Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDES MARCH (Green): It's a shame to see so many members from the Government who campaigned on pitting so many of our migrant communities against Māori for the breadcrumbs that this Government wants to deliver. They talk about this being about lifting outcomes for everyone but make no mistake: they don't want to do this either. What they want to do is undermine their commitment that they have to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Te Aka Whai Ora represented an opportunity to move towards that. It represented an opportunity to deliver better health outcomes for everyone by actually supporting Māori to deliver better health outcomes for their own communities by devolving resources and unlike what several Government members have outlined around this being Wellington bureaucracy that actually would have enabled devolution of resources at a regional level. It's so important to push back against the narrative that it's actually not grounded on the aspirations that Te Aka Whai Ora represented.This debate failed to address that our health isn't just pinned down by how many hospitals this Government wants to build; it's pinned down by this Government's commitment to the social determinants of health the wellbeing of our environment. So the Minister may want to look at this Government's agenda when he talks about better health outcomes because this is the Government that is driving health outcomes down by lowering benefit increases and by railing against homes being healthy and fit for purpose and that is continuing to push young people to live under the minimum wage. None of those things actually propels outcomes. So while we could take the Minister's words around his commitments to lifting health outcomes his Government doesn't want to do any of that. So the Minister—who is just walking out—should really look back at—[Interruption] But I'm literally basically describing that. Carl Bates: Point of order.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): If the comment was that the member is leaving the House the ruling is about the absence of a member from the House. So in anticipation of your point of order Mr Bates I take it I have anticipated well? If only I was that good on the rugby field. Mr Menéndez March continue and we'll just put the clock back for the time of that. RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH: Thank you. Again that reaction from the members is so indicative of their priorities. They get hung up about for example whether I almost called out someone as they were walking out and yet what they should be outraged about is what their Government is doing to health outcomes by disestablishing Te Aka Whai Ora. Let's be clear: this is a Government that would rather get really worked up over the minutiae of this House rather than actually what we're doing which is gutting an entity that would have delivered better health outcomes.The Minister once again when he talked about his commitments to lifting Māori health outcomes needs to realise who he is swimming alongside. He's swimming alongside a group of people who campaigned against Māori rights. He's going to be having to sit at the Cabinet table alongside colleagues who actively campaigned against Māori health outcomes. His words mean nothing when he is not putting safeguards and commitments to resourcing to lift Māori health outcomes and when he's having to sit at a Cabinet table with people who were happy to sit with conspiracy theorists who literally rallied against the foundations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. I don't care what the Minister's commitments are because he is part of a Government that is anti improving Māori health outcomes by the nature of undermining Te Tiriti o Waitangi. As a migrant to Aotearoa I will not stand by a narrative that promotes white supremacy and that promotes racism because what it does is actually undermines the rights of communities that have already been underserved by successive Governments. Māori health outcomes did not get to this point by just stasis; the state of Māori health outcomes came to this point because of ongoing colonial violence by successive Governments. Te Aka Whai Ora represented an opportunity to redress some of those and we needed to not just keep Te Aka Whai Ora; we needed to adequately resource it. This is what the Greens campaigned on. So we join with the cause of our colleagues who we will be fighting alongside to not just restore Te Aka Whai Ora but to adequately resource it so that the aspirations of Te Aka Whai Ora and the communities whom it represents are adequately met because Te Aka Whai Ora wasn't an entity that was about bureaucracy; it was about working in an intersectional way to lift so many of our communities and it represented a new way of working across all Government.