Rurawhe AdrianTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. That last one; that was an interesting one—The errors of our ways" Brooke van Velden says. Take out the Māori Health Authority and you will see the light you'll see the errors of your ways. Well I absolutely fundamentally disagree with that member. I absolutely fundamentally agree—not just us over here on this side of the House though not just the Green Party of Aotearoa not just the Māori Party as well. Actually there's a lot of organisations that think that the Māori Health Authority is good and they penned an open letter—and they penned an open letter. And these aren't necessarily Māori organisations. We're talking about the Lung Foundation NZ Kidney Health New Zealand Stroke Foundation NZ the breast cancer coalition the gynaecological health foundation and Cancer Society New Zealand who have all penned an open letter to be able to convince those people on that side of the House that want to take the Māori Health Authority away and plead with them to be able to say "Let it happen let this happen." The Māori Health Authority is a really great innovation here. I want to start by talking about the commitment that we have in this House to be able to realise our Te Tiriti partnership. We as lawmakers in this House must have a serious commitment. We cannot keep going with the system that we've got—we cannot keep going with the system that we've got. The system is broken; the system does not work for Māori. And we did hear it in our submission hearings. We did hear people come forward and they did say to us that they wanted to see improvements. They were asked—in fact it was Matt Doocey who sits on the committee as well. He asked the question to GPNZ General Practice New Zealand: does your organisation have a view on the disestablishment of DHBs? They said "Yes this was signalled early and we're very comfortable with this." He talked about Starship; one of his questions: "Are we going to see an equivalent Starship for young Māori or the same organisation?" And the response was: we actually need to earn the trust of all people in Aotearoa including Māori. We have to earn the right and the trust to have a single service. Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority need to work together on a partnership level to be able to make those decisions. And I keep hearing it in speeches coming from the Opposition: "What's the outcomes where are the outcomes? We want to know the outcomes." Well let's start with this outcome: by Māori for Māori. Let's start with that as an outcome as something that we're doing this whole reform for which is a health system where actually the Māori voice is heard through the system—[Interruption] Oh we've got them fired up. Kia ora welcome. Good morning welcome. What we've got here is the opportunity for Māori to be able to input into a health system like we've never done before—like we've never done before—in an honest and meaningful way. We want to bring Māori into that conversation which is why we've set up and refreshed in some parts of Aotearoa the iwi-Māori partnership boards. I know that our one back home—it had been in a bit of an abeyance because actually and that's a sign of the politics because as much as they've wanted to participate in the health system in the past they haven't been able to because they haven't had legislation to back their voice. So what do we get? We get what we've currently got which is a health system which isn't working for Māori. So the iwi-Māori partnership boards as well as other hauora Māori organisations are going to be able to give advice to the Minister of Health and through that the Minister of Health will be charged with the job of appointing the Hauora Māori Advisory Committee. And what will that committee do? They will appoint the members on the Māori Health Authority. Why have we gone to those lengths? Because it came through really clearly in the submissions that actually a Māori Health Authority should not be appointed and dismissed by the Minister who sits within the Government of the day. Māori submitters notably the Māori Women's Welfare League came forward and said to us "If you're going to tell us that this is an independent and arm's-length organisation from you guys in Government then you need to create a process whereby we have faith in the system." The iwi-Māori partnership boards the hauora Māori organisations will contribute to that. The Hauora Māori Advisory Committee will contribute to that. We will have Māori making decisions for Māori.I want to tell one very small story which sums this up. There is a health and social service provider in the beautiful Waiariki region. This is a Māori health provider that goes into our very small communities—and they are rural communities as well—and it is their job to fight for contracts. They have to go in and they have to fight within the health system for those contracts. When they do that it's actually a really really long line. Every time that they do that they have to say "We're doing this because we are able to deliver on the equity that our communities deserve but you need to have faith with us." That hasn't happened. Sometimes they're successful; sometimes they're not.The fact is that if we're creating a partnership if we in this House are committed to a Te Tiriti partnership then we need to be able to give organisations like them the mana to be able to make their decisions by Māori for Māori. That's the outcome that we're looking for here. That's the outcome that came through in some of the submissions that we heard. The hauora Māori organisations were incredibly passionate about the reform that we're undertaking here. It's got their support. They see the vision. It's terrible for the Opposition to actually bag it without giving it a chance. That's what these organisations have asked for. They've said "Take a leap of faith. We can't do any worse than the Government has done over successive Governments. Take a chance on us." That's what I heard in the submissions. That's what I'm here to support in the second reading and that's what I'll be supporting in the third reading as well. I commend this bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call Simon Watts—five minutes."