Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Minister for ACC): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Ka tangi apakura tēnei ki ngā hunga kua riro atu ki te pō ki roto i ngā wiki kua pahure ake nei. Anā ko te kaiako rongonui a Taini Jamison kua riro atu ki roto i ngā rangi kua taha ake nei. Me tōku tuakana a JB Heperi Smith kua riro atu ki te pō. Ki a rātou katoa kua riro atu tēnei ka tangi atu tēnei ka mihi atu tēnā koutou.Ka whakahokia mai ngā rārangi kōrero ki a tātou. Tēnā koe.[I grieve for those who have been lost to the night in recent weeks. In particular the famous coach Taini Jamison who has passed on in recent days. And my senior JB Heperi Smith who has also passed into the night. To all of them who have passed away I grieve I acknowledge them I acknowledge you.I now return the lines of discourse to us. Thank you.]As I quite often do I acknowledge those who have passed on. I acknowledge the great leadership of Taini Jamison who broke glass ceilings in her time to lead the Silver Ferns to carve out a distinguished career in her community and in netball and I want to acknowledge her passing. She was a true leader a true wahine toa of the Māori people and indeed of this nation. Also to my tuakana JB Heperi-Smith: his people continue to mourn his untimely passing in Ngāti Kahungunu and beyond. I wish them all farewell and then I come back to the living.What we've heard from the other side is what we know from a National Party and that is the status quo because that side of the House continues to promise tax cuts to the wealthy and will not come clean to this country about what services they're going to cut. Well let me tell the voters out there what they're going to cut. They're going to stick with the status quo in health and they're going to cut the initiatives to get equity into a health system that has failed this country for far too long.This side of the House was dedicated to the health reforms. We've established Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority. What that side of the House is telling the voters out there is that they were satisfied with the status quo they were satisfied with the huge gap on life expectancy between Māori and non-Māori. They're telling the public out there that it was OK that Māori tamariki in communities around the country do not have access to a fair and equitable health system that will help them while they're young and serve them into the future. That's what they're telling voters out there.We want to be very clear that on this side of the House we are committed to making sure that one the health sector is equitable. We know there are challenges in the health sector. Those are challenges that have been there for many decades ignored in the past and in my time in this House sitting in Opposition listening to a National-led Government continue to ignore the health system at the peril of this country. We tackled that particular challenge to say we in this country deserve an equitable health system that'll continue to serve our people and that's exactly what we're delivering.What that side of the House don't want to hear too are the good positive numbers for employment that we've seen under the leadership of the Hon Grant Robertson and this Government. Record low Māori unemployment—let me say that again: record low Māori unemployment. On that side of the House they might moan about those on the bottom they might moan about those who continue to rely on the State but what we're saying on this side is we're celebrating the fact that Māori unemployment is the lowest it's ever been on record saying that more of our people are working hard more of our people are contributing to the wellbeing of their family by getting out there and earning a fair day's wage.I'm proud of the leadership in the economic space that this Government is giving this country during the hard times. COVID-19: this Government stepped up and when we were helping businesses that side of the House were telling the rest of the country No they're not doing enough." Now that we're continuing to help businesses they're saying "Oh well maybe we're just spraying money around we're wasting it. We're frivolous with the way that we spend our money." That's not true. You listen to the businesses out in the community and they tell you: under the leadership of this Government through COVID-19 we supported them we stood alongside them and I'm proud of that fact. And we continue to do it today.There are sad sights and scenes across Te Tairāwhiti Hawke's Bay Thames-Coromandel Tāmaki-makau-rau and Te Tai Tokerau. This Government stood up quickly to support businesses stood up quickly to support families. We acknowledge that there's more work to be done. Ministers on this side of the House have already made it clear we're committed to continuing that support. We've already started much of the work and I myself have been to both those regions and seen the positive investment this Government has made to make sure that those communities are strong now and into the future.This Government won't back down from hard challenges. We know there are lots of challenges in this community but we're up for the challenge we're up for the fight and we need the rest of this country to know that the Government that is leading them right now is the best Government for them after the election."