Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I just want to correct Meka Whaitiri the previous speaker. The Government has actually announced that they are going to be shutting down partnership schools and the fact is that two of the MPs—Crown Ministers in the Government—are actually backing two of the Māori partnership schools which has come out in the media this afternoon. It has come out in the media so the Government cannot deny that the aim of their game is to shut down partnership schools except for the two Māori partnership schools of which two Ministers have got their fingers—Hon Willie Jackson: Three.JO HAYES: —three Ministers then—deeply entrenched in those schools and that is not—SPEAKER: Order! Order! I think the member's got to be very careful with the tone and direction of the comments she's making.JO HAYES: Thank you. Well anyway going on. The announcement that was made that came out in the media this afternoon around those partnership schools I think it does look at the other partnership schools and start to—I'm sure that the people that are in those partnership schools are thinking What about us? What about us? We are part and parcel of a group of partnership schools that have helped and continue to help 1500 vulnerable children"—children that could not fit within mainstream education and that did not succeed in mainstream education—"and what's going to happen to them? What is going to happen to their successful futures?" because there will be no successful future for those children that are going to be mainstreamed into mainstream schools and they are not going to succeed. Partnership schools were an avenue for these children to actually succeed and the success was renowned over and over again.When the previous speaker talked about the Prime Minister being in Waitangi for five days—and good on her—I guess that a lot of those five days will be for nought if her generals do not fall in line and do not actually adhere to support some of the things that she has said. I can see that the generals are starting to fall out of line with each other and that is not good for this country. When I start to look at some of the other areas that this Government purport to actually support Māori in I start to look at the Whānau Ora programme. And as from where I stand here as from yesterday and in previous months I've heard nothing about Whānau Ora or what this Government's going to be doing for it. There's speculation out there that perhaps they will be reviewing it to get rid of some of the Whānau Ora projects and programmes and I don't know why that is.Now when I asked Te Puni Kōkiri today about what type of review it is I was told it might be an independent review. It may be a ministerial review. Then we heard last year in November from the Minister on the programme The Hui that it is going to be a comprehensive review. No terms of reference—we have no idea what this review's going to do considering there was a review done on the commissioning agents last year that came out and from the review they were able to shape up their back office administration side of their business and they came out of that very well. So if you're going to do a comprehensive review wouldn't somebody actually let the public know what type of terms of reference will actually go on with the review of Whānau Ora?It is something—like when you look at Whānau Ora it is about building whānau capacity and a lot of whānau capacity is actually based within education outcomes. I was brought up in the knowledge that education will set you free and yet we're looking at partnership schools that are going to close just because there is a Government that doesn't want a successful story to go on. And they have been successful. You cannot deny that.SPEAKER: Order!JO HAYES: The Government cannot deny that—I've got you—partnership schools have been successful and will continue to be successful. So why shut them down? Why close them? Why send them to the wall when something as successful as partnership schools has helped Māori and will continue to help Māori if the Government could just get their heads out of the sand and up and looking and supporting Māori? Why aren't Government supporting Māori?I believe it's because they just want to change things just because the Government thinks it can. It's not good. It's not good politics and it's not very good leadership either. Thank you Mr Speaker."