Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): Kia ora Mr Chair. It's incumbent upon me to share with the committee my intimate knowledge of the establishment of iwi-Māori partnership boards and localities in Tai Tokerau having spent two years working on the predecessor Kotui Hauora a DHB-iwi relationship board and then in Te Taumata Hauora o Te Tai Tokerau and the locality space. My question is unique and different to what has been put forward by my colleagues but it does relate to the time line of the legislation and in particular for localities for 1 July 2029. Now not all localities in Tai Tokerau have been established. There have been expressions of interest to commence the work and Te Aka Whai Ora and Te Whatu Ora have received those letters of intention. However for the past six to now 12 months Te Whatu Ora as the fund holder have held on to the dollar. There has been no ability for iwi hapū marae community and councils to commence the work together to establish a locality. So you know the instance or the argument that somehow Te Whatu Ora is going to be the golden egg for Māori health—when hapū iwi and marae come together with providers and councils and say We're ready to go" we don't get a dollar to start the conversation.Now saying that I'm asking the Minister of Health my direct question around the time line of 1 July 2029: will there be resourcing available for our people to do that important work so we can have lift off at this date so that our locality plans can be well developed by that date because we know community engagement takes a while. I'm not saying Ngā hapū o Ngāpuhi are always a cohesive group; I'm not saying that we have strong relationship with council day to day but it takes time. So I think that this is an opportunity for us to resource the engine room—which is community it is hapū it is marae—through the locality space up into 2029 so that we can cut the ribbon and say "Here we go we have localities across the nation with locality plans in place and we're good to go across the health system." This is an opportunity for this Government to resource us to get on with the job. So that's my question: will you resource us to do the locality work that we've been waiting for for quite some time?The second question is relating to our employees of Te Aka Whai Ora and specifically to clause 43 in the new Part 2 to be inserted into Schedule 1 of the principal Act. Now I'm mindful that there are just under 300 kaimahi within Te Aka Whai Ora and many of them are across regional spaces the hospitals—Hokianga Whangārei Kerikeri and there's a few in the Wellington and Auckland areas too. My question is in terms of the policies and their status of the lift and shift into Te Whatu Ora. Minister our whānau in Te Aka Whai Ora are specialists as we've heard from Peeni Henare. They are based in locations in kāinga for a reason. Te Aka Whai Ora are like a hub and a spoke. Te Aka Whai Ora provided the tap root the tree was established and then they were the kaimahi in the rohe. Will their conditions be the same transferring to Te Whatu Ora or will they become a part of the 80000 strong workforce of Te Whatu Ora and be expected to move to Whangārei or expected to move to Auckland Hamilton Christchurch or Wellington to become a part of the big 80000-strong workforce?So I'm concerned for the cousins in the regions who deliver outcomes for our people and are the listening ear. So Te Aka Whai Ora commissioned them to be listening ears in the kāinga. So when we lift and shift them to Te Whatu Ora will we continue to support them to stay in those locations or will they be centralised? Kia ora."