Prime Willow-JeanHon WILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. This may be the last call before the dinner break and I just want to say that in the Minister's answers he was very light in addressing the questions and in fact didn't answer a lot of the points that had been raised by my colleagues.I just want to speak at this point to clause 6 which is all about the amendments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the principles. In the stroke of a pen and their proposed amendments what they are actually doing—what they are effectively doing—is removing all of the things that had been put into the legislation. This is what clause 6 says: In order to provide for the Crown's intention to give effect to the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi … this Act"—will do all of those things listed.Now what the Minister is proposing to do is to repeal paragraphs (b) (e) (h) (i) and (j) and replace all of those things with new section 6(c). His answer to how to give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi—the entirety of it—is that it will require "the Minister to establish a permanent committee the Hauora Māori Advisory Committee to advise the Minister;"—that's it. So in order to give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as they relate to pae ora what was outlined in that section of the Act was the establishment of Te Aka Whai Ora all of its roles and all of its functions and in the stroke of a pen the Minister is proposing to repeal paragraphs (b) (e) (h) (i) and (j) and replace them with new section 6(c).Now there are unanswered questions asking for detail about that particular Māori advisory committee. I think that the Minister needs to answer those ones because if all of the Government's obligations and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi is contained in the new section 6(c) then I have some serious concerns.In the departmental disclosure report there is a section there that says the "Consistency of the government's Treaty of Waitangi obligations". The Government has done an analysis on "the Treaty implications of disestablishing the Māori Health Authority." and in their own opinion "considers it will continue to meet its Treaty obligations." by simply just having a Hauora Māori Advisory Committee Minister—appointed by yourself. You can choose whether you take their advice or not. What about all the other roles that Te Aka Whai Ora had in the delivery of pae ora? All of the mechanisms the ones that you are taking away—for example in paragraph (e) it will require "the Hauora Māori Strategy to be jointly prepared by the Māori Health Authority and the Ministry;". That's gone. Just gone straight out of the Act so no Māori health strategy.Then we've got paragraph (h). Paragraph (h) "requires Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority to engage with Māori partnership boards;". Nope gone—don't need that. In terms of paragraph (i) it "requires Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority to jointly develop and implement a New Zealand Health Plan and to work together in the performance of specified functions of Health New Zealand;"—gone. Paragraph (j): "includes as criteria for appointment to the board of the Māori Health Authority that the board collectively has knowledge of and experience and expertise in relation to te Tiriti o Waitangi … tikanga Māori mātauranga Māori"—which I point out you also want to take reference to "mātauranga Māori" out"—kaupapa Māori services and cultural safety and responsiveness of services;". Repeal that—repeal all of those things.Hon Paul Goldsmith: Yes we're repealing the bill.Hon WILLOW-JEAN PRIME: Yeah that's right. So how can the Minister say that this Hauora Māori Advisory Committee appointed now by him with no consultation or input from Māori and none of the processes that we followed in the first place—Tā Mason Durie and others iwi who had a role in participating in this and appointing these people who have the support the mana the mandate the tautoko from te ao Māori. Nope you're going to appoint them and it's going to be their job to uphold your obligations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles in pae ora. So please explain how your Hauora Māori Advisory Committee is going to achieve all of those things. CHAIRPERSON (Maureen Pugh): The member's time has expired. Members the House is adjourned for the dinner break and will resume at 7.30.Sitting suspended from 5.58 p.m. to 7.30 p.m."