Kapa-Kingi MariamenoMARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tokerau): Kia ora tēnā koe. I stand to tautoko my sister here partly to—oh not partly that I support her but partly to discuss this in this way. What you just witnessed it's not passion so don't dismiss it as such. It is not passion; it is experience it is knowledge and without it we're not as well off as we could be. To dismiss it in such a way particularly by some of the expressions I saw on the faces of members across the House I don't quite understand that—it's offensive and probably needs some work I would suggest. To suggest that this side of House—and the Māori Party for instance—ignore pain of victims is also false and mischievous. To suggest that we take a line on this bill as if we don't understand what the pain is for victims is false and you need to rethink that—sorry that side of the House needs to rethink that.At Tūrangawaewae at least 20000 people turned up to say what the Government was doing was just out the gate and needs some attention. Sixty thousand turned up at Waitangi and addressed Government across the paepae and said very clearly in seven different ways—but in the language that only the Government can understand which is the monolingual thing English—so they could understand that they are letting whānau down. So when one of the previous speakers suggested that We went to lots of community halls." it has to be a joke really because I didn't hear him say "marae"; I didn't hear him say "rūnanga"; I didn't hear him say "whānau settings". I heard him say "community halls" which is probably essentially Pākehā settings just saying. This concerns me as well given that the Minister on record has said "On balance colonisation is good for Māori."—and he said it so I'm not making that up. But the point I'm making is it is embedded in the discussion and therefore is embedded in his thinking which is a huge concern. When any Minister says "Colonisation was good for Māori on balance." that is atrocious disgusting and needs to be challenged in every single way and 60000 people did—60000 people did in Waitangi.To take funding away—that's the point. To suggest that taking funding away but you know "You can still have friendly Māori people and whānau come along and stand up." that's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous—I know because I used to do this work for many years in the Ngāti Hine Health Trust. I used to run programmes in prisons for goodness' sake in Rangipō so I know—I know—what this takes Minister despite what's less known across the House. I can tell you this with assurance: taking funding away—taking funding away—lessens opportunity; it lessens the access to fair and just decisions. This is what I would call robbing Pita—robbing Pita—to pay Paul or Paula. That's what this is—this is robbing Pita to pay Paul or Paula. This is a poor way of showing any real genuine interest. Again I said it earlier: it's indifferent to Māori and I'm saying that and I expect that it's understood across the House. Trust me when I say this: I know this work—I know this—I know what it takes and this piece of legislation it undoes it all. So if 60000 people can show up in Waitangi they'll continue to show up and that's why this absolutely needs to be rejected by this party. Thank you Madam Speaker."