaitiri and I have had the honour of chairing. I want to honour this team too. I've mentioned some of our people. We know how brilliant this fulla on the left is—Mr Henare. But also in the seats we have Rino Tirikatene we have Adrian Rurawhe in the seats also and we have of course Tāmati over here in the Waiariki who never ever says a nice word to me—did the business and got rid of the Māori Party. A mihi to all of them. On top of that a brilliant list of MPs: Louisa Wall who hasn't been given the kudos for all of the wonderful work she's done Kiritapu Allan Jo Paul Eagle and Willow-Jean Prime. This is the Māori caucus that has been delivering for Māori. This is the Māori caucus with the mandate; not that useless lot who's crying all over Television New Zealand. They were the losers. They were rejected by the National Party.We have the mandate in terms of Māori—we have the mandate—and because of that we delivered $900 million at the last Budget; we delivered $500 million at the previous Budget; Kelvin Davis got Kōhanga Reo funding of $200 million - plus; Nanaia Mahuta $100 million in terms of Whenua Māori. We are delivering for our people. Peeni Henare did the business in the Whānau Ora area. We have the successes. More Māori judges than ever before; they couldn't get up under the National Party—Joe Williams never had a chance. District health boards we've filled them up—43 of the members there now are Māori. We are doing the business for the people and I haven't even talked about my Mana in Mahi—maybe I can get another five minutes Mr Speaker but no I won't ask for it.Thank you Mr Speaker for your work. To the Opposition all the best; we probably won't see most of you here next time but ngā mihi ki a koutou."