Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): I stand to speak to this bill the reo—oh no that was the other week. Beneficiaries—no that was last week. Smoke-free—yet to come. The meth—sorry; this bill that is to do with the dissolution of our Māori Health Authority. I guess my point is that with 16 pieces of legislation coming through urgency it's really hard to keep track of which one you're actually doing because in an 18-month run—in an 18-month run; let's not forget and lose sight of this—the Government keeps carrying on as if it has evidence. This is the fastest ever dissolution we've ever seen of anything in our lives. We've barely had our feet hit the ground and actually we're insulted by watching politicians stand up and speak for one to two minutes about kaupapa that are dear; not passionate. They're about life and death for our communities. Eighty-three percent of Māori didn't vote for this Government which is why there is such a comfort in what is being rolled out. So what we have here in this whole whakaaro we've had to not only endure listening to politicians that haven't got the time to put any effort into this whakaaro but we also have to hear ourselves called Marri" the whole time through this. I've got to tell you there's nothing more aggravating than actually not having ourselves respected not only for who we are but how we feel about what is before us. You have allowed limited avenues for our people to be able to stand up and give their—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): I assure you I have not. DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: —well the Government—to be able to give our people the right to stand up and I guess what we want to do is also remind ourselves. So while Māori were out there defending this nation and looking after everyone we had a leader of this Government who was out making sure that he shared the Māori vaccination code. We are being deliberately corralled into a pocket of desperation and destitution and I want to remind and reflect on the words of Sir Mason Durie who is a Māori health expert—unlike anyone else that is in this House at the moment. Sir Mason Durie shared that the Māori Health Authority—Te Aka Whai Ora—was an "important step for Māori with implications far beyond the healthcare sector". This is an expert with 40 years of experience with not a political bone in his body who is really only worried about the wellbeing of our people. Instead here what we've got is an era of Government that won't be transformational because it is seriously comfortable in an old system using dollars as justification for change. Pumping chests patting yourselves on the back because you've given dollars—given millions of dollars—to something that actually is business as usual. That is what the Government's job is to do: it's to get the money out to the communities that need it the most. So let's reflect on this. So in 1982 we had 55 doctors—55 Māori doctors. Now we have 55 Māori doctors graduating a year and I guess the hope that I have as I speak to our people is that if we were to put all our Māori health workers and authorities together we would have a powerful vehicle for change. It is not going to come from this Government. Iwi-Māori partnerships: now they were put in and I was always really critical of the fact that they had to have twice as many hui with half as much resourcing. What we want to ask and want to see from this Government—which we haven't seen—is what was the Māori commission's outcomes for a blueprint for Aka Whai Ora? How is it being upheld? How are they going to ensure that things are going to transfer back to Te Whatu Ora? What is your alternative model? What are you and how are you resourcing? How are the locality plans working given that you have no data to say how they're performing no outcomes and we haven't seen any data outcomes since the DHBs were wound up? So what my point is is that you cannot guarantee that we will not have more health inequities for Māori as we see this flip-flopping from a Government that wants to distance itself from the 100 days from the Government before it and it really is worrying when we hear kupu about the commissioning agency and the approach because Te Pāti Māori knows full well what's required to get that up and running. Have you got the fortitude the resourcing and the commitment to let your non-Māori voters—again remembering that 83 percent of Māori didn't support this Government I doubt very much that you have. But I will take real caution and remind our people that we are amongst ourselves able to take on a Government that supposes that it knows more about us without us. This is not the first time we've had to contend with this type of approach to our wellbeing. I urge that we all work together stand strong and stand united as we continue to take this Government on with its anti-Māori agenda. Kia ora rā."