Abel SteveSTEVE ABEL (Green): To be frank our heart is still aching for the loss of our brother Efeso and it's hard to speak to this bill to do with Māori health—many of the issues that are faced by Māori are also faced by Pasifika. We have a sense that his big heart gave out at age 49 and that is a sadly too common fact amongst our Māori and Pasifika people in this country.So fresh in this loss that we experience as a party and as a House and as a nation it is galling that in two days' time on the day that we will bury Efeso Collins there is a Waitangi Tribunal being heard on this very question and that this House and this Government is not willing to wait a mere two days. It is yet another insult upon insult upon injury upon injury to our Treaty partners tangata whenua Māori.Māori are twice the rate of non-Māori in terms of cardiovascular disease—twice the rate. The 2009 report and the Wai 2572 Health Services Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry revealed that our primary healthcare legislation and policy breaches Te Tiriti and fails to care for Māori health and wellbeing. So we take action to correct that failure. We take action with Te Aka Whai Ora. The Waitangi Tribunal in the hauora report found that the legislative framework of the New Zealand primary healthcare system should recognise and provide for the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles. That is self-determination for Māori.People with greater experience of negative health outcomes than most want more power in their decision making." That's from Taimi Allan and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission board. Tino rangatiratanga which provides for Māori self-determination and mana motuhake in the design delivery and monitoring of health and disability services—that is what was put in place by Te Aka Whai Ora. Two years—and only one year really functionally operational. To give you some context Madam Speaker colonisation is bad for your health.A Pākehā fellow showed up 254 years ago an English fellow by the name of Joseph Banks. In 1770 he observed that among Māori he saw many very healthy old men and in general the whole of them—forgive the term—are "as vigorous a race as can be imagined … indeed these people are blessed with [sound health] in a very high degree … I do not remember a single instance of a person distempered in any degree that came under my inspection."—"Among them I have seen very [many] healthy old men … in general the whole of them are as vigorous a race as can be imagined."—254 years ago. What is the state of Māori health now? What is the state of Māori health now? Māori die at twice the rate of non-Māori from cardiovascular disease. Māori tamariki have a mortality rate 1½ times the rate of non-Māori children. Māori are more likely to be diagnosed and die from cancer and as many people have said die on average seven years earlier than non-Māori. This specious and gross double-speak which suggests that putting special focus on those in need of that focus is somehow a race-based privilege is revolting—it is revolting double-speak. This is an effort to address the injustice and the harm caused by frankly 253 years of another health system. And one year of letting Māori take care of their own health—you're going to kill it. One year. Not you Madam Speaker; this Government. It is appalling it is shameful it is a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and it is anti-Māori frankly—as this Government expresses it wants to be."