Kuriger Barbara; Henare PeeniClauses 1 to 3 CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Members we now come to our final debate clauses 1 to 3 and this is the debate on Title" "Commencement" and the "Principal Act".Hon PEENI HENARE (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. Wow what an effort. I first just want to acknowledge the advisers who I actually in this case feel sorry for. They were part of building the whare and now they're being asked to dismantle it. I want to help members across the House: when we called this the "Pae Ora legislation"—"pae" meaning horizon "ora" meaning life or wellbeing; that's how you come up with the term "healthy futures". Pae—horizon. Ora—wellbeing. In debating the title the signal this sends to our whānau outside of this Parliament is actually this is pae mate—pae mate. It's the opposite to a healthy future. It's the opposite to the horizon of life and wellbeing. It's actually "to death" because that's what this bill is doing.My proposal to this Minister is that he actually change the name of the title of this bill to "Pae Mate Amendment Bill" because that's what this is doing to our people. It is saying that it's OK for Māori to die seven years before non-Māori. It's saying to my uncle who on this very day is being buried at Ngāti Manu in Kāretu in Te Tai Tokerau who died of heart disease who only came out to the doctors because of the work of Te Aka Whai Ora—but sadly it was too late. And now we're saying to him and his family and Māori and communities right across this country this is actually the "Pae Mate Amendment Bill". This has nothing about securing the healthy futures of this country in particular for Māori and our communities far and wide. That's my proposal to the Minister; that the more appropriate title for this bill is actually "Pae Mate Amendment Bill". Now I'm going to traverse very lightly across the time line because the commitment date on this bill is 30 June—30 June. Why then is the Minister rushing this bill under urgency to be completed within 24 hours when its commencement date isn't until—guess when? Matariki the Māori New Year. What signal does that send to our people? Matariki was about a hope for this country and what this Minister is saying is that on 30 June "Oh no no hope for you fullas. No hope for you Māori. No hope for your communities."So my question to the Minister is: why then rush this bill under urgency over 24 hours when the commencement date isn't until June? The Minister could have had a good opportunity to send this bill to the select committee. We could hear from the experts like we have many times before to continue to show this Government why Te Aka Whai Ora was important. But the Minister chose to do it within 24 hours.Now I want to point the Minister to another piece that he's spoken to on a number of occasions throughout this debate: the Minister says "It's part of the 100-day plan." Well if you have a look at the 100-day plan there's 49 actions. In those actions the word "introduce" is mentioned eight times and the word "begin" is mentioned 10 times. When it talks about the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority it says "introduce" the bill. But the Minister is rushing this bill through in its entirety. He could have introduced it through urgency to have its first reading and sent it to the select committee but he chose not to despite the 100-day plan saying "introduce" the legislation. What the Minister has done has rushed it through. Why? It doesn't even meet with the 100-day plan—the words in the 100-day plan are very different to the actions of the Minister today.The commencement date puts us into Matariki. Why then with four months ahead of us couldn't the Minister let it go through a due process? And just finally because my colleagues will no doubt traverse this it's been spoken about the tribunal: that claim could have been heard tomorrow. One more sleep that's all it took. I'm going to leave my contribution there. There will be plenty more on this side."