Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): Well done to that member the Hon James Shaw and how the Greens are operating. But particularly well done to the kāhui Māori—Māori Ministers—who have come up with a record Budget in terms of Māori the best Budget that any Government any Parliament has ever seen ever: $1.1 billion—$1.1 billion. It's really important because I see Mr Brownlee over there and he knows because he was part of a Government—well they gave us stuff-all basically. Along with the Māori Party the reality was in 2017 the last Māori Budget that was delivered was $122 million—$122 million. Now Governments as Mr Brownlee knows historically have given us as I said stuff-all in terms of targeted funding. We can go way back actually but we won't go way back; we'll just stick with National and the Māori Party and we'll talk about the 0.4 percent to 1 percent of targeted funding that they used to give us. It was terrible funding and it really put our people backwards.But once we came in in 2017 things changed—things changed. We saw in 2020 6 percent of the new funding was allocated in terms of targeted Māori funding—6 percent—and here this year 7 percent. So it's a shame the Māori Party is not here—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Don't mention people who are not here thank you.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Sorry Mr Speaker. But people do get their sums wrong when they do the figuring out of the Budget and we hear all this nonsense. Seven percent of a new Budget: incredible given that we've got Māori providers who are only between 5 and 7 percent and given that most of our people get mainstream funding. A terrific number—so well done to the Māori Ministers who fronted this with a Māori caucus who've been 100 percent behind us. I mihi to our Māori caucus but as a Māori ministerial team—and we're on the road at the moment—we were really happy and proud to negotiate that position. It's incredibly important if you look at the two areas that are really standing out and one of those areas is Māori health. Māori have lived off the smell of an oily rag for ever and a day. The Waitangi Tribunal talked about Māori health being in a catastrophic position—a catastrophic position. For too long our people have been put into a process that has failed them and received minimal funding. We again have heard this. Māori Ministers have heard this and put forward the idea of an independent Māori health authority. That has been hugely well received by our people. It's an opportunity for our people to express their rangatiratanga something that is foreign to the National Party. They mix up rangatiratanga sadly with apartheid and have said that a number of times. But as the Hon Kelvin Davis has said rangatiratanga is based on empowerment and apartheid is based on oppression. So $242 million in that space will give our providers an opportunity to set something up to give our people an opportunity to access basic health needs. We want to see how this operates and we are excited by the opportunity to create something new and different. We have been widely applauded and supported by our supporters with this creation of an independent Māori health authority. Despite what the Opposition have said with regards to the setting up of a Māori health authority we have forged ahead and we have put senior kaumātua like Sir Mason Durie at the forefront who will facilitate on our behalf this new creation which we think will help in turning around the very very negative statistics that happen in the health area. The same principles in terms of health I have to apply to housing because in the housing area we have had sadly too many Māori miss an opportunity in terms of securing a basic home or basic housing needs. We have managed to negotiate $380 million in this space—$380 million—right across the spectrum in terms of papa kāinga housing which I'm responsible for right across into the different rohe cities. This $380 million is on top of a $350 million infrastructure fund which will help address the terrible statistics that are happening in the housing area. I want to mihi to the Associate Ministers of Housing Peeni Henare and Marama Davidson and Megan Woods obviously the Minister of Housing and myself who have worked at the coalface with our people and with the different providers like the Jamie Tuutas and the Willie Te Ahos to find a way forward in terms of the whole Māori housing position. Despite the criticism from the Opposition we have forged ahead and now from this particular Budget we have got a pūtea of well over $700 million—$750 million—in terms of housing. Added to our Māori health pūtea we're talking about $1 billion—$1 billion. That's never ever been seen before in terms of these sorts of kaupapa. So I'm just very proud to roll out this type of funding. When I look right across the spectrum though you see funding in areas like the iwi community panels where we've got $70 million allocated in that area. That's a really important area. That kaupapa was started at my own marae at Ngā Whare Waatea and we started it nearly 10 years ago. We bring offenders in and they are overseen by kaumātua they are overseen by elders they are overseen by police and we work on a way a strategy of trying to get them back on the right path. So $70 million is allocated in that area. As I said it started at my marae and at Waiwhetū Marae around about eight years ago—so proud that we've been able to get $70 million allocated in that area.In Māori tourism $15 million allocated in Māori tourism—another excellent pūtea. That's an area that has been well managed by Pania Tyson-Nathan who does some really terrific work for us. Also across in the education area we have $150 million that has been allocated in that area: $91 million for Māori-medium education funding right across the spectrum and $42 million in the Māori broadcasting area a really important area that I and my predecessor Minister Nanaia Mahuta have worked on. We expect some support now from that pūtea to go towards Māori television and Māori radio.Finally I want to address the area of family violence and sexual violence. This is a very important area that Minister Marama Davidson has been involved with and I've certainly given her a lot of support in that area because it's an incredibly important area and kaupapa for our people. We launched the strategy that Minister Davidson leads on my marae again at Ngā Whare Waatea. It's an area that can be controversial. As we've seen Minister Davidson was absolutely condemned by the Opposition for speaking at a gang pad a few weeks ago and then in the last day or two we sadly see the silly ACT Party jumping on the bandwagon again because they found out that I had spoken with gang members at the end of last year. Then we had Newshub waffling on that I'd had three further meetings with gangs over the last 12 months. I've never had such meetings. Meeting with Eugene Ryder who's a great individual and community leader doesn't mean that I've met with the Black Power. I've met with him though to discuss funding from the Budget to discuss what we can do with families. It's important we discuss things. As the Māori development Minister I retain that right to talk with whoever I like. Just like the ACT Party meets with the Taxpayers' Union and people who avoid paying tax I'll meet with any Māori who needs help. In terms of gangs I don't see gangs; I see whānau I see communities I see tamariki I see mokopuna. I see our people and it's important that we as Ministers never shy away from those hard conversations because those conversations must continue if we want to turn around our communities turn around our people and get them the support that they need. I'm proud that Minister Davidson has got $12 million in terms of the Budget for that kaupapa under the Māori development umbrella and I'll continue with that support.