Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Kia ora. I really appreciated being called honourable" e te Pīka. I'd like to stand and speak in opposition as Opposition in opposition to the bill that is before us. This bill is married to the last one which is also married to the one before it and the one before it where we continuously have a Government who puts profit over people and prioritises industry interests over public health interests. We continue to see a Government which has absolutely no shame in its continual advancement of its anti-Māori approach in policy and how it continues to justify its wellbeing of profit over people. It is well known that Māori have the highest smoking rates and we have the highest rate of death and tobacco-related illnesses so to sit here and say that these decisions aren't being made against us is an absolute myth. We know what this Government's agenda is and we will continue to call it out for what it is so that our people can see because we've got to keep reminding ourselves Aotearoa: 83 percent of Māori did not support this Government—83 percent of Māori did not support this Government—which is why there is such a comfort in how and what it is that they are rolling out in this hundred days of absolute colonising chaos.What we have here is an ability for a Government to actually do the right thing by its indigenous peoples and by tangata w'enua but they are so hell bent and so bitter and twisted by what has happened in the past to them and so vengeful against Māori not supporting them in the last election that we continue to see this absolute kick in the face of advocates such as our whaea Tariana Turia Hone Harawira who are champions of Smokefree Aotearoa; many of our advocates who are upstairs in the gallery. You completely disregarded the experts such as those from Hāpai te Hauora. It is an unconscionable blow to the health of Māori in what we are seeing rolled out before us today. Nine hundred and nineteen submissions—Hāpai te Hauora Tala Pasifika—and here we have this Government with a Prime Minister who says and I want to make sure I get the wording right. The question was to the Prime Minister "Do you know how many lives may be lost because you are making these changes?" and the Prime Minister responds on 4 December "Well not really. That's not been our approach. What has happened here is that our party and others oppose this legislation." "Have you asked the question how many lives might be lost making this change?" "No" our Prime Minister responded. "No. What I have focused on is actually realising that [we're] concentrating on the distribution to 600 outlets throughout the whole of New Zealand". So again when the Prime Minister was asked "How many lives might be lost by making this change; have you focused on that?" the answer was no.So today we were debating with the Minister of Health on what he is guaranteeing. The Minister of Health is guaranteeing to us and Aotearoa that he has a better model that he will personally take focus and responsibility and be all in the detail all over what has been proposed to look after us. We are being told and guaranteed that he will act in the best interests of us as Māori and I guess that helps us in some way to put to rest that this isn't about a billion-dollar tax revenue opportunity for this Government's rich mates—absolutely not! Why would those 83 percent of Māori who didn't support this Government go away with that belief that in fact we have a Government who's prioritising the interests of the industry the tobacco advocates and continuously showing to us that they are out of touch out of communication out of contact with any of the very communities the very public health experts who have spent generations trying to hold this? And to take credit to say "Hey it's OK how it's going. We feel we can make the changes now because the status quo's working." is to insinuate that there is no future investment or future vision for the wellbeing of us. There's absolutely no transformation ever promised by this Government. They will continue to backpedal to the place of comfort where the very systems that have harmed us are what they are going to be putting forward before us.We are calling for bold and systemic action—we are not going to see it from this Government whānau mā. So we stand again in opposition—complete opposition—of what's been proposed before Aotearoa."