Wood MichaelMICHAEL WOOD (Labour—Mt Roskill): Thank you very much for the call. I want to after that admonishment though hand out a gold star to the member for Whanganui who has just resumed her seat because in the comments that she brought forward to the committee she was of course singularly accurate in identifying that the topic of this debate is in fact the annual reviews for the 2017/18 year. In doing so she invalidated virtually everything that her preceding two colleagues—Joanne Hayes and Dan Bidois—said because the entirety of their contributions were effectively slamming the Budget allocations for Te Puni Kōkiri which are in these annual reviews. That was the entire content of their contributions.What was just noted by the member who has resumed her seat of course is that the annual reviews that we are reviewing are annual reviews which actually span the period from between the two Governments for the 2017/18 years and predominantly relate to appropriations that were set in Budget 2017. Mr Bidois might just want to listen up there because his colleague from Whanganui has just taught him a little bit of a lesson about how this process actually works.When it comes to those figures it's worth looking at where the money actually goes and how the community actually benefits. What we're told on page 612 of the collated reports is that in terms of the money that was actually distributed via Whānau Ora through the three commissioning agencies the amount in 2017/18 was $71.297 million. So this is the money that actually goes out to agencies in the community who deliver real benefits to communities. What we then learn is that that was an increase from $71.237 million in the 2016/17 year—a 0.08 percent increase. What we actually learn here is that under the money that was allocated by the previous Government between 2016/17 and 2017/18 there was basically a flat line in terms of the money that went through Whānau Ora actually out into communities where it might have some benefit.So members on this side of the House are not going to sit back and take the kind of criticism that we've heard today—that there has been some kind of diminution of financial support for Māori communities through Whānau Ora when the facts in the report that we're actually debating in the committee today show that the funding was effectively frozen under that previous regime in their final year when money was actually appropriated. I think that's important for the committee to note.The other area that I want to touch on in this sector is one that hasn't come up in debate so far and that is I think one of the jewels in the crown of our public estate and that is Radio New Zealand. Notwithstanding my previous comments which relate to the fact that we have a bridging between the two Governments being reflected in these reports what we can acknowledge through the report which has been tabled by the very hard-working Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee is that Radio New Zealand does a huge amount of work in terms of reflecting the stories and the culture of our country and keeping New Zealanders informed about the issues of the day and providing analysis that supports our public life.We know that Radio New Zealand has done that under huge financial pressure and the report reveals that. I know that from the hearing there was quite a bit of discussion about this. We know that that agency for about nine years leading into this annual report did have its funding frozen by that previous Government. That is why it is so good to see in this report that as we head into the 2018 year there's actually some funding going into Radio New Zealand under the current Government to support their important work. We see that $6 million extra going into the joint innovation fund with New Zealand On Air to enable Radio New Zealand to work with New Zealand On Air to actually work off digital platforms to make sure that New Zealanders are hearing their stories and we have a quality public broadcasting service in this country.The other thing I want to note in the annual report from Radio New Zealand is a section which talks about the effort that has gone into getting Māori voices on Radio New Zealand. Many of us who listen to Radio New Zealand of course will note Guyon Espiner who I think has been someone who's really led the way in this area. He has recently departed but he and others working within Radio New Zealand have really left an imprint in recent years in terms of the normalisation of people hearing Te Reo on our public broadcasting networks. It's appropriate that that is reflected in this report and I'm sure that it is something that will continue under the current leadership there and this Government will certainly be supporting it with real funding and real support. Thank you Madam Chair.