Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Oh what a stupid speech that was—and a sad speech really coming from someone who should know better a previous Minister. I probably should put her name up but at the moment things aren't going too well for our National Party mates. Here's the problem that they have. It's that no one cares about this stupid hack strategy. No one cares. I know they think they're brilliant because they went and pressed this button and pressed that button and no one saw anything. Mark Mitchell knows that desperateness. And Simon thinks he's a genius but everyone else thinks he's an idiot. People care about what's in their pocket. People care about real things not the stupid hack story. Look at the polls and if you looked at the polls they would realise how this is the most idiotic strategy I have seen in politics. Every day they think they've got a coup but the good thing from our side of the House is that Simon is hanging in there and as I've said—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member will use the—Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Simon Bridges—my apologies Mr Assistant Speaker. Simon Bridges is hanging in there and he knows he's got the full support of his relations in the Māori caucus as we well know. What a wonderful time for the Māori caucus and where are the Māoris today? I was looking for them when I came out and they're gone. They've left because they know that this Wellbeing Budget delivers for Māori more than any other Budget that National and their friends in the Māori Party have ever delivered in the history of Budgets. I don't want to go too hard on the Māori Party. They're good people in there; some of them are relations. Of course I've got to read—look the Māori Party have come out in support of this Budget. The Māori Party the National Party's friends have said it would be churlish not to acknowledge the generosity of the Labour Party." They welcome "the Labour Government's recognition of fundamental change to the system." I am glad that the Māori Party finally woke up. It finally woke up and realised that the path to redemption lies through us the Māori caucus. It is a Māori caucus that is getting support from everywhere. Annette Sykes that warrior woman says "A great beginning. I have to agree with the sentiment that Māori should be glad that this is the beginning of change." But here's the other one; another one of Mark Mitchell's mates Tau Henare. Tau Henare loves this Budget. He's a National Party member—oh well he was but they kicked out all the Māori who were doing well. They kicked Nuk Korako out. Now if anyone opens their mouth too much they kick them out. So they kicked Nuk out; they kicked Tau out—he wanted to be the Speaker. They kicked him out—see you later Tau. Now he makes a living in social media but he's doing all right our Tau. But Tau says "Yep I've got to take my hat off to that Māori team in Labour. Best performance for a very long time." Ngā mihi to National Party's former wannabe Speaker Tau Henare.Where is the apology? That's what I've got to ask today. Where is the apology from the National Party members? In fact where are the Māoris? Where are they? They don't come into the House any more when I speak—Shane Reti ran out the door.Tim van de Molen: Is that all of them or just the ones that member says is Māori enough?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: I'm just so sad. I'm sad because—no there are some good ones there. You know that. I've already named the good ones before. Actually they're all good people. But last year Shane Reti was telling us what a terrible Budget—where's that Shane Reti? Oh he is here old Shane. Last year he said "I want to send a message to the Māori caucus of Government: where were you?" Well this is where we were Shane Reti. We were strategising for this year.Last year we were talking about universality because—as some of the dumbos in the media don't understand and some of the dumbos on the other side—you need two types of strategy: a universal strategy and a targeted funding strategy. You need a universal strategy for a lot of our people who are not part of Māori organisations who are not on the Māori seats who don't pursue Te Reo Māori who are not part of Waipareira Trust not part of the Manukau Urban Māori Authority who don't watch Māori TV. We have to access those people. We do that through a universal strategy. We've done that for ever and a day but it's through a targeted strategy—a by-Māori for-Māori strategy—where we know we can get some turn-arounds and that's why sometimes we have to really invest in Māori organisations and we have. We have.I've got so many papers here and I want to read some of those numbers out. We're putting $80 million—$80 million—into Whānau Ora. Well done to Peeni Henare—well done to Minister Henare. That's just for the commissioning agencies—$116 million altogether in Whānau Ora a kaupapa that my good friend Jo Hayes said that we had forgotten about. Where is Jo today? Where is Jo Hayes today?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member shouldn't mention the absence of other members. Thank you.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: My apologies Mr Assistant Speaker—my apologies. But we were told that we'd forgotten Whānau Ora. Peeni Henare came up with the goods.Kelvin Davis—$96 million in terms of corrections and Whānau Ora going through the prisons so that we can get things right for our people. Mark Mitchell knows about this because whatever you say about Mark I know he cares about whānau. He might have a different philosophy but I know that he knows that when you apply some targeted funding to what's happening in those prisons you can get a bit of a turn-around. So Kelvin Davis—doing the business in terms of the families.There is $26.4 million over two years for He Poutama Rangatahi. Now that's coming through Shane Jones' Provincial Growth Fund. Isn't Shane Jones doing a great job and New Zealand First? We were told that they would block Māori funding that they didn't care about Māori funding but more money is going up for Māori than ever before and who's leading the way? Well obviously the Māori caucus first but New Zealand First second with people like Shane Jones supporting He Poutama Rangatahi where we are getting our nephews off the couch.We're also putting money into the regions—regions that have been starved of funding by a selfish National Government. For nine years they refused to support our regions. I go into these regions into these areas and they say what a mean horrible cold lot they were led by Mark Mitchell and Lawrence over there—Lawrence the mayor from Napier. Lawrence Yule—you know I thought he was a good mayor but at the time they forgot all about funding our regions. We have turned that around through the Provincial Growth Fund—Lawrence Yule: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I just wanted to make a personal statement that I was never the Mayor of Napier; I was the Mayor of Hastings.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Happy to give an apology Mr Assistant Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): No I'm going to make a ruling on that. It's really important. Some members do make mistakes. As I've said before every member has the right to be heard in the debates. What the member could do is take a call.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker—well said too might I add. Can I finish off today though by saying we've got all this targeted funding now. We've got great people supporting us like Annette Sykes and Tau Henare—I wouldn't say he was a great person but Tau was a formidable National Party MP—and people like Shane Te Pou John Tamihere Tariana Turia and Larry Parr. A lot of people are coming in behind us.I want to say today that for us as a Māori caucus—and I'm proud of our Māori caucus proud to chair it along with Meka Whaitiri—the $32 million that we set aside for kōhanga reo was one of the happiest days. A number of us attended that and that was all about equity. That was about supporting a group of people who were ignored by the National Party—and the Māori Party might I add. In 2011 they put their equity claim up. They were totally ignored by the National Party and sadly by my whanaunga Hekia Parata who said "No we want you to get everything in shape at the kōhanga." They've done that. They've turned things around and I want to mihi particularly to our matriarch there Whaea Iritana Tawhiwhirangi for her magnificent work through the years for the kōhanga reo.The $32 million allocated by Minister Kelvin Davis has got them on track in terms of the equity funding. Waihoroi Shortland was brought to tears and it was a wonderful day watching Wassie Shortland talk about the tautoko for the kōhanga reo. That's where the hope is. That's where we're going to start with our tamariki.Tēnei te mihi ki a tātou katoa tēnā koutou kia ora rā. [I thank you all gathered here greetings to you all.]"