Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): A shocking speech from the Opposition but we're getting used to it. The Opposition wants to denigrate all our attempts in terms of finding some equity within the health system simply because themselves and ACT they see us as collateral damage in terms of the whole free market. It's just shocking really.Matt Doocey: Labour brought in the free-market reforms.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No no no—we know who brought in the free-market reforms. In terms of the Māori Health Authority—and I want to address my friend Shane Reti here—it was supported by the Cancer Society the Lung Foundation Kidney Health New Zealand the Stroke Foundation Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition and the Gynaecological Cancer Foundation. Everywhere right across the spectrum we saw NGOs supporting the Māori Health Authority. You have to ask yourself: is it acceptable to keep propping up a health system that is failing so many of us not just at Māori level but rural level at Pasifika level and in the disabled area? We should be able to obtain some of the standards of care that everyone in New Zealand enjoys. This bill introduces a set of health system principles that provide common expectations across the health system at all levels for all people and groups and the principles describe the key aspects of a modern compassionate and responsible health system. Now the Opposition and the ACT Party sadly have been trying to frame some of the values in terms of Māori as divisive—not just Māori but Pasifika and the disabled—and somehow there's some secret agenda that we don't deserve. But when your people are dying seven years earlier—seven years earlier—than Europeans and when the Waitangi Tribunal says that Māori health is at a catastrophic catastrophic state that demands a change in terms of the system. That's why I'm proud to support this kaupapa. I'm proud of the Labour Party. I never thought in my political lifetime that a mainstream political party would be so brave and so courageous to implement this type of kaupapa. So we particularly in the Māori caucus thank our colleagues and thank our Prime Minister for being brave for being courageous despite the rubbish that comes from the ACT Party in particular and others out there who will accuse us of being separatists and racists and having some sort of set-up exclusively for Māori. We have weathered that storm and we have taken into account what has been happening to our people and we thank our fellow politicians particularly all our colleagues who have been through different times with Labour over the years but it takes some courage to do this.I ask the Māori Party also today to stop their nonsense. We heard some of that nonsense last week so stop talking rubbish about a Budget and going on about 0.0 percent and 1 percent. This is a Budget where Māori particularly in health can have a say right across the spectrum—right across the spectrum. We're talking $1.2 billion over three or four years in terms of the Māori Health Authority but you're talking about having access to the other $11 billion. For the first time Māori will have a say will have an opportunity on everything that concerns them. They will get to work in partnership—partnership; that's something that the National Party used to believe in—with Health New Zealand and have a say on every area in terms of Māori health.It's such an opportunity. It is such a historic time. This is a precedent that I never as I said would have thought would happen in my lifetime to see a mainstream party support a Māori Health Authority. That's why I asked Dr Reti to consider some of his kōrero. This establishes an opportunity that we've never ever had before and it's an opportunity that so many in our community are looking forward to: a by Māori for Māori strategy working in collaboration and in partnership with Pākehā New Zealand mainstream New Zealand.In finishing: the Opposition merely want to play politics with the health system of New Zealand whereas we in this Labour Government want to do the mahi to fix the inequalities in the system. Labour want to build but National and ACT only want to destroy the communities this new health system will serve. We will remember that. Kia ora.