Hayes JoanneJO HAYES (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I don't know about that last contribution because the other night I was at an event where I caught up with a number of Māori leaders. One of the questions they said to me was What's happening with Whānau Ora?" I said "Well I like you am quite interested and wondering what's happening with Whānau Ora." To be told in their conversations with Government Ministers over Whānau Ora that only half of that $80 million set aside in that Budget would go to the Whānau Ora commissioning agencies that would eventually end up with whānau providers absolutely shocked me. I thought "What on earth is going on?" Why has the Minister been so quiet about Whānau Ora and the delivery of the Whānau Ora budget that was held this year in the 2019 Budget? There was a lot of hoopla around this Budget for Māori and Whānau Ora. To find out that half of that fund is going into Government agencies is an absolute shock to me and it will be a shock to a number of Whānau Ora providers out in the community today.How can $40 million into a Government agency deliver Whānau Ora down to the services on the ground? How can a Government agency manage that from their desk? I say they cannot. Just today in the Māori Affairs Committee we heard from a Whānau Ora commissioning agency about the work of their 58 navigators covering a whole region. We found out about the trials and tribulations of a lack of funding to actually support the navigators. We heard around the role of the navigators and how many lives they have affected and been able to save. To this particular Whānau Ora commissioning agency for them to learn that only $40 million across the four-year period that this Government has put aside for Whānau Ora will only be going to the Whānau Ora commissioning agencies is a shame. It is a lost opportunity.I am disappointed that this Government can stand up and say "We have delivered this this and this." and yet many hundreds of Māori whānau go begging because they have not received the support within the Whānau Ora commissioning agencies because of a lack of funding. I am disappointed. I'm disappointed that Māori Ministers can let the delivery of funds and services to Māori go on the back-burner in favour of Government agencies. To be able to give funding into Corrections that has a lot of money from the Whānau Ora budget is shameful. It's absolutely shameful. People say "Oh but they need to have Whānau Ora inside the prisons." Well that's what Corrections are funded for. That should be part and parcel of their rehabilitation programme and they should fund it. That funding should not come out of the Whānau Ora budget. That funding for Whānau Ora should go to the people on the ground to the families that it was designed to target. I on this side along with my colleagues am astounded that this Government can do that to the very people who actually put them over there on those benches.I am also very disappointed in the fact that the Minister has not come out and enlightened the Whānau Ora community about what he is doing for Whānau Ora. It is very disappointing for him to sit there and for me to actually keep saying to him that we need to know they need to know. This is a Government that is not delivering to Māori whānau; it hasn't been ever since it got into Government. Ever since it got into Government it promised big things for Māori and it has failed every which way. In many ways the contributions in this House today for general debate have been about accountability for funding and have been about accountability for services. This Government cannot and should not hold its head up high because it has failed failed failed in the delivery of services—failed to account for the very funds that these taxpayers in New Zealand provide so services can be delivered.All I want to say to the many whānau out there is that on this side of the House when we take the Government benches in 2020 we will make sure that Whānau Ora funds are invested into whānau on the ground and that Government agencies will just have to manage with the funds that they currently have because they get a lot of money—I know Te Puni Kōkiri got $10 million from that funding in May and what have they done for it? I am disappointed. My heart breaks for the whānau of New Zealand. This Government should vacate those seats because they do not deliver services."