8. Question No. 8—Prime MinisterRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) to the Prime MinisterQuestion No. 8—Prime Minister8. RAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government's statements and actions?Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister): Yes in particular our targeted support in this year's Budget to support Māori in areas like housing health education tamariki whānau justice reform and te reo Māori. The total Māori Budget package is in excess of $1 billion and invests in areas right across our economic recovery while supporting Māori across the country. Key initiatives include Māori housing; Māori health initiatives; the setting up of the Māori Health Authority; Māori education and particular support for Māori boarding schools and to lift kōhanga reo teachers' pay; $42 million to build a sustainable Māori media sector and invest in programme content; funding for Māori tourism; and $14.8 million for the implementation of the Māori Language Strategy. This support will help our economic recovery and support Māori. Rawiri Waititi: Does she stand by her international commitments as part of the Christchurch Call to protect citizens from online hate speech and violent threats and does this commitment include protection of tangata whenua?Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Yes. In fact you'll see from the work programme off the back of particularly the royal commission in tandem with of course the work on the Christchurch Call—but on the royal commission a really strong theme coming through there was that we need to involve conversation and dialogue through the reform process with all communities but particularly tangata whenua as well. So that is a big part of our response to the royal commission's report.Rawiri Waititi: Has she received any reports from the police or the intelligence agencies that demonstrate the rising volume of white supremacist hate and violence against tangata whenua as expressed vividly online by a masked white supremacist who threatened to slaughter tens of thousands of Māori and burn down our marae?Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Whilst we don't tend to comment on the specifics of intelligence reporting it will be obvious to everyone in this House that we have seen that extremist groups—those who hold extremist ideology those who hold racist ideology—are certainly in existence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our job is to make sure that we work in a preventative fashion to try and protect people from that ideology and that we respond where we see it using the full force of the criminal justice system. It is however up to our police to make sure that they are doing that. They have operational independence. But I understand the member has both sought to meet with the Commissioner of Police around those issues and has met with the Minister with responsibility for our intelligence agencies. I hope he received a receptive audience to addressing the challenges the member has raised.Rawiri Waititi: Point of order Mr Speaker. Just for clarity of the House the commissioner didn't turn up today.Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Are her Christchurch Call policy changes sufficient when that video which essentially threatened genocide on tangata whenua was online on multiple platforms for longer than 24 hours?Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Two responses to that. Of course for an incident that occurs we would expect that when that is raised that's then dealt with by the New Zealand Police according to the law. I understand arrests may have been made in the particular case that's been raised. But when it comes to the issue of the removal of content that's considered to be offensive or objectionable we are doing some work to ensure that we have consistency in the way that we treat material whether it's on an online platform social media content or indeed through some of our usual mainstream ways that we've accessed content in the past through broadcasting. We know there's more work we need to do there and we're doing it and equally we're trying to lead the charge internationally on making sure there's a consistent approach to take down through social media platforms too. Just in response I understand the commissioner has made a commitment to reschedule with the Māori Party on the basis of the unavailability of meeting today. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Will she support the establishment of a joint Government task force that includes the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and New Zealand Police that is focused on protecting tangata whenua from violent white supremacists and if not why not?Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: I would have an expectation that our agencies would be doing that work as a matter of course in their daily duties. Those operational decisions ultimately do exist for them but I think everyone in this House would expect that anyone that receives threats anyone that is the subject of threats either online or in any environment experiences the full force of the law and that if we are seeing the rise of some of these groups—and I believe we are both globally and in our own jurisdiction—the agencies would respond to that.