Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Tēnā tātou e te Whare. I too am struggling to speak. It is with huge sadness and resolve that I take this call on behalf of Te Paati Māori on the third reading of the Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System Bill and the Children and Young People's Commission Bill. Sadness because I think of all our babies our māmā our whānau who will be negatively impacted by this legislation who will struggle even harder to demand answers and transparency from the Crown. Resolve because I know that tangata whenua do not accept the passage of this legislation do not consent and that has been made clear to this Government time and time again. As such we must stop at nothing to see these reforms overturned.My first message is to everyone who has campaigned advocated passionately lobbied submitted and posted to try and stop what we are seeing happening before us this evening. Tēnā rawa atu koutou: thank you all. The Government may not have listened to you but there are MPs in this House who have heard you; there are parties in this House that have heard you. Te Paati Māori has heard you and we will continue to work together to fight with you to protect the w'akapapa of our mokopuna. My second message is to the Labour Party. You had every opportunity to listen and respond to the concerns but have failed to do so at every stage. Of those who submitted to the select committee only eight were in support of the bill while 311 opposed the bill. Included in this were dozens and dozens of kaupapa Māori organisations and agencies representing the children's sector. Labour you have ignored those with lived experience who know what it's like to be stuck in a system to feel unsafe and desperate. You've told them you know better. You say you cannot afford to wait for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care despite taking since 2018 to get to this point. After the committee stage we saw a range of excellent Supplementary Order Papers from Jan Logie and Karen Chhour which were not supported by the Government. Just today Labour have voted down a motion from Jan Logie to refer the bill back to select committee so that consideration of the deep and wide-ranging concerns can continue. On something as important as the oversight and monitoring of child protection agencies Government should be seeking as broad support as possible not just from parties in this House but more importantly from the advocate frontline workers who dedicate their lives to caring for and protecting w'akapapa of tamariki and mokopuna.Instead what we have seen is Ministers belittling Māori and community organisations by implying that they don't understand the bill. Instead we've seen a refusal to engage with the most serious and gravest of the issues that have been raised by those with more expertise than anyone in the House. You are complimenting yourselves; no one else in the sector is. This is shameful behaviour. Bulldozing this bill speaks to the level of bullying arrogance that has crept into how this Government is operating. How many more babies do we have to bury before systemic change happens? You're not in a position to talk about it. How long will it take for Government to step aside and devolve resources for Māori by Māori? That's a Treaty solution. That's tino rangatiratanga.And how can we expect full accountability and for whānau to demand answers when this very day the Labour Party is going to pass this bill reducing the guarantees of their accountability which will in the words of Hāpai te Hauora perpetuate the harms and dysfunction of the current Oranga Tamariki system at disproportionate and irreparable rates"? Our systems of child protection were set up not to protect but to severe w'akapapa. Let's remember that—to attempt to disrupt and dismantle our traditional social units: whānau hapū and iwi. Well the Crown failed in the attempt to "smooth the pillow of the dying race"; they did succeed in causing extreme and irreversible intergenerational trauma.The pageant of these bills will be remembered as a shameful day in the history of the Labour Government. We will continue to fight not one more child to ensure the wellbeing of all our tamariki and mokopuna our rangitahi and support those who you refuse to listen to in Labour. We oppose this bill. Kia ora koutou."